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Sho Minanimoto | The World Ends With You

[the_grimheaper]

Not anoning cause I'm lame |D Also please disable custom comments mods

Just some general advice please.

[the_grimheaper]

I'm not familiar with your particular Sho, so as you say, general advice:

Don't stick to math references that he makes in the games. Be creative, invent your own. This can be hard if you're not a math whiz yourself, but it works wonders for making him fun to read.

Sho Minanimoto | The World Ends With You

[the_grimheaper]

Well, I'm not actually a Sho player, but from general observation:

- He's deeply self-absorbed and egomaniacal, but that doesn't mean he'd do well without other people's attention. In nearly every conversation in canon, he deliberately tries to aggravate whoever he's talking to, or somehow demand reactions from them.

- He likes to piss people off with faked flirtiness or sarcastic intimacy (in the Japanese, he calls Kitaniji "Megumi-chan." And abuses tildes to no end. I don't believe much of this was carried over in the otherwise excellent translation.)

- He likes to be important in other people's eyes. He's a constant attention-seeker, though he doesn't care whether it's admiration, fear, or hatred. He'd hate being the target of compassion, pity or affection, though. (...That's garbage. Crunch!)

- The first person's advice is sound - Sho's mathematical knowledge is enough that he should be making new references and math puns. However, he shouldn't abandon his catchphrases! Just not rely on them wholly.

Good luck!

Re: Sho Minanimoto | The World Ends With You

[the_grimheaper]

Tying in with the other two anons: don't use "zetta" in every other sentence.

I'm completely serious. I've seen it done before and it's not pretty.

Re: Sho Minanimoto | The World Ends With You

[the_grimheaper]

Adding on to what's already been said, Sho has the ego the size of the moon. He can get along pretty well with flatterers and appears to like it when other people humour his whims. And while he's still not particularly attached to anyone (Sho is, ultimately a lone wolf. He cooperates for the brief moments he benefits, but he's quite likely to turn around and bite the hand that feeds him the next), the flatterers and humourers will never be 'stupid 000s'. I imagine he'd get along with Joshua, if Joshua didn't happen to be the Composer and in his way.

He needs to have a certain amount of unpredictability/crazy. While he may have his goals, the methods he uses to reach them are often illogical in other peoples' eyes. To the average, even with the mathspeak, he still needs to have a certain amount of bizzareness. Eventually characters are going to be able to look past the maths, but they'll still need the 'what the hell is this guy on?' kind of feeling.

On that note, give Sho an actual goal. Think about why he wanted to be Composer.