forum What way has your character gotten back at you?

Started January 09, 2020 by @Oakiin

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Whoa. Nice.

It's a hard one to write.

@The-Althalosian-is-a-Faithful-Cynic
Thanks, man! ^-^

Adam Light was the original villain of my story, but he didn't fit at the end of the day. Vozrealwas originally based off Bill Cipher, but as time went on, He kinda turn into Darkiplier. Now Vozreal's a mixture of Bill Cipher and Darkiplier, with my own twist on it.

aghhhh so I recently found out that one of my main characters name is literally almost the exact same from a character in the Shadowhunters series (I think thats the right series) and I've never read them before so yeah gotta go do a name change now

I gave one of my male protags a friend that's also girl and had 0 intentions of having them end up in a relationship because just once I want to have a story where the guy and the girl stay friends. But now that I'm actually writing them, I feel like they actually have really great chemistry and could be a really cute couple and I don't know what to do.

aghhhh so I recently found out that one of my main characters name is literally almost the exact same from a character in the Shadowhunters series (I think thats the right series) and I've never read them before so yeah gotta go do a name change now

don't do it!! You stick to your guns if you want! Don't let the copywrite laws make you believe that any name, no matter how strange, is the property of any one person! You are the god here. Do as you please.

aghhhh so I recently found out that one of my main characters name is literally almost the exact same from a character in the Shadowhunters series (I think thats the right series) and I've never read them before so yeah gotta go do a name change now

don't do it!! You stick to your guns if you want! Don't let the copywrite laws make you believe that any name, no matter how strange, is the property of any one person! You are the god here. Do as you please.

:DD thankyouuu that makes me happy about it ! I might just alter his last name a tiny bit but im still deciding

aghhhh so I recently found out that one of my main characters name is literally almost the exact same from a character in the Shadowhunters series (I think thats the right series) and I've never read them before so yeah gotta go do a name change now

don't do it!! You stick to your guns if you want! Don't let the copywrite laws make you believe that any name, no matter how strange, is the property of any one person! You are the god here. Do as you please.

:DD thankyouuu that makes me happy about it ! I might just alter his last name a tiny bit but im still deciding

ofc!!! Honestly, go with whatever seems right to you, this is your chara, you can do whatever you'd like with them! ^^

Guys! I made part two:

Let your chirren tell why they think you suck as a parent!

Me: your an asshole who uses people bad looking sides for your advantage
Aika: how about I get reformed and come back to help
Me: No
Aika: I have cute braids and Puppy dog eyes
Me: Fine

Me: Okay so Damian, you're a badass warrior prince, and–
Damian: Actually I'm a soft idiot boi that follows a complete stranger into the depths of my palace, despite the fact that she could kill me with a pinkie finger
Me: …no, you're a cold, standoffish warrior
Damian: no, i'm a soft boi that likes flowers and is also a completely clueless mess
Me: …but that was supposed to be Max, not you
Max: oh that reminds me! I'm actually a Warrior Sherlock, basically, and Damian can't rule without my help
Me: whaaaa– fine. Fine, that works. Fine

Soáki: What is I was this dark ancient god, right? And I do justicey things with my evil powers.
Me: Cool!
Soáki: Yes and I have issues because I hate myself because I can only wreak destruction and stuff.
Me: 'Kay.
Soáki: I'm kind of a cute child though.
Me: Aight.
Soáki: I caused the San Francisco earthquake.
Me: What?
Soáki: My powers involve destruction and I… sort of never was taught how to deal with them because me parents abandoned me which is pretty common.
Me: Jeez these gods are going to have a lot of social issues.
Neirym: You called?
Me: What?

