u/LyKhra

Balancing a cast is hard with 16+ characters. Not all characters would get the same level of screen time, yet they can still feel fulfilled and important on par with the others even if not exactly.

I have heard of the recurring problem where once a character dies, especially if they’re the victim, they are usually forgotten, brushed aside or just there.

So, have y’all seen a fangan or multiple that have made incredible and satisfying use of all their characters. This could include works that aren’t even finished yet.

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Edit: Oh god, I forgot about this post 😭. Thank you for the recommendations everyone. I’ll come around studying these responses, hopefully in the not-so-distant future.

Been brainstorming a high quality shitpost Fanganronpa for about a month now. Sooo much progress done that I think I’m ready to start writing the entire outline and the Prologue.

Decided to draw this guy, made this rough character sheet…

Commentary & questions would be very appreciated…

Anyways yall should see this eel in all its glory https://youtu.be/-MjcTmsFy3s?si=4jl9XRM4_W9CDgT9 !!!!

y’know how before The Fangan really even starts, or have only Prologue and Chapter 1 out, there are usually these things called Prediction Charts?

People not only guess who’s gonna be victim vs Culprit, but also the exact chapter they would take on the role!!

And curious part is sometimes a strong sentiment in the WHOLE fandom guesses at least a Chapter‘s culprit or victim or both correctly :0

How does that work, how does a character screams Chapter X role among so many?

Need to know for… development reasons hehe. Like, is it normal to believe that your Killing Order is too predictable for no reason clear reason other than probably You're the creator?

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I’ve been having a burst of questions lately and things I want to talk about, though I don’t want to spam the subreddit with ~10+ posts per day 😅 (Sorry if my constant appearance so far have been overbearing!!!)

There had been a few questions of character screen time balancing that I’ve witnessed. I think of character screen time balancing a lot, it really impacts my brainstorming process as I may be too hesitant on thinking of scenes/dynamics for some as I thought they’d gotten too much or too little, too obvious they were going to die or the need to compensate with early focus BECAUSE they were gonna die sooner.

However I’ve been hearing about/even personally seeing so many examples of even regarded as highly well-written fangans (P:EG, DT, DRA1, Official games, etc.) having huge problems with this, which is pretty fascinating. I thought I came up with a fine technique of assigning them all mini “relevance roles” and make chapters longer, but am I wrong? Perhaps it’d be poor pacing. Is it even possible to make satisfying roles and screentime of each character, while still keeping up the core premise intrigue? What are Y’all’s secrets?

Ive asked this in the discord server but nobody replied yet heh- nvm

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I’ve been always overthinking and dreading how any Fangan I make would be received. If it gets popular enough especially cause it would mean whatever I do would have a huge impact.

Like Wondering a lot about making any potential fan devastated by killing or perchance ruining their comfort character. Having fan artists or cosplayers delve into a character only for it to develop into a repulsive character. Fanservice reaction, Portraying something personal to me that rubs viewers wrongly, giving the wrong message or starting a fandom war, letting them down etc.

I few times I heard that the Creator of Despair Time had to take a hiatus because Fans of a Certain character kept harassing them for killing their favourite off which is hmmmm…

So any other sorts of responses, reactions and behaviours could arise within a fandom of a Fanganronpa? I consider myself as fragile as a Window😅

p.s some comforting would help too please uwu))

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