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Post by hawksmoor on May 8, 2015 5:37:17 GMT -5
So, I have a bit of an odd question - As you all know, I like to do some heavy reinvention on some of my characters to fit this...Urbanised Magic/Mythology mold I am working within. There are certain characters who I love writing, who I may have...done something to.
In the interest of doing different things etc, is there a limit on say, introducing elements of series not yet introduced to our little UDC world? For example, if I wanted to introduce, say, Batwoman (I don't), could I say she was inspired by the Bat in Gotham, and leave it at that?
Or, have one of my characters temporarily utilize a GL ring without actually mentioning anything about the GL beyond...they have rings which do things?
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Post by The MRP! on May 8, 2015 14:38:51 GMT -5
My take-and I am not writing in the shared sandbox so take it with a grain of salt, but reserving things for later and keeping fringe elements of some mythos off-limits until the core of the mythos are established is one of the factors that contributed to the decline of the old place in my view. It put a straightjacket on things in the present so that some hypothetical someone could have all the toys in the toybox, but if the hypothetical someone never becomes real it's just wasted time and pointless conjecture...
A bird in the hand so to speak, and I'd rather see an active writer do something with a "derivative" character than reserve it on the odd happenstance that someone else might want to come around and do something with a linked characters or the derivative character's source somewhere down the road. if the point of creating a shared world is to build from the ground up, then you have to adapt to what's already there when you get into the sandbox not expect everything will be tabla rasa if you join later.
Again, no horse in this race, so take it as you will.
-M
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Post by C_Miller on May 9, 2015 9:33:47 GMT -5
I agree with MRP. It looks like this is going to be a smaller community in the long run and once more, it looks like it's going to be a less traditional universe in the long run. Knowing you, I can't even imagine that Wonder Woman is going to be standard superhero fare. So yeah, subtle stuff like that is fine. I can't imagine if anyone does come to write a Batman title, it will be so far out of the realm of what we're used to that a reference to a Bat in Gotham would completely ruin things. I also have no issue with the GL ring either.
Personally, I plan on referencing "capes" many times throughout my title with it being a main drive for a major plot point. Something like "With all these capes running around, us folks down here have to start thinking ahead." Now, the issue with that, is that none of our titles really feature traditional superheroes. So it will be implied that there's more to the universe than just our four titles.
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Post by buck on May 9, 2015 13:07:02 GMT -5
I agree with what has been said. I mean we've been around for nearly a year and don't have much of a writing base so at this point we have to look at the universe as something that we are going to have to flesh out by ourselves. And other writers will have to blend in with the world we are building.
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Post by hawksmoor on May 10, 2015 6:23:54 GMT -5
Well, alrighty then - that makes sense. It'd be cool to get in other writers as well (No idea what's happened to Wacther) but I agree, we should probably make some moves to develop what is going on around the main stories - space stuff, street stuff that sort of thing. I have...non-traditional ideas about certain characters (I bloody love Electric Blue Superman. I know...I know...)
(What do you mean you can't imagine WW being standard superhero fare?! I am shocked.)
But..yeah..why not?
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