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    211 year ago

    American Corporate in a nutshell… Man, Futurama was awesome, except for Zapp Branigan. I couldn’t stand that bastard.

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      Zapp Brannigan is hilarious though, I think he’s one of the best characters on the show.

      I am the man with no name. Zapp Brannigan at your service.

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      except for Zapp Branigan. I couldn’t stand that bastard.

      Yeah, but as a story writer and worldbuilder I’m inclined to cut them some slack on Zapp. I’d say writing a balanced and well thought out morally-bad character or villain is the hardest thing in character development. Counterintuitively, you can’t make the reader genuinely hate them like many do with Zapp, even if they are the designated big baddie, because if they feel such strong negative emotions, they won’t want to keep reading/watching your story. The reader doesn’t have to agree with their ideology or actions, there is a misconception that the villain always needs to be a little right to be compelling, but that’s not necessarily true. Really the most important thing is you need to make sure that you’re not making a character that the reader can’t stand and reading their interactions an unpleasant experience. At the same time, you have to make their motives believable and make them evil enough that whatever punishment your plot has in store for them is actually justified, all while still retaining a basic level of sympathy in the reader. I feel that Mary Sue heroes are talked about way more, but Mary Sue villains are just as detrimental. I definitely struggle with this.

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        91 year ago

        That’s very insightful, are you a writer? Happen to have a blog you could share to learn more?

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          Thank you so much! I’m an amateur writer as a hobby. I currently mainly do worldbuilding posts (on Lemmy!) and also do literary roleplays (basically like a Dungeons and Dragons style roleplay but entirely in text, where you take turns writing a story bit by bit). Eventually I want to turn my worldbuilding into (most likely) a web series of episodic novellas, already have the overarching plot outline mostly figured out but haven’t started writing my canon story yet.

          If you’re interested, I post on [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected], as well as on Reddit while the writing scene on Lemmy is still picking up.

          • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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            21 year ago

            Have you considered webcomics? I only ask because I like webcomics and you write good