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Well if most of the main cast has to be unrelatable arrogant geniuses, at least have an Audience Surrogate.

soupoftomato wrote:

Well if most of the main cast has to be unrelatable arrogant geniuses, at least have an Audience Surrogate.

And on the point of "... who expresses the questions and confusion of the audience." That'll be easily dealt with within the four main characters. You see, they aren't all good at the same thing. For instance, Caleb is the genius at behavioural psychology, so he will regularly have to explain to the others how he knows who's lying and what emotion they're showing, etc.

And the same thing applies to the others, and their skills. They'll explain things to each other, therefore explaining it to the audience.

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ProgramCAT wrote:

calebxy wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Well if most of the main cast has to be unrelatable arrogant geniuses, at least have an Audience Surrogate.

And on the point of "... who expresses the questions and confusion of the audience." That'll be easily dealt with within the four main characters. You see, they aren't all good at the same thing. For instance, Caleb is the genius at behavioural psychology, so he will regularly have to explain to the others how he knows who's lying and what emotion they're showing, etc.

And the same thing applies to the others, and their skills. They'll explain things to each other, therefore explaining it to the audience.

Your story is interesting.
I can't really relate to it in any way though.

Well I'm glad it's interesting. 

calebxy wrote:

So which character do you people relate to in the Batman stories?

What's Batman?
EDIT:Oh...alright...that person who turns himself into a bat...

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Very awesome, you have a nice writing style 

Paddle2See wrote:

calebxy wrote:

So which character do you people relate to in the Batman stories?

Seems a bit off-topic?

No, I'm trying to make the point that Batman has a character who's very hard to relate to, considering he's a super genius multimillionaire ninja who fights crime, and as far as I can tell, there isn't really any other main character in the Batman stories for the audience to relate to. Yet that's a highly successful series of comic books/movies.

Last edited by calebxy (2012-02-22 04:59:29)

You're welcome 

Lol, but seriously you are talented 

Np, I should post one of my stories 

Ok, I think I will soon 

Andres-Vander wrote:

That's a bit arrogant to make yourself a mary sue character like that in your story. Also do you happen to know what a Gambit actually is?

Of course I do. I go on TV Tropes all the time.    Though actually, I've changed the title back to The Young Detectives Agency.

calebxy wrote:

Andres-Vander wrote:

That's a bit arrogant to make yourself a mary sue character like that in your story. Also do you happen to know what a Gambit actually is?

And how is it a Mary Sue character when the character is only exceptionally good at one or two things? There's a reason they are a team, instead of trying to do it by themselves.

You're self inserting yourself into a story as some genius psychologist or something, that's called Mary Sueing

And tell me what a gambit is if you know then.

Andres-Vander wrote:

calebxy wrote:

Andres-Vander wrote:

That's a bit arrogant to make yourself a mary sue character like that in your story. Also do you happen to know what a Gambit actually is?

And how is it a Mary Sue character when the character is only exceptionally good at one or two things? There's a reason they are a team, instead of trying to do it by themselves.

You're self inserting yourself into a story as some genius psychologist or something, that's called Mary Sueing

And tell me what a gambit is if you know then.

"A calculated move." Basically a plan.