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Fawriel

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Fawriel is doing well so far

May 5, 2009, 09:15 AM
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Thanks, Stijn and 2xGJ. I'm glad you appreciate my work! Like, REALLY glad!

@Radium: I could agree to this if I wasn't also getting bored with it all. The story is getting nowhere. From a plot perspective, my last punch already hit the climax. After this, there can only be a strong finisher and a denouement. Dragging it on will not be fun at all. Besides that, I don't think I'm brushing anything under the carpet. In fact, my problem is that I'm dwelling in the past and can't manage to get over with it. In the last year of high school, I had a classmate in philosophy class who was really pretty neat and I thought I could be friends with him, but at some point, probably due to a misunderstanding, he started hating me, and when our philosophy teacher gave us all our final grades and I protested because I was second from the bottom (in a class of four), he disdainfully commented that I'm "showing my true face". That has been years ago, and it still haunts me terribly. You know, that's just to bring some perspective into this. It's silly, but that's how it goes.
I'm slowly coming to terms with the idea that I'm not a completely worthless artist (hell, up until a while ago I didn't consider myself worthy of the term "artist" at all), and that other people's views can help me improve as a person and I shouldn't take them personally. I don't think ending it at this point would be shameful or anything.

If you insist on fighting it out until the end, here's the alternative: If the winner isn't clear by the end of this voting round, we'll both submit our own endings and then people vote for which one they prefer.


PS: I can't find a good segue for this, but I really wanna get off my chest a big problem I realized with this whole thing. You know, before the duel really started, I thought I'd make the plot all silly and over-the-top awesome since that was pretty much Eirru's schtick in the Lego comics and it's fun, right? But then I figured that that kind of plot requires drawing skills and wit. And you were obviously ahead of me in those respects. (Though I may have overestimated your wit. *polite cough*) So I figured the only way I could win was to build a strong world out of the bits you gave me.

... Whiiiich would've been fine if it weren't for the format, because in the end that forced me to do an infodump in the START to show that I have a backstory, and more infodump in the middle to really set it up, and any fantasy world will just sound cliched if it's summarized in a few worrds, and it requires you to sympathize with a character who's only established very briefly and is mangled by someone else half of the time... basically I tried to make an inherently stupid format epic. Too bad I couldn't back out of that anymore by the time I realized it.
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