WriterDude

Hm... imagine if the castle is attacked?

"Sir, the castle is attacking!"
"The guards leave safety and attack us?"
"No, I mean the castle is litterally attacking!"

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lin

No I mean, The White House ACTUALLY DID shit on first ammendment rights.

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Jax1108

It's a good idea! Have you ever watched the movie "Howl's Moving Castle?" Different concept but....great anime. You should watch it to get some more inspiration

Anyway it's good you see stuff like this in your life! Makes it interesting and I am sure you'll be a talented writer.

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Warning: Contains mass amounts of cheese.

A Vaulter's Insanity

And if I grabbed you by the legs and threw you that far comparative to a whale, I dont think your legs would come off. Especially if your legs are really really meaty. And hancock can fly, Im pretty sure he can also not sink into sand using the same ability in a different way.

Dont ruin the movie for me. >_> I have to make up excuses every time somebody says something like that.

Anyways, the powers cool. Kind of reminds me of that disney movie. Was it called Monster House? Anyways, the power can be really cool if you use it in original ways. Like instead of making a house come alive, make the ground beneath his enemies come alive. make the juice theyre drinking come alive. This power has 3 possible outcomes the way i see it. Either a sort of playful 'wow thats really cool!' type of power. A "wow, thats not original at all" type of power. Or you can use it in a way thats so gruesome and original that it really makes people stand up and say "Its so simple, but its genius! If I had that power, I would do the same thing!" and get people to obsess over what you could do with the power because its so friggen awesome.


Imagine juice coming alive while someones drinking it...or someones shadow, or their tie as someone said earlier. It all depends o how you present it and how original it is. Its always up to the writer to really make something as cool as it can be.

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edropus

Against my will, I was thinking about this in the car today.

I was thinking about stipulations. Let's say that you had this power, but it added nothing extra to the objects you were animating. In other words, animating a chair would allow the chair to, at most, scoot around on the floor a little and maybe hop up an inch in the air. The chair is rigid; its 'limbs' are held together by nails and it has no flexibility. An animated statue could fall on someone, and that's about it.

The point being that the physical attributes of the object don't change. Inflexible stone remains inflexible stone.

In this way, only particular objects would be of any use. The most dangerous ones that popped into my head immediately were flexible but sturdy objects. A rope would be extremely dangerous. A scarecrow or doll could move around and throw rocks at you.

Etc., Etc. No point to this; just throwing it out there.

WriterDude

After some thought, I think the best would to go ballistic on this and give him as much powers as you want, but let it come with a price. If a guy could animate an entire village or city Transformers-style, destroy the entire enemy army and go to luch, it would be a pretty boring book. The good thing is it would be short as well. Instead, he could still have all those powers, but it could be very dangerous to use them.

If you have played many computer games, you have problaby heard about Baldur's Gate. One of my favorite spells there in summoning a powerful demon that can kill pretty much anything in sight without breaking a sweat. The problem is you only summon the demon, but you don't control it. This means it can kill all your enemies for you, but it will treat you as an enemy as well. What if the castle did this? The guy can animate the castle or even village Transformers-style, but he knows prefectly well the castle / village will attack anyone nearby? This again means everyone in the castle / village needs to flee first, and the guy will most likely die.

Another thing you can think about is going medieval-Transformers in a way, so the guy isn't actually doing anything to the castle. Instead, he discovers that the castle itself is a living being. No one controls it, but it can perhaps become an ally? The people inside the castle protects it, maintains it and all that, so if the guy can awaken the castle-creature, it can protect the people inside it and itself?

Either way, I really don't like not using idea because "it's already used". Instead, I like to take an idea and turn it into my own. More or less every single idea you can come up with is already used anyway, so unless we re-use old ideas and turn them into our own, the last book ever written has already been published.

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