If you have not watched this video yet, watch it now. This will assist you all in the development of your Alternate Universes (hopefully).
If you have not watched this video yet, watch it now. This will assist you all in the development of your Alternate Universes (hopefully).
ChibiLadyLover wrote:
Alphasaith wrote:
Mokomo1 wrote:
That's very true. Also, not just focusing on one character (and maybe another). Which is why a lot of the times I don't like UnderTale AUs. IT'S ALWAYS SANS.
True. Having a wider range of characters can be very helpful in, at the very least, establishing the realness of a story. For example, in Undertale Rho, there are currently 76 named characters.
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May also want to point out that these 76 characters are across 2000 years of UTR history, and aren't all set in a single time period. Within Underearth (the story of Undertale, but in UTR), there are ~20 characters active. More isn't always better, as the more characters you have, the less the reader will care about them (typically), and the less intricate the characters are. Thinking about it now, some of the greatest stories typically only focus on a small group of characters, ranging from three to six characters.
In short, make the characters in your story interesting. The problem with fan-fictions is: people typically have different interpretations of the characters, and you're going to have to be competing against someone else's interpretation; and FF writers typically can't make interesting OCs.
Because most Original Characters are either overpowered and “special” in some way, or they are a Mary Sue/ Gary Sue.
Even those kind of characters can be good if they're interesting.
ChibiLadyLover wrote:
Alphasaith wrote:
Mokomo1 wrote:
EDIT
May also want to point out that these 76 characters are across 2000 years of UTR history, and aren't all set in a single time period. Within Underearth (the story of Undertale, but in UTR), there are ~20 characters active. More isn't always better, as the more characters you have, the less the reader will care about them (typically), and the less intricate the characters are. Thinking about it now, some of the greatest stories typically only focus on a small group of characters, ranging from three to six characters.
In short, make the characters in your story interesting. The problem with fan-fictions is: people typically have different interpretations of the characters, and you're going to have to be competing against someone else's interpretation; and FF writers typically can't make interesting OCs.
Because most Original Characters are either overpowered and “special” in some way, or they are a Mary Sue/ Gary Sue.
IMO M/Gary Sues are only enjoyable (Enjoyable and actually good are two seperate things by the way honey.) when even the creators know their character is kind of stupid and their overpowered-ness/speciality is going to be a joke.
Take a YTer's Sonic OC, SNT. She kind of sucks and everyone clearly loves her and that's dumb, but everyone knows that and use it as a humour-orientated advantage. SHE'S SPECIAL
In UnderTale though, OCs I've seen are just skelefonts and fanchilds.
Red isn't bad though!
Mokomo1 wrote:
ChibiLadyLover wrote:
Alphasaith wrote:
Mokomo1 wrote:
EDIT
May also want to point out that these 76 characters are across 2000 years of UTR history, and aren't all set in a single time period. Within Underearth (the story of Undertale, but in UTR), there are ~20 characters active. More isn't always better, as the more characters you have, the less the reader will care about them (typically), and the less intricate the characters are. Thinking about it now, some of the greatest stories typically only focus on a small group of characters, ranging from three to six characters.
In short, make the characters in your story interesting. The problem with fan-fictions is: people typically have different interpretations of the characters, and you're going to have to be competing against someone else's interpretation; and FF writers typically can't make interesting OCs.
Because most Original Characters are either overpowered and “special” in some way, or they are a Mary Sue/ Gary Sue.
IMO M/Gary Sues are only enjoyable (Enjoyable and actually good are two seperate things by the way honey.) when even the creators know their character is kind of stupid and their overpowered-ness/speciality is going to be a joke.
Take a YTer's Sonic OC, SNT. She kind of sucks and everyone clearly loves her and that's dumb, but everyone knows that and use it as a humour-orientated advantage. SHE'S SPECIAL
In UnderTale though, OCs I've seen are just skelefonts and fanchilds.
Red isn't bad though!
The example of an OP character that's interesting I'd use would be One-Punch Man (never seen it, but I know it's a good example).
Mokomo1 wrote:
ChibiLadyLover wrote:
Alphasaith wrote:
Mokomo1 wrote:
EDIT
May also want to point out that these 76 characters are across 2000 years of UTR history, and aren't all set in a single time period. Within Underearth (the story of Undertale, but in UTR), there are ~20 characters active. More isn't always better, as the more characters you have, the less the reader will care about them (typically), and the less intricate the characters are. Thinking about it now, some of the greatest stories typically only focus on a small group of characters, ranging from three to six characters.
In short, make the characters in your story interesting. The problem with fan-fictions is: people typically have different interpretations of the characters, and you're going to have to be competing against someone else's interpretation; and FF writers typically can't make interesting OCs.
Take a YTer's Sonic OC, SNT. She kind of sucks and everyone clearly loves her and that's dumb, but everyone knows that and use it as a humour-orientated advantage. SHE'S SPECIAL
In UnderTale though, OCs I've seen are just skelefonts and fanchilds.
Red isn't bad though!
Yeah, that's a very nice example! I'd also say All might from My Hero Academia.
I was just talking about OCs that are bad becaues everyone loves them so much and how thy're the chosen one or something like that, not necessarily OCs who are bad because of their power level.
Mokomo1 wrote:
Mokomo1 wrote:
ChibiLadyLover wrote:
Alphasaith wrote:
Mokomo1 wrote:
Take a YTer's Sonic OC, SNT. She kind of sucks and everyone clearly loves her and that's dumb, but everyone knows that and use it as a humour-orientated advantage. SHE'S SPECIAL
In UnderTale though, OCs I've seen are just skelefonts and fanchilds.
Red isn't bad though!
Yeah, that's a very nice example! I'd also say All might from My Hero Academia.
I was just talking about OCs that are bad becaues everyone loves them so much and how thy're the chosen one or something like that, not necessarily OCs who are bad because of their power level.
Just remember that every reason an OC is bad can be found in other characters though-out the various stories in the world. It all comes down to how interesting the character is.
This video lies, if you wanna write fanfics or anything actually, Terrible Writing advice obviously is the only reliable source ;-p