Me: I think I'm going to throw up.
Neirym: Hey you wanted a good villain!
Me: I meant like Acheron Hades! Flair and passion and nothing that evil.
Neirym: Alright you can add some of that in then!
Me: …
Nmere: I exist.
Me: Okay.
Nmere: I'm a god of knowledge and spend my time scrying and meditating. Also my eyes glow and change color.
Me: Cool.
Nmere: I don't really go to parties because I refuse to follow dumb social customs. Which are most.
Elena: Hi, I exist.
Me: Oh yeah, you do.
Elena: I'm a love interest.
Later
Elena: Nope, not really.
Me: What then?
Elena: I am Soáki's mortal influence that gives him the eyes to see the mortal world.
Soáki: Also I am crushing hard on her.
Me: You're how old?
Soáki: Emotionally around sixteen? I have hormones.
Me: 'Kay I see. So is this a coming of age story?
Soáki: Sort of?
Aiday: Hi.
Me: Hmm?
Aiday: I'm sweet and caring and have a major crush on Nmere and am one of the few people he tolerates. I'm a healing plus goo luck sort of a goddess.
Nmere: One of the few people I respect.
Aiday: I built him his house.
Me: Cool.
Aiday: Also I'm a Sikh.
Me: That explains why your hair's so long. But you are gods.
Aiday: But that's sort of interesting isn't it. We're gods, not Gods. We're higher than humans, but also sort of on the same level of them.
Soáki: So I'm a Deist.
Me: Interesting.
Gaiesh: You forgot me.
Me: Who are you?
Gaiesh: Bitter. And I make people's lives hell.
Me: Okay..?
Gaiesh: I can manipulate fate. All the bad things that happen to Soáki might be my fault.
Elena: So you're the reason I died. Just great.
Soáki: So Neirym isn't even the main enemy?
Me: I don't know. He's the one that starts you on the revenge thing.
Séle: And I help.
Me: You're his sister?
Séle: I'm Soáki's half sister. His father was a darkness god, mine was a moon god. So he has dark chaos, while I do moon chaos. He can make an earthquake, I can call tsunamis. And shoot moonbeams from my eyes and make people go mad. I'm really cute though.
Me: I like you.
Thana:
Me: What?
Thana: I am the closest thing to a mentor character there is. I might have less than three scenes.
Me: And you're impactful.
Thana: Very. I am a god of death.
Me: Whoa. That means you take Elena.
Thana: Not exactly.
Elena: Yeah I might be cursed to roam as a ghost and stuff. Might end up in a relationship with Soáki. But you still haven't figured that out.
Me: Yeah…

Me: Alright, I need a villain. Umm,
poof
Phoenix: Hello.
Me: You're a villain.
Phoenix: Alright.
Me. This means you do villainy stuff.
Phoenix: Ok.
starts building a machine
Me: Great, what's it do?
Phoenix: Turn the protagonist into an overpowered insane killing machine.
Me: And what do you intend to do with this?
Phoenix: See if it works.
Me: Do you have no plan beyond that? How does this tie into your objectives? You're supposed to be smart!
Phoenix: I am smart. My objective is to gather as much information as possible. And my plan is to stand well back.
Me: but you were supposed to be a villain?
Phoenix: Define villain. Also, I'm non-binary.
Me: Ok, don't have a problem with that, what the hell are you doing?
Phoenix: Defeating the evil overlord, obviously.
Me: why?
Phoenix: Because he threatened Niara.
Me: YOU HAVE LITERALLY TRIED TO KILL HER.
Phoenix: shrug

Alternatively:
Me: Alright, so my cast is all witches.
Lana: Right. Or their familiars.
Me: Ok. So you all have magic and familiars.
Sky: I don't have a familiar.
Me: Why?
Sky: I don't know. That's your problem.
Me: But you still have magic?
Sky: Yep.
Jasmine: I don't have magic.
Rena: Nor do I.
Me: Ok, and I don't suppose you have a reason?
Jasmine: Nope.
Rena: We have familiars, and they have magic.
Me: And I have to figure out why?
Rena: Yep.
Me: Alright, so witches can't fall in love without losing their magic.
Sky: Ok.
Me: And my main cast is all witches.
Ira: You said that.
Me: Therefore, nobody is going to fall in love. Then I don't have to deal with that.
Rena: Ok.
Chia: Hi, remember me? I'm an unimportant side character from the protagonists' hometown.
Me: Hello..?
Sky: I've fallen in love with her.
Me: I just said no falling in love.
Sky: Don't care.
Me: …Chia's a main character now, isn't she.
Chia: Yep.

