Tales of Wulver - Cellmates
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Thank you for the amazing read, and pardon me for the lack of comments. I will look for the old parts of your story and atualize myself in it :)
Writing multiple personalities takes a lot of skill .. and I am not that great at it. It can be very hard to stay in character when writing. One reason stereotypes help a lot. Grim's personality, and Erik's, I know well enough to write well. Likewise for Fenn and Mac. But the more characters you have, or write about, the harder it can be to keep them unique. Wulver has a great deal of Fenn in him although Fenn is much more withdrawn than Wulver and Wulver is far more cocky and confident, even a bit vain. Fenn is charming but he uses that, and sarcasm, as a shield to hide behind.
And, of course, writing another character is hard. I asked Nataly a lot of questions even though I have Sofie's basic personality down. A lot has to do with "would she do X in Y situation?" or does she know this spell? was asked a lot in the redemption story.
I am still hoping to see a bit more cross-over with your team in FO4. I miss Lobo and really want to play him soon.
Not sure I'd trust an offer of work from someone who captured me, certainly not from some Thalmor either.
Good stuff :)
Yea I can't see him accepting any of their offers. An offer of work probably means keeping the slave collar in addition to brainwashing or accepting some form of spell trap to make him behave.
Busy working on the next part as very much enjoying this story with Wulver and Sofie :-)
Poor Sofie, she already had quite the rough time after the incident with Sissel and now she ends up somewhere in oblivion at the mercy of the Thalmor. Well, the Thalmor sure would need to be extra careful that no harm comes to Sofie..then again, the very fact that they kidnapped Sofie probably got them in major trouble from Dannee. Do not anger a mama dragon. Feels like they have a bit of a deathwish. I'm glad that she decided to heal Wulver, their combined effort might be what it takes to get them out of that place and ruin the Thalmor's plan.
I see what you did there, ending on a cliffhanger like that ! :P I'm so proud lol !
I really enjoyed this chapter and how this tale crosses over with Nataly's tales.
Yea I made Ganril pretty typical villian but one big issue with this medium (Nexus graphic story) is you don't have the luxury of writing a whole book and hence have plenty of time to slowly leak out details. I have, at best, just 2-3 chapters in which to tell the story and also provide enough detail so people understand what is going on.
I suppose I could just not explain many things - but I admit it might be an ego thing as I don't want people reading and going "this doesn't make sense" or "looks like he forgot X and Y" so I try to show it was all logically planned out.
For example if Wulver is in rags and being tortured and Sofie gets to remain fully dressed and unharmed, with no explanation, it doesn't make sense. Would people assume I was just being lazy and didn't want to make the effort to remove her outfit for the images? Would they think I forgot? Nor can I expect the readers to know all about Nataly's world and figure out on their own that Dannee would go ape-s#*! on the Thalmor if they hurt Sofie? Consequently I need to get into some explanations. Also why didn't they just use the portal on Dannee? And so on and so on.
So left with some cliches ... the most common being things like the protagonist overhears a conversation that reveals a lot of things; protagonist finds a journal with secrets (this is common in games for quests); I write omniscient and reveal the details from the bad guys talking to each other; I try to logically find little ways to reveal in the short space I have to communicate and hope its enough (and that is the most work I think ... as the writer has to weave those bits throughout the chapters and the reader also has to pay much closer attention to the story); the villian gloats and reveals a lot of their plans.
I did try to explain that Ganril revealed what he did to make Sofie suffer. Maybe he said more than he had to but it was an easy way to get some information out and he is an over-confident SOB :)
Longer stories, or stories that have less complicated content (i.e. magic, past history, etc), do make it easier to slowly reveal secrets and plans instead of a data dump.
Anyhow it is an issue I always struggle with in this medium - how much to say, how it gets revealed, how often ... combined with my own personality issues in regards to wanting to be very thorough and explain everything in detail (you should see my emails at work as everyone says I am very thorough in explaining processes and policy while also being very wordy).
Glad you enjoyed the story so far! It was a little cliff-hanger but since Sofie is not my character some limits on cliff-hangers. Plus I am not really a dark writer. For me the enjoyment from the story is just the development of characters, lore, and figuring out how the characters solve their problems.
On a side note one reason I will never pursue writing as a job as I have problems hurting/killing my characters. Even Wulver getting tortured I have him an out. I really do best with light-hearted adventure writing I guess.
In a certain way, it almost seem realistic for a villain to stop carrying all that much and actually reveal their masterplan when they believe (or actually have) the upper hand over the antagonist. I guess its their way to taunt the heroes or to stroke their egos in some way. Like Ganril revealing his plan to Sofie as a way to make her suffer and possibly saying more than he should have because he's an arrogant SOB. Which is a bit of a vibe that I get from most Thalmor in-game. All and all, it might be stereotypical or cliche but it feels realistic for him to be that way.
I think that being thorough and going in detail in explaination is in part what makes your writing style..and your writing sure has alot of charm in my honest opinion.
Writting someone else character does bring some restriction indeed but I think you did a great job with Sofie. I personally don't believe that cliffhanger are necessarely something that is only for darker stories. I think its more of a way to leave readers in suspense and wondering what will happen next...even if its something silly or lighthearted. But I enjoy using those because I'm a huge tease when it comes to stories.
I don' think that writing can be considered a full time career where I am. Very little author here make an actual living our of their books. Not everyone are willing to go full on game of throne on their characters and its perfectly fine.