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Oh. WELL! I has an idea to help your writing if you want it.

I'm all ears, though I really don't want to write anything where someone dies without absolutely having to.

That's not what I was gonna say!

Oh. Well, I usually do try to have my characters not be insanely overpowered. In fact I usually try to give them weaknesses. Though, that doesn't mean some characters are insanely overpowered for villainy's sake. To give my character something to strive for. Say the villain is insanely powerful, but my character manages to subvert that with intelligence and cunning instead of sheer strength.

Change that "are" to "aren't".

You don't have to kill off a character for no reason, just have the crap beat out of them on a semi-regular basis. Take Zu for example. She's one of my strongest characters, but she isn't anymore powerful than a standard foot solider, she's just more skilled. So while she (usually) wins in the end each fight takes effort and she does get hit by the enemy.

Is there any reason why you just copied that entire paragraph and gave it to me again other than to make me feel like I missed a point?

And then there's Lightning. <3 She's a lot less emotional, so she rarely shows how much of a struggle a fight is, but she's beat up a good amount to. Garu...not so much. He's mainly the support guy that offers covering fire, so there hasn't been that many opportunities for him to get beat up. *something to work on ^^!!*

No I made a face palm spelling error that I wanted to fix. ^^'

Oh. XD I thought you were trying to drill a point into my skull when I already got it.

Nope. Sorry about that. XD
Anyway does my wall of text you ninja'd into the middle of make sense?

Yes, it does make sense.

HURRAY! So do that. Since I ever see your characters getting really banged up.

In a story I never even bothered to show, Xevnas got beat up to the point of having to retreat and/or collapsing several times. So I know how to f*ck up my characters. XD

Well examples from a story you never showed is not helpful. XD
So if you know how to do it then do it more often gosh darn it!

*salutes* Yes ma'am drill sergeant ma'am.

HEY! I am not a drill sergeant: I'm a general!

You referring to that thread you made a while back? XD

Eh?

The DMC.org army thread?