Me: Okay, so once Ophelia and Lavinia escape Oleander, they go to Bassen and meet Trinity, who's pregnant and whose husband got kidnapped by the Fae.
Trinity: I'm not married.
Me: Okay, so your lover got kidnapped by the Fae. His name is Arthur Nest; he's a shy bookkeeper and we're going to rescue him.
Arthur: I'm right here, actually.
Me: So you four work together, and you and Trinity fall in love.
Carter: Actually there's more of us than just Trinity and Nest.
Trinity: Also I'm in my early twenties, not nineteen.
Me: Good for you. So anyways, you and Arthur have known each other for a while, but are separated in your teens before he returns when you're both adults and you fall in love.
Trinity: No. I'm single, and also not pregnant.
Arthur: We still knew each other as kids, but were just friends. I work for the palace now, I'm a herald.
Me: Okay, heralds are pretty cool.
Arthur: Also, I'm in love with Prince Christopher.
Me: But Christopher and Lavinia were going to be an implied eventual couple…
Christopher: Not anymore.
Me: Alright, fine. I ship it.

Me: i'm gonna create a self-aware character where his whole story is about how he KNOWS he's a character, but he can't do anything on his own free will because i'm still the author and anything and everything he does is because i wrote it
Kaiholo: You can't develop me at all <3
Me: wh-huh
Kaiholo: You also don't have any actual ideas for my plot:)
Me: Hey wait no-
Kaiholo: You didn't even come up with my ending on ur own. You didn't even come up with my most prominent feature on your own.
Me: Stop that

Alga: Hey what if I got MARRIED and had ANOTHER BABY!
Me: But that's two new charactersI have to develop!
Alga: But I thought you wanted me to be happy…
Me :Lmao bitch please, have you seen your arc?
Alga: Please can I have another baby? And a healthy relationship? Please? Just for a few years and then I'll go back to being miserable and traumatized?
me: OHMYGAWD FINE
And that's how Ethla was born.

(Sophisticated Blue)
Nathaniel: I am dead to begin with.
Me: I know- I… Just need a moment.
Lizzy: So I am the main character.
Ian: As am I.
Me: I like your vibe. Who are you?
Ian: Ian Park. I’m Korean.
Me: I have an odd number of Koreans. You’d think I’d be more likely to have Vietnamese characters.
Ian: shrugs
Me: So I thought Lizzy was gonna be philosophical-
Ian: That’s me.
Me: ‘Kay…
Ian: I’m also depressed.
Me: Seriously?
Evelyn: Did somebody say depressed?
Me: You too?
Evelyn: It’s mostly because of my parents’ divorce. Really screwed me up as a kid.
Me: I bet.
Evelyn: And another thing. Stop trying to base me on Jacey. I’m my own person now. Though I will still keep the hair dye.
Me: Alright so who are you?
Evelyn: I’m struggling that’s what. I go through boyfriends pretty fast.
Me: I thought you were gay?
Evelyn: I’m my own person, bitch. Deal.
Me: Okay I guess.
Evelyn: I’m also pregnant. Cause yes, I fuck. Deal.
Me: Well I don’t really have an alternative do I.
Evelyn: But I don’t know how my boyfriend will deal with it. I’m scared.
Me: Poor girl. You’re a wreck.
Evelyn: Shut it.
Lizzy: Sorry But I thought I was the main character?
Me: Yeah sorry, you are.
Lizzy: Well then have you made any breakthroughs on my character?
Me: Yeah you have synesthesia.
Lizzy: That’s nice I guess.
Me: It might make for a more interesting narrative. I’ll have to work on that though.
Me: Also you’re a nice person. I like you.
Lizzy: Thanks.
Me: But you have a problem.
Lizzy: Which you still haven’t figured out.
Me: I know. I was thinking that maybe it wasn’t losing your job, but then how could you offer to let Evelyn stay at your apartment?
…
Eos: I live off memes and Monster Energy.
Me: I both love and respect you.
Eos: I also have issues.
Me: Yeah it’s part of the theme.
Eos: Growing up is hard.
Me: Mood.

