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Thank you for nominating me for such an award! It's a very welcome surprise, and I'm happy that The Legacy of Edmund is worthy of such a nomination. Naturally, I must congratulate the previous award-winners, including @Ran Miller, and I'm glad that the rebellious Hrodberht was an interesting character to read about.
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With my week now over--and it being quite difficult to choose between the excellent works in AARland, I'd like to open up the Best Character Writer of the Week to nominations.
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Always interested in your work @Koweth .
Please let me take the opportunity to nominate @Revan86 for the character Fara Rychnovská in The Leading Spirits in the Victoria 3 subforum. Although she was not part of the last chapter from last week, she is one of the central and best characters in this interesting work that blends history book style with narrative plus some gameplay too. Congrats @Revan86 !
Please let me take the opportunity to nominate @Revan86 for the character Fara Rychnovská in The Leading Spirits in the Victoria 3 subforum. Although she was not part of the last chapter from last week, she is one of the central and best characters in this interesting work that blends history book style with narrative plus some gameplay too. Congrats @Revan86 !
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Congrats @Revan86. Fara is a favourite character of mine, among many good ones in your AAR.
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Thanks, guys, and especially for the nomination, @Chac1!
I love writing Fara Rychnovská. I have a special place in my heart for her, similar to the one I have for Árpád-Hotin Czenzi from Lions.
She's kind of an 'accidental' character, of the sort that crop up a lot in Paradox games. A lot of the impetus for her existence in the narrative, came from my background research on the Tât people as part of an explanation for how Iranians somehow wound up settling in Astrakhan in my EUIV game. To be honest, I based her on several Armenian and Russian women I went to church with, along with an Iranian neighbour of mine whose husband's car I wrecked on accident (long story), three Dari Afghan triplets who are students at the high school I teach at, a couple of my Iranian FB friends--and, of course, my wife. I also took some inspiration for her from the life of the Russian-Jewish populist revolutionary Rosalia Bograd.
Fara's very much so an introvert where Czenzi was an extravert. And unlike the more down-to-earth, pragmatic Czenzi, Fara has a mile-wide Romantic streak in her. She loves passionately and with single-minded conviction, and occasionally relishes the thought of herself as a tragic heroine. But she also faces real struggles apart from that. Literacy was very much out of the reach of most ordinary people of her class and culture - but I loved showing her fight for it, and I felt like she kind of deserved that 'win'. Also the ongoing clash between her and her exacting German mother-in-law is something I take directly from my experience of seeing my wife deal with my mother (and trying to navigate where and how I should step in - always a dangerous proposition!).
Anyway, thanks again for the award, and I'm glad you guys are enjoying The Leading Spirits. Fara's role in that story is far from done!
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Thanks for those insights @Revan86 .
Basing characters on folks you know is always helpful, especially if there are dynamics between several characters that you wish to lift into the story. Well done.
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Many congrats, @Revan86! Most well deserved.
Been over a week and with holidays and such, understood. But let's not leave this lagging. Do you have a successor?
Been over a week and with holidays and such, understood. But let's not leave this lagging. Do you have a successor?
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Apologies for the delay! The successor I have in mind for character writAAR of the week is @Darknotez for Nations of Steel - United Nations of Earth AAR. The portrait-script format takes a bit of getting used to, but Darknotez has an excellent 'ear' for character voice, allowing someone to get a good picture of the characters without a lot of narrative explication.
In particular, I enjoy the underhanded politicking of Monica Foster at the UN, as well as the studied vanity and desire for scientific plaudits of Captain Liao Ru of the Enterprise. Just two of the characters worth mentioning in a cleverly-written and very character-driven AAR.
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Nations of Steel is definitely one of my favorites in the Stellaris sub-forum. So I too send my congratulations to @Darknotez . I hope he sees this though as he hasn't been in the forums for about six weeks and that very good AAR hasn't had an update this quarter. Hope he returns soon to see these plaudits.
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Thank you @Revan86 for the endowment! I have no words to appreciate this. Thank you again. I understand your struggle to getting used to it, and since I already promised a good friend, I will look forward to adapting Part 1 (Once it's finished) into a novel-like structure and write it alongside the portrait like AAR. This should be easier for those who read. And my apologies, the AAR is currently on-editing mode, I will spoiler-hide all posts until they're finished with the restructuring.
Thank you, dear @Chac1
Have no fear, I am here. Currently reading your Lost Seasons of the Danes AAR. And sure enough, you will see the story of Part 1 end hopefully soon!Appreciate it, @jak7139! I would honestly step in and perhaps stop you from reading it now, until I'm done editing it! But hey, it's a free world and it means even more to me that people love reading it.
The characters of Monica Foster and Liao Ru will also be expanded far too much to compress in a few words. All I can say is, if you love reading about Sci-Fi Exploration and Politics, then there's nothing stopping us from expanding those themes, which were written on the shoulders of giants.
Thanks again for the award! All of you stay safe.
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I've really enjoyed 'Nations of Steel...' and hope you get back to it when ready. Monica and Liao are wonderfully crafted characters. Congrats, @Darknotez.
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