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Is anyone else tired and disgusted that so many stories have violence just for violence's sake? No logical plot, just a vehicle for harming someone else.It can be anything: "bursting", brain washing, transformation, shrinking, being eaten, I found out the options are limitless.
In any way, something that permanently removes a character from the story (and existence), be it by making it vanish, die, diseapear, removing it from existance itself, or anything, then saying that since the character didn't really "die", it doesn't count. lol whut?
And the worst is the trend to make the offender be some kind of "hero" in the story, the main character, and horrible ammounts of plot armor to protect him/her.
It just damages the "suspension of disbelief" that helps you enjoy a piece of ficiton.
Heck, I read the description of a character I found, to a friend online, and she said "that character is clearly cruel", yet the author wrote down that the character was not evil.
I like bursting stories, but only if there's a reason for it. A GOOD story is just that... a story that happens to have bursting, not a bursting that has words thrown around it as a "story."
If the main character IS a psychopath, even a "normal" and "loveable" one, be it. Accidents, villains, revenge. But when a character acts "out of character", just for the heck of it... It gets dumb.
So, here's... uh... Michelle, the main character of my story. She's your average school girl. She never harmed a person more than the usual gossip, or eventual slapping fest with a jealous school mate. One day, she decided to pull a prank on someone. She thought about inflating some random person till she burst, or turn a guy into a chick, damned be his past and previous life, or maybe brain wash some girl into being someone's sex slave, or turn someone into an object and send it by mail to another country, or just gag someone with a jawbreaker into their mouth.
Unfortunally, all she managed to get was a normal hand gun, so it had to do. And the people around, the witnesses, she'll deal with them soon. Can't let her get caught now, can we?
And she's not evil, nor a psychopath, nor a bad person. It just happened that the victim... stoped existing. Shit happens, right?
PS: If someone felt offended by it, good. My job here is done. Feel free to insult me as you see fit.
PS2: Wooh, DA now has options for why a deviation is marked mature. DA is finally growing up.
PS3: Cute prank DA did. I just wonder if whoever wrote it, knows what the mudkips thing was really about... Damn, I wish I had a PS3... or at least that my PS2 were working... need to get off my lazy arse and get it fixed. I miss kicking butt and taking names with Kratos.
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Comments: 80
dwarfpriest In reply to ??? [2008-04-01 23:39:11 +0000 UTC]
A girl that beats her brother almost to death? I think I heard about it. She sounds like a plot device for the authors to write violent beating stories with cute muscle girls. Bleh, it got old after the 2nd or 3rd story.
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RocMegamanX In reply to dwarfpriest [2008-04-01 23:43:08 +0000 UTC]
Do you want me to note you about who I'm talking about?
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Oppai-no-Dchan In reply to ??? [2008-04-01 20:06:29 +0000 UTC]
What exactly IS the Mudkip thing about? Or do I not want to know?
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dwarfpriest In reply to Oppai-no-Dchan [2008-04-01 23:38:14 +0000 UTC]
Short version: Someone sent a comment to someone about pokemons, right before being banned (for something else). There came the joke that talking about Mudkipz will get you banned.
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BlackKusanagi In reply to ??? [2008-04-01 18:09:33 +0000 UTC]
Wow. Well done.
Anyways, so I herd u liek mudkipz.
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dwarfpriest In reply to BlackKusanagi [2008-04-01 23:37:01 +0000 UTC]
Thanks. I liek mudkipz!
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feverpitchfiasco [2008-04-01 17:26:21 +0000 UTC]
I've had a couple characters die, or something very bad happen to them (I ripped one's leg off o.o), but it's all out of necessity to advance the plot. They were also in situations where if they call came out laughingly unscathed, it'd just be realistic. Three people going up against a bunch of neoworld scythe monsters? Yeah, someone's gonna realistically need a bandaid.
I agree with everything you said in your post, doll. A lot of the times the violence is just the main point, and people really play that up.
Also, going back to our conversation on ExC; still no nastiness seen.
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dwarfpriest In reply to feverpitchfiasco [2008-04-01 23:36:39 +0000 UTC]
Thank you Yeah, as long as it's inside the story, deaths and scarrings are normal. Its the "lawl! I'm Cindy, I'll kill you because.... dunno. lol!"*bang*
And you must be scared woman! D:<
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Kitmum [2008-04-01 15:28:27 +0000 UTC]
glad imnot the only one who noticed that @_@..i think i only have two chararacters who die in there story plots and there both from completely seprate story lines o3o....but yeah i dont undestand plotless violence...or people who get a kick out of it D:
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dwarfpriest In reply to Kitmum [2008-04-01 23:34:51 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, I don't mind death in the stories, even apparently illogical ones, as long as it makes sense *in* the story. And it's usually not the case.
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Kitmum In reply to dwarfpriest [2008-04-02 01:43:50 +0000 UTC]
yeah i knoow what you mean...i see it so much on here its like a standard..but now im finding it in more books i look through at t he store a nd its just getting rediculous D:
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VivaLaGorilla In reply to ??? [2008-04-01 14:50:14 +0000 UTC]
You make a good point there Dwarf.
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DtheStampede In reply to ??? [2008-04-01 14:40:53 +0000 UTC]
You make a good point, actually.
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princeshadow13 In reply to ??? [2008-04-01 12:31:03 +0000 UTC]
You know, this story is actually a hell of a lot better than some of the vore ones that I've read, and they went on for ages.
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dwarfpriest In reply to princeshadow13 [2008-04-01 23:32:52 +0000 UTC]
Sad, ain't it? XD And I came up with that as I was writing the description
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princeshadow13 In reply to dwarfpriest [2008-04-02 00:31:24 +0000 UTC]
I know, that's just the sad state of the word-smiths of this day.
I'm working on honing my skills so I don't turn out complete and utter crap, I'm sorta half-way there right now.
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penguingod1990 In reply to ??? [2008-04-01 12:23:43 +0000 UTC]
um dude dont get a ps3 till its net is fixed along with many games
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dwarfpriest In reply to penguingod1990 [2008-04-01 23:31:51 +0000 UTC]
Oh? Wii is a better bet for now? Or should I just wait more?
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aethir [2008-04-01 12:18:47 +0000 UTC]
I think you broke the 4th wall on that one, Dwarf. But I do agree. If you kill a character off, it has to serve more purpose than just killing them for kicks.
As always, wonderfully drawn
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dwarfpriest In reply to aethir [2008-04-01 23:31:19 +0000 UTC]
Believe me, I had some nastier lines for her to say
Thanks
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