Feel like being bad?
Good. It's about time. Here are a few
suggestions for applying for the Disharmony of your
dreams:
1)Spellcheck, spellcheck, spellcheck.
2) Be a fan. Or hate them completely.
It's your interest that'll carry the whole thing off. You're not
going to want to write about something you couldn't care less about,
are you?
2) Give the character something no one
else has. Look at the other Disharmonies/Senshi and make sure you're
not overlapping. The song titles or lyrics of your chosen band will
practically HAND good ideas to you. Be wildly creative.
3) You don't have to be flatline evil.
The world isn't black and white; no sense having fantasy go there
either. Maybe your Disharmony has a softspot. Maybe he/she could end
up falling in love with one of the Senshi...or another Disharmony.
Plain old evil for it's own sake can get boring. Com-pli-cate things.
It's hard to just play one note all day. Even if your band only
knows three chords. :) 4) Remember, you're not talking about
individual personalities in your band of choice. For example, Milli
Vanilli did lose a member to suicide; but your character is the sum
of Milli Vanilli's career and the personalities of everyone who
was/is in the band. You're representing a band; you're not a band. If
your band's music were to gain a life of it's own, well, that's your
character. 5) Subtlety is as
cool/funny/obnoxious/evil as being blatant. Frontal attack is not
always the way. Sabotage gets the job done, too, you know. A
Disharmony behind the scenes--or in plain sight but looking
innocent--is sometimes worse than the one out on Main Street knocking
over a building. It's hard for a Disharmony to hide from other
Disharmonies or Senshi--you're on each other's wavelength, basically.
But to plain old human beings, you'd be another Joe Sixpack. So you
can actually walk into Tower Records and steal the CD's of your most
hated Senshi's band. Or at least put them out of alphabetical
order.... :) �
