Subject: I'm in my 5th semester of my Arts degree...
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Posted on: 2015-03-03 18:18:00 UTC
...make of that as you will. XD
Subject: I'm in my 5th semester of my Arts degree...
Author:
Posted on: 2015-03-03 18:18:00 UTC
...make of that as you will. XD
So, a while ago, the idea came up that maybe we share a chapter or so of one of our old shames. This is the thread for that!
DA RULES
1) First of all, this is for fun. We've all had our bad moments in our writing careers, but this is our chance to see what people have to say besides either flames or "OMG LUV IT!!!1!" So let's not get all worked up and stuff, yeah?
2) If you have a bad story that's really long, link to the chapter or what have you that you think is the worst. I'm guessing not many will want to slog through chapters and chapters to get to the good (bad?) bits.
3) Let's see what concrit we can come up with! And if you think it might be possible to salvage, why not try to re-write it, and post a better version?
That's really all there is, so let's get to it!
So, I present to you, my best fanfic. Which is very good at all.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8842755/1/Justin-s-Leitmotif
It is, oddly enough, the piece that got me Permission. The fandom was/is Shadowrun, and the chapter is about as boring as watching cardboard dry (in my opinion at least, obviously someone thought there was promise or something.)
So, since I don't recall the proper html tags to link something, have a url: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6964114/1/Tao-of-the-Machine
Tao of the Machine: a boring chapter with poorly described characters and scenery, and a terribly cliche name that means basically nothing.
But I have written exactly one fanfic. Go to fimfiction.net and look up Midnight Green. I abandoned it, so it's fairly short.
I've discussed this before, but if anyone does PPC that fic, I'd prefer that the OCs be rescued. None of them want to be Sues, as I explicitly tried to avoid writing them as such.
Just burn the Zebra Mask outfit. That thing contains pretty much all of Midnight's glitter.
Anyway, here's the fic: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/3763/midnight-green
(Hint: no, not when I'm writing it)
This is the first three chapters of 'Dragonchild'. It hasn't been touched since 2004, and this is the first time I've put any of it online. The only change I've made is to rename the characters, for my own sanity if nothing else.
It's one of a loose series of stories which also included Rings of Power, and the character correspondences are basically the same. Alice is still the original version of Agent Lou, and Jacob - if it wasn't blindingly obvious - is the self-insert.
As far as canon details go, it's pretty accurate (I think! I haven't dared read it over). It certainly should be - this is me we're talking about, I'm pretty sure I had the books in front of me as references.
But the plot? That... yeah, that's something else entirely. Ohboy.
(As for why I've stopped at Chapter 3: after that, it basically consisted of other stories I'd stapled together with minimal editing. It got really weird)
So yeah... concrit? Is there anything worth trying to save in there?
hS
Disclaimer: I am no expert on Pern or concrit, but I'll do my best.
To start with, all the characters seem pretty interchangeable. I can't tell anything about any of them from the limited exposure I get in this story. Maybe it's a symptom of it being such a short story.
In fact, that would be the first thing I would suggest: flesh it out a bit. The plot isn't necessarily bad, but it could stand to be expanded on.
And I suppose that the ending, such as it is, is a bit of an anticlimax. There's basically no conflict: the characters pursue the villain, gain dragons, find the villain, then the villain dies without their intervention. It might help to see the rest of the chapters; as-is, it's quite clearly an introductory plot.
Uh... you could check spelling and grammar? Yeah, I'm out of suggestions. No complete re-write outlines from me.
Oh, and you might want to give it a once-over; when you (presumably) Ctrl+F and replaced 'Lou' with 'Alice', it also replaced 'lou' within words. For instance: '...the egg burst open with a Aliced crack.' That made me chuckle, heh.
The style and characterisation actually reminds me a lot of my first attempt at writing, when I was seventeen. Man, that was bad. But I went back and did a complete re-write. I wouldn't necessarily claim that it's good now, but it's better. /digression
(Why? Because the initial response was written on the fly at home, where I had access to the rest of the file. This is the rest of my thoughts)
Interchangeable characters is one of my perennial failings. It doesn't help that I'm fond of ensemble casts, but even in low character count stories, I have a hard time differentiating them. Agents Dafydd and Selene are a lovely example of this: they're both grumpy pyromaniacs with a tendency to lash out, and I'm honestly not sure how 'different' they feel. (Yes, this is why PPC: Driftwood pairs Selene with a hyper-bouncy hobbit-wannabe.)
