Extremely Important Please Read! · 4:44am Feb 16th, 2015
Ya know I wanna tell you all something, something that's been bugging me.
Ever since I created Dante Knight, I haven't felt very comfortable with him as a character. His story is garbage I mean the adopted part of his story is fine but the real meat and potatoes of the story is just bad. Re-writing the story is just stupid and ridiculous every time I do that I end up messing it up.
I feel lost when I try to make up the lore of Solar Prince with a Walkers and all that, the real reason I made the lore was to have some conflict. And I've lost my roots with having Dante being just a normal guy dealing with life with friends and family.
Hell I loved the first time I wrote teenagers, having Dante as a guy who arrived in Ponyville with BG ponies as friends and having Roseluck in love with him, then him having sex with Rarity by a drunken mistake. I love it! I loved every second of it. But now I feel as if it's just crap and Dante is just another generic overpowered douche. I don't feel well making more about him.
I wanted to ask everyone who bothers to read the blog, do you like Dante? Do you think he's overpowered and do you think I should just scrap the story or re-write again for the sixth time with a different storyline without having powers and skipping a few months into the actual storyline of MLP:FIM?
I need people to honestly read this and give their opinions I need some verification if not I'm just stopping Solar Prince and focusing on my other stories.
I liked dante and the development of but at one point there was just one or two chapters in which so much happened I thought that I missed something so I ended up re reading most stories again to find at which key point changes Dante as a character is a cool guy but as for the story sometimes with so much stuff that doesn't stick to vanilla mlp I end up getting lost on how complex it shifts into
2800369 I know I liked my first teenagers story he was cool and helpful to his friends, but now I feel just awful writing about him.
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I would recommend rewriting him as a new person or just a new person/pony entirely I like your stories but they aren't very updated and if you feel so bad about writing him then make someone who you enjoy
2800387 so renaming him and giving him different traits and give him an entirely different personality?
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you don't have to completely end Dante but give him subtle traits and a humble beginnings or perhaps you could make a new character like Dante or keep Dante but a different version kind of like multi-verse theory
2800403 so let's say a shy Dante who likes helping others but doesn't know how to and removing the walkers and everything that has to do with the current story?
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basically a shy/humble Dante who was found and adopted by a common family living out in the steppes far away from the most other towns or cities producing a shy nature and working the steppes such as farming and carpentry which gives him humble pride in his work and a good cover for the "odd Jobs" he does in wherever you wish to place him and he moved out while he was young due to a calling from rags to riches or any form of wanderlust in which he gains the attention of the mane six and also royalty but not adopted into it and you can decide if he is just a friend of the crown or if he works for it also find a good balance between the ife and conflict aspect
I'm not sure what the walkers are like I said I got lost
so what do you think
2800438 developing these storylines and how they interact with the main six and royalty aren't my strong suits, the whole reason Dante arrives in Equestria as a baby was to avoid how he got there and how he came to befriend the main six
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(this can be before the story or during)
okay how about growing up in ponyville Dante lived shelled off from others due to his appearance, with an adoptive family, his first friend being pinkie who he learned accepted him for who he is and after the events of nightmare moon he is introduced to others in the cast of the main six and befriends them as well I'm not sure about the involvement with royalty it could have been possible that Dante has helped the 6 before.......
How about that he grows up in ponyville with a developing friendship with the six and being one of their true friends he has helped them and slowly became recognized by the bluebloods of canterlot
2800496 hmmm interesting...
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If you plan on having the Nightmare is Dante's mother thing that could be said and adds drama in the mix or can be taken away with no ties if you plan on starting fresh
my advice don't create to much custom made lore it gets difficult and can expose a hole in something else which could be tossed aside or completely question the foundation of the story keep the story around 75% vanilla with 25% of custom Lore that way you don't strain yourself trying to think of a Logan's loophole
2800523 huh that's actually not a bad idea though it'll be weird too he's human not pony
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their wasn't blood test and are you the parent shows back then at least I think there wasn't he could be part pony however the human phenotype is BB dominant and ponies are Bb dominant or bb recessive
2800605 so he's more human then pony and he doesn't have any magical capabilities what so ever?
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Well my philosophy on magic is if you don't have it it doesn't affect you plus I think humans are badass even without magi to boot but like I said he could be part pony or not pony whatsoever i'm pretty sure a majority doesn't care if a protagonist has magic and two minorities who want/don't want magic human perhaps you can operate with the magic of humanity......adrenaline/stamina/mind all are key features of what makes a human powerful maybe you can use one of those
2800649 hmmmm interesting ideas thanks for the second wind of inspiration it'll really help
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just make sure you don't forget me
you're gonna go far kid
Okay. I'll be honest. I like the whole walkers things. It's very interesting to how Dante try to balance his life between of being a prince of Equestria and a sheriff of the spiritual world. Yet, I liked 'Teenagers' more. Dante's main struggle was balancing his love life while keeping the amount of ponies that know he is a prince to a minimum. The only reason you took that down what because the admins got on you for Dante being 17.
You are the author. If you don't like what you are writing, unless you are getting paid for it (which you are not), trash it. The readers may not like it, but it's your decision. You write what you are comfortable with writing. Just let the readers know what you are doing and why. Also, make sure what you write, you will be able to finish it. Maybe you and Hero can collab on it.
BTW, when did Dante have sex with Rarity in 'Teenagers'? Or was that something you planned on doing?
2801085 that was when I first made teenagers. A long time ago, it gain a lot of popularity and I decided to make a instance where Dante wakes up next to Rarity during Twilight's sleepover. Not remembering much aside the Dew's drinks he shared with Rarity. Which would lead to a rivalry between Spike and Dante, which also lead to many instances where he'd try to talk to his main love interest Roseluck into forgiving him.
2800670 true
I have been trying to keep up with Dante since Vices and Virtues (if you have those n file could you send me a copy never got to finish) you have, with each time found a new way for the story to go that I haven't seen, and you blend it flawlessly into his character that it seems. To me in Solar Prince he seems to be under equipped in the living land so no option problems. Seems to me your mixing in old Dante and there powers into each new Dante subconsciously so you see him as opposed. I for one hate seeing you scrap your old stories and percent people from old Dantes to the new ones. Just know that we, your dedicated readers will support you in any move YOU make and will help in any way we can.
I for one, to quote a famous line/last words from my black friend(no racism intended):
I like the walkers idea it is interesting to see him try to balance that with the rest of his life. However I don't really like Dante as a character, he feels like an asshole. But as the writer if you don't like what you are writing, get rid of it, writing something that you don't like is no fun.
2803132 best quote given all day
2803249 I never meant Dante to be an asshole, it's just when I write I try to for in situations that fit in but yeah i see your point this carnation of Dante is pretty much an asshole. I'm working on another story of Dante that'll hopefully help my woes.
2803805 Okay. And by the way have you gotten in contact with SonicBlitz18 he has been trying to contact you.
2803884 yeah we just ended an idea session a few hours ago.