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Topic: Well, here's a debate

What if you were sucked into one of your own stories, but all your characters hated you?

(I personally wouldn't be suppriesed, with what I put them through!)

#1 Oct 17th 2006, 1:24pm

Marinus

Seven things one could do:

1) Go crazy on them and kill, severely maim or inflict GBH on them all! They deserve it for not showing proper respect!

or...

2) Be really, really, really nice and write nice stories for them (if they want that sort of thing) when you get out.

3) Grovel.

4) Be their slave. Not recommended under any circumstances.

5) Set up a committee to talk very boringly through your problems and try to reach an accomodation. Alternatively, wait until they're all asleep due to the droning voices and then kill them.

6) Go to counselling as a group. This may not always work, and counsellors don't give out warranties, so you can't get a sackful of cash when a character lops off an arm after some counselling because of something you made them do.

Oh and 7) Hate them back.

#2 Oct 17th 2006, 1:40pm

Well this one's odd, especially since I write poems mostly, lol.

I would keel all dem **!

#3 Oct 17th 2006, 1:42pm

Oooh, I could never kill my own characters. I love them too much. ^^

I suppose I might grovel to them (I feel so pathetic . . .) but only because it would be seeing them in the flesh. I might go into shock, actually. I'd definately take their pictures!

The wierdest thing for me would be if my own characters were taller than me. I can't quite discribe why, but it would be immencely bizzare.

#4 Oct 17th 2006, 1:49pm

WaterFox

Well, that would interesting. Very interesting and well...(sits back and thinks more about question)

That gives me an idea for a fun chapter. I might write about it when I finish my story.

#5 Oct 17th 2006, 3:29pm

in theory

I almost wish I could finish stories now..

#6 Oct 18th 2006, 1:12am

D L Dzioba

I'd bring a giant eraser.

#7 Oct 18th 2006, 9:02am

Hehe, pwned.

#8 Oct 18th 2006, 9:38am

KeytoExistence

I'd threaten to put them in akward M/M or F/F situations (M/F is they're gay).

#9 Oct 19th 2006, 6:25pm

polka dots and addictions

Nice, provided you retain artistic control at that point.

#10 Oct 20th 2006, 4:14pm

Burnt Bread

I'd possibly make up better characters... who did like me.

#11 Oct 21st 2006, 9:20pm

i would cry. literally xD

#12 Oct 22nd 2006, 11:23am

CaFFy

That's not all that crazy of a thought, but I'd end up provoking someone to rape me and I'd relish the pain I feel when raped brutally. Maybe. Or, I'll go into depression hoping someone will acknowledge me even if it means beating me.

#13 Oct 22nd 2006, 7:59pm

Reborn As I

well, i don't really write stories. but if i did and was sucked into one where all my characters hated me, i'd tell 'em i had a ghost writer so whatever they were hating for really wasn't my fault. i'd befriend them, take them drinking, slip a little somethin-somethin into their drinks, and wait for 'em to all pass out. i'd then stick the bastards into a car, sprinkle some strong smelling booze onto their shirts (so they stink like alcoholics, making their wild "someone-tried-to-kill-us" rants dismisable to the police, should they survive) before sending the car over a small cliff on some winding road where "accidents" of that nature are very possible. if that didn't work, i'd just write them into a battle against the entire character cast of Mortal Kombat being led by Darth Vader on a day he's more bitter than usaul about what he did to Padme. let 'em hate me now!

#14 Oct 23rd 2006, 12:06am

polka dots and addictions

oooh thats harsh!! could you really do that to the people you created!?

#15 Oct 25th 2006, 3:50am

Reborn As I

yes, yes i could. after all, like you said, i created them. and if the ungrateful bastards wanna hate me despite that, i'd feel no guilt drowning them all with my bare hands... like unwanted puppies. mwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaa...

#16 Oct 28th 2006, 8:26am

polka dots and addictions

you evil, evil... *whacks with bag* goodness me!

haha. i see your point tho =p

#17 Oct 28th 2006, 8:29am

OneLastEndeavor

How is this a debate? I'm guessing that this topic refers to the "and Stuff" part of the forum name.

#18 Oct 28th 2006, 2:31pm

Reborn As I

lol, yeah it may not really be a debate, but it was still a fun topic.

#19 Oct 28th 2006, 2:44pm

Yeah, it is just stuff. Actually, I suppose it's a hypothetical question, but oh well!

#20 Oct 29th 2006, 5:38am

I wouldn't mind because I hate most of my characters anyway. In a fond sort of way, but I do at certain points wish they would all die and/or get out of my head. Anyway, there are so many people in the world, the stories are only tiny bits of the world. Plently more people to be friends with!

#21 Nov 21st 2006, 9:10pm

True, true. But the people you wrote are the people you know. And what if there wasn't? What if you were just trapped in a little bubble of where you wrote your story? That would be really creepy!

#22 Nov 26th 2006, 4:30am

Ah, but my story is rich with characters described as 'crowds' and 'shopkeepers'. Do they hate me too?

