gw wolfbrothers

[askerian]

Damn it, OCs, stop being ethical AND smart, you're figuring things out way too early. *EDIT EDIT* auuugh.

Also, introducing five new people in one scene might be a bit much. :X I'll see if I can cut one off, but I don't see which one... :(

Seeing the two wolves side by side it was even more obvious Chiquito was still very young; he was fuzzy all over and round-bodied and his paws were huge compared to his legs. He could get under Killer's barrel without needing to hunker down more than a couple of inches. Killer jerked when he did it and sidestepped, but it seemed more reflexive unease and confusion than true, aggression-edged wariness.

After that of course it was butt-sniffing time. Urk. "Thanks for sharing, buddy."

Shh quiet. Important smells!

"Yeah, I'd say. So, the pup likes burritos?"

Makisig gave a guilty snicker. "Probably shouldn't let him have them, but oh, the soulful eyes."

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[red-volpe.livejournal.com]

[but oh, the soulful eyes.]
Ahahahaha, you're killing me here!
Who says its too much? The more the merrier! Or well, if it really doesn't work out, you could always try again, I guess. :I

[askerian]

No, it's not really that there's too many people at once, but they don't have very separate voices yet, and they all have names that... hrrm. I think one of them is white. The other four are people from all over the globe and they don't have americanized names. (there's one filipino dude, one arab dude, the white dude has a portuguese name, and the two women are egyptian and kenyan respectively. Hrrrrm.) I don't know if it ever happened to you, but when I first started watching anime I couldn't have sorted out sakura from satsuki. It was all a bunch of syllables linked in ways I hadn't seen and internalized as "this follows that and together they make one name" and so it was harder to remember, it was all a bit of a letter salad. I'm a bit afraid the same thing is going to happen here, but I don't want to use three tons of epithets instead.

And beside that a majority of the wolves have english-based names. :/ Self, I am Disappoint. Okay no, another OC is italian and his wolf is named Bianchi. So imaginative. >__>

[red-volpe.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yeah, I get what you mean. I've seen in some stories where actual characters had trouble with unfamiliar names, and the author played it out to help with the confusion before.
Hey, what's wrong with Bianchi? I rather like it. Alright, maybe I'm biased, seeing as it's two letters away from my name, but still. XD

[askerian]

I've seen in some stories where actual characters had trouble with unfamiliar names, and the author played it out to help with the confusion before.
huh, yeah, not a bad idea.

Nothing's wrong with Bianchi save that the wolf is white. Such an original name! XD

[tephra]

As long as they names don't start with the same letters it will probably by okay.

I had a heck of time with Oath of Swords with Bahzell and Brandark. Then they kept mentioning Bahzell's dad Banhak and Brandark's dad Brandark and tossed patronymics around and I was just flailing around going WHO?? a lot. I just finished the fourth book and the dwarf names are still something my eyes hit, get about two syllables in, and then shoot to the next word.

[askerian]

oh god yes, me too. the heck are those names. I think it contributed to my inability to stay engaged in the story. Also the bazilion gods with very similar names. urgh.

[tephra]

I like the stories, obviously, so I finished them, but dammit Weber, think about your readers when you name people/things. >:C

Weber apparently is incapable of not having an annoying writing quirk. If he's writing anything with a modern military he infodumps a ton of unnecessary military hardware specs (Honor Harrington books, OMFG). If he's writing fantasy he can't resist tossing random extra letters in names and making them into tossed salads where you can only tell them apart by the positions of the tomatoes.

[midget-arnold.livejournal.com]

Chiquito loving burritos is no surprise to me. Mostly because I read his name as that brand of mini tacos they sell in the refrigerated section. *snerk* Maybe you could give your OC's reasons to keep their mouths shut? Hmm. Or maybe introduce the new characters via scentnames that are really distinctive. Like... birthdaycakeicing or dragsitchybutt or strongblacktea or eatsownvomit XXD

Have you thought about keeping a set of standard OC's to reuse in different fics? Not for O-fic, but fanfic. It'd give you memorable background characters without having to recreate from scratch every new fic... Er, just an idea. *shuffles feet*

[askerian]

ahaha, never seen those tacos anywhere. Awesome, now it's even more appropriate. really he was named that because he was the smallest in the litter. Now he's the biggest. XD

I do the OC thing for ff7, I have several SOLDIER people that I reuse when necessary, I just haven't done much with them yet. They were originally created for Restore they haven't gotten to show up yet. Though some of them were also mentioned in the baby fic, and one of them gets to die both there and in the daemon AU Zack backstory. XD My Naruto fics don't use OCs much apart from Teamwork and those are usually crafted to fit the very specific baby/marriage/chuunin exam plot, and I don't really like the idea of creating people who'd be in several fandoms. That'd feel ... idk, like they don't really fit the setting properly.

Can't do it for THIS fic, anyway, since I'm making up wolf/person pairs, and that's better done from scratch than grafting random wolves on some OCs whose history would have to be AU!shoehorned in, instead of things that are made up specifically to give the canon characters stuff to contrast against. ... I don't even know if this makes sense. :X The GW world is vaster so people should vary more, whereas SOLDIER was a relatively smaller unit so it's fine if some people are always there in the backstory.

[luvsanime02.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry about it too much, as long as the names are distinctive from each other.

BTW, totally digging the name Chiquito XD

[proanon.livejournal.com]

Heh! The trials and travails of Idiot Ball allergies...