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Becoming A Character
Topic Started: Jul 27 2015, 11:10 PM (8,850 Views)
Geomancer93041
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I've noticed a few people have have managed to create alter-egos in the Factions lore. I was wondering how it happened.
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rinsujo
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Winter's Claw for Life.
mmmm, kdrakari doesn't comment much, but his posts (most of them anyway) seem to be exceptionally deep. As far as ratios go I suspect his is quite high.
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RaptorAttacks
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My Post-To-Quality Ratio is EXCEPTIONALLY low. Which means I gotta shitpost at the speed of light.
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heavyweapons guy
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RaptorAttacks
Aug 11 2015, 09:58 PM
My Post-To-Quality Ratio is EXCEPTIONALLY low. Which means I gotta shitpost at the speed of light.
I challenge you to a shitpost off
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AbiwonKenabi
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Just take it into another thread please, this has already gotten way off-topic.

What were talking about again? Characters? My character is an anthropologist with insatiable curiosity and is a little eccentric (probably from living with Yordles for too long). I'm actually really proud of myself because with my summmoner's background, it makes it really easy for me to write interesting Herald articles in character. Which I like, makes me feel a part of the universe.
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RaptorAttacks
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My character has a Dark and Secret past. He has a dark form and a light form. His only weakness is Yorick and his shovel, and he murdered Sonic the Hedgehog.,

In all seriousness, though, I feel like my character is OK. He has a ridiculous plotline, and literally nothing special OTHER than his ridiculous plotline, but his personality feels somewhat unique.
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AffableZombie
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How many potatos do I need to potato to trip ballz?
I like your character Raptor, he is very comical.
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CupcakeTrap
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AbiwonKenabi
Aug 12 2015, 05:09 AM
Just take it into another thread please, this has already gotten way off-topic.

What were talking about again? Characters? My character is an anthropologist with insatiable curiosity and is a little eccentric (probably from living with Yordles for too long). I'm actually really proud of myself because with my summmoner's background, it makes it really easy for me to write interesting Herald articles in character. Which I like, makes me feel a part of the universe.
Maybe your character was once cheated out of a plum research posting by a rogue Summoner who thereupon declared, "nothing personnel...kid..."

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It's just so perfect.

…sorry. Back on topic. I wholeheartedly endorse in-universe research articles. I love arcanobabble.
Edited by CupcakeTrap, Aug 12 2015, 12:07 PM.
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TerraBooma
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I can't really remember, but I think CCT liked my character, and he only half maigcally incincerated a house.



HE GOT RID OF THE GHOSTS DIDN'T HE.
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RaptorAttacks
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CupcakeTrap
Aug 12 2015, 12:00 PM
…sorry. Back on topic. I wholeheartedly endorse in-universe research articles. I love arcanobabble.
Something Something WIZARD-POLARITY!
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ShadowKnight1224
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To be honest, I could actually write entire lore pieces on magical theory and arcanobabble. It's kinda stupid how extremely interesting I find that sort of thing.
Edited by ShadowKnight1224, Aug 12 2015, 12:25 PM.
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CupcakeTrap
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TerraBooma
Aug 12 2015, 12:21 PM
I can't really remember, but I think CCT liked my character, and he only half maigcally incincerated a house.



HE GOT RID OF THE GHOSTS DIDN'T HE.
I loved/love your character. Great example of how an "acolyte"/"apprentice" type character can be super interesting. Using the new kid as the audience insert/exposition excuse is an old meme, but old memes exist (and persist) for a reason. And he worked especially well as a viewpoint character for the Zaun/Piltover thing. Sometimes people exaggerate factional clashes that are the result of high-and-mighty puppeteers pushing their pawns around the board mixing their metaphors with Machiavellian machinations, but not everyone would readily translate that to hatred of individual people from those other states. It was fun to write a Pilt Summoner who looks up to a Zaunite mentor, while still having some reservations about the Zaunite way of doing things.

And he did get rid of the ghosts.
Edited by CupcakeTrap, Aug 12 2015, 12:43 PM.
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TerraBooma
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Yes. And like. Half the house.

BUT IT WORKED OKAY.

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Crzymstrbkwrm876
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Oh Terra...If you had come to me, I simply would have frozen half the house. No permanent damage :C
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RaptorAttacks
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Crzymstrbkwrm876
Aug 12 2015, 12:49 PM
Oh Terra...If you had come to me, I simply would have frozen half the house. No permanent damage :C
EXCEPT, THE ICE WOULD'VE MELTED, CREATING WATER, THAT WOULD FLOW BACK INTO THE SEA, CAUSING AN INCREASE IN THE SEA LEVEL, CAUSING THE ICE CAPS TO SINK FASTER, CAUSING A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE SEA LEVEL, UNTIL PORT TOWNS ARE FLOODED, CAUSING SHARKS TO BE ABLE TO EAT PEOPLE, CAUSING AN INCREASE OF BLOOD IN THE OCEAN, WHICH WOULD AWAKEN THE OLD ONES AND BRING ABOUT THE APOCALYPSE.

Yeah, no permanent damage, we can just retcon it.
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TerraBooma
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Hey it was only half hte house, don't worry. Then we did something or other and I think we all woke up in a hospital or something.
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Kaynunot
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Kuronan Estimare, Psionic Psion of House Estimare
Kuronan looks at his OC, now unsure if Mary-Sueish or just kind of messed up and trying to move past it by doing other things.

Honestly, thoughts on that?
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RaptorAttacks
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Kuronan
Aug 13 2015, 12:10 AM
Kuronan looks at his OC, now unsure if Mary-Sueish or just kind of messed up and trying to move past it by doing other things.

Honestly, thoughts on that?
Eh, its fine. A bit overly-angsty, since his entire background seems to just be him murdering people, but it could be worse.
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HeartlessWytche
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DEMACIA!
Eh if I still had my edit link I'd edit out the SI connection on my character, I like him more as a die-hard Demacian.
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rinsujo
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Winter's Claw for Life.
Here's the thing - Mary-sue ish characters are a little bit about creation, but much more about how they're played. If you play him well, even if he's a touch MS because of his backstory, no one will care. If he's running the show every quest? People will care no matter how ordinary his origin is. (Side note - technically, a male Mary-Sue is a Gary-Stu, but it doesn't really matter in conversation.)
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Kayokane
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I am 82.5% certain my character is a Mary-Sue.... the other 17.5% is bacon
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