So do you have any advice for improving on that? The two obvious methods are accents and abilities, but while the latter (in terms of skills, at least) is probably worth looking at (did Jacob suddenly become a technical genius somewhere in the middle of Dragonchild? I rather think he did), the former is a blind alley. So how do I make characters feel different from each other?
hS
Ugh... I wrote a massive wall of text, realised I was rambling (and slightly ass-kissing), and deleted it. Time for version 2.0:
Having thought about it, most of your stories use the characters as expositors for and tools of the plot, rather than having the characters themselves drive the plot. Come to think of it, that's true for most of the PPC; I've rarely come across an Agent who I care about like I do, say, Fred Weasley. In no way is this a bad thing; I think it comes with the fact that the PPC is aimed more at achieving catharsis than being dramatic. And that the Narrative Laws of Comedy rule HQ.
The issue with this story is that it's plot-driven with a weak plot. To salvage it, you would either want to (a) make the characters deeper and more individual or (b) play to your strengths, revamp the plot (while still keeping the same general concept), and add some funny.
...I'm sorry that this isn't really answering how you could improve on your "interchangeable characters" problem, but that's not really a question I'm able to answer. That issue is also a weakness of mine.
...And I've gone from ass-kissing to slightly aggressive. Not sure which is worse.
Last night, I was thinking that this could almost play well as a video game. Side-quests could pad it out a bit, and possibly provide needed character development. Because what novels gloss over, RPGs emphasise!
What you could try is mimicking the style of an author who does character well until you assimilate it into your own style. But again, I feel like the intended style of a story also has an effect on the amount and type of characterisation it needs (Dafydd and Selene don't need to be different for the story to work; the enjoyment there derives from them outdoing one another).
I hope you can take at least something from this. Every time I start thinking about what I've written, I pick it apart until it seems terrible, and one re-write seems like enough for now.
And now I've thought of something else: trope archetypes exist for a reason. Start by choosing archetypes for your characters (or pairs of archetypes, mixing and matching), and follow those religiously (as in, 'How would this archetype react to this situation?'). As you practise, you'll then be able to tweak the archetypes until you're creating believable, distinct characters. Really, practice is everything.
This is longer than I'd hoped. I'd best post it now, before I think of anything else...
In 4 and 5, they go to an original planet and destroy the entire political system, mostly by accident. Then back to Pern. Then they go back to Earth, still trying to give that badge back to... Simon? Who has quite reasonably been accused of their murders. So they use the dragons to terrify the police. Then they decide to go back in time and make all the dragon-related legends of Earth come true. Then, mercifully, the story ends.
(haha, Aliced crack. That's glorious)
hS
I've left any pre-existing spelling errors intact, though; this isn't about showing how I write now, after all.
hS
Do I have to? There's a reason I tend to ignore my early fanbrat days... Those were dark times indeed. I am quite proud to say that I've grown immensely in my writing, though. Let me see what I can dig up...
Ah, yes, one of my very, very first Harry Potter fanfictions. It's not bad per se, just a little... unpolished? And kinda troperific, not to mention failing at any angst/dramatic tension whatsoever. Anyways, here is 'Ever the Same'. This sucker's nine years old; I wrote it about a month after turning 16. I think I might just use it as an 'Author beats some sense into Author-wraith' mission one of these days. That, or one of the other fics I have for this account...
Well. The premise of this... really doesn't work, as I'm sure you know. Hermione has been trapped in a tower for seven years. That means she hasn't eaten in seven years - that no-one has bothered to look for her in seven years - and that Hermione Granger couldn't figure out a way to escape. In seven years. Merlin's eyebrows, she even says the word 'rope'! She's had long enough that she could've Rapunzel'd her way out.
And then she agrees to marry Ron, who she hasn't seen for seven years, and who didn't come looking for her until she wrote a note. She really should be insane, of course, but that's a bit crazy even for her.
But setting aside the impossibility of the plot, I kind of like the characters. Dean and Brian have the right kind of... well, not chemistry, but you know what I mean. I got a feel for their relationship, even though they're only minor characters. Ron comes across as someone who lost someone a long time ago, and suddenly finds out she might - might - not be dead. Harry... uh, yeah, Harry and the rest are a bit, um, blase about it all. But Ron, at least, I believe.
