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(10-19-2016, 04:29 AM)S Wrote: It's not that they need to be a super big awesome character as it is people worrying so much that their character not come off as anything special that they don't ever get out into the world.Â
There's nothing wrong about being average but to take it to the point that it's exactly the same issue that people that feel their character needs to be a special job to be interesting.Â
I'm not looking so much for special characters as much as people who are bold with their characters. By bold I don't mean being special, as much as it is people breaking out of the box to be something more than just a face in the crowd.Â
It's like meeting for an interview, the characters that are going to be remembered are going to be the ones that stand out from the rest.Â
If someone is going to is gonna write a generic thief character and not be anything more out of fear of being seen as special, then no, it's not going to be an interesting character.
You put your finger exactly where I agree... to disagree.
I think that's an annoying mistake to believe that making a character stand out is done by making them "go out of the box", making them "special".
What makes a character stand out is a well rounded, fleshed out character, 3 dimensional character, not a character that is so special that they lose their very essence by being... I don't know exactly what they are actually in those cases, that's the issue.
A character can be as special, out of the box, as you may want them to be, if your character is flat as a pancake and 2 dimensional, then it makes it even worse than a mundane 2 dimensional character. Because it turns them into something rubbish, unbelievable, and/or just laughable (in a bad way).
But I guess that's also where you will find a whole world of difference between what makes shonen characters like Naruto "cool", and seinen characters "interesting". In the latter case, what makes your average thief interesting, is exactly because your average thief is average in the first place: all the struggles they will face, their doubts, their failures, the way they see the world, their human side. In the former case, what will make your average thief interesting is just that they will comply to be basic rules of shonen, being a teen-angst, dark brooding but all lovey goody two shoes male hero who gets angry at every injustice, and can actually change things because he is special, a chosen one, and has super powers. And compared to him indeed, your average thief, no matter how well fleshed out they will be, will pale in comparison, not because of a lesser writing, but to the contrary, because the special snowflake shonen character will suck out everything from that average character presence to concentrate it in the middle of the spotlight: the awesome one.
Now you see why most people playing average characters tend to flee the former archetype like the plague. Those are the best way to turn your average character, no matter how good they are, into simple story disposable meat for the other one to shine (out of their rubbishness).
Note: that's my personal, artistical taste on the matter, for once.
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