Post by r wesley edwards on Aug 15, 2013 1:17:36 GMT -8
I agree. What a fucked-up main character.
But here's the thing: If you introduce magic, you IMMEDIATELY take on a huge burden: Everyone can reasonably do anything and you can say, "well, it's magic"
Fuck that. I hate that. I remember watching the Harry Potter movies thinking: "this is total bullshit".
Ditto for time-travel (cue Macmillan) -- that's why Doctor Who, etc have rules about crossing someone's own timeline (we'll say it'll cause a paradox or whatever, but the truth is it's annoying because it means the story itself can't be trusted). So arbitrary rules because you can't keep your shit straight because you don't know how to create a contained world: basically I think Harry Potter's world is a case of biting off more than you can chew. -- but I digress.
So to combat the "anyone can do anything 'cuz magic" 'bug', we can make the main character, the guy with the strongest type of magic available, that of bringing back the dead (in a non-Pet Cemetery way) have really human faults.
The truth is, his problems are very similar to my own: I have a shitty memory, I can't keep track of time, i.e. a week or a month may seem the same to me; sometimes I am unsure that a dream I had wasn't real and that something real wasn't a dream. I'm permanently injured in the leg and knees (Tyzmon just gets ill and falls down, but it's the same). Too bad I can't raise the dead, huh?
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- He hallucinates
- He can't tell dreams/hallucinations/stories from reality
- He forgets things a LOT
- If Icon can be taken seriously, he has a nasty prostitute/witch habit
But here's the thing: If you introduce magic, you IMMEDIATELY take on a huge burden: Everyone can reasonably do anything and you can say, "well, it's magic"
Fuck that. I hate that. I remember watching the Harry Potter movies thinking: "this is total bullshit".
Ditto for time-travel (cue Macmillan) -- that's why Doctor Who, etc have rules about crossing someone's own timeline (we'll say it'll cause a paradox or whatever, but the truth is it's annoying because it means the story itself can't be trusted). So arbitrary rules because you can't keep your shit straight because you don't know how to create a contained world: basically I think Harry Potter's world is a case of biting off more than you can chew. -- but I digress.
So to combat the "anyone can do anything 'cuz magic" 'bug', we can make the main character, the guy with the strongest type of magic available, that of bringing back the dead (in a non-Pet Cemetery way) have really human faults.
The truth is, his problems are very similar to my own: I have a shitty memory, I can't keep track of time, i.e. a week or a month may seem the same to me; sometimes I am unsure that a dream I had wasn't real and that something real wasn't a dream. I'm permanently injured in the leg and knees (Tyzmon just gets ill and falls down, but it's the same). Too bad I can't raise the dead, huh?
-r
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