So: how could it be redeemed? I'd focus on the strengths - those three characters - and drop everything else. Actually, number one suggestion: don't give us Hermione's POV at all. I'd be tempted to stick with just Dean and Brian, and have them watch events. Just as a rough hashing-out, here's how I'd write it:
Show us them finding the note, and taking it to Ron; show us Ron's reaction to reading it, through their eyes, and the way he runs off to find Harry; show us Professor Harry Potter coming to find the boys - Brian would be in awe, since he knows who Harry is, and have to explain it to Dean - and interrogate them about the note. He wouldn't believe it, he'd think it was a cruel prank - but he'd be cautiously convinced.
Then show us the staff meeting where McGonagall also questions the boys, but then is forced to say that no, they can't go and check: even after seven years, the spellstorm in that tower is still incredibly dangerous. Bring out the idea that so many spells hit it - and Hermione - that they don't know what happened. 'Perhaps in another seven years,' McGonagall says. 'If she's really there - if she's survived this long - then she can last another seven years.'
But obviously, Ron won't put up with that - and neither will Dean and Brian, and show us them sneaking out at the same time as Ron does, and running into him on the grounds. Then show us the broomstick flight into the spellstorm - mostly invisible from a distance, but a reality-warping madness up close. Borrow the sacrifice theme from the ending of Philosopher's Stone and force the boys to stay back (fighting temporally-displayed Dementors? Something even worse?) while Ron dives for the window.
And... I don't know. I'd be really, really tempted to kill the viewpoint character - whichever one of the boys it is - but give him one last view of Ron's broomstick shooting skywards, with Ron holding an incredibly-long-haired figure tightly. Sacrifice, again. Alternately, let them all make it out (with Hermione), but end on a conversation in the Hospital Wing. She's weak, she's slightly crazy - shades of Bellatrix here - but she's glad to be free... and she'd love to get to know Ron again. In a homage to the original ending, when Madam Pomfrey tells them all they have to leave, show Ron slipping a small black box back into his pocket; the idea that he's actually got the ring, but 'this isn't the time', makes a nice bittersweet end.
Like I say, that's what I'd do. It keeps the main points of the story in place, but makes them more realistic and suspenseful. I think the idea of Hermione being trapped - and the spellstorm is my way of justifying that without providing an actual explanation - has some promise, but... yeah, not like this.
hS
(PS: The 'spellstorm' is my own invention, with no grounding that I know of in Harry Potter. If there's an actual canonical example of spells lingering, or mixing, or anything like that, you'd obviously use that instead.)
There's a bit on the Hogwarts Express in which Fred and George hit Malfoy with a Furnunculus Curse (which causes boils) and Jelly-Legs Jinx (which... guess) at the same time, and we see him sprinting off into the middle distance with tentacles sprouting from his face. Spells acting at the same time on the same target therefore have deleterious effects on the target and probably make them take a SAN check. Take it, run with it, then mount your broom and fly with it. Nasty things happening to reality is sort of Harry Potter's stock-in-trade. =]
If they'd realized the counter-curse was just 'Unjellify'.
-Iximaz, who needs to stop watching so much AVPM/S/SY.
Ugh, fine. Here, laugh at my terrible attempt to write a Pokemon creepypasta.And then never ever speak of it again. EVER.
I was considering just sending in the goriest chapter of that one mega-crossover that Falchion gutted on his very first mission, but I guess there's no point in beating a fainted Ponyta. So instead, I thought I'd dig up an even older work that I produced not long after I joined dA - and the internet in general, for that matter.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pokemon: Iron and Copper.
I'm not sure what was my specific reason for writing it, but it was probably idol worship for another artist who used to create fanmade Pokemon. I later abandoned the fic due to the guy selling most of these fakemon designs among a host of other reasons, but I figured it would be worth sharing.
The fic was structured in the form of episodes like in the anime, but it involved a Stuvian self-insert and a Mary Sue, both of which were "avatars" of two of the legendary fakemon the other artist created. There were also crossover elements involved, most notably my favorite TV cartoons and movies (AtLA and The Incredibles being the most prominent).
The concept of avatars of legendaries as explored in the fic itself was an interesting one, though, at least to me anyway.
The content itself is par for the course as badfics go, but I personally dislike Episode 9, Part 2 most of all, because it ended with Violet needlessly acting like a total jerk. The episode after that would probably be a pretty close second, due to the subject matter getting a tad grimdark and needlessly long.
