>>488222488222

You're right, it was both.  I'm in the same busyboat with finals.  And fimfiction has a habit of only emailing me once-in-a-blue-moon when it feels like it, so yeah.

>>488203488203

I can't tell if that's a subtle "nudge nudge, please stop being a hermit and come out with a new chapter soon, it's been over two months! " or if it's just a, "hey, Static World is awesome."  May be a bit of both?

Either way, it should be the first one.  Which believe it or not, I am actually working on it still.  I just have had no time since I started my new job.  So far the new chapter is about 3k out of 10ish k words.  But!  I'm working on it!

So please do come back and check for updates (or I guess just have it set up to email you when the updates come in)!  

Yep, Static World is seriously my favorite story ever.  It's very well thought out, the plot is intriguing, the characters (especially Discord) are very well written, seriously Discord's writing is bloody fantastic, the world building is there in perfect amounts to where it's obviously there but not obnoxious, and pretty much all of my headcanon is based around this story.  I've stopped coming on here very often because I've been busy with schoolwork and an audio project I'm working on, but I still check to see if Static World has updated.  Seeing an update makes my day every time.  Okay, done now.    Get back to work writing awesome stuff!  

>>383599383599

Writing Discord is the most fun I have writing, and I'm glad that most of my positive comments are based on his dialog and actions.

When I'm going to do a scene with Discord, I pretty much just let him run the show.  I know what Discord's motivations are and I let him dictate how the scene should play out.  He's omnipotent so I really don't have to worry too much about him doing something that would seem overpowered.  In Static World, a lot of his early scenes were in dreams so I could literally have him be as sadistic and crazy as I wanted to as the ramifications of his actions were wiped clean the next day.

Discord's motivations are pretty simple:

Cause chaos.  Have as much fun doing it as possible.  Play games for no good reason.  Stoke his own ego (be narcissistic).  Tease the fuck out of Celestia and Twilight.  Make sure that even though he can brainwash anypony, that Celestia, Twilight, and Luna are always doing things of their own accord (it's a sweeter victory that way!).

When I have him brainwash someone I try my best to make sure he gives them a chance to "go bad" themselves before resorting to magic.

His poison tongue is the funnest part of him to write.  Particularly when he's trying to "convert" someone.  Since I am in control of all the characters I have knowledge of what their weak points are and I just focus on making sure Discord's words hit hard.  The easiest way to do that is to look at what areas I've previously written badly, i.e. out of character moments for Twi or Luna that exist for the plot, but I didn't really take a lot of time to explain.  I converted a lot of these plot holes into nice little gotchas when Discord picks apart actions.

As for dialog, I make sure Discord always sounds like he's in charge or that everything he's doing is for a reason, even if you can't see it.  It makes him sound like he's got every little detail planned, even when I don't.  And I comb his dialog very carefully to make sure he never lies.  I sometimes stretch and twist his sentences in a way that makes it so he weasels his way around a truth, but still he can always say "Ah, but I never said X".

For his jokes and such.  I just come up with creative situations and then... go out of my way to make the joke.  He's Discord!  He might spend hours working on one bad pun!

Finally, just like he was in the show (or at least in season 2) he has a very chaotic personality.  I have him go from menacing to silly without any warning.

And when all else fails... I have him quote Q from Star Trek.  

When writing Discord, what do you "go" for? That is to say, how do you go about writing him? HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO WRITE HIM SO WELL!?!?

Ohey code lyoko

Ah, another Lyokian.

>>5871958719 Yeah I simply just ignored all the complaints about the foreheads I mean heck my forehead feels large and I am also kinda disappointed in the live actors despite the fact they auditioned to kids in France for the role but hay we still have the animated Lyoko scenes and those were one of the best parts of the show

>>5869558695

Live actors?  Aw... I always liked the animated parts, even the foreheads....  Should be... interesting.

>>5845558455 absolutely not I would never joke about Code Lyoko unless to say that's not strange its Odd or something that was actually funny because it would be mean of me to joke about season 5 to a fellow fan of the show, but no Google it, its called Code Lyoko evolution its going to be live action apart from the Lyoko scenes apparently, with younger actors but even if you don't like that its still Code Lyoko returning for a 5th season