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terioncalling:
--- Quote from: Velkyn_Faer on January 30, 2007, 11:55:30 PM ---As to the butter knife, Jim Butcher should totally have Harry in a fight with that. He's laying in a ruined diner, smoke drifting in the air, with tables and chairs overturned everywhere. His opponent stands over him and kicks his blasting rod away with a laugh. Harry snarls a curse and rolls, searching for anything to use to fight back. His hand closes on something, and he hauls himself to his feet, lifting his weapon. His eyes widen with surprise as he realizes that he held a butter knife. It would have to do.
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Omigod, YES. I am drawing Chibi!Harry now with a butter knife and a WTF look. ;D It must be done.
Velkyn_Faer:
--- Quote from: terioncalling on January 31, 2007, 02:23:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: Velkyn_Faer on January 30, 2007, 11:55:30 PM ---As to the butter knife, Jim Butcher should totally have Harry in a fight with that. He's laying in a ruined diner, smoke drifting in the air, with tables and chairs overturned everywhere. His opponent stands over him and kicks his blasting rod away with a laugh. Harry snarls a curse and rolls, searching for anything to use to fight back. His hand closes on something, and he hauls himself to his feet, lifting his weapon. His eyes widen with surprise as he realizes that he held a butter knife. It would have to do.
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Omigod, YES. I am drawing Chibi!Harry now with a butter knife and a WTF look. ;D It must be done.
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Woohoo! Can't you see Jim making that happen, though? Of course, Harry would have a cool, smart-ass remark about it, or a bad pun, but you get the point.
Velkyn
blgarver:
Hello everyone. I've been away for a bit. Nice to come back to some interesting topics.
The first thing I thought of when I read this, at least concerning the oversized weapons, is Final Fantasy, and Devil May Cry...both manga-ish video games. I'm not a FF fan, so I'm not sure about the lore of that guy's giant sword, but I know it looks damn cool in the artwork. And in Devil May Cry, the main character Dante is half human, half demon, and the sword he eventually gets is part demon too. So the big sword works here, because it compliments his superhuman abilities. And it looks cool...lol.
As far as the animal-human demons...I think they're a bit cliche for fantasy stuff, but I tolerate them. I try not to write them in because they don't feel like a new idea. I'm not a good enough writer to be cut-and-pasting existing concepts. I at least need to come up with some fresh stuff. In the book I'm writing now, there are demon-like beings, but they take the form of a cat or human, but no crossing the two. And then there's the third type of demon called the Aphantor that is your basic scary shadow creature; think a doppleganger from D&D that's always shrouded in a cloud of darkness.
I think a human with anamilitic personality traits is scarier than a human with physical animal traits. Or, animals that act human. I use a lot of this in my current project. The animals are very alert and human-acting. The ones that are part of the main cast, anyway. Not all the animals are...special. And then the main bad guy is just an Englishman, suave and collected until someone pushes his buttons...then he turns vicious. He pounces and moves like a predatory animal, snarls, slobbers, and such. I don't think it's necessary to cross the physical attributes. Plus it keeps the reader thinking (I hope) about what the thing actually is, because it's not acting like a human normall acts.
That's my two cents.
BLG
Simon Hogwood:
--- Quote from: Velkyn_Faer on February 01, 2007, 11:39:28 PM ---Of course, Harry would have a cool, smart-ass remark about it, or a bad pun, but you get the point.
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"Taste Excalibutter, jerk."
Machaut:
He'd know better than to bring a butterknife to a buttergun fight :)
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