TR: The True Story

Mr. 'Danger' Sebi

I sense a disturbance in the force.

You should play SS13 with us instead. I bet that develops better stories.

I really want this story to be OK, but I think Sebi is going to have a tough time here.

The reason Pere and I write the way we do, with an almost radio-story format, is because that's pretty much one of the easiest and most coherent ways to portray these people here.

Nobody here really has a character that transpires well as a character in a book. It's sad but true. Pere and I have often discussed that V is the only character in our stories that is fairly the same between the two. Others are based on either the character we make them, or the memes associated with that person, fabricated or on the forum. For example, everyone knows Icey only ever says "Chillin" and V has a fetish for iDevices and Apple.

The reason I think a book format would be hard, per se, is that with all these different things that TR is, it makes more sense to write TR as this private readable sitcom, or in shorts centered around one character (Who has been thrown in jail twice, become emperor and turned into a duck). A central plotline is hard to work around, and people often get angry if their character is either portrayed an unfavorable way or develops unfavorably (And I know for a fact that Sebi knows how this feels).

You're of course welcome to try, and I hope you succeed, but I don't know if it will be an easy road for you.

The reason I'm doing this is because it lets me try writing in a new way. Normally, I have all my characters in mind when I write, with a basic plot that I'm heading for, this is all thought ahead but not put down into a physical form, so I can just write how I feel like it. With TR, the characters are in some way based on you guys, and this means I need to plan ahead more thoroughly, making slightly more developed concepts before I actually write, and that's the point, to challenge myself to write more coherently. Granted, not all the facts might be true (I'm going ahead with the basis that Erik is Irish, Cial is Canadian, Tim is American, and Thoru is British) But that's just creative changes. If anything, what I'm writing here is a sci-fi comedy action drama which should be a fairly new thing for me.

Still, I'm not expecting to make this work, although I'm trying to. But I'm not taking it 100% seriously. Pere is still chronically addicted to Cereal, Dig is still the Mysterious El Murderbeardo, and V is still the egomaniacal self centered pokemon/apple/fish obsessed timelord he always has been.

For the most part though, the main cast will be people that are still active here to some degree and whom I know well/have a general idea in mind on how to develop them, IE: Me, Tim, Cial, Pere, Dig, V, Rage, Tera, Winnie and Thoru. As you said, Icey mostly says ''Chillin'' and Xusha is Russian, there isn't much more depth than that. I guess we will be a jumping point for the story, and undergo development as I write it. Or regression as the case may be.