So idk if this counts but my main human character, Iza, was supposed to be a precious bean but then I had a thought. What if she bashed someone's head in with a wrench and became a minor antagonist? What if my main character taking her knife shopping created a snowball effect that leads up to her becoming a serious threat? It's still a work in progress, but I'm seriously thinking it over as a possibility.

Nyx was originally supposed to die at the end of the book featuring Mara. However, once I came up with Plasma, Galaxy's younger sister, I started to try and find someone to ship her with. Unfortunately, I didn't have many options. And so one day I thought: "Hey what about Plasma and Nyx? They'd be cute together!" And so then I started to ship them. But of course, Nyx is dead. So in the end I decided to bring her back to life. And some hardcore shipping is still going on.

Kieron
Him: Why am I only 6'4" and 300#?
Me: Since when is 6'4" and 300# an "only" situation?  And it's not like you aren't still the biggest guy in the cast; going by one of my real-life friends, you're going to be shopping at DXL as it is.
Him: I seem to recall having, at some point, been conceptualized at seven feet tall and around a quarter ton.  Can I…well…have that back?
Me:  You would be unable to fit through doorways.
Him:  I'll learn to manage.  Pinkie promise.  Stick a cupcake in my eye!
Me: Since when are you enough of a brony to know that reference?  Never mind; I know you well enough to know that you could never be that kind of brony.  Anyway: do not actually stick the cupcake—well, it's a carrot zucchini muffin; details—in your eye.  Sit down, eat the muffin instead—I know that you need your carbs and your vitamins; and, in the highly-likely event that you're still hungry afterwards, I bake them by the dozen—and watch this footage of strongman competitions.  Look how big those guys are compared to the average person.  Note that not even Björnsson is seven feet tall…and note how he still reflexively ducks going through what's got to be at least a seven-foot doorway.
Him: Okay.  I'll compromise; I should be 6'8" barefoot, with a physique that would not look out of place among those competitors.
Me: That was your take-away? Fine, then. You want to be as tall and broad as the average doorway and weigh four bills and change? Done; have fun breaking chairs and bumping your head on lintels.  And, if you don't mind my asking: why, exactly, did you want to be that outrageously huge?
Him: I want to train to beat them!
(We are suddenly on a driveway.  An impressively large tractor tire has materialized. Kieron has never not been barrel-chested and keg-bellied, and his girth has only increased with his height; I'm not sure where he acquired a bright turquoise-blue lifting belt long enough to encircle him, but it remains that he's in the midst of buckling on just such an item.)
Me: Okay…the giant amateur powerlifter taking an interest in other strength sports is not surprising. The incongruous competitive streak that seems to have accompanied it kind of is. Then again: for such an easygoing guy, you seem to be capable of making quite the fuss when dissatisfied.
Him: One more thing: can you not default to imagining me as blond and white?
Me: Sorry.  There was something about you having Danish ancestry; so I may or may not have fallen back on envisioning you as a big stereotypical Viking.
(Kieron's appearance has been oddly vague until now.  It's been obvious enough all along that he's built like the male Kul Tiran model from World of Warcraft, and that he has a nice face; but he's been, for want of a better description, grayscale and aethnic.  Now, he coalesces a bit more; he's brown, has black hair, and looks Pacific Islander.)
Him:  Danish and Samoan. Well, mostly, anyway; but that's splitting hairs. I mean…you did base my character design partly off of Toniu Fonoti, right?  At any rate: not white, not blond, and the surname is Vanu.

