character allignment

[Caliban]

Ok I am starting to see a pattern emerging, with my match last week and the 2 this week I am writing for 11 different characters and 10 of them are fuckin heels, I know we can't choose for people what their alignment should be and that heels are infinitely easier to write, BUT and this is a message to our new guys or more experienced guys making new characters, it's going to get very boring round here without heros and villans, heel promos are easy to write but heel vs heel storylines are messy and can get a bit out of hand and hard to keep track of 

I would like to suggest something, instead of having an alignment maybe focus more on pure personality remove the aspect all together and let the alignments fall as the stories do if a natural villain grows out of it then so be it but either way its just one guys in the wrong one guys in the right and they fight kinda thing I dunno it's 3 am and I'm baked and rambling but still the first paragraph was totally relevant 

[Dean Wolf]

I think Mikey and I did a good job of making Mikey a practical face in his feud with Bernard Core if anyone wants to look to that as an example.

[Henry Spearman]

Jun 1, 2016 2:10:58 GMT -5 Caliban said:

Ok I am starting to see a pattern emerging, with my match last week and the 2 this week I am writing for 11 different characters and 10 of them are fuckin heels, I know we can't choose for people what their alignment should be and that heels are infinitely easier to write, BUT and this is a message to our new guys or more experienced guys making new characters, it's going to get very boring round here without heros and villans, heel promos are easy to write but heel vs heel storylines are messy and can get a bit out of hand and hard to keep track of 

I would like to suggest something, instead of having an alignment maybe focus more on pure personality remove the aspect all together and let the alignments fall as the stories do if a natural villain grows out of it then so be it but either way its just one guys in the wrong one guys in the right and they fight kinda thing I dunno it's 3 am and I'm baked and rambling but still the first paragraph was totally relevant 

I agree. The booker should be the one deciding face and heel alignment.

I think Neforian will be a face very soon though. It wasn't my intention but the further I write into the book of Neforian the more I feel like a real life crowd would eventually start cheering him. I'd say within a month he will have a turn and a fairly decent change in character and personality.

I agree though, these things should he organic

[Thomas Uriel Bates]

Bates was a face, but now I'm moving him to an Anti-Heel. He has his Code of Honour, and it requires him to stand up against the bad guys. He can be quite brutal about it.

[Oblivion]

That's why turning Oblivion super face that much important. How vile, disgusting and much of an asshole before. Then, but with perfect timing with so many heels, it was the right time for the big guy to switch sides. He was sliding, having issues, then boom....!!!

[Lilith]

If Lilith was a real life character I'm sure she'd have a good fan base (when she targets the heels) sooooo I'll be sort of playing her as a chaotic face/neutral

[Deleted]

I think cause it's harder imo to write as Faces most people prefer Heels.

[Seth]

Yeah, and I'd rather people just write whatever they want. Heel versus heel matches can be fun - I always imagine the crowd ends up siding with one of them in that scenario, it happens. Depends on the situation.

It probably says a lot about the human condition that everyone always gravitates towards being bad guys because its easier, lol.

[Psychopomp]

Jun 1, 2016 9:25:48 GMT -5 Seth said:

Yeah, and I'd rather people just write whatever they want. Heel versus heel matches can be fun - I always imagine the crowd ends up siding with one of them in that scenario, it happens. Depends on the situation.

It probably says a lot about the human condition that everyone always gravitates towards being bad guys because its easier, lol.

It takes a lot more effort to be nice than to be a dick

[Oblivion]

I personally agree. Heel verses heel matches, depending who they are, can be awesome.... Oblivion verses Greenfever.

[Caliban]

I dunno I just thought those numbers where interesting and thought Id point it out I thought it would make for good conversation

[Teo Blaze]

I'm not entirely certain I'm a heel yet.

Time will tell!

[Caliban]

to be fair though your one of the better face writers we have

[Thomas Uriel Bates]

I'm leaving Bates' alignment up to y'all. There's a Feedback thread with a poll. Cheer, Boo, No Reaction, etc.

[Seth]

I think a fun gimmick would be running a character who never gets any crowd reaction no matter what he does and his gimmick is that he's insecure about it.

[Stuart Slane]

Jun 1, 2016 16:52:59 GMT -5 Seth said:

I think a fun gimmick would be running a character who never gets any crowd reaction no matter what he does and his gimmick is that he's insecure about it.

That's sort of what I've been doing with Slane, except it's more everyone not buying he's really a good guy and that waiting for the other shoe to drop has muted the crowd's reaction to him.

[Caliban]

Jun 1, 2016 16:52:59 GMT -5 Seth said:

I think a fun gimmick would be running a character who never gets any crowd reaction no matter what he does and his gimmick is that he's insecure about it.

That would be a great owner or general manager gimmick, have an owner that the crowd just gives the silent treatment too the way atti era crowds chanted asshole at vince or hire a general manager the crowds never seen and spends all his time just trying to get them to pop for him once, then 3 months later have him fired and have the arena sing nana goodbye as the only noise they ever made for him