Incidentally, I plan to bring in one of the characters from this particular fic as the third agent of my DIC team - though I'll save the details for another time. ;)
This is Chapter 5 of my terrible, needlessly dark fic, The L Words, which I've kept around more as a memento mori than anything else. While the whole story's only 20k-ish words, this one epitomises everything that was wrong with it. The writing was repetitive. The characters weren't even remotely connected to their canon selves. The writing was repetitive. Vast arrays of magic was added because eh, throw it in. The writing was repetitive, and the writing was repetitive.
Despite this, I defended it, because I had a grand plan for it to be about Twilight going through the healing process after prolonged torture and coming back stronger. Needless to say, this never got written.
Rip to bits at will. =]
I was working on "Literary Hearts" back in high school. The premise is similar to the first game's plot, but with an OC (partly self-insert) protagonist, and worlds based on books I liked instead of Disney ones. Actually got some decent reviews during its run of activity, considering it's on the Pit!
I know the premise sounds pretty blah, but . . . I'm actually rather fond of this story. I do plan to update and continue it someday. I still think about it quite often, and I even wrote a rough draft of the next chapter at work in the past year. (Don't know where it went, though.) So, if anyone can stomach the out-there premise, I would love some concrit and general thoughts! (I linked to the second chapter, as the first is just a ripoff of Kingdom Hearts' game-play tutorial.)
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2322724/Qwizbo
Six stories, five of them dead-fic that never really went anywhere. Not sure what there is to say about it besides what I already said on my user page... so check out whatever you feel like checking out.
Okay, I've had to check up on the book here (I've only read it once): Rosemary is the previous Receiver, who went crazy and had herself euthanised, right? Okay. But even knowing that... I can't really make head or tail of this piece.
It looks like all that happens is that Rosemary bumps into someone and gets chemicals spilled on her. But it's covered in a layer of... really strange writing.
I think the problem is that you were trying to lay two different effects on Rosemary at once. She's clearly 'zoned out' - she reads like the whole world is covered in something of a haze - but you're also going for an 'emotionless/logical/obedient' strain. And they... didn't combine that well.
Add to that the fact that I'm not really clear what's bothering her. That the Giver claims to be her father, apparently - only how does that lead to 'She was… she couldn't even describe it. Maybe it would come to her in a later memory. But for now…'?
Also, she can't identify the liquids on sight: but why would she expect to? I'unno, this is another place where misty/logical doesn't combine well.
So what could be done? I think you'd be best to extend it, and basically separate the two emotions. Show us 'logical Rosemary' at first, when she runs into Duncan, and then as their relationship-of-a-kind builds, have first her emotionless retreat, and then the vagueness come in to replace it. Obviously that would need a longer story, but that's what you seem to have been originally planning.
There are some things I liked. The 'unrelated to training' paragraph worked well, probably because it's the one place where 'vague' goes away. And... well, I like the premise. Rosemary, from what I recall (I've only read The Giver once), is a minor, off-page character - but one who went through exactly what the protagonist did. Written well, her story could cast new light on the theme of the book itself: a different point of view, if you will.
hS
...but I have this imcomplete comic for an Original Character Tournament called End Run, which was essentially World War II without firearms in the Pokémon World; where I introduced a NPC. Behold!
Corinna Chan and the Temple of the Lost Flute!
Character Application (Contains manin character's introduction and backstory)
Chapter 1: Insubordination
Chapter 2: Mystery, enigma, war.
Chapter 3: Frozen Rainbow (Unfinished. I also have the physical versions without dialogue of parts 3 and 5 and still have the handwritten draft of the script, but I lost their digital finished versions when my old laptop was stolen. What happens next, essentially is: She kills those two guards, enters the place, kills two more, infiltrates the hideout, total chaos when the generator goes off, the Pichu evolves OFFSCREEN, finds the Rainbow Wing and escapes. In the still extant non-online drawn parts, there´s blood and a broken neck.)
Before this... thing, became a dead-fic; I was planing to introduce two more characters, the death of the Lucario at the Ruins of Alph, teleporting the main character to Sinjoh Ruins, meeting Arceus and she becoming an Aura Guardian, pretty much making her the Pokémon World's version of a freaking superhero. Sincerely, I have no idea of how I came up with this plot, because drugs weren't involved.
Why I present it here? Well honestly, I mostly received praise for the work, and one flame (which incidentally came from a Suethor...), and makes me suspicious of how truly good it was, because I received no constructive criticism for it (horrible artwork not withstanding). Mainly I suspect the Main Character was a Sue and the plot was stupid.
