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3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
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3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#1I have three main characters for i think a book i may write and two of them are kind of plotted out i have no idea for an outline but i have, let me desribe the characters.
First.
Name:Trenzell
Age:17
Race: Unknown (Caucasion)
Eye: (R) Translucent glass ball (Eye missing) (L) Blue/snowflake shaped pupil
Hair: Short/ Golden Blond
Height/Weight: 5'11/ ?
Description:Trenzell is average height not a very generous, no quite selfish in fact. He was an orphan growing up earned a place to stay and money for himself as a young child was housed at a tavern. He thinks of no one else except for his two companions (Durrell & Camanor). He really doesn't care for them (He'd be a social-path in modern times.) He only continues to keep company with the two is because he believes they can help him obtain more power. He's also missing one eye and has no memory of how it happend, He has a glass replacement and a long scar from above his right eyebrow down to his jaw.
Second.
Name:Camanor
Age:17
Race: Sikoan (Black) (Siko is the island the african americans in my story are from. (I'm black irl))
Eye: Orange
Hair: Long Braided/Dark black hair
Height/Weight: 6'6/ ?
Description: Camanor is a very intelligent fellow, Hes loves to learn new things. Hes strongly built trained in the use of some weapons. He has one flaw and thats his motivation he doesn't know what he wants to do and that is why he follows Durrell and Trenzell. His father moved from Siko island to Korlia cause he was offered money to weave the Korlian king clothing and armor of spider silk (A rare talent camanor's father has.).
Third.
Name:Durrell
Age:22
Race: Korlian (Caucasion)
Eye: Green
Hair: Bowl Cut long/ Dirty Blond
Height/Weight:6-6'5 (Crouchs alot height undeterminatable (SP))/ ?
Description: I want durrell to be either a tinkerer or a necromancer or some evil magic occupation.
Well this is what i have for my 3 characters any ideas you can suggest could help i just want some deeper things about them i dunno, any suggestions. I also don't know what weapons i want them to use either.
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Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#2Trenzell has a very interesting appearance, especially with the snowflake shaped iris. The sociopath-orphan bit has been done a few times, but it might be interesting for the PCs or his companions the learn that as a psycho he murdered his own family and now tells people he is an orphan, maybe a bid to get sympathy not gained from strict and now dead parents. Scar could have come from that incident, and he has chosen not to remember those events.
He is seeking more power, but the type of power being sought isnt specified. I would have him seeking to become a better, potentially the realm's best assassin.
Camanor seems a bit more interesting. I would assume that he has the same ability to spin spidersilk, else he wouldnt have come to Korlia. Of the three he would be the least impossing, but the other two need him since he is the only one with a money generating skill at the current time. He could also be the only one with a head for money. As a weaver and spinner of cloth, I can see him as being proficient with small and dexterous weapons like knives, though not afraid to pick up a quarterstaff if need be.
Durell, being a tinker would be a great cover as well as putting a few coppers in his hand from time to time. As such he can work with metals, leather, and all sorts of material items, which follows into his skill as an alchemist, but rather than the normal fare, Durell synthesizes poisons, and the potion equivalent to necromancy spells. Such as a potion that kills the drinker and turns them into a zombie... -
Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#3I really like your idea for Camanor!
he seems interesting and i would enjoy learning about him in his adventures if you choose him! :twisted:
I also like Durrel i have always been interested in the undead.... :hyper: -
Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#4Today i was coming to a conclusion i may have to change trenzell around cause he sorta can't function as my main and heroic character so evil. In his socio-path ways he could save some people or slave some monsters just for recognition. But as for what type of power he wants he wants physical and like power over people like a king or a leader of a guild or something. I may post a the beginning of my story and you will see what he is like. I also wish i could draw trenzell just to see what he would look like my mental image is blurry.
On the subject of Camanor and durrel. Camanor is like a mirror of me hes talented well liked with no motivation. (Thats me in a nutshell.)
And i am thinking i may make Trenzell a positive archetype and durrell go down an evil necromancer path or clockwork master or something.
I forgot to insert that Durrell's father is a Watchmaker and thats where durrell learned but he surpassed his father. -
Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#5You can make a 'good' sociopathic main character. And why does the main character need to be the good guy? Every once in a while people want to be the antagonist.
Besides that. Durrell could be out to create the 'perfect' person. Using a combination of the darker side of magic, and his inate abilities as a tinkerer he seeks to augment his, and his companions, abilities. Currently he's working on a replacement for Trenzell's eye. After that he might give Trenzell some other 'upgrades' to make sure that they're safe. Then start working on himself. Every once in a while people dissappear and there are... noises down in Darrell's workroom. Most of them are just the clockwork machines he's built to help him with his crafts (being blacksmithing and tannery... As well as goldsmithing, because you don't and valuable parts on a clockwork creation to corrode and break just when you need it the most.) He's been 'augmenting' people to practice and make sure that he's got everything just right.
That the kinda feel you wanted for Durrell? -
Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#6Yes thats kind of what i wanted, As for trenzell i'm just saying none of the three have any significant power if they tried to do something where someone would fight back they might lose. I'd just feel very generic writing about them in a situation where should die and luckily survive but. -
Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#7They would be able to hold their own in combat. Tren grew up on the streets, he knows how to defend himself, be it with a knife, a club or a broken bottle. Dur, with his morbid fascination with the human body will have learned some healing spells, and will know quite a bit of 1st aid besides (direct pressure, cuaturization...)
Now Cam is going to be the interesting one in battle. Going along that spidersilk idea. A nice heavy ball at the end of a 5ft string of SpidSilk. He's got a couple of these suckers, and if he's any good at the weaving, he'll have gotten the thread thin and tight enough to tear through flesh when it's moving fast enough.
While none of these guys would be 'pretty' in combat, they'd get the job done well enough. And you could be more or less sure that they wouldn't fight unless if A) they have a distinct advantage or B) they've just been jumped and can't run. -
Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#8You have an amazing imagination,But i don't want them to be kickass from the start i want them to grow into their ways and the reader able to see their growth. I've decided i want Trenzell to use a longsword/combat knife combination for a weapon. I was also going to have durrell make a spear for Cam that shot the spear tip off with a cord of spider silk. Although i think for dur a basic Bo staff will be sufficient. -
Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#9You have an amazing imagination
Well, it's not hard when you have 27 different people jammed into your head. Gives me 25 different views on things, and yes I did say 27 before, 2 of them don't talk at all. Listen, if you're ever on the same time I am pop into flashchat and we can talk. -
Re: 3 main characters idea (Missing details about characters.) HELP!
#10OK, a few quick ideas. Make Trenzell's glass eye have some sort of weak magic to it, such as he sees magic items or enchantments glow a slight (insert color) hue.
Camanor would most like be the kind of person to stand back, and to get the spider silk, i highly dought the spiders he killed to GET the silk wound be small. Give him the use of a bow.
Durell would do well as the evil necromancer. Just don't make him evil in the open, more like, he has his own cause, and these people are just tools to further it. But in the mean time, he helps them when he can, and ignores them when he can't.
The reason I didn't put a color in for Trenzell is because thats your call, pick your favorite color, or do the usual blue or red hues.