Random Questions Thread

Errr... Actually, (-_- saying this is undeniable proof I'm an awful writer) two characters (Willa and Erna) exist and have a role, but I can't see them clearly personality wise. I didn't write anything yet as I'm still planning things, so...

edited 20th Apr '11 10:41:45 PM by risingdreams

OK I have a Pokémon Coordinator OC, I want her to have an odd choice of Pokemon for each category.

• Beauty Gyarados
• Smart Sableye
• Cute Ursaring

I can't think of Tough and Cool

Tough Skitty?

Well unusual for a contest anyway, I got the idea to use Skarmory but I don't know wich one to use it for.

edited 20th Apr '11 11:45:04 PM by RandomChaos

@Post 226: I can't you combine them into one character, to lessen your workload, or is it not possible?

Cool Stunfisk.

I can't help but to imagine Amity as a bit of a libby. Albeit one with her heart in the right place, high ambitions and very religious.

Dos reluctant involvement in a Four Horsemen modified world domination plan qualify as Anti Anti Christ?

edited 22nd Apr '11 8:13:40 AM by RandomChaos

Uh... details?

Girl meets girl, and girl, and girl. Girls get the idea that the best way to avoid hate crime is to rule the world. Girl opens her big fat mouth comparing themselves to the four horsemen. Girl can't convince her girlfriends that it's a bad idea.

edited 22nd Apr '11 12:21:39 PM by RandomChaos

Well, the Anti Anti Christ trope involves characters who are destined to end the world as we know it, but do not want to. Based on what you've said so far, it doesn't really seem like any of them are destined to do that; it seems more like a one-time thing. Maybe if it was played for symbolism, like how Johan of Monster is often compared to the Antichrist, but the realistic tone of the series prevents it from extending beyond symbolism.

In short: not really.

Furthermore, does it really matter if you exhibit certain tropes in your works? It's not actually tropes that make works, they just appear in works. Keep that in mind.

I know I was just wondering if it counted

What's the in-general climate of southern greece, northern africa and all the islands in the meditarranean?

Also, in terms of that area, how north do you have to go to get snow?

edited 23rd Apr '11 2:07:21 PM by MrAHR

@ AHR

I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Greece Hope it helps.

Which name do you guys think sounds more pompous and self-absorbed: Ritus Rex or Ceremonius Rex?

"Ritus Rex" is pseudo-proper Latin (they're both actual Latin words, if not necessarily used correctly), and is alliterative. "Ceremonius Rex" is Canis Latinicus beyond a shadow of a doubt, but I think it flows a bit better.

This is for pretty much a One-Scene Wonder, but I kind of want his name to sound good.

The latter, cause it's longer and makes use of something that is very not-a-name.

Eeeexcellent. Thanks!

edited 24th Apr '11 5:35:19 AM by MrAHR

After much thought, I realized that I just made my villain a lot more sympathetic than his (albeit heroic) rival. I'm now torn on what to do with them next.

If you make both the hero and the main villain sympathetic enough to be rooted for, would that annoy an audience? What about making the villain more sympathetic than the hero? It probably depends on how I write it, but the two can be sympathetic and Jerkass-y in their own differing ways...

Switching points of view, perhaps? And if both are antagonizing each other and portrayed in a sympathetic light, I suppose you could show the two sides, giving the readers the choice to root for someone without disappointing them by focusing too much on one.

Has anybody here been vegetarian/vegan for an extended period of time?

If it helps, my friend is a vegan. He refuses to watch films in a theatre because of the material used to make the screen and washes himself with homemade soup, which stinks. I'm not sure if he is just a disillusioned radical or, as he claims, a "true vegan".

I have a vegan acquaintance. She's a bit less hardcore than that, though; she even actually said that if she ever took in a dog or cat—she is opposed to using the word "own" here—she would be strongly inclined to feed it meat.

She's pretty quirky.

Hm.

My MC is from a space colony and had never had animal protein at all (except the stuff found in breastmilk when he was a baby) until he was about sixteen. Now he's on earth in places where people normally do eat animal protein. I've heard people get sick from eating meat if they haven't eaten it in a long time, some people say red meat makes them sick while chicken and fish is fine, etc. Any idea how his gut might react? Would he get used to eating meat eventually?

EDIT: Morality doesn't really enter into it at all. He'd feel bad for not being able to eat what was offered to him before he'd feel bad about killing animals.

edited 24th Apr '11 1:48:09 PM by OhSoIntoCats

Fish may go down fairly well, but chicken may be a bit problematic and red meat is right out. Of course, it may all be a source of squick, too.

Maybe if he introduces it into his diet in small amounts, like how when you start a workout routine, you're supposed to start small and gradually lengthen the amount of time you work out each day/week/whatever. As JHM said, fish is a good place to start.

edited 24th Apr '11 1:51:19 PM by CrystalGlacia

Red meat isn't "right out" exactly, but it would probably make him at least uncomfortable, and possibly downright sick. It would depend on how much and how it's prepared. Nausea and/or diarrhea would be the most probable physical results, simply because those are the two ways that the human body has to get rid of something irritating the stomach (nausea and vomiting) and/or gut (diarrhea).

edited 24th Apr '11 1:54:11 PM by Madrugada