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E.B. Andrews
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Ever wonder what makes iconic characters tick? We do! Join us as we delve into the deepest corners of your favorite movie and video game heroes (and villains!), dissecting their motivations, choices, and transformations in bite-sized, in-depth character analyses. ️
Expect thought-provoking discussions on character writing, exploration of psychological depths, and heated debates about moral ambiguity. We'll break down iconic scenes, unpack hidden symbolism, and leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about these unforgettable figures.
Whether you're a seasoned cinephile or a passionate gamer, we've got something for everyone. Dive into the darkness with Darth Vader, soar with Ezio Auditore, or fight alongside Ellie Williams as we unmask the heroes and villains within!
Subscribe and never miss a breakdown! We'll keep you up-to-date on the latest character studies, and engaging discussions.
Let's explore the fascinating world of characters together!
Expect thought-provoking discussions on character writing, exploration of psychological depths, and heated debates about moral ambiguity. We'll break down iconic scenes, unpack hidden symbolism, and leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about these unforgettable figures.
Whether you're a seasoned cinephile or a passionate gamer, we've got something for everyone. Dive into the darkness with Darth Vader, soar with Ezio Auditore, or fight alongside Ellie Williams as we unmask the heroes and villains within!
Subscribe and never miss a breakdown! We'll keep you up-to-date on the latest character studies, and engaging discussions.
Let's explore the fascinating world of characters together!
How to Write Magic Systems -- Overview: Attack on Titan, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Avatar
Mastering the Mystical: Crafting Captivating Magic Systems Like Avatar & Beyond (Writing Lesson)
Does your magic system feel more like parlor tricks than a force that shapes your world? Unleash the power of a well-defined magic system! Dive into iconic examples from Attack on Titan, Harry Potter, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars, and Death Note, and learn how to create magic that's both awe-inspiring and integral to your narrative.
This writing lesson explores:
Defining the Rules and Limitations: From bending elements (Avatar) to wielding the Force (Star Wars), magic needs structure. We'll analyze how these worlds establish boundaries for their power systems.
Magic & World-Building: How does magic arise and influence the societies in your story? We'll delve into the rich tapestries of Avatar, Harry Potter, and Attack on Titan to see how magic shapes their cultures and conflicts.
Magic as a Plot Device: Is magic the solution or the source of problems? Analyze how Death Note and Star Wars use their magic systems to drive conflict and character development.
Whether you're writing fantasy, sci-fi, or any genre with fantastical elements, learn how to build a magic system that elevates your story to epic heights!
#writinglesson #magicsystem #worldbuilding #fantasywriting #fictiontips #creativewriting #avatarthelastairbender #harrypotter #attackontitan #starwars #deathnote
Does your magic system feel more like parlor tricks than a force that shapes your world? Unleash the power of a well-defined magic system! Dive into iconic examples from Attack on Titan, Harry Potter, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Wars, and Death Note, and learn how to create magic that's both awe-inspiring and integral to your narrative.
This writing lesson explores:
Defining the Rules and Limitations: From bending elements (Avatar) to wielding the Force (Star Wars), magic needs structure. We'll analyze how these worlds establish boundaries for their power systems.
Magic & World-Building: How does magic arise and influence the societies in your story? We'll delve into the rich tapestries of Avatar, Harry Potter, and Attack on Titan to see how magic shapes their cultures and conflicts.
Magic as a Plot Device: Is magic the solution or the source of problems? Analyze how Death Note and Star Wars use their magic systems to drive conflict and character development.
Whether you're writing fantasy, sci-fi, or any genre with fantastical elements, learn how to build a magic system that elevates your story to epic heights!
#writinglesson #magicsystem #worldbuilding #fantasywriting #fictiontips #creativewriting #avatarthelastairbender #harrypotter #attackontitan #starwars #deathnote
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I like Zuko because he looks like my channel picture but with a scar.
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Keep up the great work! This channel will explode eventually!
Thank you for the support! Let me know if you have any topic ideas.
Love your videos mate!
Thank you my dude! Let me know if you have any ideas for future videos.
Can’t let gang know I fw millennial fallout video essays
Real underground youtube
Bro how do you not already have at least 500k subs? Your tone and delivery are so fire.
We’ll get there soon enough. You get to be one of the first thousand though, so that’s pretty cool. Thank you for the support!
And you do deserve way more subscribers!
Great video thank you! I've watched this film about 10 times now and it just keeps getting better!
Wow, I do not expect this to be so high quality, continue the good job 👍
When you eventually blow up, get an increase in production value, and get 500k subscribers, remember I was here appreciating everything you were putting out and thinking to myself “Oh yeah, this guy is going places.”
