Allison

@theducktator

Hello! Your projects sound really cool. I love fantasy.

Thank you!😊

I play piano as well. I like it sometimes. What kind of music do you like to play?

I don’t play too much for my own enjoyment, but when I do it is often hymns, which I arrange myself. I also play music in church, so I have to practice that.

RP stands for Role P…[Read more]

@theducktator

I’ve read Skyward, Tress of the Emerald Sea, A Frugal Wizard’s Guide to Surviving Medieval England, and all of the Stormlight Archive except Dawnshard, which I think I have from the library, but is missing. Alas.

Awesome! I’ve read all of those except Stormlight 4, which I’m in the middle of. Are you about to read Yumi then, sin…[Read more]

@loopylin

I have not forgotten about Ellie&Seb. I am just going to wait a little longer for @godlyfantasy12 in hopes that a couple subplots are not buried :]

@rae

Do you want help pinning down his traits? I’ve just noticed you mention how hard it is to write Alpha quite often.

@theducktator

Welcome to KP! I missed your initial arrival due to being sick, but now I’m here! I’m Jonas, more enigmatically known as Cloaked Mystery. I write mostly in the fantasy genre, but usually with hard rules that verge on sci-fi. I like creating magic systems, usually hard ones, but I have a few soft-ish ones. My current project, whi…[Read more]

@theducktator

Thanks! A few tips would be nice, but I’m mostly focusing on my other WIPs right now.

Alright:)

Oh yes. Especially at the end when Alcatraz and Bastille were arguing over who broke the balcony. And I’m so glad Grandpa Smedry is still arriving late for his death. I love him.

Yep, Grandpa Smedry is the best! So you’ve read Alc…[Read more]

@loopylin ooh interesting theory!

he probably deserves it though. He’s got someone to come back to…..although so do some of the other charries I guess…..

@jonas ahhh, ok, makes sense.

@keilah-h

There should be 24, so 23 will die, leaving one as winner.

Wait, all 23 of them will die? Isn’t that all of them?

I thought the point was to have a winner who takes all.

Mundy usually uses his last name from what I can tell, but i think his first name is something along the lines of Rick…..?

I’m sorry, i’m info dumping again

@whalekeeper MORE PLEASE!!

also….

oh no……

Crosshair’s gonna be pulled away from his brothers and sister all over again!! That’s gonna be sad. Unless you have him as part of the Empire at this point.

meanwhile, Mundy won’t care. He’ll probably be alone when he gets teleported….? There’s a squad he’s with, but they’d probably willingly ha…[Read more]

@rae

To me, all of those have a distinct flavor, except maybe Igua. I think that Nahim and Alpha definitely are distinct enough. For Silvanis, the fact that he focuses on protecting a specific person, makes him a bit more distinct. So, as long as each character as their own interesting characteristics, I think this is fine.

Oh phew, thank you for the positive feedback XD I was so worried someone was going to be devastated.

Oh, and I also like Jonas’ point about one-note motivations. It’s probably one of the hardest things to hide from the reader’s notice. I personally believe it is okay, even great, for a character to have one point to them. One deep-set motive. But if you never show that motive, and instead make up a few secondary motives that demonstrate how the…[Read more]

I agree with @jonas that I haven’t seen much of a difference between Nahim and Alpha, and maybe that’s why I have a hard time distinguishing between them. This is, of course, coming from someone who has only roleplayed with one of those characters and seen limited material based on the other… so that’s very likely a me problem. *shrug*

But I…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

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@rae

I agree with everyone else. That would’ve basically been what I’d’ve said.

@rae

I think readers do tend to notice when an author writes about similar ideas.

I don’t think it’s necessarily bad for so many characters to have that motivation, but I would try to avoid having too many of them have it as their main motivation, especially main characters.

I know that all of these characters are from the same universe, but…[Read more]