Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:06 am
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I agree with this whole post. (That's a first between you and I)Terastas wrote:I'm inclined to disagree. While readers/viewers would rather read about extraordinary circumstances, ultimately what they really want is a character they can connect with on some level.Vuldari wrote:The best stories are about EXTRA-Ordinary people anyway ... right?
My personal take is that the temperament of the average werewolf shouldn't be any different than that of the average human being. . . But come on, are we as human beings really so calm and composed? If you think we are, turn on the news: people snap and kill each other all the time.
Like I've been saying, the human element accounts for all levels in all directions. Anything the human element is applied to does not need to be made more evil by default for it to still be absolutely terrifying.
It's not that we're wise enough to know better than to kill someone in the peak of anger. Some of us are, but for the rest of us, it's less a question of will than it is a question of capacity. Werewolves, on the other hand, always have the capacity. Lycanthropy is a gun they can't put a safety on if they're worried about it, put under lock and key if they're afraid of it, or pawn away if they decide they don't need it anymore. Someone may be the most passive guy on Earth, but it doesn't matter; give him five minutes to turn into a werewolf and he could tear your spine out through your ear.
You know it, he knows it, and he knows that you know it. Comfy?
That's my view anyway: Not necessarily savage, but unquestionably dangerous, not much different from anyone with an unlicensed firearm. After all, just because someone has it doesn't mean they'll use it, but that doesn't mean they won't use it either.
True. My dilemma, however, is that someone extraordinary enough to battle all of the urges and temptations of lycanthropy and never falter, an audience may find him/her to be equally as unbelievable as a werewolf scaling walls or juggling vending machines. Besides, doesn't someone being a werewolf make them extraordinary enough? Just because someone isn't a remarkable example of a human being, that doesn't mean they couldn't have a remarkable story to tell (Arthur Dent anyone?).Vuldari wrote:What I was saying is that, a story about a Good/Hero werewolf should/would be a story about an extraordinary person, because an ORDINARY person would logically be all of the things you just described if made host to Lycanthropy. ... only a very special person would be able to overcome all of that and come out on top.
... An ordinary person rising to the challenge of an extraordinary situation, and becoming an extraordinary person as a result. Ordinary people don't do much. Being someone worth telling a story about generally means doing something that most people don't normally do, which inherently makes the person doing story worthy things an extraordinary person by definition. ...out of the ordinary...
See ... now THIS is the perspective I've been trying to protect and promote.Terastas wrote:So if lycanthropy is a test, it's not one that a protagonist should be expected to ace. He just has to pass. By the skin of his teeth if need be. Hell, maybe not even that ...