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Weaver Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Feb 16th 2012 at 5:51:39 PM

I've got a character who's Walking the Earth and who has a) a very low boredom threshold, b) a tendency to do things solely because he felt like it, and c) a habit of messing with people (to put this in perspective, he once convinced a guy that he was a Humanoid Abomination and told him that he'd help him in exchange for a 'favour'). While I've got the main plot sorted out, I still need to come up with incidents to help establish that this is a very strange individual with an equally strange idea of what's amusing. Unfortunately I'm currently drawing a blank so I thought I'd ask for help.

CrystalGlacia from at least we're not detroit Since: May, 2009
#2: Feb 16th 2012 at 5:54:19 PM

I don't really think something like that needs a reason; some people are literally just like that.

Of course, somebody else might disagree with me on that. I dunno.

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
Timpani Since: Feb, 2012
#3: Feb 16th 2012 at 5:56:30 PM

Just saiyan, but an entire plot based on a for the lulz protagonist sounds really boring.

Flyboy Decemberist from the United States Since: Dec, 2011
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#4: Feb 16th 2012 at 5:59:51 PM

This could be either really funny or really bloody stupid.

I think it would be better as a black comedy than, say, slap-stick, but...

As for justification, you have it in the thread title. He's a villain protagonist who fucks with people because why the fuck not?

"Shit, our candidate is a psychopath. Better replace him with Newt Gingrich."
Weaver Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Feb 16th 2012 at 6:17:41 PM

Um, I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding. I don't need a justfication, I've got that sorted. I'm asking for suggestions of things that someone like this would get up to.

As for the character himself, here's a couple of quotes that give an idea of how his mind works:

After I'd been walking for a while I found a town. Said town had no people in it, was really overgrown and generally looked abandoned. I kept on going for a while until I found some bones and realised just how abandoned it was. While it was a fairly horrible thing to find, and I'm sure that whatever had happened was worse, the dead have no use for material things and I did so after I got over it I went to see what I could glean.

Current place is pretty depressing. Don't know why but most people seem to be dirt poor and miserable because of it. I don't like places like this, they're worse then where I started. I could just leave but I'm feeling bored so I think I might create some possibilities instead.........I've picked out a dozen or so households who seem particuarly hard-up or likely to have interesting reactions, so now I've just got to wait for everyone to go to bed before I start playing St. Nick.

SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#6: Feb 16th 2012 at 7:02:39 PM

That makes him sound like a D&D adventurer, TBH.

Weaver Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Feb 16th 2012 at 7:08:30 PM

Never played D&D. I sort of get what you mean though. It should probably be noted that the story is written in diary format.

tropetown Since: Mar, 2011
#8: Feb 18th 2012 at 8:11:37 PM

The possibilities are literally endless. All you have to do is put him in a situation, and think of an opportunity to troll someone in it.

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