My conputers dead right now and currently in the shop getting fixed, so I’ve been spending the past two days writing and planning a story about Ben Paul being the main protagonist.
I’m hoping to give more back story to characters who had very little dialogue or little to not screen time throughout the game. Like Irene from season 1, for example; the only things we really got to know about her from her dialogue was that she was possibly Christian and that she had a boyfriend but thats it. We didn’t even get to know her name, we found out through the credits.
I want to give her a backstory like she and her boyfriend were in the middle of a roadtrip to see the world before Irene could continue her education, but their car broke down and needed to be repaired and that’s why they were at the motel.
Stuff like that. I also want to change certain characters fates, especially those who you are given the option to save and then die later or in the same episode.
*COUGH* Sarah.
But obviously, I’m stuck on some characters, especially those in season 1. So if anyone has any ideas of traits or back stories of characters they like from the walking dead game, I’d be happy to hear them and discuss ideas.
(Title is still a work in progress!)
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Headcanon that if Ben,Sarah,Duck and Clementine lived. I headcanon that Ben would get writing burnt onto his back (Like Clementine with AJ on her wrist). It would be kids on one side and their guardians who he promised to look after. (Carlos, Kenny, Lee, Alvin and Rebecca). Of course it would burn like hell but Ben would fight through it, since he’s been wanting to do it since it was just Kenny and the kids.
Matt will be able to make it back to the lodge around the same time as Emily, which means he will be THERE when everything goes down in the safe zone!
Jessica will be there with Mike in the asylum, which could potentially mean that she's able to get back to the lodge WITH Mike.
Basically, I can't stop thinking about the fact that Jessica and Matt get more screen time in the new Until Dawn remake.
(when will they drop a release date already!?)
I was reading some peoples opinions on reddit about certain characters. Like some people were talking about hating Eleanor, rightfully so and then I found some people hating on Kate.
I absolutely hated the relationship between Kate and Javier and how TellTale attempted to force them together every chance they got. During my playthrough, I avoided any romance between them, because; 1) Kate is David’s wife, bro code, yknow? and 2) I always go the platonic route in games.
Also, I don’t know if I’m remembering this correctly because it’s been like a year since I’ve played season 3, but during the garage scene, Kate will either kiss Javi (if you accept her confession) or go, “Tell him, Javi” (if you reject her). Like, WHAT! Tell him what? That I rejected you because I only see you as a friend?
Honestly, Kate is a great character, but I find her kind of annoying with all the forced romance shit, like even during her confession she talks about all these ‘moments’ we had. What moments are you talking about? The one where I I didn’t kiss you? Or the one where I pulled my hand away when you deliberately pulled my hand back when your hot headed husband was literally walking into the room?
Kate doesn’t deserve a lot of hate she gets, her character’s written fairly well, it’s just how she’s written in game. Her character outside all the forced bs is good.
Idk :)
I know a lot of stuff was scrapped due to Covid-19 getting in the way, but there's always potential for a remake (I can only hope)
Making the two save options ACTUALLY let you save Max/Nick. The only thing we get from that are different dialogue lines.
Number 1 is also a reason why we should add character relationships and traits back. Don't get me wrong, I like the pause menu for The Quarry, I think it's super unique, but there's plenty of space to add relationships and traits back in. That's what made Until Dawn so unique, especially when you do a deep dive on character traits changing with your dialogue options. (like for example, Mike's honesty goes down when he tries to comfort Jess).
I also think more options in the game that would change characters fates in different chapters would give a larger variety of story. Like for example; instead of Max getting infected, it's Laura whose infected and Max has to go out and kill Chris. Instead of Jacob getting captured, we have Emma captured. Instead of Nick getting infected, we have Abi infected. This would definitely give more characters some screen time and from someone who thinks characters in a story bring everything together, would allow people to select characters they like in order to give them more screen time over other characters they may not like as much. (It's sort like watching a horror movie but not being invested in what happens to a character you don't like).
