Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (anonymouse21) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:54:02 GMT

I seem to have this weird knack for making my characters very unhappy... When i tried to write a story about a guy who was yes, very unlucky, it turned out that he was even more unhappy than i wanted him to be. And then i just went on and on and on... but the point of the story was really supposed to be funny, and the man's unhappiness of little consequence. Then i also wrote this story about a little kid who was always around people who thought far too much of themselves, and yet again,...

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Gem Sealed Emperor) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:35:39 GMT

As soon as your fingers began to work over the keys, or the pen starts to glide over the paper, you cease to be a mere mortal and become a god. When you carck open the balnk book, you may not have any idea what kind fo god you are, but when you are finished you will have revealed more about yourself than ever before. These 'cannon-fodder' characters exist for many reasons: A man with a god complex has way to much fun with the smite key on his keyboard, frustration needs to be worked off in...

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Boss Hamster) — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:28:45 GMT

Not fair? My dear chap, it's my favourite pastime! I love screwing with characters' lives, or just making them damn terrible to begin with. Charles Dickens was on the right track: misery = loveability.

Besides, I'm so damn boring in real life that basing characters off myself would be about as enthralling as sorting violins from fiddles.

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Ablean Buckslinger) — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:57:09 GMT

I usually create a character based to some degree (sometimes majorly, sometimes minorly) on myself. Because, you know, it isn't fair to make the characters go through all of it if I'm not going to.

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (CrusadersUnderwear) — Thu, 17 May 2007 11:26:04 GMT

I'm pretty sure she created both characters as extenstions of herself...possibly a kind of self-abuse without the self part. Or the abuse part really. Shawn is a lot like she is: only she doesn't drink any more than a normal college student (less actually) and only takes prescription drugs.
Hey, if it keeps her from hurting herself, I'm good with it. Besides, I like Shawn, he's funny.

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Lethe Gray) — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:44:57 GMT

That's also known as Sanger apparently, my main character in Body Dancing and many, many other worlds.

It's kind of odd that so many people (this isn't the first time a similar guy's been around) have this character. I have to wonder, I hope they didn't have the same *reasons* for creating this character as I did. They aren't kind ones, that's for sure.

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (CrusadersUnderwear) — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:01:51 GMT

Back on topic...

My friend invented this multi-purpose character that she just applies everywhere:
His name is Shawn. In one universe he's an empath that tries to control it with drugs and alcohol, in another universe he's wrongly accused of rape and condemed to torcure, and in every universe there is this psyco who follows him around with this weird, love/sadist relationship. He makes sure Shawn never is hurt by anyone but him, but he makes Shawn's life a living hell.

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Lady of Darkness) — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:19:33 GMT

The Count of Monte Cristo! Has been my favourite book for the last decade because of that vengefulness! Also probably the wilies in Giselle... very cool women.

I only just read this thread completely... wow! I had no idea that such unlucky people existed, and I feel terrible about all the personal experience stuff! It makes me realise how lucky I am - I am a painfully strange individual with alot of issues, some of which would probably destroy every friendship I have, bar one, and...

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (RadicalTaoist) — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:13:45 GMT

Slightly off topic, but does anyone have any favorite damn vengeful characters?

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Lady of Darkness) — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:09:22 GMT

I'm a very vengeful sort of person. I kinda get why he did that. But, as I have confessed before, I am hardly the sweet girl next door who bakes cookies for the elderly and adopts stray cats (well, maybe the stray cats bit...)

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Ablean Buckslinger) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:54:03 GMT

Just re-read my thing ... forgot that was there!

That guy sounds horrible on that one! My ideas of revenge are certainly not that extreme. I spend most of my time just bitching.

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (RadicalTaoist) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:28:30 GMT

This topic reminded me of this thing I found on

Unluckiest girl ever. Then again, she could have had a bf who would have gone all emo over something like this.

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Lord DragonFang) — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:01:18 GMT

So very glad I had my angst shots before reading this thread.

In response to the original topics, a lot of characters are just created to suffer. Like the little orphan kid from 8-bit Theatre. First he goes insane from seeing Black Mage without his hat on, then traumatised by seeing the bloody corpses of two city guards who Black Mage has just murdered. THEN his entire family gets murdered when Black Mage and Thief use them as decoys...he goes through at least another orphanage and an...

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Ablean Buckslinger) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:23:04 GMT

My entire group is a mess. Abby is an alcoholic obese nymphomaniac with the lungs of a 49-year-old due to excessive smoking.

Claire is engaged to Alice's older brother ... it's all just one big nightmare.

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (AsmodaiEffect) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:54:06 GMT

Aiiigghh. >< Man, I'm sorry. That sounds... absolutely insane.

I think people are just shit magnets, no matter how many you spend time with. Even carefully picking friends I've never been able to avoid some kind of bullshit drama.

"Hey, my three best friends are in some crazy demented relationship. Add them to the list of 'people to comfort when it all goes wrong'. I think I'll make friends with the quiet artistic boy in drama who gets beat up all the...

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Ablean Buckslinger) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:21:19 GMT

Omfg, that was a bad one. Can see it working its way into a novel or sitcom or soap opera.

Mine's a bit more calm I suppose...

Hannah dumped me the day after I told her I was bisexual (although, she tried her hardest not to let on that that was the real reason) and things moved on. She seemed more upset than me by the break up, so I told people that she deserved the sympathy more than me because I'm such a fucking nice caring guy. Now I wish I hadn't.

A month-ish passed...

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (AsmodaiEffect) — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:13:28 GMT

I think mine might take the cake. Pretty much the only people I talked to at school three years ago, all three years older than I, coincidentally. I was only REALLY close with friend A.
A: Male. Gay. Desperately in love with B.
B: Male, straight, has been best friends with A since they were small children. Slightly obsessed with C.
C: Female, straight, likes B in a somewhat sexual way and is desperately in love with A.

Friend A professes his love for friend B. Friend B, being...

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (Ablean Buckslinger) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:20:10 GMT

Quote:
Man, if we're counting real people in here, my friends were in this AWFUL love triangle a few years back...

I've been in one of these. It's just horrible. My ex started dating an (now ex-)friend of mine and now I don't talk to either of them. No one else does either.

Ross Gellar from Friends is quite unlucky...

Re: Damn Unlucky Characters

feeds@yuku.com (AsmodaiEffect) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:35:51 GMT

Man, if we're counting real people in here, my friends were in this AWFUL love triangle a few years back... o_o And I've done some pretty awful things to my own characters... I'll stick with the ones that appeared on the cushions in my little hallucination though.

1. The ones that the idea started with - Greg House and James Wilson from House M.D. -is unholily obsessed with that show- For one, the main character and I are cast from the exact same mold, and I

My mom waved a magazine in front of my face yesterday and told me not to read it because there were 'spoilers' for my favorite (ok, it's an embarassing obsession) tv show....