Also, I highly recommend watching LocalScriptMan and SavageBooks for editing ideas. They’re both writing channels and I think you would like them a lot.
Holy crap, how has your channel not blown up yet? This was incredible, walking the ever-so-fine line of commentary that adds and deepens what we've just seen without blandly stating the obvious "so this just happened" sort of thing. Thank you so much, I've just started digging through your content and it's incredible. As an aspiring author, this is so incredibly useful as I'm trying to iron out a remarkably good-hearted character set in the most morally vicious dilemmas war can offer. Thank you again, so much.
Oh dude that’s awesome. I didn’t think anyone actually came here for writing advice. I just thought it was for the laughs. Hopefully you keep getting value out of the channel. Thank you for the support!
@@E.B.Andrews actually I subscribed because of your writing advice videos. Now i am more than pleased and at the same time confused that you had produced such great and thoughtful essays on interesting topics that had less than 100 views. I'm currently writing a story myself and always look for new advice to compare it against. You really have some fresh new ideas or rather a way of breaking it down that isn't just the same writing rules most channels regurgitate. Keep up the good work, its just a matter of time till the algorithm promotes you to a wider audience.
still waiting for the explaination or link to a full video that works
Check it now. Should be linked.
5:25 this was a key factor in aot's showing, every weeks we were left on a cliff hanger wondering what would happen for a week 6:40 yeah isayama definitely fucked up the ending smoking fent bruh. 8:50 believe it or not, before the reveal, I guessed it right that eren was in control in a different point in time veiwing the first episode and guiding Dina to his mom, I still cant tell you why he did it but I guessed that right, and then something else i realized, is eren did the same thing during s2 and led dina towards them and hannes ends up being eaten, potentially to further breakdown and keep eren on track and unlock the power of the founder, but I was somehow able figure that out so eren seeing into the past and future did not come as a surprise rather than a shit, I am starting to predict this.
Eren should have finished the rumbling
Using a baby hamster for Carla's death is peak humor
"I'd have to make my money off youtube to recoop my loses" I had to make a quick check and noticed that you match the requirements for monetization (or at least basic monetization)
Amazing video man! I love both Attack on Titan and fantasy writing so this was such an interesting video for me. Gonna watch your other videos right now and I'm excited to see what you'll upload in the future
We did see Eren's ability to see the future in the past - We know from episode 1 that Eren somehow sometimes sees the future - We know memories are a weird thing that can be shared through weird ways like touching a royal blood - We know king Fritz' will overwrites the mind of the titan shifter if it's royal blood, meaning memories can travel through time - We have several references to characters kind of hallucinating memories, the most obvious one being the Owl and his reference to Mikasa and Armin - We know that somehow the founding titan acts like a god of eldians - It is mentioned that for some reason the attack titan can see the future sometimes and nobody is sure why - We learn that time in the paths dimension is a weird thing - When Eren is looking at his father's memories his father doesn't see Eren, he sees Zeke, implying he is seeing through Eren's eyes, implying that the memories can travel backwards somehow Finally Eren gets control over the founding titan and it all snaps together, Eren's been reading memories and sending memories back
Yoo this was good!! Hope you get big bro
The only real cheating was when Reiner did his "transferring consciousness to his body"-shite in the fight for Shiganshina. Never was hinted, never was given a sensible explanation in the context of the Titan powers and never came up again, just an excuse to have a false death twice.
What I always felt fascinated by (well, when it got revealed) was how biological Isayama made his magic system in AoT. You can write a bunch of methods to have a piece of someone serve as the "source" for the magical power, drinking someone's blood or eating their heart are very tropey methods of "transferring" some power from person to person, but then you say something so out of the ordinary and weirdly specific like "spinal fluid". "That's a concept a scifi series would be more likely to use, they even something scientific as injections", I sit there wondering. "And that seems so impractical of a power source, almost as if the power doesn't exist for the convenience of use. Is there a reason why specifically spinal fluid?"
The peak of villanous villanity.
We were actually given hints about Eren being able to see into the future from the very first episode! Before Eren wakes up, theres flashes of events that have yet to come, like the wall being broken, or Tyber being eaten! If you pay attention to the end of Season 3 Episode 12, theres a really out of place glitchy teaser for the coming events of Levis choice between Armin and Erwin, but it wasnt just a glitchy design choice. It was Eren! Sending memories (of the future) back to us the viewer! To get use to do what he wanted (which was to keep watching). Everyone is a slave to freedom, even us.
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I haven't watched the video, but I'm confused... Magic system?
Check out this week’s video (May 11th). I go over what magic systems are. Thank you for checking out the channel!
