02-28-2016, 06:47 AM
(02-24-2016, 10:18 PM)Lost Rinoah Wrote:Yes, 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.(02-24-2016, 03:53 AM)YDH Wrote: I'm glad you like the role Yellow plays. He's my biggest misgiving about the series--author avatars often go hand in hand with Mary Sues. On the other hand, he plays a very unique role, as you point out, and it lets me do some cool things. Without such a character, my big meta-arc flies out the window. I've thought about replacing him with a character who's not an author avatar, but that would be suspiciously similar substitute which is... cheap.I
I don't have opportunity to see many plays, but is this kind of what you're talking about?
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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.