(09-03-2015, 02:58 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote:(09-03-2015, 02:35 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: Keep the Garleans, imo. They are the enemy out there, and they have affected everyone. It will give your character solidarity with others who have suffered at their hands, and make it easier to connect.Â
"To many people take the Garlean angle" shouldn't be a thing because the Garleans are a HUGE problem for people in that area.
(09-03-2015, 02:37 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: "Too many people hate the primary antagonists" doesn't sound like a problem to my ears. They've canonically destroyed multiple cities by now, along with an attempt at genociding the entire area.
They're the bad guys.
They are antagonists so it does make a lot of sense.
However, 'what makes sense' can also be particularly vanilla.
There's nothing wrong with vanilla if your aim is to not have a unique backstory. If that is your aim, then you should probably avoid/tone down the vanilla.
Uniqueness comes in the way that you sell something, and the way that you add on more to it. The background is not the be-all and end-all.
If I were to tell you that Superman and Dragon Ball Z are the same series and are therefore not unique, you'd look at me like I was crazy, and I'd say, "yeah, their main characters are both super powerful alien children that came to earth from blown-up planets in pods when they were little, get adopted by old people out in the middle of nowhere that teach them Earth Morals, and then go on to save the world over and over with their Good Punching Skills," and then you'd call me an idiot because they're not the same at all.
That's because they diverged and went in different directions, and also sold their Same On Paper backstories differently.
