The Awakened Salad

Wait Luna you’ve played BoTW? *tries to hide excitement*

I KNEW I MISSED SOMEONE I’M SORRY Thank you! *uno reverses everything you just said back to you* Same to you! You radiate so much fun energy from your posts, and I loved reading your posts in I’m Bored. Let’s Mess Around! As is getting to know you! I’ve just come to the realisation that I’ve never asked you about Zelda, despite seeing your profile picture multiple times and thinking “huh, Fadran likes Zelda”. So umm... consider yourself asked. the alternative was to spam you with a billion questions, which I will happily do if requested *is flustered by all of the compliments* I’m running out of creative ways to say thank you, so have a virtual hug instead! This thread is so wholesome I think I’m going to melt

Hi! *happily waves to you* And thank you! I haven’t been very active in the forum games recently, but that will change soon (hopefully). I haven’t seen much of you around (blaming my low activity) but reading back through your posts on this thread you seem like a really kind and thoughtful person! Also, feel free to just call me Salad

Well, I’m very late to responding, but better late than never, right? Thank you! Your posts always exude coolness and sheer awesomeness! I’ve never been called scary before, but I hope I’m less intimidating now I look forward to seeing you around! You’re very welcome You bring so much joy and energy to the Shard, and your posts always make me smile! I’ve talked about how great the community is before, so much so that I almost feel like a broken record, but that’s because it’s true. You’re all amazing, and fabulous writers, and I would give hugs to all of you if I could!!

I believe people are talking about how Brandon’s characters, irrespective of gender, all feel fleshed out and three-dimensional. In the past (and still sometimes today, especially in fantasy), there have been instances of authors not developing their female characters as fully as their male counterparts. A character’s gender and sexuality is important for some readers, especially to those from marginalised groups, as they are able to explore parts of their identity in a safe environment.

*Pokemon X and Y intensifies* Me, making my characters suffer over and over again I felt this in my soul

I’m a bit late to this, but continuing the trend, what was your first impression of me?

Aaaaaand now I kind of ship this I’ve never thought about a Sylvain and Edelgard support before, but it sounds like it would be hilarious and I feel robbed now. One support I would’ve loved is a Hubert and Claude support. I can just imagine those two firing off quips, retorts and thinly veiled threats at each other. Hubert and Hilda would be interesting too. I don’t know what their support would entail, but they’re just so different and I want to see how they’d interact. I just want more Hubert supports, if I’m being honest. Hubert and Felix, Hubert and Mercedes (it would be hilarious if Mercie wasn’t intimidated by Hubert at all and tried to dote on him because he reminded her of Emile), Hubert and Raphael (where Raphael’s friendliness takes Hubert off guard), Hubert and Seteth, Hubert and everyone, really. Dedue and Bernadetta could be cute. I feel like they could bond over gardening, once Bernie got over her initial fear of Dedue. Dedue and Claude could talk about their experiences as outsiders in Fodlan, if Claude managed to get Dedue to talk.

If you were stranded alone on a deserted island and could only bring three things, what would they be?

Salad smiled, remembering a time Nameless fought so hard to destroy TST. Also, welcome back!

Would you mind sharing more? What was it like being a Christmas tree?

Although it’s not exactly what you may be looking for, TvTropes also has a page listing some character tropes from Mistborn. It might be worth checking out https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy

Hi Emi!! *waves enthusiastically*

I agree with Truth here, it just seems that you have surrounded yourself with good people, some of which happen to be part of the LGBTQIAP+ community. I don’t think there’s anything more to it than that.

I actually came back to send a pm and accidentally started posting. Wait... I did it again. But I’m not back back, if that makes sense. But thank you, I’ll be back properly soon! Okay, I really need to stop posting now

Wooo another fan! It’s my favourite game right now, too. Who’s your favourite character? What route is your favourite? Which route did you play first? Favourite supports? Least favourite character? Am I asking too many questions? Also, we do have a Three Houses thread buried somewhere in the Entertainment section, if you haven’t seen it.

Ack, I’m terrible at reading tone. But thank you, that brought a smile to my face You made my bad day a little bit better. That makes you the best too! Sorry Fadran I’ll leave now

Oh no, I don’t have anything against English teachers at all, most of my favourite teachers were English teachers too, I just felt like I was turning into a lecturer and subsequently started feeling bad about it.

*poofs into existence* Is Corrin named after the Fire Emblem character by any chance? I think I’ve seen you mention the series before... is definitely not trying to figure out if you’ve played Three Houses. I want to give you feedback but I don’t have the time to write up something decent, sorry. From what little I read I think you have the basis of something really exciting. I’m not sure if this will work for you two, and I am definitely not qualified to be giving out writing advice, but the best piece of advice I’ve ever received is “Write the book you want to read.” Easier said than done, I know, but if I found that if I stopped focusing on originality and my ideas, and just more on what I thought was cool, what tropes I liked, then everything began to flow a lot more smoothly. There’s a quote from Mistborn that sums it up nicely. I think it’s something like “nothing is original except for style”, and I think that applies to writing, too. Everything we create is a synthesis of our thoughts, feelings, worldview, the stories we’ve consumed, loved, cried over, the world around us, and a whole bunch of other things. If you’re writing it, chances are it’s been written before. But it’s the way in which we explore these ideas (storms, I sound like an English teacher) that makes our stories unique and vibrant. So even if you feel like your ideas are cliche, if you like them, if you feel excited by them, then write anyway! Cliche elements can be changed in a later draft. As for not knowing where to go with ideas, this is something I still struggle with, but I read somewhere that breaking those ideas can really help create a story. Ideas are like eggs (I seemingly can’t help coming up with weird similes). They’re the start of something, but you have to break them if you want to get to the good bits inside. Create problems. Grab your idea(s) (you could combine some if you want) and figure out how things would go wrong. Then make them go wrong. I’m making this sound a lot easier than it is, but it really helps escalate tension and puts characters in tricky situations. Sorry to hijack your thread with my crazy rambles, Fadran. Good luck with your writing! Since I’m supposed to be inactive, I was never here *sneaky Salad exit*

@Emi @Truthless of Shinovar A splitting pain shot up through her skull. The girl paused mid-step, clutching her at her head, her breath coming in quickly, pulse roaring in her ears. The nausea came again, stronger, stronger than any time before. The world spun and spun until it went too fast and then there was nothing left but darkness.

Hello I bring alignment charts because they’re fun Warbreaker spoilers because it has come to my attention that we need more Warbreaker (and Elantris, and Rithmatist, and I haven’t read Alcatraz (yes, I’m sorry) but probably Alcatraz as well) memes.