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Post by nick on Dec 4, 2011 19:23:47 GMT -5
For this type of stories, a teenager as protagonist is the most suitable choice because the school is the central part of Bully universe. I agree on him being sort of a poor to lower class delinquent and troublemaker, as someone well-off is unlikely to move to a town such as Bullworth. I suggest the protagonist be male, and not of white race, as we already have lots of Caucasian characters.
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Post by scg25 on Dec 4, 2011 20:14:42 GMT -5
How about a Hispanic character?
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Post by scg25 on Dec 4, 2011 20:18:51 GMT -5
If so we'll have to work on personality and character build. I can think up his build and post it here.
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Post by nick on Dec 5, 2011 8:27:56 GMT -5
Hispanic character is good. He could be a kid from Bohan, Liberty City, made to sell drugs from his childhood to provide for his family (that lacks a father).
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Post by professorpineapple on Dec 5, 2011 15:07:48 GMT -5
Sounds a little cliche, but maybe it can work. I'm still in.
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Post by UnknownTerritory on Dec 5, 2011 15:14:04 GMT -5
Seems to be a common trend among characters, hard past and all. I'm more comfortable playing my own characters, even playing another's has me worried I'll do a Sammy. I'll sit back and observe Good luck guys
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Post by scg25 on Dec 5, 2011 17:22:29 GMT -5
Maybe someone who is physically tough but doesn't exactly have a bad past. Like he has an abusive stepfather and never actually knew his real father. He's a good fighter, very well educated and lets say he has an alcohol problem as well.
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Post by nick on Dec 5, 2011 18:19:59 GMT -5
While that removes the hard past cliche, it creates a new problem: if our character is a well educated kid, and is not a poor streets product, then why the hell would his parents send him to the toughest school in the country located in a shithole of a town?
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Post by scg25 on Dec 5, 2011 18:53:19 GMT -5
He was framed for a crime he didn't commit. No matter how many times he tries to clear his name nobody believes him and he is sent to Bullworth.
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Post by nick on Dec 5, 2011 19:25:21 GMT -5
Isn't that a bit cliche, too? How many movies out there feature characters who have been set up and blamed for something they didn't do?
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Post by scg25 on Dec 5, 2011 19:35:25 GMT -5
Just an idea... I don't care which one we choose.
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Post by Memai on Dec 5, 2011 19:58:15 GMT -5
How about this instead:
If you want to go with the 'crime he didn't commit' angle, you could always just say that the courts couldn't decide on whether or not to persecute him. So they let him off the hook. His parents, however, have suspicion that him walking off free like that might cause him to go ahead and do whatever it was that got him into trouble, again.
So they sent him to Bullworth in order to straighten him out.
And remember, there's nothing bad about a hard past, it's just how you write it. CJ from GTA San Andreas had a supposedly hard life, but throughout the game he never does cry or whine about it, he just moves on.
Just sitting and watching from the sidelines, I'm more than happy to help with character development :>
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Post by nick on Dec 6, 2011 11:41:15 GMT -5
Interesting. However, to have a trial there must be a big crime. It would be a big deal if a 15-year old was tried for, let's say, murder, armed robbery or physical assault. It would probably be a several month long trial, too. Now if he would be found not guilty, I don't think that his parents' reaction would be to punish their kid by sending him to a school where he would be tormented because the fact that he was found not guilty would push him into committing crimes.
My idea is that the protagonist (for the sake of simplicity, in the further text he will be referred to as "Cesar") is a troublemaker who, despite not living in big poverty with his mother (who has a job) and baby sister, starts selling drugs to make extra money and that forces him to truancy. When he gets sent to the principal one day, the principal tells him that if he continues behaving that way, he will have to expel him from the school. Cesar tries to come to class more often, but once gets attacked by two racist boys (he's Hispanic, right?) and beats them both up. The principal has it, and expels Cesar. He searches for a new school, and finds Bullworth Academy. He has to travel to Bullworth all by himself to live in the school dorm.
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Post by scg25 on Dec 6, 2011 13:33:34 GMT -5
Just a question. Hispanics are EVERYWHERE. why would they target him over any other Hispanic?
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Post by nick on Dec 6, 2011 13:56:14 GMT -5
Alright...so they maybe saw him count some cash, and thought they could bully him into giving it to them or something.
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