TheArcaneAxiom

Overheard at dance: “He gave me really creepy vibes! And he poured his milk before his cereal!” “What? Only psychopaths do that!”

@thearcaneaxiom

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@esther-c @keilah-h

KUN’EN

“Drop your weapons or I won’t hesitate to attack.” Came a deep voice ahead of them. At first, he couldn’t see the forms around the dark corner. Fortunately though, his eyes were used to seeing through dark waters, and they adjusted quickly.

A bellowing laugh escaped his chest when he eventually saw the threat. “Atta…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

So, how exactly does discord’s streaming work? I’m honestly not sure if I would have time at this point. I’ve been pretty busy with school (which is why I haven’t been on KP much lately) and on top of that, I’m also training for my karate black belt test, which has been pretty time consuming. Things will probably be changing a lot…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom @jonas

Perfect!

@thearcaneaxiom

Ah, great.

@keilah-h @princesachronicle22

We can continue here if anyone wants to.

@thearcaneaxiom

I just had an idea! Do you have discord? What if we streamed it on there?

Yeah, I do have discord. I don’t use it very much but I have it. You can stream things on discord?

Yeah, there’s a few, I could find one and we can revive it, or we can make a new one.

Sure. Probably better to reuse an old one, but it doesn’t matter too much.

@jonas

This is a very insightful (and off topic) conversation lol. Maybe we should create a new thread. (There probably is one already, actually.)

Yeah 😂

@thearcaneaxiom

Yeah, I think it’s important to remember that it’s never bad for a villain to be non sympathetic, it’s just all in the execution.

I would also say that it depends on the villain’s role. Sometimes you need a sympathetic villain for the story to work. But yeah, in and of themselves, a non-sympathetic villain isn’t a bad thing…[Read more]

@keilah-h @thearcaneaxiom

Half of these references won’t be recognized but I do happen to have a list of villain’s I root for

-Jacks from Caraval

-Darth Vadar/Anakin from Star Wars

-Loki from Marvel

-Kylo Ren also Star Wars

-Katherine from Heartless

@keilah-h

Ooh, I want to see Abraham Lincoln with a flamethrower!

@keilah-h

He’s not truly a “good guy” and does some horrible things, but he’s also not totally evil either, and has depth that makes me think what he might’ve become if things had gone differently for him.

Yes, I like that point. I think that is the main difference between, “tragic backstory” verses “pure evil”

Are they evil because of what has…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

Yeah, Azula is my all time favorite villain. Ozai though… he is a good example of the “pure evil” and I do like those villain types. But he also doesn’t do much, and we know what he wanted but did we really know why he wanted it?

But dear Azula, it was part of her very personality. She manipulated people, she was amazing at it,…[Read more]

😭😅 I wrote a whole villain rant, but KP ate it. And it was like five paragraphs, so I am not writing that again

@jonas

Yeah, villain motivations can definitely be hard. With heroes it’s kind of a “duh” they want to stop said villain and keep people safe. MCs are totally subjective but generally that is how we see our heroes.

Sooo, I might just rant about villains for a while? Read at your own risk, or don’t, either works 😂

But that leaves the qu…[Read more]

@keilah-h

hehe my brother called his pacifier “Ash” for some reason? He didn’t literally name it, he just said the word that way for some reason lol

Lol. I called them “passies” and for a time they were named after my cousins.

My co-op notes were full of cute dinosaur characters giving their opinions on logic and Spanish.

I love that. I wish I lea…[Read more]

@princesachronicle22

Yeah, I haven’t gotten far at all in any of mine either (I mean I’ve wrote and rewrote one of them like four times or so and scrapped each attempt, but aside from that…) so lack of well-developed villains hasn’t been a problem.

My main difficulty is giving villains good motivation. I definitely don’t want to end up with…[Read more]

@jonas

two are not very fleshed out, and the last is only moderately well developed. I have others that are vague formulations in my mind, and some stories where I haven’t even begun to conceptualize the villain.

Yep, definitely feel that. Which makes figuring out plot and the main character difficult as well. I feel like it’s one of the e…[Read more]

@princesachronicle22

I’m kind of in the same boat when it comes to villains. I have relatively few that I would consider to “exist.” I can probably count them. I think five. Out of those, two are of the non-sympathetic, pure evil variety (and one is just the crony of the other), two are not very fleshed out, and the last is only moderately well…[Read more]

@scoutfinch180

Maybe there’s some form of serfdom? Like the very rich who can afford the Vital subjugate the poor populations by creating superstructures out of it and forcing those who seek it’s shelter to work for them, threatened by being tossed to the elements if they disobey?

*Stokes chin thoughtfully*

Hmmm, yes, yes. That does make sen…[Read more]