Totally giving myself away since this was linked two seconds ago in my game's chat, but whatever.
Need Hiccup advice, not necessarily general advice, either. He's been in my game for months, grown a lot, gotten more confident, is learning to be more badass, and I guess I need advice on having him grow that way, but still keeping him dorky and funny. I'm massively jelly (and admiring) of other great Hiccup players and fic-writers I know because it seems they stick to his voice better.
How do I have him grow up and get more confident when so much of his character voice and what makes it fun is the self-deprecating humor and slight fail? I'm having trouble finding the balance.
Re: Hiccup
anonymous
February 12 2011, 07:48:53 UTC
I've only seen the movie once, so I certainly wouldn't be an expert, but...a lot of times I think actions will speak louder than words. He can still be a goofy, sorta dorky guy in social situations, but when the time comes to jump into action he can pull a "Let's get dangerous" moment and suddenly show how competent he actually is. Like...maybe as he becomes more confident, he doesn't feel the need to prove he's tough, so on the surface he might not seem so strong until the time comes to show what he's made of. Does that make sense?
Re: Sollux Captor
anonymous
February 12 2011, 06:11:28 UTC
He's the embodiment of a moody teenager. Well aware that the whole duality continues into bipolar, but he's never really been happy. Pick your times to just launch him into morbid depression, then snap him out of it later. Hell, roll a dice with each post; if it lands on 1, go into depression, if it lands on 6, snap out of it.
I am well aware dicekind is Vriska's thing. Moving along.He picks up the traits of those close to him rather quickly. When he becomes Feferi's matesprit, he picks up her fish puns. When he goes blind, Aradia's quirk. I would argue that he doesn't really notice it himself, so if he's got strong CR with someone for a while, it might not be a bad idea to steal some of their habits and have him unaware
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I thiiink I know what I'm doing, but a little advice couldn't hurt. I'm more concerned about voice than personality, since I've never really played a character with such... pronounced verbal tics before, but a perspective that isn't my own could help me notice some things that I've missed.
Re: CABANELA
anonymous
February 13 2011, 21:16:25 UTC
Workin' on the assumption that you and anybody else who might read this have already beaten the game so there are SPOILERS sprinkled about kind of freely in here
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Yeah, I noticed that there wasn't really a consistent rule that could be used to determine what words he'd elongate, although I did seem to get the impression that he stuck to about one a sentence (and it would only be three letters typed) regardless of emphasis so I know not to overdo it. I also noticed that he dropped most of his weird speech quirks in the scene right before he got killed by Yomiel, so I guess he does that when shit gets real? (He's back to normal when he's dead, but everyone's incredibly chill when they're dead
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Please don't play Lavi as if he has some sort of split personality issue. Please. There's no real canon evidence to support it aside from his fight with Road, which was done in a dream world and really shouldn't be taken at such face value. The aliases he takes on are just roles, acts, a means to an end. Dropping one is just dropping a fake identity, not a separate consciousness of the sort, and they can't come back and take control if something happens to him (and this extends to the base of being a Bookman's apprentice as well
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Need Hiccup advice, not necessarily general advice, either. He's been in my game for months, grown a lot, gotten more confident, is learning to be more badass, and I guess I need advice on having him grow that way, but still keeping him dorky and funny. I'm massively jelly (and admiring) of other great Hiccup players and fic-writers I know because it seems they stick to his voice better.
How do I have him grow up and get more confident when so much of his character voice and what makes it fun is the self-deprecating humor and slight fail? I'm having trouble finding the balance.
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I am well aware dicekind is Vriska's thing. Moving along.He picks up the traits of those close to him rather quickly. When he becomes Feferi's matesprit, he picks up her fish puns. When he goes blind, Aradia's quirk. I would argue that he doesn't really notice it himself, so if he's got strong CR with someone for a while, it might not be a bad idea to steal some of their habits and have him unaware ( ... )
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