Misfit Angel
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The Writers Workshop
A community event focused around your characters!
A community event focused around your characters!
Welcome! Here's something the moderation team has been working on for awhile and we're excited to finally announce the Trainers of Fanfiction community event!
What it is
Trainers of Fanfiction will take characters from across the Writers Workshop and focus on them in mini interviews. If you're familiar with Humans of New York, that is the general style we'll be working towards: questions presented to the character that is being focused on, as well as their in-character answer to it. Insight into specific aspects of a character's development, personality, history or trivia can certainly be tricky to cover within a chapter, especially if this insight can be seen as relatively minor. Here's an opportunity to approach from a different format and get that insight out there for your readers!
The theme
This is an event that we'd like to return to, but we're also not sure how popular it will be. As a recurring event, we'll be focusing on themes, and this round's theme will be characters who travel extensively. Protagonists, antagonists, the supporting cast, minor characters, pokémon characters, you name it!
Questions!
As wth Humans of New York, Trainers of Fanfiction will focus on a set of up to four questions that your characters will answer. We've come up with a lot of great questions, these are the ones we'll be using this time around!
- Aside from your main goal (training, coordination, research, etc), what is your biggest dream in life, and are you on the road to achieving that dream at all?
- Have you ever gotten a call from a close friend or family member that is concerned for your safety? How have you tried to calm those fears? (assuming the character has living relatives)
- Have you ever gotten a call from a romantic partner that is concerned you're not being faithful to them while you travel? How have you tried to calm those fears? (assuming your character has a romantic partner)
- To you, what does it mean to be a hero? Do you see yourself as one?
- During your travels, you've been to many interesting places. What would you say has been your favorite so far?
- During your travels, you've had several memorable experiences. What would you say has been your most treasured memory from this adventure?
- What do you consider your strongest trait? Your weakest? Have these traits helped or hindered your journey in any way?
Of course, you know your own characters better than anyone else. If you can think of any personalized questions that are specific to them that you'd like them to answer, let us know!
How to participate
Interested in participating in this? Let us know by replying to this thread (or by contacting a member of the moderator team if you'd like to do so privately) with the following information and we'll get in touch with you for further details:
- Story title
- Character name
- Character type (protagonist, antagonist, etc)
- Whether they are in a currently published story or not. Yes, we're including characters that have not been publicly introduced to the Writers Workshop yet! However, we will prioritize publicly released characters over these if there is an overwhelming level of character submissions.
- Choose up to four of the above questions that they'll be answering.
- Optional: the character design information highlighted in the "A Lovely Look" section in the following post. We can go over this later when we contact you, so no need to worry about this right away.
Keep in mind that we are currently only accepting just one character per author at the moment. If you'd like to pair up two characters into one interview (as seen in the preview example below), that is possible as well!
Does your story focus on the pokémon rather than trainers, such as a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon story? Don't worry! Pokémon characters can also take part in this event just fine. Questions will be adjusted as necessary to fit their role within their story.
Humans of New York features photos of the people interviewed. While we would love to provide the same level of attention to your characters with drawn art, it's highly impractical. However, we do have another thing in store for the graphical section, something reminiscent of the Pokémon games! Here's a quick preview of what one will look like:
Always wanted to see a visual representation of what you imagine your characters to look like? Here's a good chance to see that happen. There are a couple of options for bringing your characters to life:
A customized character
@Misfit Angel has been hard at work on creating customizable characters for a personal project of hers and will be bringing that work to the table. These characters are highly customizable (male preview, female preview), so yours can likely be put together without too much difficulty. The only drawback is that there is just one pose available for each gender at the moment.
If you are requesting a custom character, tell us about their appearance! It can either be a special formal outfit in the spirit of being interviewed, or what they traditionally wear while they're out on their adventures. Things to note:
- Skin color, eye color and hair color/style.
- Whether they typically wear lipstick or eyeshadow and what color it is.
- Their clothing. The following slots are available for customization: headwear/glasses, shirts, jackets, pants/skirts, socks/stockings, footwear and gloves. Colors are fully customizable for all of them, so include those as well!
- What type of Pokéball they'll have attached to their belt (male characters) or in their hand (female characters). These can be customized as well if you describe what colors they should be.
- There are too many clothing options already drawn to reasonably list, but @Misfit Angel isn't afraid to take on new designs that she currently lacks! If you'd like a specialized design on any piece of clothing, such as a logo, floral patterns or a striped pattern, those can be arranged as well!
- While not necessary, real world examples of the clothing your character wears can be helpful! If you've got any pictures you've used as inspiration for your character's outfit, send them in alongside the details!
A standard trainer class
Since there is only one pose available for each gender, there's a risk that some of these characters could end up looking fairly similar. If you'd like to stand out from the crowd with a trainer class representing your character instead, the following can be adjusted:
- Skin color, eye color, hair color and clothing colors.
- Light edits (emphasis on light) can likely be made to certain aspects such as hair style and clothing. If it proves too difficult to work with, we will contact you with an explanation of the problem and discuss further options.
- Only Generation 4 and Generation 5 trainer classes are available, as they match the art style of the custom characters. Any trainer class from D/P/Pt, HG/SS and BW/BW2 are available to choose from, be they regular trainers, Gym Leaders, Elite Four members or other classes.
- As with the custom characters above, if your trainer class features a visible Pokéball, let us know if you'd like that changed and in what manner!
Not human?
Is your character a pokémon? No sweat, we can cover that. Let us know the following:
- Species
- Is it shiny? Does it have a different coloration?
- Which generation of graphics you'd like to represent it. Despite the different art styles, Gen VI and Gen VII are allowed, as these are the only options for certain species.
The details
To make this event the best we can, we'll need some other details as well:
- Tell us where this interview will take place. Is it in a city? A canon location? If it's a custom location, tell us a little about it so we can get the design right!
- What tileset you would like to represent your character's location? The options are FireRed/LeafGreen, Ruby/Sapphire (Field), Ruby/Sapphire (Desert), Ruby/Sapphire (Mountain) or @Misfit Angel's custom Lanark tileset.
That's all!
Apologies for this lengthy post, folks! There's a lot of information to digest and a lot of information to pass along to us if you're interested in participating. We're really excited to see how this turns out, so let's put together an impressive list of characters and interviews!
If you have any questions, please let us know!
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