Change chapter 8. From someone who has replayed the game several times in order to get 100%, I found chapter 8 to be the most boring and repetitive out of every single chapter. I understand why they made the chapter that way to explain what happened to Laura and Max, I just don't like the execution of it. Especially when we've been following 7 other characters for 7 chapters and now we're focusing on 2 characters we haven't seen since the prologue.
Removing plot armour from Ryan, Laura and Kaitlyn. These three characters can only die at the very end of the game, which sucks, since I really don't care for Ryan or Laura. I know they're fixing that with Mike and Sam in the new Until Dawn remake, allowing them to die earlier, rather than at the very end of the game. (And I know Chris is also getting an alternate death that is a chapter earlier).
When they first announced The Quarry, they said that each character would have several ways to die in the game, which obviously, was not the case. More danger would definitely up the risk factor of the game.
Adding additional scenes for those infected after the curse has been broken. For the characters who have the ability to turn into a werewolf post-curse breaking is; Max, Emma, Nick and Dylan. BUT, we only get Max and Emma scenes. I would've loved to see Nick appear again and be super disorientated. Along with Dylan, who would obviously be searching for Kaitlyn.
Adding scrapped dialogue back in to make scenes make more sense and more fleshed out. Kaitlyn's whole, "You done?" line makes zero sense without Dylan and Ryan's scrapped lines.
Making the ending better. I thought the ending of The Quarry SUUUUUUUUUUCKED. We get this intense car chase with Silas and then we find him curled up in his cage? BORING. It was super anti-climatic (and I get it, covid happened) and should've been more fleshed out.
Also, FIX LAURA'S HAIR!
Sometimes I just sit and laugh remembering that Tara had beef with a 10 year old.
While looking for a good photo of Jean from 400 days to draw (which was a struggle), I came across a reddit post about a character named Asha which was scrapped from the Final Season. And I was like WHAT! I had no idea this was a thing, the character design of her was a little weird cause it shows her with Season 1 Clementine and there’s a sketch which looks like she’s arguing with an older Gabe. Apparently there was nothing in past scripts that actually included Asha which is a shame. There’s also this other character that was scrapped, Jill who was also scrapped from the Final Season. The only thing I really found about Jill is she’s described as a wanderer and Clementine would of met her during the old Final Season.
I’m sure there are alot of scrapped characters but these are the first two I’ve actually found. Would you include Sandra in scrapped characters? As she was going to be added into flashbacks of Season 3 but was replaced by back story of the Garcias, which still pisses me off. I really didn’t care for any of those flashbacks. I’ll make a seperate post of me ranting on about how Sandra should’ve been added into flashbacks of Season 3, if I remember.
:) idk
Headcanon where James (season 4) and Alex Fairbanks are brothers. In this au, James is not as pacifistic, only resorting to killing walkers to defend himself and Alex. Alex is 15 in this and James is 20 since this sets scene in season 4 and Alex was 7 in the Michonne game, and it’s been about 8 years since in the final season it says Clementine’s 16-17. James and Alex have been wandering for years, using their skills they learnt from the whisperers to move around herds. Alex doesn’t like using the mask a lot and likes to take breaks every now and then to at least eat. Instead of calling them walkers, Alex refers to them as Wendigos. James wasn’t as close to his Grandmother, so he was never told about Wendigos. Similar to Aasim, Alex has written alot of what has happened through out his life, and how much he looks up to James. When they meet Clementine and Aj, and she offers them to stay, Alex gets the biggest smile he’s had in years. Finally, they don’t have to keep walking, they can settle down, just like James said, with people they can trust. James isn’t that trustworthy, but agrees, to make Alex happy.
I'm about to finish my Killer Klowns from Outer Space fanfiction featuring two protagonists.
And my brain just went, "Hey, you have other protagonists, why don't you throw them into different horror movies and write them!"
BUT my brain ALSO went, "After writing all of them, you should then throw every single one of your protagonists into the same story"
Thankyou brain. I appreciate your existence right now.