Given how few shrines I have at the moment it's difficult to come up with a pattern except for a certain detail: rivals. This fits perfectly with my personal taste, as I often end up liking the rival character in a story. I don't mean the main antagonist, though the rival can play the role of an antagonist early on. I mean the character that's not really an enemy, but not really an ally. The balance between helping and opposing the main purpose of the plot makes such characters interesting.
In Layla's case at Golden Phoenix she serves as a sort of rival in the sense that Sora admired her and tries to measure up to her. Even when she's absent people remember her and compare Sora's performance to her, making it as if they were competing.
In terms of Ureksa at Surreptitious, he's more openly an antagonist, but is not really evil, rather pursuing his own purpose and making a significant forceful sacrifice for that. He's "the bad guy" but not the main villain and certainly not pure evil.
My only other shrine is R.E.D. for Reno, but that
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That sort of character type is really interesting, I agree. I think rivals also give you a lot of ability to speculate and sometimes come across as mysterious, and the rivalry between two characters can be an equally interesting plot device. ;) I think I was more into rival characters when I was younger, like Falco from Starfox!
I am terribly predictable in terms of characters I like. You could make a Venn diagram of all the characters I like and have everything fit nicely. XD I have a strong fascination with darkness, in all its different aspects. Looking at my current and upcoming sites, all of them follow that minus one, which follows anyway another archetype, so yeah. Can't say I identify with them, though. It isn't something that usually happens with me.
On the topic of new media "ruining" characters, this is a hard topic for me. If it's something minor that I can look past, I would probably still include it. Probably ranting a bit about it, but I think I would as long as it's not anything major. Were it something really major, like completely changing the character's personality and appearance and keeping basically just the name, I would either keep the site and warn the reader that the site refers to a certain version of the character, or close the site altogether. As sad as it sounds. D:
It would be sad if you closed any of your sites. D: Though it would also be sad to have a shrine for "someone else" rather than that character that was so dear.
Man, I am thinking about your last statement, but it does make sense. If the new version of the character makes you no longer interested, then what's the point of having that site hang around? (As sad as it sounds...)
I think it's even more sad to live with the reminder of the disappointment... I suppose there's always writing archives to preserve the site in some form, or some of its content at least. It's another reason why finished stories catch my attention in terms of shrine making more than the ones where you expect a sequel to come out at some point (even though sequels can sometimes com unexpectedly). Ironically it is those constant sequels that are so fun to follow, even if I don't feel as motivated to shrine them. I guess there really is more to shrining than only liking something, perhaps even more than liking it a lot.
I think my subjects are pretty varied, actually. I have a couple shrines dedicated to secondary characters, one to a villain, others to heroes, but I'd say a majority are secondary characters. I guess I find these other characters more interesting because I have more room to speculate and discuss where I feel like some main characters their personalities are pretty much laid out for you. Or perhaps I am simply drawn to these other characters that I find more interesting? Or perhaps I just like characters with wings. *coughpredictablecough*
Imagine you shrined a character and unexpectedly a sequel or prequel appears that you don't like all that much (or at all). HAHAHAHA THIS HAPPENED! Okay, so I made a shrine to Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia. AMAZING GAME. I love this character so much! And then...along came the sequel. Even though I didn't hate it, it definitely wasn't up to par with the first game. But, I did go back and when I revamped the shrine, I added many essays discussing Lloyd in the sequel. I did this because 1) I wanted
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I'm very curious about Gio! I find that anime Gio and game Gio are becoming more different from each other as time goes by, but I'm still very interested in both version. Game Gio at least might get some more development.
As for the first question, I can definitely see a pattern. Kai, Watanuki, Blair and Chuck, for example - I love them because there's definitely more than meets the eye with all of them. Most, if not all of my characters seem to have something tragic happen to them, or they seem to go through a changing process - both things which add depth to those characters, I think. I seem to like both main and secondary characters, regardless of their importance in the story. As long as I like them (to the point that sometimes I can even relate to them, or they have genuinely become 'part of me', somehow), then I will most likely make them a shrine. :D
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In Layla's case at Golden Phoenix she serves as a sort of rival in the sense that Sora admired her and tries to measure up to her. Even when she's absent people remember her and compare Sora's performance to her, making it as if they were competing.
In terms of Ureksa at Surreptitious, he's more openly an antagonist, but is not really evil, rather pursuing his own purpose and making a significant forceful sacrifice for that. He's "the bad guy" but not the main villain and certainly not pure evil.
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On the topic of new media "ruining" characters, this is a hard topic for me. If it's something minor that I can look past, I would probably still include it. Probably ranting a bit about it, but I think I would as long as it's not anything major. Were it something really major, like completely changing the character's personality and appearance and keeping basically just the name, I would either keep the site and warn the reader that the site refers to a certain version of the character, or close the site altogether. As sad as it sounds. D:
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Imagine you shrined a character and unexpectedly a sequel or prequel appears that you don't like all that much (or at all). HAHAHAHA THIS HAPPENED! Okay, so I made a shrine to Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia. AMAZING GAME. I love this character so much! And then...along came the sequel. Even though I didn't hate it, it definitely wasn't up to par with the first game. But, I did go back and when I revamped the shrine, I added many essays discussing Lloyd in the sequel. I did this because 1) I wanted ( ... )
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