Naomi
Her:  Right off the bat?  I may have freckles, and my eyes may be gray; it remains that I'm black Creole from Lafayette Parish.
Me:  Gotcha.
Her:  And remember how you decided that I "only" got traumatized and had my face carved up in the incident that got me discharged?
Me: Yes, although I don't recall saying "only."
Her:  And remember how you played me in that GURPS game, and there were those killer snow crabs?
Me:  Yes.  That gamemaster is a cool guy, but he kind of gave me some anxiety.  That leg was doomed anyway, wasn't it?
(Naomi gestures towards her feet.  Her left pant leg is rolled up, exposing a prosthetic shin.)
Her: Yep.

Brandee
Her:  Thanks for tormenting me with that potential future celebrity mechanic job!
Me:  Sorry; I thought that your dream was to be able to make a tidy income off of your passion.
Her: Oh, no.  The pay was great; but what was with that catch?
Me: Catch?  That scenario was supposed to give you a vision of what you wanted!
Her: Wait.  You seriously thought that I want to be keeping ridiculous tricked-out form-over-function vanity vehicles running?  Or, to take that to its logical conclusion: keeping bro-trucks functional, insofar as that's not an oxymoron?
Me: In my defense: I had no idea that you hated bro-trucks so much.
Her:  I favor function over form.  You gave me that butt-ugly ratrod truck, made me love it, and justified both; you should know this.  I do not like vehicles that sacrifice function for aesthetics…but at least, say, a lowrider can be a work of art.  Bro-trucks do not even have that excuse.  They are peak tricked-out shitty vehicle.  In fact: they are vehicles beskited via tricking-out; and the end result doesn't even look good.

CJ
Him:  I'm coming out.
Me:  And you want the world to know?
Him:  [chuckles] I guess.  Anyway: I'm bi.  Maybe effectively a Kinsey 2 because of reasons; still, it remains that other men can excite me in both my gonads and my heart.
Me: Should have guessed; you were designed to be Naomi's foil in some regards, but her parallel in others.  But if I'm not prying: what does "because of reasons" mean in this context?
Him:  Well…I am a picky bi.  But I suspect that the reason it took me longer to come out is that, when it comes to men, I'm not just picky; I actually have a specific "type." [Pauses; blushes.]  It's tall bears.  And tall musclechubs.  No, Kieron was not my closet key; nonetheless: woof.
Me: So your achillean leanings are extant, but largely limited to teddy bears who could pick you up with one hand.  Gotcha.  You just told on yourself, sailor.
Him: I am okay with this.

Talula
Her: Did you miss me?
Me: Who are…oh, right; you.
Her: The cyberlocs stay.

I based two of my characters off of friends of mine. One of these friends (we'll call him J for now) is very heterosexual. Extremely so.
His character Juniper was originally planned to be asexual heteroromantic, since I thought it'd be cool to have an asexual siren character. And then, when I developed Dick, also based off of a human I know (but this one doesn't know and he's a lot more loosely based than Juniper), I liked his chemistry with Juniper.
My brain quite literally went, "Oh f*ck."
I did check with J to make sure it was okay that I made Juniper bi-curious at the very least, and he was chill with it.
So uh…Juniper and Dick have a very fancy Logince type of dynamic that definitely wasn't intentional. And also Juniper mayyy or may not end up using he/they pronouns.

"So, I had my character, Jay, who was the snarky comic relief who loved metal and was Min's bf. But then"

[Flashback]

Jay: "Hey, remember your friend who killed himself cuz of his abusive dad?"
Me: "Yes, why"
Jay: "Make me vengeful like you. Even more, actually. An anti-hero with a vendetta that I never got to fulfill"
Jay: "Also I don't wanna be dating Min anymore"
Jay: "And make it so I don't initially know her nor the others"
Me: "Wh-"
Jay: "Make me vengeful Nate"
Me: "But-"
Jay: "MAKE ME VENGEFUL!!"
Jay: "Oh and I'll also eventually lead Alyx down a path of vengeance too and cause conflict between her and Min"