On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, The Tyrant Pax wrote:

At 19:54 24/06/96 +0100, you wrote:

Hmm, I don't think because a character gets too powerful that generally
makes a bad story, it just tends to lead up to it. I mean I'm sure we've all
read good and bad stories and just because one character is more powerful
(Otaku or otherwise) it doesn't just destroy the story.

Quite true.  The problem is that it often leads to the development of a 
story that isn't terribly interesting.

A good story balances the various characters and the ongoing action to 
produce an entertaining whole.  The problem with "Otaku-Avatar" 
characters is that the writer usually doesn't write in anything to 
counter-balance the advantages his "Avatar" has.

This is intrsting, for it deals with my SM Heretics Fanfic
The character of Amoncara Pax is based off myself (Plus a RPG character),
and he is basicly god like....but this is nothing when compaired to what he
is faceing...the Chaos Church could destroy the Senshi, and Tuxedo Kamen
very easaly, and also, he deals with some of the stuff that really bugs me
about that past...(Like, who was the Moon Kingdom?)

In this SM Heretics fic, so far it hangs in the balance.  The biggest 
negative is that the writer is deliberately stating that the Sailor 
Senshi cannot win without his "Avatar".  This is a signifigant distortion 
of the basic structure of the Sailorverse, and it remains to be seen if 
he can make it work properly.

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