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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-02-21 03:54 pm

[ SECRET POST #2971 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2971 ⌋

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lb_lee: M.D. making a shocked, confused face (serious thought)

[personal profile] lb_lee 2015-02-21 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well said. Characters do not burst full-grown from my brow like Athena from Zeus. I can choose character traits for pretty arbitrary reasons--sometimes, I choose a character's gender PURELY so I don't have horrible, "she looked into her eyes and knew she loved her" confusion in sentences. And I'll sometimes make major character changes pretty late in the game--in one case, ten years after they were first written!

Stories don't write themselves, no matter what authors like to tell themselves.

Choosing to make a diverse cast is a perfectly legit decision. On a completely superficial level, IT HELPS YOU TELL THEM APART art-wise. Seriously! If your cast is all different shapes and colors, it's WAY easier to identify them from a distance, even if your art is... I dunno, tiny pixel sprites. It gives you more leeway.

I'm not sure why people act like it's any worse than... I dunno, choosing to a clone army.

--Rogan