I'm not gonna comment on the artwork, for the record: just the writing.
Corrina is... well, first and foremost, she's not bothered to learn her own backstory. She was bribed into joining the army with a female Ralts (from Hoenn, not Sinnoh; she can tell the difference because... she can!), and this is her first assignment... but she's in the army because of her father, and she's been subject to repeated court martials. Given the way she tore up her first assignment, she not only deserves a court martial for gross insubordination, she should have the Ralts taken away from her and probably be locked up as a suspected spy.
But of course, she isn't. Instead, she just sweeps out of there - deserting from the army in a time of war (yeah) - and Superior McOfficer is powerless to stop her. Actually, I really empathise with Superior here - she's trying to fight a war here, and Corrina's whinging about not wanting to do anything. Yeah, Corrina, if it weren't for the woman whose office you're smashing, your cozy little log cabin would probably be on fire.
So, for the first chapter (and backstory), what can I say? Actually, given that Corrina teleports out (meaning Superior probably couldn't have stopped her), she's perfectly written - as a spoilt brat who'll hopefully get her comeuppance. With a slight tweak to imply that her previous disciplinaries - the ones her father got her out of - were during training, this scene works pretty well. Always provided we're not meant to like her.
Chapter 2. Again, the idea that Corrina is a loose cannon Voltorb who lashes out at everyone works here: Maya is clearly terrified of her. The fact that she then apologises to Maya suggests she's changed a little since exploding at Superior. Probably the best way to handle this would be to actually show us 'Chapter 1.5' - the journey to the battlefield. Show us Corrina abusing her Pokemon (verbally and in terms of what she makes them do), but then show us her first experience actually killing another person. She may be the world's greatest hunter - but her prey doesn't normally whisper it's wife's name while it dies. Training is all very well - both Pokemon training and military (which she of course mostly ignored) - but it doesn't prepare you to actually, y'know, murder someone.
(Depending on how high you want to drag the horror up: have her run into an armed man outside a log cabin and murder him - and then have his children run out of the house)
Oh hey look it's plot! The technobabble sounds, uh, technobabbly, but hey, Pokemon being able to view the past isn't too farfetch'd. But then Mew... uh... um.
Okay, Mew's pretty obnoxious, but I can see two ways it could work. Either Mew has an evil plot, and the cheerful stuff is an act, or Mew is acting out of goodness and light and trying to make Corrina into a better person with all this 'chosen one' malarkey. Quite possibly the story could use a double twist in which we find out the true story - and then find out that there's actually a deeper true story under it all.
Chapter 3: whooooooa, did I miss a bit? Suddenly we've gone from 'you're the bratty chosen one!' to naked panels and implied prostitution. Um, right.
This doesn't really work, because it's way too subtle for Corrina. Her technique for getting out of the army was to yell 'I'm leaving!'. Her technique for getting out of disciplinary trouble was to call for Daddy. Her technique for getting past the guards immediately before Chapter 2 was to beat them up and (fail to) wipe their memories. There's no way she'd do anything here except all-out attack. (Also, haha, sure you were trained by ninjas, I bet you beat them in every fight, didn't you? Because, y'know, your daddy would have killed them if they didn't let you)
But actually, my version of Corrina might just do this. She wasn't trained by ninjas, of course (though Daddy might have taken her round once and glowered at them until they said she was a 'natural'), but with her experiences on the borders, and watching Nicolai die... yes, I can see her deliberately going for a non-lethal approach. She'd probably have a hard time keeping her temper under control as the guards continued to refuse to let her in; I'd imagine that ultimately she slaps one, they draw their weapons, and she (or Pichu) kill them in desperation. But that wasn't the plan, and she's upset by it.
Basically, I see Corrina as a deconstruction of Eragon: where Eragon goes about saying killing is bad and then keeps justifying it to himself, Corrina starts off thinking it's bad, realises it's awful - and then keeps failing to stop herself. Her ultimate victory in my version is when she's finally able to not commit murder in self-defence - even though it means she'll probably die. She started out using her 'principles' as an excuse to do whatever she wants; she ends up following her principles even when it's the last thing she wants to do.
hS
And all can summarized as "Edhelistar cannot keep a consistent characterization for his OCs". But first, some little defenses:
1) To be fair, at that point of the story of the OCT, that specific officer (The Head of Intelligence!), was very overworked; because there was a mass defection and rebellion spearheaded by the Commander of the Army of Kanto, taking many high ranking officers and soldiers from both sides of the war; a single sniper going "ronin" and following her own agenda, was peanuts compared to that. Her reaction was pretty much "someone else will take care of that", and she was right! By the end of the third chapter Corinna became an enemy for all three sides of the war.
