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My AB OCs: The Wererats
Oct. 13th, 2013 03:38 pmAll three of them are human teenagers in my original urban (well, suburban) fantasy story, but for the purposes of AB roleplay I made them wererats who are in their early twenties, since that's in the age range most roleplay characters are (in my experience) and it lets them be independent from their parents, stay out late, go to bars, and generally have more opportunities to interact with others, as well as gives them time to have gotten their therianthropy under control (each of them contracted it at the same age that they are in my stories, which lets me remember it easily).
Max and Eva are easily among the nicest, most moral, and least flawed people of my cast, plus most of their problems are not their fault, but I think they're interesting and well-executed enough to not be Mary Sues so much as average protagonists, even with Max's above-average ass-kicking skills. Plus not everyone can be dark and gritty and fucked-up and gothitty, right? They also are really stereotypical for the respective spots on the LGBT spectrum they represent--butch lesbian who is good at mechanic and home repair, super-girly heterosexual transgender woman--but the problem with those particuliar stereotypes (not *all* stereotypes, mind you) isn't anything in themselves, but that they're used in a negative way, as a joke, or as all there is to the characters with those traits, and that's not the case with how I write Eva and Max
In my original stories, Max and Eva and MJ, along with another girl named Abigail, are the protagonists in one of my would-be novels (the one I'm working on right now) and they're basically kinda the Scooby Gang from Buffy---kids protecting their hometown from monsters. Not the most original setting, I grant, but I maintain that it isn't always the idea sometimes so much as what you do with it! Hell, LKH is proof of that *eyeroll* Anyway...my wererats, everybody!
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Max and Eva are easily among the nicest, most moral, and least flawed people of my cast, plus most of their problems are not their fault, but I think they're interesting and well-executed enough to not be Mary Sues so much as average protagonists, even with Max's above-average ass-kicking skills. Plus not everyone can be dark and gritty and fucked-up and gothitty, right? They also are really stereotypical for the respective spots on the LGBT spectrum they represent--butch lesbian who is good at mechanic and home repair, super-girly heterosexual transgender woman--but the problem with those particuliar stereotypes (not *all* stereotypes, mind you) isn't anything in themselves, but that they're used in a negative way, as a joke, or as all there is to the characters with those traits, and that's not the case with how I write Eva and Max
In my original stories, Max and Eva and MJ, along with another girl named Abigail, are the protagonists in one of my would-be novels (the one I'm working on right now) and they're basically kinda the Scooby Gang from Buffy---kids protecting their hometown from monsters. Not the most original setting, I grant, but I maintain that it isn't always the idea sometimes so much as what you do with it! Hell, LKH is proof of that *eyeroll* Anyway...my wererats, everybody!
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