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how to say goodbye
Shecky:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on April 22, 2010, 11:58:10 PM ---ummm yeah that does sound like a fun story but i am not sure what that has to do with my current dilemma?
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Everything, if that's the way you decide he's to say good-bye.
Nickeris86:
doesn't really fit with the story. he's leaving the planet he's not dead, and he is only saying good by to his emdiat family. mom, dad, little sister, dogs
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on April 21, 2010, 09:20:20 PM ---any way the problem i am having is that my main character is the definition of average, so that means he has a loving family on earth that he has to say good bye too, and i have no idea how to go about having him say good bye to his entire family, possibly forever, while he goes off and lives with a bunch of aliens. i have no frame of reference for that in my personal life.
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Why did he choose to go with the aliens ? What are his reasons, and how much of his family agree with them ? Or did he choose at all ?
Nickeris86:
--- Quote from: neurovore on April 23, 2010, 07:27:04 PM ---Why did he choose to go with the aliens ? What are his reasons, and how much of his family agree with them ? Or did he choose at all ?
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he went with them cause his life was boring. he had just been fired from his dead end job, he graduated collage but there were no opportunities for him to get a better job. his love life was non extant and he was really just having a really really bad day. when the offer came he didn't so much jump at the chance, he mulled it over, but how often do you get asked to go into space and learn about an alien culture and society. basically this is his travel abroad faze that some college students go through after graduation, only for him its the cosmos.
his parents are supportive of his decision in the since that they are going to miss him but they do think that its an opertunity that he can't pass up. i just have no idea how to vocalize their actual conversation.
meh:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on April 23, 2010, 07:23:57 PM ---doesn't really fit with the story. he's leaving the planet he's not dead,
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That's exactly the point. If he were dead, it would be a real wake and people would be too de mortuis nil nisi bonum to come out with spiteful stuff.
--- Quote ---and he is only saying good by to his emdiat family. mom, dad, little sister, dogs
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If that's how you want to play it.
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