(10-19-2016, 04:29 AM)Simba 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.ÂThe devil is in the details. You can more than write a 'generic' character on paper who breaks through to the reader and leaves a lasting impression. Honestly for myself the characters who are of little import who then go on to do great deeds in spite of their limitations are the far more memorable. Samwise from Lord of The Rings springs to mind immediately. What was special about Sam that you could not attribute to any other member of the company? What was special about Sam that even his fellow Hobbit's did not possess? He was the least remarkable of the four on paper and in ambition. Yet it is through that that he became perhaps the greatest hero of the narrative. For while Frodo broke under the weight of his burden it was Samwise who bore him further into Mordor and eventually saw the ring destroyed. His desires simple. His skills utterly unprepared to the task without a garden to tend. Yet he is the reason the day was won.
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.
Honestly if someone can't make a so called 'generic' character interesting enough to rise above their mediocre abilities to leave a lasting impression I find more fault with the writer than anyone else. The only difference between Sam, or any of the Hobbits really, and any other character who is exactly like him is that Tolkien had the deft hand needed to write him and make his personality take the forefront. Nothing more.
With that said I don't really care about 'special this' and 'special that', write what you want to write. You'll always find people who will receive it for better or worse. Having fun is more important. ^^