03-02-2016, 06:17 AM
(02-28-2016, 06:47 AM)YDH Wrote:Hmm... That line From Rhaomi sounds slightly forced. As in trying to be rude while being not quite sure exactly what he's going for, making it seem unnatural, like people who try to be edgy. You don't need to try. You just kind of are. Otherwise it's forced.(02-24-2016, 10:18 PM)Lost Rinoah Wrote: IYes, those unusual aspects are why I like having the character of Yellow. Well, that and his dynamic with Rhaomi. I just wrote this nugget for episode 5.
Generally yes. Plays allow direct or almost direct contact with the audience. Often taking up the appearance of, as I said, breaking the fourth wall. Usually done in a tasteful controlled manor, either to make it obvious that it's only metaphorical to prove a point in the story of the situation, or for comedic effect. When one of the characters suddenly starts talking directly to the audience. Monsters Below thinks it's a play, giving it a certain charm. Your character directly is able to address the audience because, you know, it's you. And you can use this to your advantage to take it any number of ways if you wanted. You could make it documentary. Lone caretaker. God-complex. Etcetra. You'd even be able to directly respond to (some) of your audience if it got popular and became a pet project that grew.
It's a lot more open to adaptation than you think. It's just hard to write it out as it's always been one of the hardest positions to write.
And I am stopping here before I make someone's head spin.
Quote:(Yellow and Rhaomi are talking about Apex soldiers that Rhaomi killed)
Yellow: Ugh… You don’t have to sound so gleeful about it…
Rhaomi (teasing): Aw, don’t cry, Yellow. I’ll make you a deal: once this is over, I’ll lead you to their mangled corpses and you can sprinkle flowers and recite pretentious poetry or whatever yippies do to honor the honorless dead.
Yellow (deadpan): Mostly we strip ourselves down and moon the nearest soldier.
With regard to the popularity of the series... STMB is actually the most popular thing on my channel. Granted, I'm really small so that's not saying much, but Episode 1 has significantly more views than anything else I've posted, and if one more person watches episode 2, it'll have more watchtime than my most popular video, despite the other video being three times as long and having been up two and a half months longer.
I've sent links to four people I know already.