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Happy Halloween everyone!

If you’re going trick-or-treating tonight, be careful!

Now, as for writing, here’s a description scene for a scary samurai centipede demon.

On the ceiling rested a mess of bony and contorted limbs. Far too many human arms, each gripping a sword, lined a snaking mass resembling a spine covered by a thin layer of rotted skin. Two useless legs dangled from the far end of what could only loosely be called a torso.

Mere feet away from the petrified party, drooling and heaving with breath that reeked of decay, was the head. A pair of empty black sockets, despite the absence of eyes, seemed to stare into the very souls of each person cursed to gaze upon them. Under the hollow nasal bones were long, twisting mandibles that looked like the horns of Mogrith himself. Crowning this twisted mockery of a human head was a rusted kabuto.

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The worst kind of comedy is unintentional comedy. Usually it means something has failed to convey the feeling it had intended. If something meant to be serious makes someone laugh, that’s not a good sign. It’s textbook bathos.

However, One Punch Man uses anticlimax in a masterful way. The whole series is built upon this.

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Something modern writers need to stop doing when given control of an established franchise is stop killing off beloved main characters of previous installments in such disrespectful ways. A lot of people will get upset for the wrong reasons, but it’s also just a bad idea to replace someone that audiences are attached to with a completely new character. Especially if they killed the other guy. You know what I’m referring to…

*cough cough The Last of Us Part II, Star Wars, Borderlands 3, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League cough cough*

If you’re going to kill and old main character off, do it with some dignity ffs. Have them go out in a brave sacrifice or something.

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Y’all ever think of a fantasy planet in a sci fi universe? Like, a somewhat stereotypical western fantasy world in a primarily sci fi universe where magic can work because these different systems and planets follow their own physics.

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You know what else is cool? Tribes who scavenge ancient machinery, maybe find some massive project, and idolize these civilizations, not thinking about why they fell in the first place. Bonus points if the people were aliens or people don’t even know what they looked like.

I love the ancient advanced civilization trope. I love exploring ruins in fantasy worlds that have may or may not have robots or mechs.

The Old Ones in Horizon, Dwemer in The Elder Scrolls, I don’t know a time where I didn’t like this trope.

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I love the vibe in stories where it’s a bunch of friends screwing around and exploring, especially if it’s a party in a fantasy world. For some reason though, episodic stories are a challenge for me. Sometimes my brain is like “Ancient samurai centipede demon wielding 100 swords”, but it can’t come up with a silly daily adventure or overarching villain.

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For me, the hardest part of making a magic system is setting rules so that it can’t be spammed or do really convenient things. I was thinking “It draws upon the forces of creation itself to deliver a desired effect” but what if that is just making gold? Reviving the dead? Sure, but creating currency is a no-no.

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I love the ancient advanced civilization trope. I love exploring ruins in fantasy worlds that have may or may not have robots or mechs.

The Old Ones in Horizon, Dwemer in The Elder Scrolls, I don’t know a time where I didn’t like this trope.

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I love villains who are good dads. Dr. Doofenshmirtz and those ProZD skits were amazing.

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I just thought it meant super strong offensive capabilities, but not very durable, which kinda describes them

You know what I love? Glass cannon MC’s. I love when the main character gets a super powerful and special ability, but it hurts them to use, so they can’t just spam it. They have to be strategic and wait for the right moment so that they get the most out of their power.

Some good examples are Izuku Midoriya with One for All in earlier seasons of My Hero Academia and David Martinez with the Sandevistan in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

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Another Trope I adore, but don’t know the name for, is a rare one as it is confined to spin-offs. It’s when the story is a prequel in an established universe and a well-known villain from the source material shows up at the end, becoming an unstoppable force of nature and making life hell for the protagonist. It makes the world feel more alive, showing that there’s always bigger fish.

Think of Darth Vader in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Adam Smasher in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and Homelander in Gen V.

I’m a sucker for this trope, but I don’t see it enough!

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You know what I love? Glass cannon MC’s. I love when the main character gets a super powerful and special ability, but it hurts them to use, so they can’t just spam it. They have to be strategic and wait for the right moment so that they get the most out of their power.

Some good examples are Izuku Midoriya with One for All in earlier seasons of My Hero Academia and David Martinez with the Sandevistan in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

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You know what is a peak friendship dynamic? Nerd and Jock, AKA Melvin and Brent. Most 90’s high school movies show them as enemies competing over some girl or dumb bs like that, but imagine them actually being pals. Brent could help Melvin build some confidence and be physically active while Melvin could help Brent with some difficult homework or bring him to his D&D group. It’s peak!

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Something I was thinking about doing was taking my OC’s made for My Hero Academia and moving them to my own fantasy world, building cultures and races around some of them.

For example, one was a dude named Igneous who looks like a Japanese/Chinese fire belly newt and his quirk was having lava running through his body, which he could expel or cool in specific ways to form crystals. I thought about making a race of amphibians who spit lava that can cool quickly.

Some of the more machine-like quirks could be a culture of humans who scavenge ancient advanced technology.

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Has anybody else ever created too many characters and thought about some massive tragic event to just kill off the unimportant ones while serving as a pivotal moment or twist? Am I evil?

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Something I love is when bizarre weapons in typically video game stories have a reason for existing in their respective universe that isn’t just rule of cool. There’s nothing wrong with rule of cool at all, but let me explain.

The Titans and Jumpkits from Titanfall were not designed for combat. Titans were designed for agricultural purposes and jumpkits would help construction workers get to places that were hard to reach. Both were repurposed for combat.

Most of your weapons in Dead Space 1 aren’t even weapons, but mining tools. The USG Ishimura was a mining ship after all. The only actual weapon in your arsenal is the pulse rifle.

There are many more examples, but those two are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. This kind of thing just makes the world feel so much more alive.

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Imma be real, I’m not a fan of pre-established couples. As with most stories, an interesting build up/journey makes the outcome/reward all the sweeter. That’s part of why Lumity from The Owl House is peak. It had a lot of build up. Luz and Amity went from enemies to friends to lovers as both of them developed as characters. Then we get to see how they are as an official couple.

On the other hand, Chaggie from Hazbin Hotel was a pre-established relationship where it didn’t really feel like a romantic relationship until the last couple episodes. Those two are cute together, but it would have been better to have seen the journey of them getting to that point. Seriously, they gave off vibes more similar to friends who secretly crushed on each other throughout the pilot and most of season 1. If that had been the case and the two finally got together in those previously mentioned episodes, their relationship might have been more interesting.

I do get the appeal of wondering how a couple would stay together in certain circumstances, but I’m a sucker for that journey and payoff.