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Feivelyn In reply to Hera-of-Stockholm [2018-12-04 07:27:23 +0000 UTC]

thanks a lot

well he is the villain in some way, even if it is actually more a villainous force, an organisation but he's like the embodyment of it for the protagonist(s) after they realize what's actually happening, because he's the only person of them they are interacting with.

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Hera-of-Stockholm In reply to Feivelyn [2018-12-05 17:38:45 +0000 UTC]

Oh, that sounds like a great story!

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Feivelyn In reply to Hera-of-Stockholm [2018-12-06 00:17:47 +0000 UTC]

he's the most developed character... and I can't stop (for over a year now) but I should be focusing on the actual protagonists for a chanche,

well at least I'm slowly making progress in fleshing out the more detailed plot line and even some of the gameplay

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Hera-of-Stockholm In reply to Feivelyn [2018-12-06 17:56:58 +0000 UTC]

Well I know the feeling. It's easy getting stuck with one who's perhaps not a villain but a more complicated person. Building layers and layers on the characters, deepening them. At the same time I keep having trouble with the do-gooders. It's hard sometimes to give them debth. The more angelic, the harder it gets, imo.

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Feivelyn In reply to Hera-of-Stockholm [2018-12-06 20:01:18 +0000 UTC]

I know this so well, my old main-chars are all troubled weirdos, outcasts and the like. would say pretty much dark grey all of them.

The plot I'm working on now is made with an audience in mind, so I thought I needed a morally light grey character that can guide people into my setting with morales that are kind of what is expected of a protagonist, of coures it is all in relation to the setting, but it's easy to find parallels to cling on and being able to understand the setting and character and probably identify with her without needing to be crushed by a ton of exposition first.

and Retha (that's her name (also my first female main-char)) is still a bit flat well, people around her are getting gritty and deep but she herself, well, needs some more work done.

I mean usually I don't say: "that guy/girl is a main-character now! (was the case with her)", it just develops form secondary characters that I made up at some point and suddenly I start to think, who's actually that guy, where does he come from, what does he aim for or what if this chracter is the same as this guy that appeared 15 years earlier in that one scene... what happend to him that he got there...

...And it just develops naturally, if I find it interesting enough, I get a lot of ideas for them and keep building the layers. And when I'm at the point where I can basically tell the whole lifestory of this character, then, congratulations!, you reachd Main-Character rank (Doc would be the fifth now, I still don't have a name yet but an idea how it should sound (cultural background))

It's also all entangled, so the second and third MCs meet the first at some point in their arc and some rather important secondary character from the 3rd MC also appears in this new plotline (that is about 50 years earlier the the first) and massively interacts with 4(Retha) and 5(Doc) I need these bridges that tie the worldbuilding together, to have a touching point with the new characters myself.

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Hera-of-Stockholm In reply to Feivelyn [2018-12-12 22:43:38 +0000 UTC]

That sounds like a big job but also mighty fun. Character development is hard but fun and you seem to be getting the knack of it now. Putting people in situation and having them dealing with that, like you do is often a better way of describing them than telling 'this is so-so who has that background and this kind of outlook at life...' And putting your main character to work - well I beleive it's going to be really good after a while!

I used to put down some time in writing earlier, when I did have that time. I built up stories revolving around a handful of charactes and the context they lived in, first they started off as different stories, then I began tying them together by introducing characters or events that transcended these previously stand alone stories. When the people thereom started to develop, they were in the same age as I was in back then, and when I go back and read (I did recently, found one of my old stories on a zip file) it was interesting and while it was cringingly cheesy in parts it was also reflecting very much myself at that age.)
I hope I can get some more time writing. Just to see where I can bring people these days, se what I can make happen to them and if I can become better at character development taking in mind that I have some history on my own to work with.
Usually my characters don't have to be 'dark' but they have to have some depth, some kind of quirkyness.
Keep up the good work!

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Feivelyn In reply to AquaticJM [2018-12-04 07:07:19 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Feivelyn In reply to Reitheia [2018-11-30 07:26:31 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

I first painted him in a neutral light then put a shadow layer over it and erased the parts that are being lit

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Feivelyn In reply to Luzim-Lukart [2018-11-30 07:22:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

He's actually really good at what he does, with low failure rates (neuro surgery, installing brain implants), but he also usually has order to do a little more than necessary...

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Feivelyn In reply to TheeArtist85 [2018-11-30 07:19:04 +0000 UTC]

hmmmm... I' thought he's waiting for the next "patient"

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Feivelyn In reply to IsabellaMartinArt [2018-11-30 07:27:19 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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Feivelyn In reply to Brianna-Ketsueki [2018-11-30 07:16:31 +0000 UTC]

thank you very much

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Feivelyn In reply to Killgara [2018-11-29 07:29:46 +0000 UTC]

thank you! ;D

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