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Handicapping your characters.
Thrythlind:
--- Quote from: Lauriane on October 17, 2010, 10:24:33 AM --- not be Aragorn
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...the hell?
I've never seen anyone complain about Aragorn before.
He's one of the best parts of the book!
Lauriane:
*bows down in apology*
Not bashing Aragorn. He's my favorite part of the book. I just didn't want to plagiarize him . . . too obviously, mwahaha!
hatshep2:
Lol. I read the books for Aragorn! Okay, and that Ring stuff was pretty cool, too... ;)
Razzazzika:
I have a lot of ideas in my head for lots of different characters, but just taking my current story that I'm actually writing on paper. My character is far more powerful than he knows, and continues to get more powerful as the series goes on, but the very source of his power is his weakness as well. Or... rather i think with my character it's the other way around... his weakness is the source of all his power. but anyway.
Umm... some good examples of this would be from the dresden files where (click to show/hide)the angelic power he gets from slaying the coin demon is freakin' powerful but eats at his soul to use itor in the rachel morgan series where she can (click to show/hide)cast demonic magic, but each time it soils her aura making it blacker and blacker, causing the outside world to view her as a black witch, despite the fact that she's never used magic to harm anyone
Thrythlind:
--- Quote from: Razzazzika on October 21, 2010, 09:03:07 PM ---I have a lot of ideas in my head for lots of different characters, but just taking my current story that I'm actually writing on paper. My character is far more powerful than he knows, and continues to get more powerful as the series goes on, but the very source of his power is his weakness as well. Or... rather i think with my character it's the other way around... his weakness is the source of all his power. but anyway.
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Yeah, this seems to happen with main characters.
When your character is the de facto main character, it is often a case that they are honestly stronger and more powerful than anybody else, or at least have the potential to be. Not always the case, but in situations where the character isn't so powerful, that itself will be the reason why they can succeed and no one else can.
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