Writing fight scenes requires a delicate balance of action, emotion, and detail to keep readers engaged and immersed in the moment.
Here are some tips to craft compelling fight scenes:
Know your characters: Understand their fighting styles, strengths, and weaknesses—are they offensive, or defensive? Spontaneous, or strategic? Trigger-happy, or reluctant? Their personalities and motivations will influence their actions and decisions during the fight.
Create tension: Build tension leading up to the fight to increase the stakes and make the action more gripping. Foreshadowing, verbal sparring, or physical intimidation can all contribute to a sense of anticipation.
Use sensory details: Engage the reader's senses by describing the sights, sounds, smells, and physical sensations of the fight. This helps to create a vivid and immersive experience—but make sure not to overdo it. Too much detail can distract from the adrenaline of the fight.
Maintain clarity: Ensure that the action is easy to follow by using clear and concise language. Avoid overly complicated sentences or excessive description that could confuse readers.
Focus on emotions: Show the emotional impact of the fight on your characters. Describe their fear, anger, determination, or adrenaline rush to make the scene more compelling and relatable.
Include strategic elements: Incorporate tactics, strategy, and improvisation into the fight to make it more dynamic and realistic. Think about how your characters use their surroundings, weapons, or special abilities to gain an advantage.
Balance dialogue and action: Intersperse dialogue with action to break up the fight scene and provide insight into the characters' thoughts and intentions. Dialogue can also reveal or support the characters' personalities and motivations.
Keep it concise: While it's important to provide enough detail to immerse readers in the action, avoid unnecessary padding or overly long fight scenes. Keep the pacing brisk to maintain momentum and keep readers hooked.
Show the consequences: Illustrate the aftermath of the fight, including injuries, emotional trauma, or changes in relationships between characters. This adds depth to the scene and helps to drive the story forward.
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RACISM/OFFENSIVE STEREOTYPING
general issues: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7
SAMIRAH:
- arranged marriage: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4
- hijab: 1 // 2
- response to rick’s post: 1 // 2
- nickname “sam”: 1 // 2 // 3
HAZEL:
- general issues: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6
- physical appearance: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9
- fr*zel: 1
- white/lightwashing: 1
- (bonus: fancasts/faceclaims/art references)
PIPER:
- general issues: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4
- physical appearance: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9 // 10 // 11
- relationship with tristan: 1
- cornucopia: 1
- response to rick’s post: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4
- (bonus: resources masterpost)
SADIE:
- whitewashing: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9
LEO: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5
REYNA: 1 // 2
MALLORY: 1 // 2 // 3
PAOLO: 1
THOMAS JEFFERSON JR: 1 // 2
latine rep: 1 // 2
eastern asian rep: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4
indian rep: 1
southwestern asian rep: 1 // 2
antisemitism: 1 // 2 // 3
- LAVINIA: 1 // 2
the monsters and racial coding: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4
the gods and dna: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4
camp jupiter and the confederacy: 1
cultural appropriation: 1 // 2
white supremacy: 1
racism centric post with additions on leo + paolo + antisemitism: 1
ANTI-LGBTQ+
- general issues: 1 // 2
- nico’s romanticized forced outing: 1 // 2
- lesbophobia: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6
- ace/aro rep: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4
- transphobia: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4
ABLEISM
- general issues: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9
- r-slur: 1
- clovis: 1 // 2
- solangelo: 1 // 2
ABUSE
- leo: 1 // 2 // 3
BIG AGE GAPS
- general issues: 1
- annabeth and luke: 1
- black female characters: 1 // 2
- female characters: 1
- apollo and thalia: 1
MISOGYNY/SEXISM
1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8
FATPHOBIA
1 // 2
ACNE
1 // 2
UNDERAGE ALCOHOLISM
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Danny was a lot younger when he woke up in the labs containment chamber, lets say he's at the tail end of 14 and Tim is (still) 17. Niether is ready for a child or has any idea how to care for one.
Danny still decides to go with the alias Daniel Nightengale so that no one knows his real identity. He still has no idea who trapped him in the thermos or why but he finds himself working with one of Red Hoods gangs because no one else will hire a 14 year old and pay him enough money to raise a kid.
Also because he knew Red Hood and Batman notoriously don't get along so Red Hood could (hopefully) be convinced to give him some protection against the big bad bat if they ever got the chance to meet and he couldn't turn to charity's for help because CPS would 1000% take his baby away from him if they were contacted. So gang life it was. At least his powers made it very easy to do the jobs assigned to him with relative ease, he just had to make sure no one knew he had them.
The biggest difference in the au is that Danny stays in Gotham even after the Batman tries to intimate him into giving up custody. This unfortunately escalates to Danny running through the City of Gotham in the dead of night trying to escape the batman with his literal infant after the Dark Knight tried to take him by force from thier crappy abandoned apartment.
He somehow winds up in Red Hoods territory and the vigilante was very confused as to why this terrified teenager was blubbering and begging him not to take away his baby. Needless to say he and Batman get into an actual brawl once he hears the whole story. Turns out Batman didn't tell anyone Red Robin had a clone baby and was just planning to show up one day with the baby and raise it as thier newest brother.
Jason wasn't about the let that happen and opened com links to everyone else and ratted thier dad out. He had noticed the teenager had escaped with the baby but he didn't care about that at the moment. He needed to beat up his dad.
Red Robin did eventually track Danny down that night and cornered him in an alleyway. He winced at the look of terror on the others face. He didn't think he had ever seen someone so scared of him before. He approached with his hands raised in surrender, speaking softly about how he just wanted to see his son. How he would have loved to meet them both under better circumstances and he had no plans of taking the baby away from thier parent (he wasn't going to mention that the other bats were already referring to the other teenager as the "mother")
This miiight escalate into a global game of "Where's Waldo" with the entirety of the Justice League and its affiliates searching for him. But if there's one thing Danny is good at, its hiding in plain sight.