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Hero or Heroine
Hero or Heroine
I’m so excited when I start a new story! Most writers believe that the single most important part is the characters. If readers fall in love with your characters—especially the main character—they will read to the end, feeling every emotion, taking part in the adventures. So as we work together toward building our story, please give a lot of thought to the conversation on this thread. Share your own best ideas, think about ideas others come up with, and discuss ways to make the character as interesting and memorable as possible.
Be original, and don’t be afraid to be surprising! What if the main character had a really unusual background or ability or fear? What if she were a girl who could only come out in the moonlight because a witch cast a spell on her great-grandmother? If you’re like me, you’ll find that the more questions you ask and answer about the main character, the more the story will begin to write itself in your head!
For example, if I wanted to introduce the girl who could only come out in the moonlight, I might write: “Quill pushed aside the velvet drape and peeked out through the window’s glass to where the moon glowed, huge and silver, behind the oak trees. It was their nightly ritual, Quill and the moon each peeping through curtains to see if the other were awake.”
I can’t wait to see your ideas! Here’s my list of traits for brainstorming the main character. After you have your ideas, you can write a Crowd Sorcery Sentence, or two or three, that might introduce your character in the story.
1. Name
2. Appearance
3. Background
4. Personality
5. How is he/she different from others?
6. What does he/she most desire or hope for?
7. How is he/she strong?
8. How is he/she weak or vulnerable?
9. What does he/she fear most?
10. Your Crowd Sorcery Sentence(s)
The voting for hero and heroine is now complete. Go here to see our main character and learn the schedule for creating and voting on a villain and sidekick.
You can still add to this Hero and Heroine thread for fun.
submitted by Fred Durbin
(April 23, 2014 - 10:05 am)
(April 23, 2014 - 10:05 am)
1) Name
Guiniver Silvertree
2) Appearance
She has golden brown hair and turquoise blue eyes with a scattering of freckles across her nose. She wears a light green dress and often goes without shoes.
3) Background
Her father was a carpenter and he died from an accident when she was three and her mother died from an illness when she was eleven. The next day she ran away to the Aja Forest.
4) Personality
She is smart, fast and quick on her feet, brave, and has a keen eye. She knows how to fight with a sword and to shoot with a bow. She always has a smile on her face and is ready to laugh at a joke but can be very serious.
5) How she is different from others.
She never joined the other girls and boys in there games of tag and hide and seek, she was always off practicing sword fighting and archery or just lying in a field and looking up at the sky.
6) What she most desires
She wants to have a family that loves her and to be normal.
7) How she is strong.
She is able to endure pain and death of friends because of what happend to her parents.
8) How she is weak
She sometimes says the wrong thing at the wrong time, which has gotten her into trouble sometimes.
9) Her greatest fear
Her greatest fear is the illness that killed her mother and dragons.
10) Guiniver awoke to the sound of birds chirping. She jumped up and grabbed her green dress that she always wore and slipped it over her head. Then with her wolf cub Toto at her heels and her bow and arrows on her shoulder she walked over the hill to get her breakfast.
(November 3, 2014 - 9:39 pm)
1. Name) Stain
2. Appearance) Deep blue eyes that get very misty, tangled blond hair, always a faint smile on her lips. Has a rusty locket.
3. Background) Can't remember. All she knows is that she was lost at sea and washed up on a small island. Yet sometimes...she gets glimpses.
4. Personality) Dazed. Stain is strong and brave, but very lonely, and sad.
5. How is he/she different from others?) Stain is imaginative, she hears what the sea whispers and listens to the wind declare. When we hear a noise, she hears a voice.
6. What does he/she most desire or hope for?) I'll let whoever uses this character create her hopes. But I'd say it would be to find a way out.
7. How is he/she strong?) Stain is strong in body. But her mind is fazzed she acts sad, or happy, but she doesn't really feel anything.
8. How is he/she weak or vulnerable?) Being in a fazed state Stain doesn't realize when opportunity strikes, and by the time she does, it's too late. If convinced, Stain will believe anything about her past, after all she can't remember.
9. What does he/she fear most?) Refer to #6, But if it were me, it would be to never change.
10. Your Crowd Sorcery Sentence(s) There was a girl, lying in sand of an island nobody knew. If you listened, you could hear her faintly breathing. After a while, she sat up slowly, observing her surroundings. As she put her hand in her pocket, she felt something cold, it was a locket. She opened it and found a smudged scrap of paper. She excitedly tried to make out the blurred writing but all she could read was stain That must be my name... she thought. Stain...I like it.
(November 6, 2014 - 8:34 pm)
Just a note: If I could describe Stain in a word it would be Memory, Dream, or Stain,
(November 7, 2014 - 9:52 am)
Name
Savina Dimana
Apperance
She has long curly black hair and dark green eyes with freckles over her nose. She wears a brown and green dress with a bow slung over her shoulder.
