Salute your deleted characters here

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Don't do it. We don't encourage suicide. Remember the wording under your avatar: 'still alive'.

Ahahah! You see what he did there? He's equating my character with the real me. Actually, the character kind of HAS to die; his world DID collide with another planet and shatter, after all.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Ahahah! You see what he did there? He's equating my character with the real me. Actually, the character kind of HAS to die; his world DID collide with another planet and shatter, after all.

Any hero of Hollywood action movies can survive a minor inconvenience like that with nothing more than a flesh wound!

 

[Colbey Frost]

Almost all female characters I create get deleted... the only reason I have two women in my book is because I have two daughters...

And before you ask "Where's your love interest then?" It's in the form of a gay hermit.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Any hero of Hollywood action movies can survive a minor inconvenience like that with nothing more than a flesh wound!

Yes, but he's not a Hollywood hero-merely a divine being who lost all his followers.

 

[Warren_Paul]

Almost all female characters I create get deleted... the only reason I have two women in my book is because I have two daughters...

And before you ask "Where's your love interest then?" It's in the form of a gay hermit.

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be the very opposite, I have one or two male protagonists surrounded by a harem of females, lucky them

(BTW, not really a harem. Although there certainly is the possibility if I want to take it that way. ).

gay hermit... why does that sound a bit creepy.

 

[Colbey Frost]

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be the very opposite, I have one or two male protagonists surrounded by a harem of females, lucky them

(BTW, not really a harem. Although there certainly is the possibility if I want to take it that way. ).

gay hermit... why does that sound a bit creepy.

Well, you have to write what you know and for me women are a mistery.

And as for a gay hermit being creepy... he is... and yes, he will do that thing your wishing he wouldn't when you're asleep. And then draw your naked image on paper created from the hair of dead enemies. But he's one of the good guys, mostly.

 

[Phoenixthewriter]

Jaso'deca - High Priest of the fourth quadrant.

Let's face it, your Surtitle 'Deca' didn't mean anything, and while the other high priests actually have a role in the war, you were just a lingering, if quite witty, add-on to the King's Ball. I had high hopes you would turn to the side of good and join the resistance, but there just wasn't enough room. And to be quite frank, I'm sick of writing about you Priests!

 

[alchemist]

Because everything on the internet is true!

I might have to change the description of one character then, I call her hair 'mousey'. guess she will just be plain old ordinary brown.

what about chestnut?

I'm picturing her as beautiful already!

Just in case I've overblown the mousey thing, I read it once on one of those lists of cliches. I'd written the character's hair as mousey about two weeks beforehand, so it was as if they'd read my mind, or I'd fallen into a huge trap.

In other words, my information may not have the full weight of evidence behind it.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

see mousey; you can have little brown mouse, slightly grey mouse, white mice. to write it off as a generic description, but it seems a little harsh.... I worry more about how it makes the character seems like they're invisible...

 

[alchemist]

see mousey; you can have little brown mouse, slightly grey mouse, white mice. to write it off as a generic description, but it seems a little harsh.... I worry more about how it makes the character seems like they're invisible...

When I wrote it first, I wanted my character to be nondescript, an every-teen. If you want them to stand out physically, you usually go for striking black or blonde (or white). If you want them to appear unobtrusive, "mousey" gets used a lot -- apparently. Once again, it was only one site, but I fitted the bill so well that I assumed there was an amount of truth in it.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Then write about a mousey teen genehacked with mouse genes. That should be less generic.

 

[jastius]

When I wrote it first, I wanted my character to be nondescript, an every-teen. If you want them to stand out physically, you usually go for striking black or blonde (or white). If you want them to appear unobtrusive, "mousey" gets used a lot -- apparently. Once again, it was only one site, but I fitted the bill so well that I assumed there was an amount of truth in it.

I like the part in 'the banger sisters' that describes this sort of thing. They used "beige". For hair, skin, clothes, furnishings ...and the walls of the DMV which they happened to blend into as a sort of soccer mom protective camouflage.
The character has a crisis when they realize their life has become so monochromatically rigidized that they blend into government office decor.
So instead of mousey you could use beige. its the new mousey... (Just don't tell the internet)

I never delete characters. I just put a red shirt on them.

 

[Dan Jones]

Cool thread.

For me it had to be Stan, Captain of Oddilium, a put-upon little bureaucrat in thrall to the more powerful judges of his town. You didn't really do anything, Stan, so you had to go. Don't be upset, though; if ever I need a snivelling little goose of a man for another story you can consider yourself dusted down.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

I salute Drustan, a gifted boy of whom I really grew very fond but he didn't advance the story much and turned out to be a bit of a nuisance in the sequels, so he had to go.

 

[Dan Jones]

Also saluted is Fellwr Monbath, a pernicious old goat with a mistrust of outsiders and an eye for the grotesque. But he was a wordy and unnecessary so and so. Bye bye Fellwr!

 

[ZombieWife]

I salute Ulryck, who was a stereotypical abusive brother with no dimension. Sorry, Ulryck. I turned you into a woman and now you have a personality.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

RIP Christian Aaron Moody the Third.

I loved you man. You were the perfect tortured soul. And you made it to the end of the book and saved the galaxy. But you had to die. Your sacrifice was necessary. After all you couldn't wander through an entire book knocking on death's door constantly and never opening it. And I couldn't have written a saccharin sweet ending where the hero overcomes every obstacle, saves the galaxy almost single handedly and lives to become adored by trillions. It was just too damned much.

Cheers, Greg.