Glazius Falconar wrote:
Why do authors persist in referring to characters by their hair color/eye
color/other distinguishing features? There are proper names and pronouns
freely available.
Adrian Tymes will now write a fanfic, using only oblique inference, that
seems to talk about one character but instead refers to _someone else
entirely_, and it's _funny_!
Or not.
(The "not" can apply to whichever you choose.)
Attitude, check.
Weapons that were simultaneously part of herself and an add-on to her
true being, check.
Breasts that most of her companions - male and female - commented on,
check.
Flaming red hair, check.
Flaming pile of incompetent goons that got in her way, check.
Ditzy but combat-effective sidekick, check...though Geilwon sometimes
had to wonder how her cross vein had not exploded by now from the
migranes Geiltoo's nature gave her.
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Washu looked at her universe creating machine. So many different
stories, each based off a few core "canons" which took root in so many
different imaginations. A staggering variety...and a staggering
sameness, in ways those minds simply had not yet thought to conceive
of. Perhaps, she mused, it was time to power cycle this contraption.
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Topical? What, *me*? ^_-