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Originally posted by Captain Sammitch:
Surprise as in literary originality or surprise as in random crap made up on the spot to keep a character from looking bad? [yuh huh]

It reminds me of a conversation my brother and I had when I was seven:

"Hey! I shot you!"

"Nuh-uh! Force-field! Ha ha ha ha!"

[no no no]

It took me a while to figure it out, but it's really bad writing when one character gets to be the hero/winner all the time, and nothing anyone does can faze him. I've been slowly moving away from that, but it's startling how people who have been here way longer than me still haven't broken themselves of the habit.


Just to throw my two cents in here.
Well, in MY case is the first option. Like I said, I have no problem in unexpected things that happens to my character. I know Chewy worries to have given snake insted to hairs to the little clone of Ed, but for me that's absolutely not a problem. It was not what I would have done, but it was Knell to do that, and like in real life, Euro can do nothing about it, and must live accepting that. It will makes life harder for when Ed will get back the son, but that's otential for interesting stories.

That doesn't mean that I would accept that someone would kill Euro. But I would accept that someone poison Euro and blackmail him into doing something nasty in exchange for an antidote. I would prefer to see it happens in story, surrising me, instead that I am asked in advance if I agree on that plot.

That also means that I am not accepting someone writing Euro as gay. But if someone want to write a male character asking Euro for a date, don't ask me before, just write it. But leave to me the choice to how respond to it. With a polite no, or with a hit of Ladnikia.