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This is going to be sort of like a thread that was around a little while ago. I believe it died... no wait, a couple people went off on tangents about hating being human... or something like that, I dunno.
Anyhow, character swaps. If you have a character that you no longer want or need, or a Mary Sue/Gary Stu you want to get rid of, post a profile here and perhaps someone will want him/her. Shall I start?
Name: Gregory E. Flaxen
Age: Enh, mid-teens? Something like that. Flexible.
Appearance: Dark skin, curly black hair, deep brown eyes. Tall, athletic.
Personality: StuStuStuStu... ugh, he really has very little personality at all. He was "funny" but not in a particularly memorable or clever way. He was called "smart" but never actually demonstrated this. And, as I said above, athletic. Also ridiculously nice and polite. He was originally very close with my main character. Then I cut him out of the story altogether. (I'm considering writing him a very painful death scene just for the satisfaction of it...) D: I loathe him, personally.
Anyone want him? Anyone have any characters they want to get rid of? This good, Adina? :)
submitted by Mary W., age 11.66, NJ
(August 15, 2009 - 10:15 am)
(August 15, 2009 - 10:15 am)
Heh. I posted on the other thread, but no one seemed interested in:
Anyway, I also have a character for rent. I haven't got any actual ideas on what her story is about, but she's kind of interesting. Can you tell me if you use her? I'd like to know. Or if you want to help me think of ideas for her story...
Name: Beck, but this is changeable
Age: Five, but that is only the age she find out who she is- see below.
Time Period: middle ages
Appearance: Small girl, with brownish skin, mousy-brown hair, and Large Dark eyes.
Background: She comes from a version of the common folk-tale: a hunter has mercy on a deer, and the next day a beautiful lady with suspiciously deer-like features comes to his doorstep. etc. Only in this version, they actually live happily together, and the hunter becomes a woodcutter. Beck is their child and can turn into a fawn, which she doesn't find out until age 5.
Enjoy!
(August 15, 2009 - 1:20 pm)
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(August 16, 2009 - 12:25 pm)
eets vunderful Mary W.! Vunderful! MWAHAHAHAHA no ze vorld vill be ehh, how do you say eet? Ah yes, MINE!!!! oops you were not supposed to hear that. Just make Gary Stu the bad guy and everything will be alright. Or make him very serious. Or make him weak. Or give him a mental disordor. Or make him fake, and actually a puppet for some evil person. Or make him an alien banished because being perfect was against the rules. Or make his whole family die. Or, you know, make him a sparkly "veggietarian" vampire in love with a a Mary Sue...
(August 18, 2009 - 9:58 am)
*laughs evilly with Fellow New Jerseyian* Or just cut him out of the story entirely! I was doing a bit of cleaning I suppose you might call it, going over the whole two hundred pages... then I noticed it stunk... then I posted on here, this was a few months ago... a few people gave me insanely good advice. So then I changed the story around a whole bunch, and it was much better. Excluding the dead spider fixation, I mean... (thanks a million, TNO (umlaut), by the way)... My next obsessive purging was to remove a *lot* of unnecessary/crummy/badly written characters. Guess what? 99.9% were Sues or Stus. Greg was one of many... so if anyone wants him *waves hand dismissively* he's yours. Adina, you're extremely clever, I bet you could use him and be brilliant enough not to even give him a Mary Sue girlfriend! (henh... he had a MS girlfriend in my story... then I unMs'd her and cut him out of the story... you could say their relationship didn't end well...)
*laughs evilly again* Just one thing, when your marvelously written novel containing Greg is published and you make millions of dollars, you've got to put my in the Acknowledgments. :)
Yeah... that's my sales talk... not so great, huh.
(August 18, 2009 - 3:12 pm)
of course Mary W. Of course. I'll also have to put Ima since she sparked the story with her dream. And all the rest of yous for offering support and such. And the Admins for posting the support and such. And Cricket for making the Admins post the support and such. And the readers of cricket for telling Cricket to make a chatter box and make the Admins post the support and such. By the way, I just might use your charector since I have an... issue of making my own. I force halfy made charectors into fully developed situations and expect them to react. But how could people with no personalities react I ask you? HOW? TELL ME HOW!
Anyways, in my OTHER story Hero the girl who wants to take over the world gets sent to the acadamy for the "socially challanged" were she meats a bunch of weirdos. So far I have a kid who cann't stop cursing so he has to carry a bleeper around everywhere, a girl who thinks she wrote Hero to the academy but no one believes her, a kid who is addicted to having obsessions, and a kid who gets mad when somebody smiles. I need more ideas though. Please? Think wacky wacky wacky. (just like you!)
(August 18, 2009 - 8:36 pm)
*whispers* I do the same thing. Nondeveloped characters into fully developed situations. I have to stop doing that. But Mary Liz never listens when I tell her. At this point I'd glare at her, but, well... it's hard to glare at yourself... ;)
The Hero story sounds brilliant. :) The characters all sound insane, course, but that's why it's brilliant.
Let me think. Um... how about some paranoid kid who is convinced they have ESP and that ghosts are everywhere? Or... let's see... *obscure EAP reference* a guy who's convinced he's a teapot? And it's always fun to have a character who's kleptomaniacal.
(August 19, 2009 - 10:45 am)
Ooooooh! Oooooooh! Ooooooh! Pick me! Pick me! *waving hand wildly in the air* K. A person (male? female? doesn't matter) Who is obsessed with........................................ ..................................Wait for it!................................................................Wait for it!
PICKLES!
He? She? It yells PICKLES! at random times and eats pickles for every meal and dresses in only green and says her name is Pickle. That's my totally nuts and totally not well thought out, spur of the moment crazy person that you really probably shouldn't use because it would probably ruin your story! Anyway, you've already got obsession, so... Hmmm.... But if I ever see a story by you about someone who's obsessed with pickles, my name better be in the acknowledgments, Missy!! Heehee! Just kidding! Bye!
~A Random Pickle that is sometimes called Emma
(August 19, 2009 - 12:23 pm)
What's EAP? Good ideas, though I might not use the klepto (someone who is obsessed with stealing right?) since that's been done and used and I won't be able to do it better. Paranoia sounds peachy perfect though. Thanks a bunch of bananas! Good luck with your story! Post excerpt please!
A kleptomaniac is a person who has an irresistible urge to steal due to an emotional disturbance, not need. I once heard of a girl who stole anything red and didn't even know she was doing it.
Admin
(August 19, 2009 - 12:27 pm)
Wow, really? Anything red? I meant that when I said obsessed but I guess I used the wrong word. Thanks, Admin.
I didn't know her. It's what someone else told me. And the girl's family was well off, too.
(August 19, 2009 - 6:20 pm)
Emily, I just got around to reading your post, and I have a few idears: Beck likes the forest where the animals are her only friends. She becomes a deer but does not notice till she goes home and then her dad sees her and does not recognize this sincehe did not know his wife was a deer. When he finds out this is Beck he gets mad and divorces his wife and she and Beth are alone in the forest. I haven't figured out what happens next and I probably would take it on if I did not have two novels as well as a short story to write.
(August 19, 2009 - 12:38 pm)
EAP's Edgar Allan Poe. Lovelovelovelovelovelove... <3
Er. Sorry. :/
(August 19, 2009 - 3:08 pm)