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I've remarked in the past that one of the big reasons the whole "pay us a bunch of money to put your OC in our game" thing some video game Kickstarters do rarely works out is because the sort of person who's willing to pay a thousand bucks to put their OC in a video game tends also to be the sort of person who thinks it's reasonable to expect the game's entire narrative to be re-ordered to their liking because they contributed 0.1% of its production budget; it's not, of course, so what you typically end up with in practice is a random asshole who shows up, lectures the player character about how their deal is so much cooler than the game's actual plot, then never appears again.

More recently, I've been reading Chris Longhurst's Bleak Spirit, and I was struck by something it said on the topic of how to play Soulslike-style NPCs in a tabletop RPG: to paraphrase, their essential tragedy is that they all think they're the player character. Every one of them has a personal quest which they're convinced is the most important thing in the world, and they view everything through that lens; when they look at you, they literally can't see you – they only see the role in which they've cast you in their private epic. What dooms them, time and again, is being confronted with the fact that it's not about them.

Those two threads got tangled up in my brain, and now I have this horrible vision of a Soulslike video game whose world is populated entirely by people's crowdfunded OCs. It might even work!

#gaming #video games #game design #soulslikes #character design #charaterisation #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #bleak spirit #crowdfunding #swearing

Character who's an upstanding, good person, who gets put into a position of power, and gradually falls to the dark side?

Nah. Now, character who's an upstanding, good person, who gets put into a position of power, and gradually becomes an absolute, eccentric dork. That's the good stuff.

Basically, we need more characters like Balmung of the Azure Sky from .hack IMOQ and Legend of the Twilight.

#fiction #charaterisation #.hack #balmung

I found this ok my drafts from 1 am so sorry if its a bit silly

I can’t sleep so im gonna give you some poorly structured rich analysis

Okay we can assume that rich has an abusive father ,as we know he drinks and it fits into his character archetype of being a high school bully. Via a google search symptoms of abuse in children include poor hygiene, aggression, personality shifts, rebellion to authority,hyperactivity etc etc so it is probably safe to assume that rich proper had these sort of traits pre squip

If we look into the lyrics of the squip song we can get a good picture of rich’s past. While i believe alot if the stuff rich was saying was what the squip was telling him would appease Jeremy, some of the lines are useful

Freshman year didnt have a girlfriend or a clue i was a loser just like you seems directly related to Jeremy

Good times would only sore by does not really relate to jeremy he just wants christine so this is probably not something to squip told him to say. So this was something he wanted to say himself, Rich craved a social life to probably escape from his home.

I was gross links back to poor hygiene which is a common sign of abuse in children

My sexting was a futile quest however shows that despite being low in the higherarchy and gross he could still pull. This makes me think that rich was at least funny. He was the class clown. As said at the very start hyperactivity and rebellion to authority is a sign of abuse and as above we know rich did crave social acceptance. Rich would probably do stupid things and say stupid stuff to get his classmates to laugh just for a bit of acceptance. I think what further backs this up is that squipped rich does the same. As we see through jeremy and his squip the squip does not completely change who you are but plays on existing parts of yourself. Jeremy was still a pathetic geek and the squip played into this. He was “pathetic” and cried to get brook’s sympathy and was a geeky robot for the halloween party. The squid used rich’s humour and daring attitude to get him popular. Rich even says you go from sad to Interesting to hip. Interesting implies the squip had him doing crazy things to get attention first using his role as the class clown

Okay we have a decent idea of what rich was like pre squip. He was depressed and sewer slidal as well as a clown and with this we can guess his personality post squip as there is just always so much controversy and varying assumptions

As much as people hate this idea rich is probably very chaotic after his squip for atleast a while. He has always wanted attention and validation and he knows he can get that by doing and saying stupid things and thanks to his years with the squip he knows exactly what will get him the most liked. Although the squid can no longer puppeteer him, the need for acceptance has always been apart of rich so he will do that the only way he knows how.

Maybe when hes with the squip squad he wont feel the need to that but he most likely will with other people atleast

I cant even remember where i was going with this im so tired i got school tomorrow just idk rich is 100% chaotic but hes clever ,his chaos isnt puppy energy and hes not an innocent bean. He has always just been a scared and traumatised kid who puts on an act cause hes desperate to find the approval and respect he craves at home with his peers.

#be more chill #rich goranski #rant #CHARATERISATION #this counts as english revision look at my word analysis #im only posting this cause i got curious and pressed a clock and now its in a queue and i dont know whats going to happen to it #no one can agree on rich so heres my logical thoughts hopefully idk

Thank you!

So… well… where should I even start? Maybe with the probably best coincidence of my life that happened in october 2012, when I was about to watch a movie that was on late one night, and I zapped to the right channel maybe 15-20 minutes before the film began… but hey, what’s that? That looks interesting… so I got a first glimpse of Sherlock, as I watched with fast growing fascination the ending of “A Study in Pink”. Okay, I thought, that was really cool, and look, there’s another one tomorrow night, “The Blind Banker”. Watch it! And I did, and soon after that “The Great Game”. Then I got Series 1 and 2 for my birthday… and suddenly, I don’t know how it even started, I was in the middle of the Sherlock fandom and discovered how big it all was. I loved and hated the hiatus for series 3 while I slowly discovered the actors and creators of the show and their other work - and, of course, Sherlock Holmes. I have to admit that I hadn’t read a Sherlock Holmes story until I discovered BBC Sherlock, but through the show I started to read them, and here’s the first big, big thank you to the show, because the books are fantastic, and I’m glad to know them now.

But of course the show itself is at least as great as the books. From the first minute that I watched I was in love - with the characters and how you portray them, with the way you tell the story, it just fits in a perfect way. The more I watched the show (especially with now knowing the books), the more I was thrilled and amazed by all the details, the references to the canon and other adaptations.

Sherlock literally changed my life in more ways than you can imagine. I found new friends and connections all over the world, and I never thought something like this would happen to me. The Sherlock fandom has become a huge family for me, and even though I’m shy and withdrawn in real life, I can get out of my shell here. I even discovered other wonderful shows through Sherlock, like Doctor Who. Also, watching the show and communicate with people all over the world has really improved my english skills(I’m not a native speaker, I’m from germany) :)

So, after all, I just can repeat: Thank you! Thank you to every single one in the “Sherlock” cast and crew, because you all together turn the show into the amazing thing it is - thank you, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Steven Thompson for your fantastic scripts, thank you to Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and all the other actors for being incredible and giving life to the characters.

I don’t know where I would be now without Sherlock, because my fandoms have become a HUGE part of my life since I started watching the show! Thank you!