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Help a newbie out? (Fic recommendations?)
Hey there, everyone! I just found this comm yesterday, and I'm super excited about it!
( Chattering nobody cares about; TL;DR HI I'M NEW! )
( Chattering nobody cares about; TL;DR HI I'M NEW! )
If you're looking to write fic, the best and first step you should do is to try and play the games again, if you can. For characters like Silver or Green or Barry, and for a lot of the other NPCS like the Gym Leaders, what you need to know about their personality is right there in the game and in the dialogue. Even if you can't get a hold of the games themselves, maybe look up some walkthroughs on YouTube or something. Anything to re-immerse yourself in the games. Of course, there's a lot of vague and open-ended things, but that's part of what makes it fun is that they give you lots of room for speculation.
As far as the player characters go, there's no right or wrong way to characterize them - for the most part. For characters like Red, you'll notice most of the fandom writes him as being this silent badass who's always a bit of a jerk. And this is back by canon because obviously you get to interact with Red in GSC and HGSS. In the newer games, you have the male/female player option, and if you chose one, then the other takes on a different role in the world. So if you were playing Sapphire, for example, and chose to play as May, May as Norman's daughter still doesn't have a set in stone personality, but Brendan, who'll be an NPC, does. And if you choose to play as Brendan, then it's reversed, and so really it all comes down to deciding for your fic which character you want to assume which role. That'll change the way you characterize them.
You also have Kris and Leaf, who as of now, there's no point in any game where you can interact with either of them, so you don't even have that as a basis, so you can end up with really wildly different interpretations and no way to say whether it's right or wrong. Leaf, for example, is characterized half the time as being really sassy and feisty, and the other half of the time she's portrayed as being more quiet, reserved, a bit like Red, but usually a tad more sociable. Other times she's shown to be meek and nervous, and none of these interpretations are technically wrong, nor are they right. It all comes down to what you personally see in the character. And that can be incredibly difficult, since there's very little to go off of, but as some people will tell you there are bits and pieces of dialogue here and there that gives hints, and of course there's things that can be assumed just based on the things they do over the course of the games. There were a couple of discussions on pokanon about how the characters clothes and the way they choose to present themselves can be a big indicator of the character's personality, so pay close attention to details like that.
And, uh, I can't... think of anything else to say right now, so I hope this is a bit helpful at all. :X
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