What sort of hero would YOU classify Quentyn?

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What sort of hero do YOU think Quentyn is?

Ace
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Adventurer Archaeologist
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Atoner
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Comedic Hero
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11%
Knight in Shining Armor
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MarySu/MartyStu/GarySu
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Nature Hero
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Technical Pacifist
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4%
The Fool
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Other
13
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Every damn plot has been used and reused over and over again. Hell, the Wheel of Time and Sword of Truth series have basicly the same one: the hero must rally the good guys to fend off a great evil that threatens to engulf the entire world. They split from there (oh boy, do they ever split), but the basic idea is the same.

The real trick to writing is taking an idea and either giving it new life, or combining it with something no one ever has before. Like a girl's puberty and poltergeists haunting teenage girls. :roll: Think I read that somewhere...

'Course, if you don't have a decent sense of grammar and character development, it's likely your story will meet the fate of a soufflé in an earthquake. :P
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Post by Forewarned »

You left out the Cambellian Hero, which he was (according to the description thereof) when he was retrieving Wild Card
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He hasn't reached knight in shining armor yet, the only other choice that is even close. So I said other. Or perhaps he is a realistic KISA, since most hero tropes are not human but stereotypes.
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Post by BrockthePaine »

Having read through that list again, I suspect "Broken Hero" is just a tad bit closer to Q's personality, like Shyal said...
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Forewarned wrote:You left out the Cambellian Hero, which he was (according to the description thereof) when he was retrieving Wild Card
Er, you seem to be mixing sources. While Quentyn is a good example of "The Hero's Journey", as defined by Joseph Campbell, a Campbellian hero in the referenced dictionary is:
A hero who uses science, technology and/or super-science to save the day. A staple of science fiction and an expression of the faith that science will save us.

Named for John W. Campbell, the founder, editor and publisher of Astounding magazine, which set the mold for the golden age of science fiction.
The article goes on to point out that this should not be confused with the Hero's Journey from Joseph Campbell, nor with the average-Joe-in-over-his-head hero often played by Bruce Campbell. (Although Ash, triumphing over Dark Magic with his "boom stick" in Evil Dead, does count as this form of Campbellian Hero.)

Just to clarify.

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They also classify MacGyver as a Cambellian hero
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Forewarned wrote:They also classify MacGyver as a Cambellian hero
Yes, because he uses scientific principles to improvise his weapons and gadgets. But look at the things Quentyn used; except for the Lux battery, all of them had appeared previously. (And the Lux battery, as he points out, is something every Rac'Cona Daimh who's taken basic scouting knows how to make.) The Lux battery was the closest thing to "improvisation" in the lot; Quentyn just pulled things together from his species' knowledge base and combined them to get a specific effect.

I still think he's more of a Margaret Simon than anything else...

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