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(DIR) Post #AblmaqVEftp3YH2Duy by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T15:56:09+00:00
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My characters skew on the young side, particularly the protagonists, though that has been changing as the years pass.Now I have quite a few in-the-middle types (probably reflective of my own age bracket now), and a number of older characters (though these are often based on older mentor-types I've read or learned under in real life.My bigger WsIP, particularly in the Wand Smoke series (do I write anything else? I do, just hardly anything else published) will be younger-skewed, at least for a few books.
(DIR) Post #AblmcIvaTcNU043XUG by NSonic79@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T14:37:09+00:00
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Younger and inexperienced. They do run into older, more grizzled characters but the story mostly focuses on the younger more inexperienced characters as they learn and possibly become the older more experienced individuals.
(DIR) Post #AblmcMZOw30XIPhsSe by lordjestocost@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T14:47:38+00:00
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My main characters are usually in their mid-twenties to early thirties. I also have older characters, in their sixties, and some middle-aged characters in their forties or fifties.
(DIR) Post #AblmcQkXOaICG6wpNI by antonyobeara@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T15:00:58+00:00
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Not really one or the other. In Clara, the main human characters were somewhere in their mid-30s, though their ages are never stated. In The Star in the Darkness and An Unseelie Proposition, the main human protagonists are around their mid-20s.
(DIR) Post #AblmcaM5gKgA3BaReq by asihart@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T15:32:09+00:00
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Inexperienced. Mostly because it would be weird to be experienced in some of the stuff they are doing.
(DIR) Post #Ablmcd2hgrxCNvXVM8 by the_edgy_penguin@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T15:33:06+00:00
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I tend to write younger characters who either have no experience or limited experience or they are disciplined in one thing maybe even to the point of specialization and not being as good at other things I throw at them. This may lead even the experienced characters to have to either learn something new, or how to apply what they already know how to do in a different way
(DIR) Post #Ablmcftb5BS5EYIm4u by CodenameWraith@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T15:38:53+00:00
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Often both, though it depends on what the story calls for. My first novel featured a prince (21) with no adventuring experience and a well-travelled mercenary (27) who has made a living off his combat skills. Likewise, my current WIP features characters with a range of adventuring experience, with the protagonist having some experience, one of his allies having none, and the others having plenty.From what I recall from my short stories however, I tilt toward more experienced characters, usually to make things more driven by action/story than character development.
(DIR) Post #AblmcjM4Dn0Xxie3N2 by synthnostate@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T15:39:19+00:00
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I like to mix it up. I'm pretty well attuned to older generations. Zoomers not so much, but I just don't write much in the zoomer timeline, lol
(DIR) Post #AbmXQSdFGbL8T3Kazw by sugarthyme@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T20:33:00+00:00
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Young to mid, though I tend to write characters growing older quite a bit. Sometimes I start them young because I know important events happen in 20 years, and I want them to still fall into a certain age range by the time that happens. Particularly if they'll still be involved in battle, they need to be young enough to decently keep up.
(DIR) Post #AbuEggkkjNEGSu99o8 by tj_vista@www.minds.com
2023-11-14T04:12:39+00:00
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For protagonists, I tend to have characters that are around their teens to young adults.
(DIR) Post #AbuEgjKd8x7GSkwq0W by palmettohorse@www.minds.com
2023-11-14T04:13:10+00:00
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Two out of three (and soon three out of four) stories have been young adventurers. Trixie Goodstrome and Ethan Rifts are in their mid-twenties when their stories happen, but Nesschter Norkit is more middle aged and is a veteran of both military and specialized internal security. The City of Clouds (set to be out on 14 December 2023) is mixed with half the protagonists being inexperienced and half having some informal training that has made them dangerous (all in their 20s, too). But I find writing inexperienced protagonists more entertaining and the reward of their growth more satisfying.
(DIR) Post #AbuEgm58uzVgzaj0me by JosephWiess@www.minds.com
2023-11-15T16:08:15+00:00
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Mine tend towards a mixture of both. The old veteran teaching the young neophyte how to survive. You know. "He keeps asking for an Obi-Wan Kenobi.""That's a name I haven't heard in a long time."You know..?
(DIR) Post #AbuF4vI0KwI0UzFvAO by authorbrookeshaffer@www.minds.com
2023-11-13T18:28:30+00:00
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They trend toward the young side (if 16-35 is considered young) in appearance and physicality, though most of them are over a century old. This is largely necessary for the physical shenanigans they get into. An elder could potentially wield Time or the Akari just fine (although spending even longer as an old person might not be so awesome, as Walter thinks), they just might require more energy intake and maybe longer periods of rest between use. Considering that most wielders don't need to eat but once a week or so, even this problem is negligible.I spent a lot of time thinking about old minds in young bodies. How much do our attitudes change based on our physical abilities just through age (one day you spring out of bed and the next thing you know, you discover you can wake up wrong)? If our twenties or thirties could be stretched out over decades or centuries, how would we react just based on retained physical abilities and hormones? Would we remain "invincible"? When would we start to really crave the company of those gone before us?I try not to get too preachy about it because it typically runs down a dark, cynical road, but there are definitely scenes (especially Walter) that bring up those questions.