Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20171207232020/@comment-27447621-20180114185805

Glad to help, Marcellus.

Could you go back over that Backstory one more time? I got bits and pieces after a few readings through, but there are some parts I can't get much meaning out of. I saw that you mentioned his parents dropped out of the Academy, but what did they do to support themselves, if you don't mind me asking?

I don't think the Princess Bride reference is really distasteful;  if you make him ambidexterous (which can be learned), favoring his right hand, I think it could technically be done. I'd personally put it on a more playful character than Myrtle, though, as he doesn't seem the type to do that.

The Dust tattoos aren't really an issue, but what type of Dust is it? Gravity Dust is purple, and I don't think we've seen any black Dust yet...

Mainly negative interactions? I guess that's fine, but I'd still like to see how he and his teammates play together. Does one team mate in particular get along poorly with him because of his percieved rudeness? Is there a teammate who sees eye-to-eye with him? You can learn a lot by watching inter-team interactions.

Personally, I find that an allusion helps with naming the character, though it doesn't have to. If I may use an example, one of my characters, Ceann Kellas, is based off of the Cait Sidhe or Cat Sith, a small catlike fairy in Celtic mythology. The common descriptions of Cait Sidhe in oral tradition bear a striking resemblance to a Scottish wildcat called the Kellas cat, hence Ceann's last name- Kellas. Then again, coming up with clever names is one of my favorite parts of making a character, so it doesn't need to tie in necessarily.