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Supposedly posted by GoozX:
Also, the guidelines you put on him (not being able to be hurt, or force used againt him) makes him more powerful than every common/not god-like villain. The team doesn't have to go on mission, they can just use his luck and the mission completes itself.
I have a feeling I'm going to have to explain this misunderstanding of the characters "powers" time and time again... [...rassamnfrackin...]

Chance's only power is self-preservation. that's it. His so-called "luck powers" only serve to help him survive against all odds. He CAN'T control them in order to help anyone else or transfer his "luckiness" to anyone. Your statement: "...they can just use his luck and the mission completes itself" isn't correct in the least. It only means that Chance won't personally be hurt physically by anything. This doesn't make him omnipotent or anything like that, since he still doesn't have anything beyond his own human abilities to help anyone else. And he can't defeat everyone he fights, either, unless they're stupid enough to keep fighting him despite the fact that all force used upon him is returned to its source. Any "villain" with the tiniest bit of intelligence could find ways to succeed in whatever "villainous plan" he wanted to without having to attack him directly. Chance isn't "all-powerful" in the least, and I have never portrayed him that way. He just can't be hurt -- that's his ONLY power... and I don't think it's any less reasonable than any other characters' powers, since, as I've shown, there are so many drawbacks to his "power" that it sometimes feels to him like a curse.

I realise he's not everyone's cup o' tea, just as I don't care for some of the dark, ultra-violent characters that have appeared in recent stories. I've always thought it ludicrous that Kit Piper, let alone the team itself, would accept them as members. But what's done is done.

The problem with having a team full of social misfits is that -- unless there are a few "straight-men" to "glue" them together -- this group of misfits isn't ever going to be a team. That's why I created Chance. He's NOT an angst-y character, though there are RARE times when he takes it all on himself as recently shown.

Chance is supposed to be cut from the same cloth as Doc Savage and other classic hero types. He's not from the "Marvel Comics" tradition of the "hero riddled with problems" but from the classic hero tradition who does the right thing because it's the right thing to do (almost the opposite of Pete). As such, he's more challenging to write, since I've never written any other characters like him before. He's a mature character whose adolescent pimple-squishing days are behind him, and as such he's supposed to act like an adult, not a member of the X-Men or the Teen Titans. [wink] If Chance had any kind of theme or motto, it would be: "The Burden of Responsibility."

I basically spelled all this out about my character so that the rest of you can write him the way he should be written. And of course I'll continue to try to do the same for all of the other characters. Each character should be written "in-character" based on what the character's creator has done with him.

[ 11-04-2002, 08:08 PM: Message edited by: TheTimeTrust ]