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Luke, *I* am your father...overused?
arianne:
--- Quote from: Jaeh on July 07, 2010, 02:22:10 PM ---for the OP, if you do it well and great, it would work. I guess you could distract people from the "cliche" factor. Although, I'd think that it would be interesting if the main char. knows his dad's the bad guy, and he still has this tug that he really really wants to get to bad dad and stuff, but main char knows that he *HAS* to stop the bad guy anyway. but that's just me.
maybe that's even more cliched, I wouldn't know, lol.
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I don't know; this idea kind of appeals to me. It would take a bit of work to make it sound belivable and stuff, but other than that, I like it. :) Does anyone else think this might be too cliche, though?
My friend just said she didn't get why it is that fictional characters are always so eager to find their parents, despite the fact that they are doing just fine without said parents. "Why go looking for trouble from a total stranger? Just live and let live" is her way of looking at it.
As you can probbaly guess, none of her characters have ever felt the slightest need to look for their parents.
LizW65:
--- Quote from: arianne on July 08, 2010, 01:34:12 PM ---My friend just said she didn't get why it is that fictional characters are always so eager to find their parents, despite the fact that they are doing just fine without said parents. "Why go looking for trouble from a total stranger? Just live and let live" is her way of looking at it.
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This seems to be pretty unusual in fiction, almost an inversion, in fact. One way this might be handled is to have the character uninterested in building a relationship with his/her biological parents, but seek them out to see if he/she has any inherited medical conditions. Then the parents turn out to take an unusual interest in the protagonist...
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: arianne on July 08, 2010, 01:34:12 PM ---I don't know; this idea kind of appeals to me. It would take a bit of work to make it sound belivable and stuff, but other than that, I like it. :) Does anyone else think this might be too cliche, though?
My friend just said she didn't get why it is that fictional characters are always so eager to find their parents, despite the fact that they are doing just fine without said parents. "Why go looking for trouble from a total stranger? Just live and let live" is her way of looking at it.
As you can probbaly guess, none of her characters have ever felt the slightest need to look for their parents.
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I'd say it's simply human nature. And could be for any number of reasons, like wanting to know why they were abandoned, what their family medical history is, bad living situation and wanting to know if it could've been better. Or at least those are some of the things that would occur to me. Course, it's also something that I'm sure varies from person to person.
arianne:
--- Quote ---This seems to be pretty unusual in fiction, almost an inversion, in fact. One way this might be handled is to have the character uninterested in building a relationship with his/her biological parents, but seek them out to see if he/she has any inherited medical conditions. Then the parents turn out to take an unusual interest in the protagonist...
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I don't know if a medical condition is a strong enough reason to seek out one's parents, but otherwise this idea seems to fly pretty good :) Thanks.
Vash the white:
It may be clitche to have the protagonist and antagonist to be brothers, but it will always be freaking awesome
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