Board Thread:Series Discussion/@comment-4848837-20150121024809/@comment-4848837-20160120221338

Characters in These Befallen

If there's one thing I hate more in any fiction now, it's throwaway lines: any character can say them, and they really just seem to be there to either take up space or have a specific character cut their silence. The big problem with these lines is that they withdraw personality from the story and distract from any scene because they're just... garbage. They come out awkwardly or after enough of these lines, you just feel bored.

And one character just always being angry isn't a personality. In Infernosphere, Rath speaking in caps only isn't a personality. It's not a trait, and his unrelenting anger isn't even something unique to the show. The whole personality problem kinda draws from UAF/OV not exactly having personalities in characters (just as much throwaway lines, but you're less likely to notice it in TV series because you have different voices saying 'em vs. just plain text here on BTFF).

In TB, expect characters who've got idiosyncrasies I've spent a year working on. Ben and Gwen are very different people. Ben can't just be defined by the terms "arrogant" or "kind"; Gwen can't just be defined as "smart" or whatever else. Ben and Gwen especially have had a lot of time put into them. They'll take up most of the "air time," so of course, it's warranted. You'll see "These Befallen" doesn't have "Ben" in it (well, I mean it does if you throw away "these" and "falle" but shut up :P); that's because he alone is not the focus here.

Ben and Gwen are, like most writers tend toward, extensions of myself here. But at the same time, you'll find great similarities to their canon counterparts. I mean, why wouldn't you? They're Ben and Gwen after all.

-- COKE ( C S T ) 22:13, January 20, 2016 (UTC)