Dear CreatorOfSinyove,
Gotcha. Unfortunately, it’d take way too long to go through over a year’s worth of letters looking for the ones with commentaries, but we can definitely start adding that tag to future letters. Thanks for taking the time to read them, by the way!
Dear CreatorOfSinyove,
I guess we can start tagging the tag commentary, but I fail to see the point. The main purpose of this blog is to focus on the character’s answers; the mod jokes are just an added bonus.
Dear Anonymous,
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Dear Anonymous,
I prefer exclamation points, personally.
Dear Afool Ishdud,
I’ll be completely honest, I haven’t actually done much on this blog in a couple of months... I’ve been doing my own things such as doing covers and trying to write original music. All the credit for the last... pretty much year and a half can almost all go to Co-Mod. Heh... and I’m the one who won the draw to inherit this blog.
But, I guess I can still answer this since I am also role-playing on the side on another site. Writing as a Canon character I find takes not only a certain amount of love for the character/franchise, but also a distinct amount of knowledge on how the character acts, who the character knows, what the character’s history with certain items or places are, and so on and so forth. With certain characters like Victor Kudo, we can sort of insert whatever we want for his answers as long as his personality is on point, because of how minor he is. But say Dahlia Hawthorne or Calisto Yew, two main antagonists, you would have to play their games and read their dialogue and know what they are for and what they are against in order to correctly do them.
It takes patience and a whole lotta dedication. Don’t worry if all you can write is your OC’s, that’s a really good way of practicing keeping a character’s personality straight for if you ever want to do canon characters.
Dear Afool Ishdud,
Before I answer, I’d just like to say that it’s letters like this that make me want to do the best job I can. Thanks a whole bunch!
The best advice I can offer is to do careful research of the character you’re roleplaying as. What do they like (or hate) to talk about? Are they more introverted or extroverted? What experiences have they had that might affect how they feel about certain things? How do they react to unexpected situations, or things that seem to make no sense? Then there are smaller things, like their dialect or accent, their general mood, their level of education, and so on.
For characters from video games (including Ace Attorney), there’s usually a wiki site you can refer to, where fans have pieced together their collective knowledge of every character’s life. I also often refer to the timeline page for specifics about what happened when in each character’s part of the story. And when a question comes up about a specific moment that I don’t remember the details of (or at all), I look for it in the many playthrough videos made of the games -- usually one of ZSlyzer’s videos.
I hope that helps, and thanks again for the compliments. Happy roleplaying!
Also, yeah, it’s just been me on here for quite some time now. Thanks for taking the credit (and the blame) with me for so long, Modthorne!
Dear Director Hickfield,
Sure can! She might be dead, but when has that ever been a problem in Ace Attorney?
Uh... are we sure we want Director Hickfield near Ini Miney...?
Dear patablegecko,
I think that only refers to chat messages -- the kind you send by clicking the smiley face icon near the top-right of the window. To send a letter to a character (or to one of us), just click the link on the blog’s sidebar:
Anyone is allowed to send letters, whether follower or non-follower. Sorry if that was confusing!
-Modthorne and Co-Mod