Tragic Backstories That Aren't 'Dead/Abusive Parents'
It's nice, but a tad overused.
-Being from a war-torn region
-Death of a sibling or friend
-Living in poverty
-Social rejection from peers
-Long term illnesses that make living difficult
-Surviving a severe natural disaster, but losing everything
-Abusive mentors/teachers
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I'm sure someone else has done this, but
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Sometimes I will just be minding my own business and I’ll be hit with a sudden “WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PIRATES?” thought. I can’t wait to learn more!
Well, you will get definitely be getting an answer to that question in Book Four in N's route...looking forward to writing that scene, hehe! :D
Thank you so much for the ask! :)
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THIS IS MY FINAL STRAW OH MY GOD
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Summarize Ikemen Prince in Two Memes or Less
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“Death is mercy, execution is vengeance.”
“How many people do you plan on…executing?”
“Who said anything about people?”
Before you could have called her a marine biologist, maybe a lover of nature. She was once a carefree doe, but even with all her graceful freedom, she couldn’t out run a bullet.
Neither could a hunter.
A hunter, fisher, and tracker by trade Hydie guts the things she once spent so much time admiring and studying. However, she’s after something more elusive than manatee, dolphins or whales: she wants a siren. A very specific siren.
Sirens are considered myths and fairytales in some waters, but not the ones she is navigating. Hydie used to have dreams of meeting one, maybe even having the pleasure of studying it up close.
Presently, she can count on one hand how many she has studied with the edge of her blade. Though her notes are scarce, there is one thing she breaths as she shatters their bones.
“It’s not real”
Sirens have the ability to wear the face of lost loved ones. Though their appearance is often a mockery, like a half finished clay mask, their voices rang true and clear. So, really, after the first couple times she should have gotten used hearing him scream. At least they could never replicate the sound from…
She’ll follow Motti on her quest. Foolish. Loyal. The red head needed a crew, and Hydie needed to sail dangerous waters. Maybe they will both find what they are looking for.
Perhaps, when it was finished, her captain will still have the same fire in her eyes. All Hydie can do is hope Motti is prepared for the kind of sea the ‘Black Fiend’ was sailing on.
Lex was right. Everyone had a past they were running from…
…but if Lex could stop putting hers down (booze bottles) on her notes that would be great. Hydie’s papers now had little condensation rings.
@caycanteven and @mothiepixie I’m just jumping on the boat if that’s okay 👍
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Heroes are all fucked up
I know this has been said before in a thousand different ways by a thousand different people and some of them said it better than me, but it's on my mind and so here goes:
Heroes are deeply fucked up people
The answer to "why would any normal person pick up a sword and go diving into caves full of monsters/strap themselves into a ten-ton death machine/fly between worlds in their spaceship doing crimes" is "no normal person would" because nobody with a happy, fulfilling life would need to.
Something happened to every D&D character that made them either want or need to put themselves in terrible danger on a regular basis. Something happened to every mech pilot in Lancer that makes them keep climbing into a walking weapon despite the risk. They don't have to enjoy what they're doing, they might hate it, but they need it because something happened to them that made them this way.
Firefly wasn't a perfect show, and not every aspect of it aged well, but it's such a good example of this. Malcolm Reynolds is a guy who believed in something enough to fight and kill for it, and he got to watch most of the people who trusted him die. Now he travels from place to place in a beaten up old trashfire of a ship putting himself in constant danger because it Makes The Thoughts Stop, and he tries to pass himself off as uncaring but he just can't help himself when an opportunity to do the right thing arises, because maybe, just maybe, if he does enough good things, maybe it will make up for his failures.
"Why do so many OCs have a tragic backstory" because we like to write about things that are interesting and the kind of people who live very happy, untroubled lives are not very interesting
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one hero’s painful past, is one villain’s origin story.
and vice versa.
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.....how did we traumatize you?
@ask-eric-the-disposable-demon beat me up and threw me into a voidspace. I thought I was gonna to die alone in there and that no one cared that I was gone on accounta a acted so awful.
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I already posted the sad boy, so here are some sketches of the sad girl, Shallan Davar herself, truly noone can beat Sanderson in writing good characters, e s p e c i a l l y the traumatised ones
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what is horror's lore? i am intrigued 👀
Ah... to be honest I wasn't expecting someone to actually ask.. but here you go:
Horror (or in the story will be known as Axe) is a poor village boy with his little brother (his name will be Poplar in this story, Pops for short).
