avatar help?
Feb. 10th, 2010 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamlin_kitsuneokay - group huddle. Since most everyone I'm hooked up with here is either an author and/or a reader/reviewer that I respect I need some opinions (okay, I need LOTS of opinions).
Is Cloud out of character in avatar?
granted, I know he's not 'really' Cloud and he's playing the role a bit *cough*lots*cough* more aggressively than I should probably make him but, especially in chapter 2, is his core 'Cloud' or not? I need some solid assessment - pros, cons, stuff like that? And, if he's horribly off, is it something fixable or should I scrap and start over? I know there's not much at this point to go on because he's playing things close to the vest - I guess what I'm asking is - does he feel right (as silly as that may sound)? If I put a different name on him, would he still be recognizably Cloud?
Is Cloud out of character in avatar?
granted, I know he's not 'really' Cloud and he's playing the role a bit *cough*lots*cough* more aggressively than I should probably make him but, especially in chapter 2, is his core 'Cloud' or not? I need some solid assessment - pros, cons, stuff like that? And, if he's horribly off, is it something fixable or should I scrap and start over? I know there's not much at this point to go on because he's playing things close to the vest - I guess what I'm asking is - does he feel right (as silly as that may sound)? If I put a different name on him, would he still be recognizably Cloud?
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Date: 2010-02-10 11:38 pm (UTC)Cloud in Avatar is more forward than Cloud as he is portrayed in ACC and as depicted when incredibly pixelized. HOWEVER, ACC!Cloud is busy being withdrawn, and can you imagine them trying to render pixel-y Cloud eyeing pixel-y Tifa the way you know he must have?
Because he's Captain Pixel, game time Cloud leaves an awful lot to the imagination. We don't really know how much touching he might have been prone to (most of the game he spends running around on the screen alone). We do know that he had a bad-ass attitude, which would lend itself to flirting and such. And, given that he can choose to say he slept next to Tifa, I don't think Avatar's Cloud is being OC.
I will also note that there seem to be two schools of thought on game-time Cloud: either he is so busy being serious and attitudinal and showing how hard he is that he's unapproachable; or he's casual about his bad-ass-ness (like Zack) and he flirts. I prefer the second approach, although sometimes the first works better for certain fanfic plots. I would also think both Tifa and Aerith would respond to the second more than the first -- what's to be enamored about in an unemotional rock? =P
I also think maybe said reviewer is taking things too seriously. She needs to remember that this is someone pretending to be Cloud (who is pretending to be Zack!), not *Cloud*. AND, that there is something fishy going on in the game and he's trying to keep it from harming Tifa. (Which is a very sexy protective subplot, IMO.) As such, there's some more perverted dialogue going on as a front... I feel the reviewer missed that. ^^; But, anyway... there would be no point in writing it as an Avatar if the character were going to be a carbon-copy. No? The Avatar has to be allowed to bleed over a bit, right?