Ahr river
...Considering how we don't really know any of your characters in the first place...
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I think the idea is doing this for your own characters, not the OP's.
slice of lice
In b4 "My characters are SO gray that if you marked them with a pencil they'd turn black so this challenge is too easy"
Forget the tropes until after you're done.
Eh, I'm making it so any reader could construe any of my characters' actions as good or evil. It's politics. Pigeonholing political philosophies, even if they're fictional, into an alignment never ends well.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
I changed accounts.
Yeah... I have characters that would be traditionally defined as "evil," but not a lot of outright traditionally "good" ones. I can't necessarily say that it would be easy to turn them traditionally "evil," however, assuming we're supposed to do it plausibly, not just "oh, I'm a jackass now, bitches."
~shrug~
Sounds like an alright idea to me. Can't say it appeals to me personally, but it seems like it'd be useful to identifying character motivations and the validity thereof.
I am now known as Flyboy.
@nrjxll Yeah, that's what i was getting at, sorry if it wasn't clear.
edited 17th Oct '11 5:04:10 PM by JewelyJ
I have come up with an interesting idea for a sort of characterization experiment. A series of oneshots where a number of my good and relatively light gray characters become totally villainous.I'm thinking it would make an interesting writing challenge.
An important part is that that while some characters may have an 'evil mentor' or some terrible tragedy the choice in the end still has to be theirs.
So what do you think? Anybody interested?