Background
She was born to a band of robbers who were outraged she wasn't a boy, so they left her by the roadside when she was three months old. She was found by a baker and his wifeand was adopted by them.She ran away to seek her fortune now she lives in an abandoned castle with her pet fox Kal,aks.
Personality
She is brave but a little headstrong and reckless and smart. She always carrys her bow and silver tipped with silver,(they were left in her blanket).
How she is different
She is adopted which nobody else in the town is and she runs all over town with her bow and arrows slung over her shoulder.
What she most desires
To see the world and have adventures.
How she is strong
she is not afraid of pain nor death.
How she is weak
she is afraid of the truth about her parents and spiders.
What she fears the most
Elves and doyiks**.
Crowd Sorcery Sentences
she awoke sweting and screaming.Kal,aks was licking her hand. She had had the dream again. The dream where she had heard a rough voice saying " put her down here and with luck we will never see her anymore" and someone weeping bitterly. She shook her head trying to rid it the voices and went to get some breakfast.
(November 7, 2014 - 12:43 pm)
And one more thing, she has the power to tell lies from truth by looking at sombody's eyes. (This might sound crazy but I have that power too).
(December 9, 2014 - 9:19 pm)
Name:Gilthoniel i'Elbereth
Personality: Headstrong and independent
Background:As a boy, the young elf would travel into the forest, clad in elven leaf-armour with naught but a longbow, a quiver of arrows, and his hunting knife, which could cut through anything, except for the metal d'aladriel (see dictionary words). As he got older, he would go for weeks on end until a demon noticed the danger that Giltoniel posed to him and captured and held him prisoner. He has yet to be freed.
(November 8, 2014 - 12:36 am)
Name- Eragut Asred( eragut in elven means strong hearted but in ogreish means afraid of fire ( his parents didn't know ogreish)).
Apperence-He is a ten year old boy but he lookes twelve. He has long black hair that goes to his shoulders and green cat like eyes. He wears a brown tunic and leggings with a short sword he made himself. He has a long thin scar that goes all the way up his leg.
Background- his parents died when he was five and he went to live with his cruel aunt. She made him do all the housework. He ran away when he was nine and apprenticed himself to a smith for a year. He made his sword there then he left and went to an abandend mill on the outskirts of Sredra.
Personality-He is a quiet observant child. He loves nature and how things are formed.he dosn't smile or laugh. He can act so normal that people think he isn't there. He also has an awsome sense of smell and aim.
How he is different - He is taller then most children and his name is elvish ( and ogreish) and he doesn't know what trade he will follow when he is grown.
What he most wants - he wants to face his aunt and tell her all the wrongs she has done to him.
How is he strong- he is used to beatings shapes and hard words. He is also very strong and used to sleeping on the hard floor.
How he is weak-he cannot stand cold hae also has a temper which can explode when anybody says the wrong thing.
What he fears most- he fears fire and that it may burn and kill him.
Crowd sorcery sentences-he awoke to the sound of a small bell blearily, he got up and got wood for the stove so he could get breakfast ready for his aunt. Oh how he wished he could run away from it all , go somewhere far of were his ant could never find him.
(November 15, 2014 - 5:37 pm)
In crowd sorcery sentences I meant to say "He awoke to the sound of a bell. As he sat up blearily he bumped his head an the low staircase. "Curses," he said. After all these years he still hadn't learned to move his head a few inches to the side so he would avoid the staircase. He got up and got wood for the stove...
(November 17, 2014 - 5:16 pm)
Zebra Stripes
name: Lela Stripes
appearance: long wavy blonde hair, blue eyes, always wearing long black sparkly dress + purple headband
background: raised by mythical fairies and ghosts, bullied by almost all the people her age
personality: lost, hopeless, cheerless, glum
How is she different from others?
has the abilities of everything also teleporting
What does she desire or hope for?
to become happy again, to find hope/ to be hopeful
How is she strong?
has all the abilities to help her survive, live, defeat enemies
How is she weak or vulnerable?
can't control powers
What does she fear most?
dark sorcery, evil creatures
(November 16, 2014 - 12:20 am)
I really like that idea!
You might want to change the fact that she's always wearing a long black dress. I don't think she would be always bullied if it was always pretty obvious there was something strange about her.
P.S. My name is Lela, like your character! But you pronounce it LEE-luh. I'm pretty sure that your Lela Stripes was supposed to be pronounced LAE-luh.
(January 18, 2015 - 10:19 pm)
Being abandoned by her parents in the forest, Sophie has developed feral instincs, or animal reflexes. She has a pet wolf named Luna and Luna has an amulet tha she gave to Sophie. With the amulet, Sophie can turn into a wolf and a shadow. Sophie has forever longed to find her parents and has now set out to do so, becoming a heroine along the way.
