Favorite quote from your main character

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  1. The Scarred Servant

    The Scarred Servant Member

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    "Where's the fun in having infinite lives when you're always a mouse? You're not getting any cheese."
     
  2. blur

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    From one of my favourite MC's

    "Difference only becomes a bad thing when people don't understand."
     
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  3. Simpson17866

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    Amy: The problem with using katanas against hordes of zombies is that katanas are swords, and humans are designed to be killed by swords. Zombies are not.
     
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    Aldo: "I hope you've got a plan ?"

    Dusty: " Keep killing them and hope for the best"

    Aldo : "Great plan"
     
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    EdFromNY Hope to improve with age Supporter Contributor

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    From my current project. Not the mc, but a solid supporting character:

    "What neither you nor your client understand is that I don’t want to make a deal. I want to go to trial. I want to hit that piece of scum with everything I’ve got, so that he spends the rest of his life in prison, and if he's reincarnated, that life as well!"
     
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  6. MeanMachine

    MeanMachine New Member

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    "Any two bits ruler can build a nation and get people to die for it, or else. Dying is easy. I'd rather rule a nation that people fight for. Willingly."

    -Charles Alexander Ahriman, Emperor of Arkaydia
     
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    Boy if you're gonna go around threatening men twice your size then you'd better do it right. Or better yet just keep your mouth shut.
     
  8. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

    Friedrich Kugelschreiber marshmallow Contributor

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    Isn't this kind of a cliched name? I mean, every other fantasy novel one reads involves some country or other named "Arcadia," and all you have done here is make a minor alteration to the spelling.
     
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    I'm well aware that it's well used and that the change in spelling fools no one (not that it was my intention) but I like the name. I'm not writing this out of a desire for originality anyway. My current work is a borderline affectionate-parody of Fantasy RPGs and MMORPGs, and epic fantasy works in general. The magical energy is called mana. So yeah.

    Thanks all the same!
     
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    OJB A Mean Old Man Contributor

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    Dude...f-ing epic...
     
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    EdFromNY Hope to improve with age Supporter Contributor

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    Why, thank you.
     
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    And for few moments I come to the realization that I am loved by the most awesome and terrifying being ever to exist in the entire galaxy.
     
  13. Simpson17866

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    Antagonist TBD: That bitch describes herself as Chaotic Evil, and you think she sees you as a friend?

    Alec: Yeah, and Chaotic Evil friends are more loyal than Lawful Good friends. Your life depends on somebody murdering a thousand nuns and orphans, your Lawful Good friend ain't just gonna passively let you die, he's gonna actively try to stop your Chaotic Evil friend from saving you.

    Me? I ain't got no Lawful Good friends.
     
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  14. big soft moose

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    Is this a dungeons and dragons fan fic ?

    I just wondered because you seem to spend a lot of time with the character classifications
     
  15. Simpson17866

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    No, but a few of my characters are D&D nerds ;)
     
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  16. EstherMayRose

    EstherMayRose Gay Souffle Contributor

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    Not my MC, but a strong supporting character addressing my MC:

    "At first, I thought it would be a pleasure to help a Beaurenice. But now I see that it is my pleasure to watch out for someone as kind and helpful as you are, Vanna."
     
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    Currently, my favorite quote is from one of my 'work in progress' pieces called Split Worlds. It is said by my character Sarina Kenelm. Though she is not the main character she is a very important secondary character.

    She is standing before a group of young Valkyrie who are being ready to be trained to hunt what they call the Tainted.

    "Every single kill judgment that a Valkyrie brings down must be personal. How do you take a life without it being personal?"
     
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  18. LostThePlot

    LostThePlot Naysmith Contributor

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    "Look, there's no I in team..."

    "No but there's a me. And if you want to do it right there's definitely no U."

    Presented without context :p
     
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    I once told some gobshite who was spouting about there being no I in team that there was no U in management
     
  20. EstherMayRose

    EstherMayRose Gay Souffle Contributor

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    Once seen on Facebook:

    "There is no "I" in happyness."

    "If you spelled it right there would be."
     
  21. LostThePlot

    LostThePlot Naysmith Contributor

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    There's so many ways to do that joke but damnit it's always funny.
     
  22. UnderTheMoon

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    My favourite joke by a character came to me one day and I'd like to know if anyone finds it funny at all -
    CONTEXT - two werewolves suddenly find themselves in possession of a human who is screaming rather loudly. They have to keep him alive and train him rather than hunt him down.
    "Hey, this is like that film, Three Men and a Baby! Except it's more...two men and a baby. Which I guess is pretty normal now."
     
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    LostThePlot Naysmith Contributor

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    It's funny but it's more of a groaner than a laugher.
     
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  24. UnderTheMoon

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    That's what I'm aiming for - he has quite a few jokes that definitely fall flat in other character's eyes, and makes them at the worst of times.
     
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    Corlixia sharing a bit with Janxica while shooting at the enemy in her war-frame with a light coil field gun.


    “Well to be honest,” I start, sending a twenty kilogram slug down range at my first target.
     
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