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Helpful things for action writers to remember

Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. 

Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes. It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. 

Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. An arrow wound demands medical attention. 

Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. 

Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Think about how long your character has been fighting. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. 

ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A lot of times people think that adrenaline will kick in and give you some badass fighting skills, but it’s actually the opposite. Adrenaline is what tires you out in a battle and it also affects the fighter’s efficacy - meaning it makes them shaky and inaccurate, and overall they lose about 60% of their fighting skill because their brain is focusing on not dying. Adrenaline keeps you alive, it doesn’t give you the skill to pull off a perfect roundhouse kick to the opponent’s face. 

Swords WILL bend or break if you hit something hard enough. They also dull easily and take a lot of maintenance. In reality, someone who fights with a sword would have to have to repair or replace it constantly.

Fights get messy. There’s blood and sweat everywhere, and that will make it hard to hold your weapon or get a good grip on someone. 

A serious battle also smells horrible. There’s lots of sweat, but also the smell of urine and feces. After someone dies, their bowels and bladder empty. There might also be some questionable things on the ground which can be very psychologically traumatizing. Remember to think about all of the character’s senses when they’re in a fight. Everything WILL affect them in some way. 

If your sword is sharpened down to a fine edge, the rest of the blade can’t go through the cut you make. You’ll just end up putting a tiny, shallow scratch in the surface of whatever you strike, and you could probably break your sword. 

ARCHERS ARE STRONG TOO. Have you ever drawn a bow? It takes a lot of strength, especially when you’re shooting a bow with a higher draw weight. Draw weight basically means “the amount of force you have to use to pull this sucker back enough to fire it.” To give you an idea of how that works, here’s a helpful link to tell you about finding bow sizes and draw weights for your characters.  (CLICK ME)

If an archer has to use a bow they’re not used to, it will probably throw them off a little until they’ve done a few practice shots with it and figured out its draw weight and stability. 

People bleed. If they get punched in the face, they’ll probably get a bloody nose. If they get stabbed or cut somehow, they’ll bleed accordingly. And if they’ve been fighting for a while, they’ve got a LOT of blood rushing around to provide them with oxygen. They’re going to bleed a lot. 

Here’s a link to a chart to show you how much blood a person can lose without dying. (CLICK ME) 

If you want a more in-depth medical chart, try this one. (CLICK ME)

Hopefully this helps someone out there. If you reblog, feel free to add more tips for writers or correct anything I’ve gotten wrong here. 

Omg

Kamski is the most interesting character in DBH fight me

No one is screeching about him and it needs to be done so let me just do it for all of you okay I got you we’ll get through this together

- I always thought that he’d left Cyberlife of his own accord, but the gallery description says that he was “dismissed.” What did you do to fall out with Cyberlife buddy?? SOMETHING TO DO WITH ANDROIDS BEING THE “NEXT STEP???” HMM???

- If the android uprising fails, he goes back to Cyberlife. Why? TO MAKE STURDIER DEVIANTS FOR NEXT TIME???

- If what Zlatko says is true, FOR SOME VERY MYSTERIOUS REASON the android’s trackers deactivate once an android becomes deviant. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE ENGINEERED THAT

- Why would you make the LEDs so easy to remove? Or even removable in the first place?? It almost seems like you WANT deviants to be able to hide in plain sight!

- The exit in Connor’s program doesn’t appear to work until he becomes deviant. HOW CONVINIENT THAT WHEN AMANDA NEEDS TO REGAIN CONTROL OF CONNOR THE MOST, HE CAN JUST HIT ESC

- KAMSKI KNOWS WHERE JERICHO IS. HOW AND WHY DOES KAMSKI KNOW WHERE JERICHO IS?? DEVIANTS APPARENTLY ONLY SHARE THE LOCATION WITH THOSE THAT THEY TRUST SO KAMSKI EITHER HAS A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DEVIANTS OR HE SET UP JERICHO HIMSELF

- Deviants are taking over Detroit. Where’s the guy who made them? Does he have anything to say? Is he shocked? Concerned? Oh please! He’s not even surprised! Or even remotely interested! HE’S MESSING ABOUT IN HIS POOL

- *Sends Carl an android to take care of him* “Surprise! It’s super-advanced, one-of-a-kind and if you nurture it enough (Which I know you will - I obviously know you on some level because I own one of your paintings!) it’ll lead a rebellion!”

- Names a basic DEVIANCY TEST after himself I MEAN REALLY

ELIJAH KAMSKI IS A CRAFTY LITTLE MAN AND NOBODY IS GIVING HIM THE CREDIT OR ATTENTION THAT HE DESERVES

Have A Nice Day!

hold the boy

Of course you don’t. Free college might hinder the school-to-prison pipeline your  prison owning donors depend on

No cabe duda que es verdad que la costumbre

Es más fuerte que el amor

Excuuuuse me motherfucker how dare you upstage me in front of my metaphorical son I will smack you upside the head Starlord my ass they should call you shitlord

LOOK AT TONY’S FUCKING FACE

Luther: GET AWAY FROM MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER! *fucking throws Ralph through a wall*

Ralph: We can be one big happy family!! Alice is our little girl, Kara, you’re the mother, and I’m the father!!

Luther: *deviates*

Oh, honey, she says that and MUCH MORE.

I HAVE A FUCKING QUESTION HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD THIS BEFORE ???? BEC AUSE I HAVENT EVE R IN MY LIFE

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