Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161112032800/@comment-25266931-20161112232548

HighCastle67 wrote: Those words are brought up a lot because they work, that's how a story is successful and rememebered. If your audience can't connect with the characters in your story, then what are you doing?

Im not for Mary Sues either but what i do with a story of character thats not relatable is try to take the audience out of its comfort zone. Try to get them to care about characters who arent normal. And why not? Theyre still people. Im more interested in odd or eccentric characters than i am average joes or janes. To me embracing eccentrity is more of a breath of fresh air. Although i will admit it has its limit. Sometimes like in One Piece too much oddness can make a character annoying. So when i write i like to find that sweet spot where the character is cool but still odd and unusual. Maybe even other-worldly. Kinda like the character Amatsume in Exist Archive. Just like people have oddball friends they still care about, with a little effort they can learn love characters who arent so relatable. If theyre willing to try.