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Originally Posted by Suzerain of Sheol
Why do there have to be shop owners at all? I have yet to be given a single reason we should have them. All they seem to do is make item release announcements far more of a headache to write up.
I hate to break it to you, but characters like Kaimid would be the very first getting the axe in the reset we're talking about. Any of them who were owned by former staff are right out; you said it yourself, no one knows their quirks and mannerisms. They aren't our characters. The entire point would be to cut out all of those problematic old artifacts and codify what remains into something that will actually work.
( on my phone, sorry for any errors.)
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In that case, why do we have to have a story at all? (Deep critical thought and response on this question gives you bonus imaginary points!)
Shopkeepers are the face of the stores, thus the face of the whole concept of Trisphee of being a avatar site. So writing a story of the faces/mascots of the story is the whole purpose of the world. I mean, you don't slap Pikachu on all Pokemon merchandise and come to find out that Pikachu isn't a Pokemon or has anything to do with the franchise itself. If you give me a non-shopkeeper character in Trisphee that has nothing to do with me the user, and then tell me they are a main character that's not going to work. Gaia actually tried that with zOMG! It stared a female lead, and her story bubbled into nothing because she had no purpose outside of zOMG, she wasn't a shopkeeper, and she was just there to tell a story that had nothing to do with Gaia itself.
If you want to get rid of shopkeepers, in a site perspective that's simply not going to work. In a story perspective, yes it will work because your simply telling a story. You need to be able to write a story within the perspective as a user of Trisphee then a perspective of an average reader. What point does a non shopkeeper/a NPC used to identify a tool or function have to do with Trisphee? They don't, which is why a story of the faces or mascots of Trisphee is the route you need to go.
If you want to get rid of those old staff characters, why not go with the superhero reboot route and take that character give them a new origin, new story, but keep the identity and pools of resource you have in tact. Comic books have retold their stories countless times in different universes and worlds. Which is exactly what your doing, they still have almost all the characters from the previous stories because they were popular, and were re-written with a new origin, story, and an altered identity. There has been multiples of the same character in the same universe as well, so no matter what route you go you can always pool together something out of it.
Take Kamid for example, you already have a fleshed out personality and a character that's easily identifiable, and so far the only reason why you want to can him is because your saying you aren't competent to write for a character that is not of your own because you don't think you can write for a different personality. Which again is an example of a bad writer. (An example of a decent writer is actually attempting to write for that character, and an example of a good writer is to write for that character well. In case your wondering my stance on how you judge how good a writer is.)
Yes someone else made a character for the site, and they are great. Use your resources and pool together something new from it if need be. I'm just trying to say don't throw away perfectly good things that are liked by many. Give something a look or outfit, change bits of story. A story of a robot god turned human could easily be flipped into a story of a human who thinks he's a robot/wants to be.
I can now see why you have been rejected so many times on somethings that need to happen... Even I can't agree, but it's not my decision in anyway to begin with. But I hope you can grab something from what I'm saying.
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Originally Posted by Gallagher
I don't think I get the opportunity to say it much, but.
I really, really, really, really, really hate Kaimid.
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And he was my favorite character... ._. This is like talking about superheros and someone says they hate Aquaman for example and I go "I like him..."