Tag Archives: color-coding

Color Code Your Villains…or Not.

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Rii the Wordsmith

You should all be fairly familiar with color coding in storytelling. But for a quick overview, it’s taking color symbolism – black is evil, white is good, etc – to the level of marking the moral alignment of a character, sometimes (oftimes?) … Continue reading →

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Other Assumptions

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Rii the Wordsmith

There are just some things that are always evil. Always. Bringing back the dead, for example, is always evil. Except when a god does it, or when they were only mostly dead, or when it’s Joss Whedon/Marvel, or- Okay, okay, … Continue reading →

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