(November 17, 2014 - 4:14 pm)
Name- Anne Manerring
Appearence-dark brown hair almost black, green eyes, a suntanned face and lots of freckles. She wears a faded blue dress with a white sash. She has no shoes.
Background - She was a very rich child until both her parents died on the same day. She was sent to a horrible orphanage. She lived there for one and a half years until one day when she was walking through the woods she found a strange smoth rock two minuets later a door in the rock opened and a boy her age steped through she made friends with him and soon found out his name was Ojo and that he was from the future( the rock was a time machine). He helps her escape the orphanage and make a little house in the woods. He brings her supplies and she lives in comfort until one week he dosn't come. She then lives of the land.
Personality- She is kind of smart and she loves poetry and reading. She kind of has a temper though. After she ran away she fashend a bow and some arrows and is never seen without them. She often goes into trances.
How she is different from others- She came from a rich family also she is always gazing of into the distance or has her nose stuck in a book.
What does she most hope for - She hopes to find a family but to also like in her treehouse forever.
How she is strong- She is used to hard words hunger and hard work also she is used to feeling alone.
How she is weak- She doesn't know how to protect herself and it is kind of easy to make her cry.
What she fears the most- She fears spiders a lot (acrophobia).
Crowd Sorcery Paragraph- A horn sounded in Ann's ear. "Get up lazy bones, " Ginny , the meanest girl in the orphanage said loudly. Ann rubbed her eyes "What time is it ?" she asked. "Time for lazy bones like you to get up," Ginny said. Ann looked out the window. It was still dark.
(November 17, 2014 - 8:05 pm)
I hope those sounds good...
Name Gingu Malinka
Appearance light brown hair with golden highlights, blue grey eyes with freckles scattered on her nose. She wears a brown skirt and a green shirt and often goes without shoes. She has two daggers hidden in her brown cape.
Background she was born to a woodcutter and hie wife. She lived with them for ten happy years then one night she had a dream that she was in a meadow with woods on one side and a road leading to a sparkling city. When she woke up she found she was in a meadow hemmed in by forest. (An evil witch had magicked her there.) She made a small wooden house for herself. When she was cutting wood a dove flew down to her and droped a note. The note said: "An evil fairy has sent you to this place. When you find the sparkling city you will find your parents. Never go anywhere without a weapon". She that day made herself a bow and arrow. One day when she was hunting she found two daggers lying side by side. She started using them to hunt. One day she was hunting; she found a road. She gatherd all her things and started traveling down it. She had traveled one day and one night when she found a caravan. They adopted her and she lived with them. It was a kind fairy was watching over her. She had sent her the note and helped her find the daggers and the road and the caravan.
Personality She a strong hard worker and quick with her hands and on her feet. She also is smart and likes solving problems. People can make her cry easily; she is also timid around people until she knows them well.
How she is different from others She has had dealings with fairies and she also lived by herself for some time and she is often gazing off into the distance.
What she most hopes or desire for First she hopes to see the fairies face to face someday. Second she hopes to find her parents.
How she is strong She is used to being alone and she is literally strong.
How she is weak It is easy to make her cry and she is afraid of the dark.
What she fears the most definitely the dark.
Crowd sorcery sentence? What is that ?
(November 20, 2014 - 7:39 pm)
1. Creadi Droenig
2. Wears Steampunk goggles over her electric blue hair (which is in a loose braid), which is often covered in smoke, so it is more of a dull black. She also wears a white blouse with a leather apron over the front and wears a skirt (but only because of her rich aunt telling her she must.) She has deep purple eyes. and she is about 12.
3. Her mom has left her when she was little, and her father died because of a recent fire. Her aunt took charge and is trying to make her a proper lady. (Not working)
4. Likes to be different, but her aunt will not let her. Is able to hide feelings, but she is on the verge of screaming about how hard it is. She is confusing, as all she wants to talk about is science and extreme mathematics, but because of this she has no friends, exept her cat, Gears. She can also be super annoying, and hyperactive, can run really fast.
5. Likes exetreme math and can build fast, she also would rather wear pants than a skirt. (This is the 1940s, so pants for girls are crazy.)
6. To build a time machine to save her dad before he dies.
7. Extreme mathematics makes her really strong in forming plans and building things.
8. Finding things and calming down is hard for her, and for some reason, hot cocoa is her worst enemy.
9. When finished the time machine, she warps to the wrong time, and as I mentioned earlier, HOT COCOA.
10.
"Hand me the plans, and no hot cocoa is going to spill on you," said Fireccd.
"I'd rather DIE!" I said back.
"Hot cocoa it is!"
Then, hundreds of gallons of hot cocoa spilled over all my now-brown-blue prints.
(November 30, 2014 - 7:21 pm)
Things are getting very slow around here. Nobody's posted for days. Is CS shutting down or something?
(December 10, 2014 - 6:30 pm)