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farlaSo. As many of you are likely aware, the submitted character genre has been a popular one recently.
(And yes, I do need to work on Reality)
One such is Starr Region:A whole New Ball Game by GamerGirlGG . On its own, it's rather unremarkable, with pretty much the only thing standing out that it's made it to eight chapters and it has far worse mechanical problems than most.
Except for one thing. Facia submitted her Elliot to it.
Now, this starts being amusing when you look at the other characters, such as silver-haired, lilac-eyed, umbreon-owning Danny Moonler (subtle, huh?), a extra-badass fourteen year old Team Rocket member; Kirra the black-haired red-eyed owner of two absol; Rain Skylark the trenchcoat wearing fourteen year old dragon trainer with six fully evolved pokemon and, well, this girl:
Name:Mary Karson
Age:13
Hair:Fiery red, with orange streaks. down to waist.
Eyes: Red
Heighth: Tall for her age.
Clothing: Red tangtop, blue jeans, red high tops,and butterfly hair clip.
Favorite saying: Fires the way I use pain, and trainings my game.
Personally, I was sort of expecting the author would twitch a bit at how boring Facia's character was, then pretend she'd never seen it for her own sanity. The boy's eleven (two years younger than anyone else) and has a jigglypuff. No more need be said.
Surprisingly he does show up. In Chapter Five (Titled New friend) Elliot's attacked by one of the Team Rocket characters and previously introduced characters help him. This segment is interesting because it so aptly demonstrates the point about how characters are interesting because of their personalities, not characteristics. (More succinctly, it's yawn-inducing.)
Then in Chapter Six (Titled poke'love) the group discusses names rather than fighting, and otherwise act smart-ass and too cool to care about any danger. Pretty much the only interesting thing was a snickerworthy moment in which one character comments Elliot's name is weird. To put this in perspective, the group contains a girl named Rain at the time, then they meet up with a girl named Kirra. Yeah. I think this says a lot about fandom naming conventions.
Next comes Chapter Seven (Titled Evolution, and Ryan) the group has decided to have a double battle. There's then a double evolution, of a sentret to furret...and a shelgon to salamance. Ow.
Finally we get to the best chapter, Eight (Titled Eevee's & Lucy). In this, Main Character Amy is whining about wanting more pokemon. And Elliot decides feeding his now-very-boring, poke-chow eating persian is less interesting than helping her. So of course, they run into two eevee, one white and one black. Amazing, that. Elliot gets to name the black one (Coal...this from a kid who christened his spearow Sono.). And even better, because he helped catch it, he gets to use it whenever he wants.
...Anyone else want to inform Facia her character's now a special eevee owning stu who must be killed for the good of the fandom?
Anyway, I found the whole thing hilarious, and would like to conclude with a request for the rest of you to start submitting characters and dropping me links. Me, well, I'm tempted to start submitting Ice to these stories and seeing how long it is before she's giggling at jokes and falling in love with Generic Stu #3.
(And yes, I do need to work on Reality)
One such is Starr Region:A whole New Ball Game by GamerGirlGG . On its own, it's rather unremarkable, with pretty much the only thing standing out that it's made it to eight chapters and it has far worse mechanical problems than most.
Except for one thing. Facia submitted her Elliot to it.
Now, this starts being amusing when you look at the other characters, such as silver-haired, lilac-eyed, umbreon-owning Danny Moonler (subtle, huh?), a extra-badass fourteen year old Team Rocket member; Kirra the black-haired red-eyed owner of two absol; Rain Skylark the trenchcoat wearing fourteen year old dragon trainer with six fully evolved pokemon and, well, this girl:
Name:Mary Karson
Age:13
Hair:Fiery red, with orange streaks. down to waist.
Eyes: Red
Heighth: Tall for her age.
Clothing: Red tangtop, blue jeans, red high tops,and butterfly hair clip.
Favorite saying: Fires the way I use pain, and trainings my game.
Personally, I was sort of expecting the author would twitch a bit at how boring Facia's character was, then pretend she'd never seen it for her own sanity. The boy's eleven (two years younger than anyone else) and has a jigglypuff. No more need be said.
Surprisingly he does show up. In Chapter Five (Titled New friend) Elliot's attacked by one of the Team Rocket characters and previously introduced characters help him. This segment is interesting because it so aptly demonstrates the point about how characters are interesting because of their personalities, not characteristics. (More succinctly, it's yawn-inducing.)
Then in Chapter Six (Titled poke'love) the group discusses names rather than fighting, and otherwise act smart-ass and too cool to care about any danger. Pretty much the only interesting thing was a snickerworthy moment in which one character comments Elliot's name is weird. To put this in perspective, the group contains a girl named Rain at the time, then they meet up with a girl named Kirra. Yeah. I think this says a lot about fandom naming conventions.
Next comes Chapter Seven (Titled Evolution, and Ryan) the group has decided to have a double battle. There's then a double evolution, of a sentret to furret...and a shelgon to salamance. Ow.
Finally we get to the best chapter, Eight (Titled Eevee's & Lucy). In this, Main Character Amy is whining about wanting more pokemon. And Elliot decides feeding his now-very-boring, poke-chow eating persian is less interesting than helping her. So of course, they run into two eevee, one white and one black. Amazing, that. Elliot gets to name the black one (Coal...this from a kid who christened his spearow Sono.). And even better, because he helped catch it, he gets to use it whenever he wants.
...Anyone else want to inform Facia her character's now a special eevee owning stu who must be killed for the good of the fandom?
Anyway, I found the whole thing hilarious, and would like to conclude with a request for the rest of you to start submitting characters and dropping me links. Me, well, I'm tempted to start submitting Ice to these stories and seeing how long it is before she's giggling at jokes and falling in love with Generic Stu #3.
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Date: 2006-01-29 03:53 am (UTC)Wow. I guess Facia is... a little masochistic? x)
I'm surprised the suethor even included Elliot... probably just felt obligated to work in all the submitted characters one way or another... and then SPESHUL-ify him. Wewt.
Anyway, I found the whole thing hilarious, and would like to conclude with a request for the rest of you to start submitting characters and dropping me links.
Will do. x) I need something else to do while I'm determinedly procrastinating on studying.
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Date: 2006-01-29 06:22 am (UTC)There seems to be a rise in that lately. [runs!]
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Date: 2006-01-29 06:21 am (UTC)More accurately, I felt like I wanted to stab myself when I read the author's note where she goes off on how cute a Raichu with a chef's hat is.
By the way, on your request... Sure thing. I wonder if I can get away with ripping off a character from another series. Maybe throw her something like Ford Prefect, just to see what happens.
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Date: 2006-01-30 08:12 pm (UTC)Even if she does recognize you're ripping something off, I suspect it won't matter.
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Date: 2006-01-30 05:13 am (UTC)I can't believe you managed to make it through all eight chapters. It's even more ridiculous than usual.
I'm so going to submit a character. I think I'll throw her Jake and watch the joke fly right over her head.
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Date: 2006-01-30 08:18 pm (UTC)