Guest character design guide (nonfiction)

This article is a design guide for guest characters (that is, characters created by or based upon friends of the author).

Fiction is a strongly non-linear work: there is no "our story so far" narrative. There are only fiction pages, and non-fiction pages, and the text and images on the pages, and the links that bind them.

This design guide is intended to provide some high-level linearity for guest characters.

Enemies

• Have at least one essential nemesis, arch-enemy, etc. Drama is driven by enemies.

See Category:Supervillains.

Images

• Have a primary image for your character page.

Author's characters

I have two favorite characters who do most of the speaking for me, when I wish to speak in character:

• Havelock
• Lud the Gamer

Guest characters who want to interact with Fiction in character should probably approach one of these two characters.

Apollonian and Dionysian

Much of Fiction falls into one of two broad categories:

• Apollonian (nonfiction) "of or pertaining to Apollo (nonfiction)".
• Dionysian (nonfiction) - "of or pertaining to Dionysus (nonfiction)".

Fiction cross-reference

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