Top Ten Things never to do…

@elfwing Beautiful. Too bad mine already have. Several times. On a day-today basis.

Ha ha! Hilarious! Unfortunately my dragonpeople characters have already experienced the real world, but they surprisingly didn’t do anything wrong (just looked at some knives and computers and accidentally dented someone’s car). It was their enemy chasing them that caused most of the havoc. (Like the time there was a traffic jam because one of the dragons got ejected and then hit by a car. Don’t worry, he survived.)

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Haha this was great! I love it! But I wonder, do you have rules for the reverse happening? 🙂

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I love this. It’s great.

Top ten reasons never to let dragonmen or any kind of alien/talking animal/non-human sentient character into a human city…..

1. They are likely to dent people’s cars.
2. They are going to wreck your house if it has a low ceiling.
3. They’re going to gut your pantry. Meaning, they will eat everything in there and still be hungry. They may or may not be terrified of the refrigerator, however, which could work out in your advantage.
4. They will try to pay people for all this damage using the currency from their universe. This will cause one of two things: The money will be considered useless, or whoever is given it will think they’re rich and only ask for one coin or bill.
5. Depending on what type of creature they are, they may spend hours looking in a store at something and cause you to either leave them behind or miss an important appointment or something. My dragon friends were interested in knives, guns, and computers. (They’re soldiers back in their world, so…..) But remember, never leave fictional characters unattended.
6. Most creatures, even dragons, aren’t a big fan of traffic intersections. One dragon was run over. He recovered, but guess who had to pay the hospital bill. (Actually, the dragons did, but in your case your creatures might not.)
7. They might not do anything wrong, but beware of their enemies following them. Your town may become the site of a ferocious battle. (You may ignore this rule if you really, really want to see your town’s name in the history books.)
8. They may try to alter their story while you’re writing it. Say one character learns he’s going to die. He could do a few things: have a temper tantrum until you change it (if you have dragon characters, this could lead to your room being scorched); he might hide in the closet and weep for hours; he might replace your well written sentence with things like “gbgbebyghuryebenvujd” and “ftulftdryijgfdfhyewyindeh,” even if he knows how to spell; or he might steal the computer and fascinate himself with taking it apart. That last one, thankfully, hasn’t happened to me yet.
9. They will either love or hate stuff like Alexa or Siri, like @elfwing said. I have neither, but I don’t know if you do. The dragonpeople who visited my world were out of a Star Wars fanfic, so they were used to droids and such talking, but they were still rather enchanted by an Amazon echo dot (an Alexa) in a local store. (It didn’t help that one of the dragons is named Echo. Now the others call on him to turn on the lights and stuff.) Your characters might have a more angry or afraid reaction, depending on whether they come from a modern world like ours, a futuristic world, or a world with less or no advanced technology (such as a medieval or ancient time period.)
10. They will probably yell at the TV, no matter what. Your fanfiction characters, if you have any fanfics, may have an especially hard time seeing themselves doing something not particularly nice (like being caught in an explosion but surviving) all over again, or something they never did in your stories but did in the original. Death scenes, especially of the character you are lodging or one of their friends, will not be well taken. Make sure the remote is well protected, from being thrown at the actual television or from being used to flip through random TV channels. Also make sure your techy characters don’t take the television or remote apart to study.