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Luke, *I* am your father...overused?

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Apocrypha:

--- Quote from: arianne on July 07, 2010, 01:17:03 AM ---Would it be accurate to say that Harry Potter's Voldemort is an anti-Luke, then? "He killed my parents, therefore he is the bad guy".

Actually, that one does seem to be a lot more overused!

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True.  Everyone swears vengeance against the person(s) who killed their parents/family.

Let's write a story where the character's parents are killed and the main character just celebrates  ;D

meg_evonne:
What is your reason for the father angle and how will you employ it? Wait bad idea to describe if its a good one.  I'd say it depends on the fundamental structure if it works but I'd worry it will be too common and not a surprise at the end.  How about it being his mother or grandfather?

Apocrypha:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on July 07, 2010, 06:05:17 AM --- How about it being his mother or grandfather?

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Or the main character him/herself come back from the future  :o

arianne:
Hard to say anything without details, but basically my bad guy is the main character's dad, and they've never even met, so when said main character hears a rumor that "random dude" may be his dad, he goes off to look for the dad and...[insert adventure]

I know, cliche, cliche, cliche.  :'(

The point is, the relationship "tug" has to be strong enough that the main character would go looking for the bad guy. Pretty much everything stems from that point.

Jaeh:

--- Quote from: Apocrypha on July 07, 2010, 03:17:07 AM ---Let's write a story where the character's parents are killed and the main character just celebrates  ;D

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know what, that's twisted enough that I want to write a story about it. When I read that my head just sprouted complicated ideas. :p


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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