Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character

[Naruzeldamaster]

What's funny is we have a Deus ex Machina running around. No one's spotted him, yet. Maybe I can learn to be subtle. lol

I love that lol I literally have a Deus Ex Machina too...

The characters different 'forms' are named after that. Youngest Sister: Machina. Elder Sister: Deus Ex Oldest Sister: Deus Ex Machina. She's 'one' person and she's the head God of the world.

But there shouldn't be anything that hints at them actually being that, until the time comes. (Since it's a comedy everything is a joke) I don't think anyone will clock it though, since the name is treated as a pun/joke also. (Like both lore wise and dialogue wise. The other gods in the story don't take her 'seriously' unless she's in 'fire and brimstone' mode of existing.)

 

[A. E. Lowan]

I love that lol I literally have a Deus Ex Machina too...

The characters different 'forms' are named after that. Youngest Sister: Machina. Elder Sister: Deus Ex Oldest Sister: Deus Ex Machina. She's 'one' person and she's the head God of the world.

But there shouldn't be anything that hints at them actually being that, until the time comes. (Since it's a comedy everything is a joke) I don't think anyone will clock it though, since the name is treated as a pun/joke also. (Like both lore wise and dialogue wise. The other gods in the story don't take her 'seriously' unless she's in 'fire and brimstone' mode of existing.)

Ours mostly points people where they need to go. We've seen him in every book so far. He's going to get more involved fairly soon, though.

 

[The_vault_keeper]

i think putting your own experiences into a character that you have made is normal once I have not been through half what my characters have been through but i will still probably be judged

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Ours mostly points people where they need to go. We've seen him in every book so far. He's going to get more involved fairly soon, though.

Mine is that way because of how the stories that I'm parodying with this story go.
Often in JRPG (Japanese role Playing Game) there will be some sort of 'get out of jail' mc guffin or character.
Sometimes it's known (to the player and/or the characters)
Sometimes it's not known (but that is rare)
Sometimes it's literally done as a Joke to make fun of games that have this happen seriously. (Undertale is a good example of this)
I'm quite fond of the ones where it parodies the 'obviously there' ones.
As much as I love the instances where they expect you to take them seriously, the quality of writing suffers a bit.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Mine is that way because of how the stories that I'm parodying with this story go.
Often in JRPG (Japanese role Playing Game) there will be some sort of 'get out of jail' mc guffin or character.
Sometimes it's known (to the player and/or the characters)
Sometimes it's not known (but that is rare)
Sometimes it's literally done as a Joke to make fun of games that have this happen seriously. (Undertale is a good example of this)
I'm quite fond of the ones where it parodies the 'obviously there' ones.
As much as I love the instances where they expect you to take them seriously, the quality of writing suffers a bit.

I spent way too much time in Lang and Lit to take anything literary or lit crit seriously. We have Heroes. They go on Journeys. They're rough on their mentors. And they meet their Destinies.

The things we're doing with paladins and unicorns may be illegal in some countries.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I spent way too much time in Lang and Lit to take anything literary or lit crit seriously. We have Heroes. They go on Journeys. They're rough on their mentors. And they meet their Destinies.

The things we're doing with paladins and unicorns may be illegal in some countries.

Go even further beyond, make a Unicorn Paladin.
I don't think I plan to use the Deus Ex Machina character as that (a straight up win button) until after the characters have had their proper 'final' battle.
Some games do that too. Deus Ex Machina thingy/character is weak up until the point where the final boss threatens to destroy everything, AFTER the party has their shit kicked in (But not before they've done a number on the big bad beforehand) thingy goes 'boop' and protagonists get a 'second wind' and save the day epically.

I Love this trope, one might call it a guilty pleasure, but I do feel it's overplayed. Particularly in old JRPG's or Modern JRPG styling themselves after the 'classic' model. There's a reason it's a classic trope, but yep, overused haha

A funny compromise I have planned for my pokemon story.

The protagonist group fights the main villain with their 'proper' final pokemon battle.
Main villain was stalling until she became infused with Arceus (Basically God of all Pokemon) DNA
Main Villain goes on a rampage until Protags track her down again.
Main Villain brags about not being able to be 'stopped' by a human.
Protagonist looses his pokemon battle with her.
Evil villain monologue
Protagonist gets annoyed and says 'shut up' and casually yeets his master ball (It catches all pokemon without fail) and catches Her.
She tries to 'escape' several times, but the master ball is the ultimate capture tool, which even works on Arceus. This moment is played for jokes, but it's an actual canon thing.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Go even further beyond, make a Unicorn Paladin.
I don't think I plan to use the Deus Ex Machina character as that (a straight up win button) until after the characters have had their proper 'final' battle.
Some games do that too. Deus Ex Machina thingy/character is weak up until the point where the final boss threatens to destroy everything, AFTER the party has their shit kicked in (But not before they've done a number on the big bad beforehand) thingy goes 'boop' and protagonists get a 'second wind' and save the day epically.

I Love this trope, one might call it a guilty pleasure, but I do feel it's overplayed. Particularly in old JRPG's or Modern JRPG styling themselves after the 'classic' model. There's a reason it's a classic trope, but yep, overused haha

A funny compromise I have planned for my pokemon story.

The protagonist group fights the main villain with their 'proper' final pokemon battle.
Main villain was stalling until she became infused with Arceus (Basically God of all Pokemon) DNA
Main Villain goes on a rampage until Protags track her down again.
Main Villain brags about not being able to be 'stopped' by a human.
Protagonist looses his pokemon battle with her.
Evil villain monologue
Protagonist gets annoyed and says 'shut up' and casually yeets his master ball (It catches all pokemon without fail) and catches Her.
She tries to 'escape' several times, but the master ball is the ultimate capture tool, which even works on Arceus. This moment is played for jokes, but it's an actual canon thing.

That's funny. Reminds me of the deku-princess-in-a-bottle in Majora's Mask. I think? lol

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

That's funny. Reminds me of the deku-princess-in-a-bottle in Majora's Mask. I think? lol

Well the joke is that Pokeballs (of any kind) don't typically work on humans. So that's where the 'funny' comes from.
She's a human infused with Arceus's DNA (To the point of shape shifting a bit into one) and the machine doing so says her DNA is 98% 'like' a pokemon.
She just goes insane because said pokemon happened to be Arceus (literally god of all pokemon) and Master Balls are Proven to work even on Arceus (for the player at least) I feel like her getting her comeuppance in this way is perfectly silly. One because she doesn't 'account' for that weakness and 2 she's nowhere near expecting it, nor are the other characters in the scene.

I want the antagonist to have the same energy as Loki when he says 'I have been falling for *30* minutes!'

It's also a bit of a turning point for the Protagonist. Normally he's the silent listener type (somewhat like Link but he chats more) generally he only speaks up when he's in the mood. So when he gets 'cross' even his mother is shocked.