This is really good how does it only have 5 likes?
Less than 1k subs???????????? The quality of this video is fantastic! Also the points of this video are imo spot on, and bad magic systems can feel so cheap.
This perfectly explains why the power system in jjk is bs
I desperately don't want to explain the magic system in one big exposition dump but it also is starting to seem like the only way to eliminate any misunderstandings about it...
Damn. You don't know how much I like AoT's magic system. I wanted something similar. I searched the whole internet and found no major analysis. Thanks for this video.
I feel like having 1 or 2 characters cheat the magic system is not too bad of a thing, so long as the way they cheat it is consistent. For example, toji's heavenly restriction in Jujutsu Kaisen sets him directly outside of the bounds of the power system by just giving him absurd strength and literally removing his access to the main magic system, but you don't see anyone complaining about it because the way he breaks the magic system is consistent and cool.
Can I just say, you have excellent humor and the dry delivery of it all is perfect for the video essay format.
facts
Eren's ability to see into the future was displayed in one of the first scene of the first episode, where he dreams of a bunch of things, including his mom being killed. When he wakes up, he has tears in his eyes, which Mikasa comments on.
i agree from your example of attack on titan. and it show that perspective is one of the important aspek of it. also that rules that intended to makes boundaries of that said magic like in real life and make logical sense. to me i have a question, how to tells a viewers that set rules of the implement the magic system in the world where everyone include your protagonist already knew everything of that magic system? it become sorta like everyday use in the world of that. the the source, the rules, the limitation and many more like in my hero academia, but more fun?
Subbed. Gonna screenshot your subscriber count to prove that I was here when you were less than 600 haha.
Just found this channel, and dude, your quality and dedication to both these 10-25 minute videos and long format 1 hour + videos are definitely underrated.
Bro you are really good. Looks like youtube shadow banned you. You have a good mic, a good analysis. But, if I can give some advices, tell us until which season you are gonna spoil (I finished Peaky Blinders but I'm thinking about your others videos). And maybe, don't put long metaphor. Like Tom Brady, ok he's famous on the US, but "only" on the US. You miss a lot of english-speaking people from all over the world, people can stop the vid if you speak during 1min about an athlete they don't know, if they don't understand your jokes and parallels, they'll leave. Otherwise, you are doing a good job. Share your videos, and they will have a lot of views. (Maybe change the fonts of the thumbnail too, they don't look like as professional as your mic and analysis do, that's unlucky) Good job. Thanks for the vid. And sorry if my comment sounds negative, I've tried to make it constructive... 👍
You forgot the 5th rule: In your magic system you have to have the ability to lose it all.
I love how at 8:49 the lighting ring above the Vault-Tech meeting looks kinda like an expanding pressure wave from a nuke!
Your analysis would've been perfect if you had mentioned that this "new power" of Eren's was actually foreshadowed, so in a sense it wasn't a total surprise.
I think there's a bit of a debate on whether or not the power of the Titans could be considered magic, as there's bit more of a science/biology aspect to it. Then again, the same could be said about vampirism and lycanthrope.
In terms of storytelling, I just lump everything outside our laws of physics as magic. I talk about it a little in yesterday’s video, but overall, the same loose rules apply. We just wanna keep our story logic consistent.
Great video, always love me some Attack on Titan content but this was informative too!
This is so massively underviewed. The quality is of a 500k+ sub channel
I appreciate that my dude! We’ll get there. I might go crazy well before then, but that’s half the fun.
On a basic level, I really liked how there wasn't power scaling as much as there was "punch -> turn into bigger person -> punch but bigger"
Yeah, we see whenever ERen fights another shifter that it's still down to which of them is better at martial arts
Great video dude!
Appreciated my dude. Gonna keep em coming til I go crazy/run out of ideas.
More like: How NOT To! They all had ZERO emotional weight. And there was ZERO connection between them. No true love. No real friendship. Nothing they did had real consequences. Now compare all this with The Last Kingdom's great story and wonderful characters, and everything I said will become painfully obvious!
Save mikasa armin if you want to stop this cycle
I really enjoyed the Fallout series, with interesting characters. I have never played the game, so the reveals were very interesting as the story progressed. Well-developed plotting and well-written characters with emotional content.
Will you make how to not version or a second part of it? I am talking about Paths and Founder Titan since it destroyed how the magic System work
Awesome analysis. I recomend Brandon Sanderson’s free lectures on yt. They are a goldmine for creative writing from one of the biggest in the game
Great vid! One complaint though is the bleep around 3:30ish mark. It was just way too loud and abrupt. Literally took me out of the entire thing to write this. Just somethin to keep in mind in future stuff? Anyways good shit