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drza:

--- Quote from: neurovore on April 21, 2010, 08:20:31 PM ---You assume the character is heterosexual why ?

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*shrugs* Why not?  This was a brainstorming session, right?  I threw an idea out there, and if it doesn't stick we try another.  I don't see any reason the concept of a bad/gray character that has sexual tension with the protagonist wouldn't work for whatever orientation the characters are.  Do you?

elsupremo:
Make the villain someone that can cancel out the power. Doesn't need to be anyone super powerful in their own right, just could be someone with the artifact of making-the-rings-not-work. Think Lex Luthor to Superman. Lex Luthor has no super abilities, but he can get his hands on a lot of kryptonite. Also he puts Superman's friends in danger a lot, so while not always directly threatening to SUperman, he can still hurt him in ways that super powers don't always help with.

Berrylovely:
Why not a pair of villains? Siblings, spouse, SO's, parent & child, etc or a relative of your hero???

And why do they have to be a "villain"? Say more of a person who is doing things for the greater good, but the reasoning is not what your main character (hero) thinks is right? Things are not always good vs bad, sometimes good vs good can occur as well. Should this be the route you take it might be easier to weave this character(s) into the story line of any one story. There could be references to them, even when they themselves are not apparently there.

meg_evonne:
uhm, I'm heading off in a completely different direction here.  Your TRUE story is all before the place you've put your main character.  Generally, (Jim claiming to be the devil's advocate at MiHi Con was the only opposing view) your character has to be vulnerable and able to change.  If you've already god-powered him up--you've got a pretty serious plot flow problem.  Finding a super demon god to confront him/her...well, why?

Tell the story of how the character got or found or won the powers to begin with and get that story under your belt first. 

As always, follow your own writer's heart--  If nothing else, remember that every major superhero has kryponite somewhere lurking around the corner or he's as boring as a stick in the mud.

kingaling:
While The Solomon has the power, the right and the ability. He's not too terribly good at it. And that's the point, that is what goes on with The Solomon. They get the original Solomons rings, and then they have to use figure it out for themselves (for the most part). My character does have an instructor (an alcoholic Djinn named Kinny) and when he doesn't know what to do, or what he's doing, or is practicing, Kinny is there.
My character has a real complacency issue. While he has the rings and the power, he doesn't feel burdened, or gifted. He has a real "whatever" kind of attitude when it comes to things that resemble work, unless it's something that really gets under his skin, annoys him. Maybe its a form of selfishness.

I'm not looking for gigantic uber demons (or uber angels) to come swooping in and messing with him. Though I do like the idea of people that are good, and that he believes to be good, trying to take him down and him not knowing what to do about that. (But that may carry him one.. maybe two stories at the most) so it's difficult to come up with enemies.

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