#23 Nov 30th 2006, 12:03am

OneLastEndeavor

Ok, well, let's see...the evil villains would hate me, the main characters would hate me (because I am far better than them) and everyone else will hate me because to them, I would be the embodiment of all they hold to be admirable. Their hatred would come from jealousy. :D.

Oh, and of course, there is always this fact, which I will describe using the infamous syllogism:

My characters obey their God.

Their God created them.

I created them.

I am their God.

They must obey me.

I think you all see the beginnings of a very violent dictatorship here. Heehee...

#24 Nov 30th 2006, 10:06pm

Winter's Harvest

lol, Endeavor. Nice.

Hm, my characters? Either do the whole "I am God, hear me plot!" thing, or just poke at them for a while.

Heh, I'm so odd.

#25 Jan 02nd 2007, 7:00pm

Sakka-Fenikkusu

I've written stories where I meet my characters.

They always hate me.

It sucks.

#26 Jan 09th 2007, 5:51pm

That's kind'a harsh, no?

#27 Jan 11th 2007, 7:22am

Do they hate me too?

Well, you see, that depends. When I said all of your characters hate you, I meant any character you have either A) given a name or B) hold some sort of asteem for. Do you hold any esteem for your masses of faceless characters, or do you plan to have some sort of monsterous plauge/raging ball of fire/genocide wipe them out by book 4? Or more emportaintly, will you enjoy killing them?

#28 Jan 11th 2007, 12:23pm

Erilev

With the kind of characters I create, i would prolly get my ** handed to me by them. LOL Now I'm gonna start making weak little nerd characters just in case...

#29 Feb 21st 2007, 10:39am

Are you suggesting nerds are weak?

#30 Feb 21st 2007, 11:37pm

My characters all disagree with me important issues. Damn the lot of them.

#31 Feb 21st 2007, 11:39pm

Sakka-Fenikkusu

My characters all disagree with me important issues. Damn the lot of them.

Ditto.

#32 Feb 22nd 2007, 7:30am

Agreed.

I found lately I've been making really, really, flawed characters - a depressed girl, a psychopath, all that sort of stuff. I really don't know why. I think maybe it makes me feel better about myself? XD

#33 Feb 22nd 2007, 8:17am

Sakka-Fenikkusu

I adore flaws. They're like tiny little cracks in the flesh that I can hide in... oh, ew, did I really say that?

#34 Feb 22nd 2007, 8:19am

Mm, starting out with flaws then working outwards is the way I used to write characters. Now it's more that I've got a glimpse of them somehow, an essence of this person that needs to be wrapped up, described and delivered. Because one can never know even oneself completely, characters should also have mysteries to them.

#35 Feb 22nd 2007, 2:17pm

The Ferrett

My characters are whacked and would probably flame/slice-dice me as soon as they saw me, either that or i'd be tortured so I really couldn't do anything.

#36 Mar 29th 2007, 1:08am

Seras Tenshi

My characters would probably do any number of these things:

A) Try to kill me in an excrutiating way that would make Ray Charles flinch.

B) Make me atone for my 'sins' in some kind of incredibly weird/humiliating/stupid trial of some sort.

C) Get me to go into an indepth explanation of why I fricking did what I did to them, to which my reply would most likely tell them like it is,"Because you wouldn't be the people you are today."

Most of them probably would start screaming, cursing, asking me questions, trying to kill me, all of those things and others.....I really wouldn't want to meet most of my characters if it meant I would have to own up to what I did. ;

#37 Jun 17th 2007, 7:43pm

As I would face death upon arrival, I will disguise myself as Sherlock Holmes, and live a peaceful and quiet life, secluded from them until I can go home.

If that doesn't work;

bribes! Bribes of riches, of success, and of bringing the dead back for/to them, etc, etc, etc.

#38 Jul 25th 2007, 5:22pm

concerto49

In fact, I am practically in at least one of my stories. And in fact (it's not revealed yet), a lot of the characters to hate me in the story. Perhaps it's reflective of the real world, perhaps not. Now that I remember, it's going to be a climax on one of those stories - guess which one? I've asked myself how I should resolve it and hence the outcome there.

Guess, it's important how we resolve the situation and not just what would happen. Oh and our reactions to it too.

#39 Jul 26th 2007, 6:21am

Guess, it's important how we resolve the situation and not just what would happen. Oh and our reactions to it too.

But I told you how I'd resolve it: Bribes! :P

And my reactions? Fear, fear, terror and anxiety all the way through. Ack for my homicidal characters...

#40 Jul 26th 2007, 6:25am

concerto49

Like knew you would reply. I never said you didn't say it. I was just making statement. You sounded paranoid in way :)

Well thanks for that. It's good to know.

#41 Jul 26th 2007, 6:27am

Why would I not be paranoid? I am the one who creates all their problems :/

How would YOU react and resolve it then?

#42 Jul 26th 2007, 6:31am

concerto49

Now you had to make me sound obvious. Read X Infinity when I post it and find out. Though, actually I haven't finished writing that bit. I've got it out, just have to write it.

Ha, I wouldn't want to wreck the fun of course. Thanks. Good call.

#43 Jul 26th 2007, 6:33am