(09-28-2014, 06:44 PM)ArmachiA Wrote: Don't feel bad if you are the cliche. Every character ever has some aspect of cliche about them. Doesn't hurt to talk about common tropes though.
This! Tropes thrive and grow and continue because they're familiar - kind of like a hamburger, if you order one from a restaurant, you kind of have an idea of what you're getting.
But, it's the touches that make it yours, what make it special: knowing what tropes your character fall into is helpful, too, because then you can find those stories with characters LIKE that, see how those characters are presented, and get ideas for how you'd like yours to seem.
(to throw myself on this sword: My attached character, I'd consider to fall under the "Lady of Adventure" trope - so if I wanted, I could read in a bit more of other characters, see how their stories unfold, etc.)
I'm pretty sure "Tropes/cliches aren't bad" has come up a couple times in thread, but I hope the ideas make sense!