2) Corinna never mistreated her Pokémon! That's her only redeemable part in fact, but well, that gives me some Fridge Logic, more on that later. By the canon of the OCT, War Pokémon, like Maya; were subjected to a very brutal and traumatazing "training" that very few survived before asigning them to the soldiers. Maya was already abused before Corinna even met her, and Corinna was trying to actually help her. Then again, Maya is a Psychic-Type, what she probably has seen in Corinna's mind is certainly terrifying.
3) I tried to imply that she doesn't get along with her father, also I tried to imply that she was trying everything to get out of the Army, up to getting court-martialed (and jailed!), but to her changrin her father bailed her out everytime (ie. He beat her up at her own game, although; why her father wants her so bad in the Army anyway?). But still you're right, she was a spoiled brat... her mother spoiled her (this is mostly RP information that I never bothered to include in the main bio). Her mother was implied at some time in the past to being part of the Intelligence Agency of Sinnoh, being a fearsome assassin, supplying the Apricorn Poké Ball to Corinna, arraging the training with the ninja clan of Mahogany Town, and overall using her daughter as a pawn. (This backfired too, when she became a hunter, instead of an assassin.)
And now I will spork myself other inconsisties that I found, aside the ones you mentioned:
1) I implied many times in RPs and once in the bio, that she was to become an Aura Guardian, that would make her for default an empath! And considering she killed many Pokémon, which by all canons are supposed to be sentient or semi-sentient; she's waaay too much sane for the amount to empathic backlashes she sould have received after killing hundreds, if not thousands; of Pokémon during those 10 years. She should have been an insensitive psychopath by this point in time, and would probably have murdered without remorse those poor guys in patrol, instead of just beating them up. Just like she killed three Johtoan Guards a in the non-online next pages of the 3rd Chapter (I think I should upload them later today.)
2) She kills a lot of Pokémon regularly, while keeping the ones she own very spoiled, and claims to be very religious while killing the children of her own god... Hypocrite much?
3) Related to above, why would Mew, or freaking Arceus; choose a known Pokémon serial killer as a Chosen One!? That's just dumb!
4) This one last is a little dubious, but here goes: You're right, even if she got ninja assssination training, those three guards above mentioned were her first human kills ever! There's a huge leap between being trained to kill and actually killing someone. What makes it dubious is that fact that I'm not quite sure if the empathic backlash of a dying sentient or semi-sentient Pokémon, is of the same or less strength than the one generated for a dying human.
5) Also the Lucario disappears in Chapter 3! Great continuity!
And you're correct, she wasn't supposed to be exactly sympathetic, after all, by chapter three she is considered a dangerous outlaw for all the three factions, she isn't making a lot of friends, and is making enemies of the few she already has.Yeah, there's no way that would go wrong, right?
I could probably fix all the inconsistencies with a massive amount of retcons, and write Corinna a Grand Finale for her story, and hopefully redeem her, because despite all of her shortcomings, I'm still quite fond of this character (and her Ageless Morally Ambiguous Sociopathic Heroine alternate version of her from my main continuum, would like to "have some words" with her [that means horribly torture, maim or kill her]).
... Well, if/when you get Permission, I guess. Or maybe you could illustrate someone else's script for a mission? Because honestly, I've seen worse art, and it would probably make sense for the agents to be disguised in the same drawing style as the comic itself anyway.
Oh, and that "RIIIIIIIIIIP!" goes straight to the charge list. Dear Glod, my eyes!
...even if I wanted.
I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing here.
...make of that as you will. XD
Welcome to the first 'fic I ever wrote, a purple, soapboxy little number that tried to deconstruct James Cameron's AVATAR, saw something shiny, and wandered off never to return.
Picking a chapter was actually really hard because part of what was wrong with it was that it droned on and on without ever going anywhere, but I think the bastardized version of Cavil's speech from BSG in this one really takes the cake.
http://admiralsakai.deviantart.com/art/TCTR-Chapter-28-319261278
Chapter Six of my old Fifth Marauder self-insert. Hoooly shizniz, it's bad.