Things That Annoy You in Fanfiction

[lantzblades]

More or less names, his history is meddled with, he's playing a villain to save the multiverse. Which makes him the king of heroes for real. It's all an act, time travel and magic shenanigans. Gilgamesh is one of the good guys here despite the act.

[Arch-Magos Winter]

...What? Then why did he need to do all that shit?

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

because he's a good guy and acting the villain and pretending to rape/kill his entire damily to get another good guy up off of his ass instead of dragging him out of bed and motivating him the good old fashion is more, uh...

I forgot where I was going with this.

[Xamusel]

Okay, if someone could please translate what Lantz is saying, that would be appreciated.

Lantz, I don't mean to be rude, but... well, even by my standards, that's confusing as all hell.

[lantzblades]

Do you all remember Kirei's speech to Shirou about heroes needing villains? So, yeah, that.

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

You mean the whole "To save people, people must be in danger to begin with." Thing he said to make Shirou's wish to save people darker, because that it meant Shirou also wanted people to be in danger?

You know what okay, let's consider that Satoshi needs a villain. Why would Gil consider becoming that guy for the greater good? Even if he did get involved, why not just point at the real villain instead of going through all of that huge contrivance?

[Xamusel]

@lantz: ...now that you explained it somewhat, I can understand where you're coming from (to a degree).

Still, maybe you should clarify all of what makes your Gilgamesh tick at some point? I'm not saying you need spoilers for the stories... far from it. Just when you're ready (and so long as someone can translate what you're typing... you'll need to do something about how confusing your words are to others, even me, who can understand most things).

[lantzblades]

Keep in mind three things names

1) The person at the head of this whole plan is Merlin, so necessity in the logical sense we use isn't the same

2) Gilgamesh hates two things more than fakers, gods and monsters

3) Gil isn't a bad guy, he just has a very different common sense.

in any case I'm not sure continuing this is appropriate for the thread, good discussion but not sure it's the place

[Xamusel]

...yeah, Lantz nailed it, we need to discuss the topic of the thread more.

What annoys me in fanfiction? My own writing. I hate that I absolutely SUCK!!

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

I dunno, Gilgamesh being out of character and overly convoluted character-created schemes that didn't need to happen and don't really resound with the character are two things that annoy me in fanfiction.

[Xamusel]

...as it stands, the main thing about my writing is that I don't prewrite, at least not even close to enough. I find it annoying that my attempts at writing stuff falls flat because of this.

[Arch-Magos Winter]

Why doesn't Gil just go off and do all that shit though? He's incorruptible by AM and is also by far the most powerful heroic spirit. He has a weapon that rends space and time, and as AM is sort of a divinity, Enkidu would hold it back. Why not just sic Gil on the thing?

[Cherry Lover]

Lantz does have a valid point there, this isn't the "Lantz fanfic discussion thread", I'm not sure this is the place for a long, drawn-out discussion of his stories.

[Xamusel]

@Everyone but Cherry: I also find it annoying that you guys are missing the whole point of this thread... keep the discussion of Lantz' fics out of here, please.

@Cherry: Glad you decided to show up, man. Got any thoughts about what my annoyances are in writing?

[Arch-Magos Winter]

Lantz does have a valid point there, this isn't the "Lantz fanfic discussion thread", I'm not sure this is the place for a long, drawn-out discussion of his stories.

Well, he had all the threads where we could do so locked.