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I am wondering if there are specific techniques involved when giving characters BELIEVABLE character traits. I don't want to have my main character flipping a coin throughout the film, nor do I want him to always add "Know what I'm sayin?" to everything he says, simply to give him traits. And yet, I know that a good film sinks or swims on the quality of the characters. I often think of Indiana Jones, who hates snakes. That one is easy to believe, and, I think, makes Indy more real. And ...
Character Consistency Question
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One thing I have problems with is keeping my characters consistent. When I wrote fan fic, it was easy to keep them all individual and consistent--I could hear the actors doing the lines in my head. And I only wrote fan fic for shows where I could hear the characters. Guest characters just had to sound and act differently. In writing my own stories in my own universes, I sometimes find my characters either starting to sound alike or having a similar feel. I try to give them different personalitie ...
Applying Human character traits to aliens in scifi shows (long)
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Thinkum made a good point. Cultures (both alien and human) have different ways of psychological development. in fact, one of the biggest (and justifiable) arguments about freuds anaysis of human development was that all of his research was based on rich europeans. That is why cultural anthropology was such a crucial endeavor into a better understanding of human relations, development, and growth. (for the record, im not a freudian per se, i follow more the theories of Erik Erikson, who expounded ...
In Nomine character traits to GURPS 4e
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Howdy all, GURPS In Nomine has a bunch of traits suitable for the Celestials in that world, that I'm having trouble converting to GURPS 4e. The "Awareness (Symphony)" is priced at 15 points; GURPS Update 4e tells me that level of Awareness should be "Detect (Symphony)" for 30 points now. No problem; if that's what it costs in 4e, that's what it costs. However, "Disturbs Symphony" is a -15 point disadvantage, clearly meant to balance the Awareness with having one's a ...
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