First Off
I will be talking about most of the writing i've seen/ read before I even dare touch the drawing aspect of the Undertale fandom.
Today I will be talking about the Story plot/ideas
Next chapter will be the writing aspect before we get into character stereotypes!
Yay!
I mostly write on this when I'm pissed off, so here's a rant! wait, thats the books main purpose. Wow...
First off I would like to ask long time fandom people to think about the community on each writing website they use, be it Archive, Watt, or Quotev, or others I don't know about.
Is there any patterns?
Any repeats?
If you said no, new or old...Your blind as fuck, and you need to open those eyes before I grab a spoon and pull them out of your skull for people who would LOVE to have your sight.
There are so many repeats of story arcs and patterns that it makes me physically sick from time to time.
Here's a list of them:
Human falls down adventures Mount Ebbot
The skeleton crew drops into someone's house
Oc or Y/N is a "normal" girl and suddenly there life changes when they meet the skeleton crew!
Person randomly meets one of the skeletons insta love or moves in with them.
Thats SOME of them, through out the years there has been ups and downs in the story telling part of the community, not all bad.
Some stories are good and rounded but abandoned in the end, I'll get to that more later on tho. As I will being giving my readers info to use!
Theses story promps/ideas. sparked what I'm calling "The Kiddo" Faze for it's what new writers do, or desperate ones fall back on thinking it will be fine. But it's not, it's a loophole as barely any of those prompts finish.
I like being open minded to these stories and read them anyway, thinking it will be good. But it never truly is.
There childish and cringy as hell! No one can take them seriously! Good writing starts with a good story line.
Every story is made because of a desperbance or dis imbalance in some way to the Protagonist. Whether it be a threat of change, something that is life or death, or even a threat to the morals of the Protagonist.
"Every action has a reaction" Newton's third law of motion applies to storytelling.
Yes the prompts have this but it does stick, it just happens. It's the same and it gets old fast, like when Sans calls the player a "Kid".
If you want the reader to stay then you must feed their curiosity, feed the adventure...
We write to leave this world, make our selfs feel good. But in the end we are selfish. The whole Undertale Fandom is nothing but Selfish
How do I know?
Easy
I did a test, still am. Made two stories, not at the same time but about the same length right now.
One in the beginning had no summary, no pic, but had plot heavy
the other, pic, summary, and more Y/N based than the other
The two are different but the same as when it's more about Y/N people do like it, When it's about an OC or random person, less are to like it.
But it was a small test across websites, not too big or held for too long. But by this I realized how self centered people are about Undertale.
People are toxic when it comes to getting there way and with the world changing as it is, there's gonna be more self centered people.
Not only in the Undertale Fandom but more of a reflection of the new age to come. The new gen Z to make their stand and make their mark on the world like the other generations have...
to summarize:
BE ORIGINAL
TRY SOMETHING NEW WITH STORIES
DON"T BE SELF CENTERED