Subject: My opinion
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Posted on: 2011-12-14 04:07:00 UTC

Just looked over your character profile and I have a few comments on him. I'm not bashing him or anything, just offering my own, honest opinion. Feel free to take heed of it or ignore it as you see fit.

Several traits are dangerously close to being "speshul" for my liking:

1) His Director reprimanded him for being arrogant and refusing to comply to orders. Nechtan brushes this off and asserts his intellectual superiority compared to his employers. Doing this to your boss in real life will have some serious consequences, and may indicate some sort of over-inflated ego. The general feeling I get from your agent's speech is that of nonchalance and disrespect: not good traits if you plan on getting hired anywhere.

2) His cat-on-the-keyboard name. Dismiss this point if this is normal in his home 'verse.

3) States that the Sues he faced are worse than what the PPC has encountered. In my opinion, a Sue is a Sue. They're all bad. Additionally, the role of the PPC is to protect canon 'verses from exterior Sues and to leave any Canon Sues alone. I'd consider removing Sues from original fiction verses more of a revising job than a sporking.

4) Flirts with a girl he doesn't even like and claims to be a Casanova. I'd say to be very careful with this personality trait.

Of course, if your character has good characterization and receives plausible explanations for all of these traits, consider my points null and void.

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