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    How to Give Names "Power" (Not Religiously) ?

    He's scary because of how unpredictable he is, though 90% of the time he's not a threat. (Unless you're an actual villain type of person, then your goose is cooked) Most people still know to avoid him because only a person just as crazy would actually fight him. (He's one of the 'dragons' in my...
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    How to Give Names "Power" (Not Religiously) ?

    The character I'm writing now for the current chapter is one of these characters, his proper name isn't mentioned at all until like the last leg. He has nicknames (The barmaid calls him 'mister wolf' because of his comically ornate wolf pelt armor, it's also comical that he wears it to begin...
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    How to Give Names "Power" (Not Religiously) ?

    So I'm talking like. Black Beard, he was a real badass of a pirate, and did many insane things, but people only remember him for his Beard, which was black, and he would tie candles and light them to in order to terrorize his enemies. I'm sure the man was a regular nutcase and was remembered for...
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    Unredeemable Tropes

    Red shirts (The trope) can die in a fire. Especially if they bother to give them personality and backstory. If their only purpose is to die randomly, don't put effort into making me give a shit about them. Make them a memorable character, sure, but don't expect me to get actually invested in...
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    What was hard to write?

    For me it's more a principals thing, plus a lot of the time one of the characters has shape shifting capabilities and at least one of them isn't shy about her guilty pleasures. Most of the time I like to demonstrate to the reader what they are capable of for 'normal' uses. Then leave it up to...
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    What was hard to write?

    Anything I ever decided to post on 4 chan... Joking aside I don't like writing violence for the sake of it (as in Gratuitous violence, like Equalizer) I can do epic anime magic fights of nonsense just fine, but actual brutality for the sake of it is entirely out of my wheelhouse. And Honestly...
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    Yeah I'm about a third of a way through the chapter already and I'll be chipping away at it more tonight. It's hard to describe but I'm not trying to emulate anime itself (as in, like the kinds of plots they have and stuff) just the 'feel' if that makes sense?
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    I don't have the full scene written yet (I started writing it yesterday) but I do have the outline. -the POV character is the blacksmith (He's also a swordsman but he focuses more on his blacksmithing) who has very little emotional output. -he observes the female character (noting that she seems...
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    Drink it? Nah, that's a waste, big brain is to bottle it and sell it (yes that actually happened....some idiot out there tried to market 'gamer girl' bathwater...) No I mean when I think eccentric, I think of characters who seem 'weird' or 'outlandish' (not exactly in a negative way, just...
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    When I think eccentric characters I tend to think characters with 'big' personalities, or extremely elaborate or expressive ones, to the point they seem foreign. Though they usually are paired with having some amount of fame/clout or wealth. Depends on the anime (One piece is full of two bit...
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    He's not the main character (but he is a 'main party member' if we think in RPG game terms) He's almost a thousand years old (you know, as elves do) but he's pretty much been busy with his blacksmithing business, so not much time for inter personal stuff. (the girl that goes with him would have...
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    Depends on the point you're making, and if the character is a villain or protagonist. And honestly Jiraya is worse than Roshi and Sanji put together. The key takeaway from these types of characters is that 90% of the time, their 'behavior' isn't encouraged or even tolerated a lot of the time...
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    I mean it's more a play on the phrase 'breeding like rabbits' (The PG version of F* like tigers) he's distracted by her in the sense that she's disrupting his train of thought (and being loud/boisterous in general) but not in the 'hormones activate' sense, if that makes any sense. Everyone knows...
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    I think that's where I fail at it most of the time, these types of character descriptions tend to come from the narrator (and not the POV character) despite that not being the intention. A scene that had cropped up in my mind with one of these rabbit people. She's challenging a main character...
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    Do you gravitate toward particular body types?

    Most of the complaints I get are from here tho. Half of the time from folks over-assuming what point I'm trying to make. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I fully understand the complaints which is why I want to find a 'safe' way to describe these types of characters to begin with...
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