Hey guys, I wanted some advice for my story. Note: My story will have art scenes on how I specified the character. (Do you guys mind the art scene not looking like the character?) Should I include character customization?
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Comment below the reasons I should or shouldn’t include character customization? Thanks for feedback!
If the story has certain factors that plays with how the MC looks then CC should not be included.
Besides I love reading without CC because of the art scenes, overlays and everything else!
If you make the readers make them self while still having the MC that could work to make everyone happy I guess.
I feel like less readers would be interested in my story if there is no character customization. To be honest I actually like character customization but if there is no character customization, I lose a little interest in the story. That is why I am asking for your opinions so I can see what the majority perfers. So I can make the majority happy and enjoy reading my future story.
In my first story, I didn’t offer CC for that reason and I got a lot of complaints! For my second, I let people do almost full CC (eye colour is an important part of the story, so that was limited). I just put in an author’s note letting people know that there would be art scenes, and if they changed too much she wouldn’t match those scenes. That way my readers had that choice of sticking to the art scenes or not matching them. From the screenshots I’ve seen, most of my readers either didn’t change my MC or changed her very slightly to their preferences so she still matched the art scenes. It feels like the best of both worlds to me!