Their village resides on the edge of a large wooded area on one side while the rest of the surrounding areas are all farm lands which they would frequently help as children, though as Axe grew, he found that he was more equipped to hunting in the forest rather than farming, but he still helped his parents in the fields whenever he could. This caused him to use whatever daylight he had left to hunting and trapping in the forest close to their home, bringing home whatever meat his family needed and would also use as barter for other things if there was extra.
Poplar loved helping his mum and pop (even as a child) in the farming as it gave him something to create, something that would grow under his care. As he grew, he also found ways of making crafts out of the hides and bones of the creatures that Axe would hunt and helping his big brother barter for things that they either needed or wanted. And Axe would not say no to Poplar if he really wanted something that one of the elders of the village would make, though, sometimes the elders would just give children toys that they had made out of boredom, but Poplar would never want to get anything for free and would insist heavily on giving them something back.
Both boys learned a lot from their parents as well, enough to help them survive on their own. Axe learned from his father every way he knew to trap animals and to defend himself and his family if something ever happened while Poplar learned how to cook from his mother from an early age seeing as men cooking could impress a lady greatly which did not happen often. Both brothers learned how to farm properly and how to keep crops alive until harvest, and then how to harvest (even the ones that would be deemed poisonous if harvested wrong).
That was...
Until the drought that lasted months that left the land no longer anything but sand and dirt. Everyone in the village began to starve as it was a farming community, not many knew how to hunt like Axe could, which led to villagers requesting more and more out of Axe to hunt, but over hunting would mean no food eventually and Axe as well as his father knew it. It came to points where people began leaving (the ones that could afford to do so) while other began to die off slowly. Between all these factors, majority of the villagers became violent and would fight one another for food.
Eventually Axe and Poplar's parents died of starvation, having rationed themselves to death for the sake of their sons' lives. It was during this grieving time when Axe got attacked by another villager thinking he had food that caused the large hole in his skull and thought to be left for dead. Yet he was determined to live to protect his baby brother who had only been 14 at the time (Axe was barely 18 when he received his head injury). When he had finally sauntered back home to his little brother, he collapsed and Poplar healed the damage as best he could. It was after this that they moved further into the woods to get away from the villagers that harmed Axe partly because of the trauma and mostly because Axe didn't want Poplar to go through the same thing he did.
Axe has a bit of trouble with his short term memory due to this and has to talk slower which frustrates him immensely, but Poplar has and always will be a patient soul.
Things will eventually look up for them when a figure covered in moving Shadows passes through.
(also, not all the skeletons in this series will be "Sans' and Papyrus' " there will be plenty of other skeleton characters who are female as well. In fact, one of the villagers was a female skeleton around Poplar's age that he had a crush on early on in his life. She starved to death though. But there will be others)
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Not Every Villain Needs To Be Sympathetic
Hero: "Why are you doing this?!"
Villain: "Well you see, when I was a child, my parents were killed before my eyes."
Hero: "Oh my. So... the trauma led you onto a path where you believed you were the hero of your own story?"
Villain: "Actually no. In fact, it made me embrace the fact I'm an unrepentant piece of shit."
Hero: "Wait, what? How?"
Villain: "I mentioned I was the one who killed them, right?"
Hero: "..."
Villain: "You really need to stop making assumptions about people, dude. Very condescending. Anyhow, if you could be a darling and just run into my knife a few times."
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Ryu shi-oh is a Tragic™ villain
it's official guys, he's fullfilled all criteria 😩
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The first time Ice has to check into a hospital, he's just turned 20, and he went down on a guy he met at a party and ruptured his airway. There's pain and blood and it's hard to breathe, but Slider and Ice's sister have to take him bodily to the ER because he's in the Navy, and they're not going to find this amusing. Through tears and a painful rasp, he explains all this to the ER nurse. She has a son his age, she says, and she tells him to rest and not to worry. She checks him into the hospital and calls his CO and swears Ice has the worst case of strep throat she's ever seen, and he can't leave the hospital or receive any visitors until the spots on his tonsils are gone, or he'll infect the entire Academy.
Ice sends her a New Year's card every year until she passes away in 2012. He attends the funeral as a three star admiral.
And then he shows up at TOPGUN and the motherfucker whose dick almost killed him is sitting in the front row of the class next to Goose.
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DND parties be like
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