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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Silverbane" data-source="post: 2887150" data-attributes="member: 38016">I think he means (and feel free to curbstomp me if I'm wrong on this) special, one of a kind, destined for greatness, chosen, a beautiful snowflake, extraordinary, unique, or otherwise better than everyone else.That is to say, are your characters more likely to be Kalel, the last of the Kryptonians or Fred Whippleman, employee number 45652?LatersilverEdit: And there's a HUGE range of variety in between those two extremes.  William Munney (from Inforgiven), for instance, is a real badass, sure, but he's really no more so than anyone else in the world.  It just so happens that he's a mean drunk.  John McClane (from Die Hard) is another example of that.  He's a New York cop, who just appens to be in LA.  So...  He's sort of special and out of place, but he's also just a guy who is in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Batman is a bit more on the special side, as he's privaleged, being the heir to an immense fortune, but still not superhuman, or with any sort of special powers.Luke Skywalker and Rand Al'Thor, on the other hand *look* like average, everyday people when we first meet them, but as it turns out, they are predestined to be bad-asses.  They've been selected by fate, or destiny, or the Wheel of Time or The Force to do what needs to be done.So...  It is somewhat difficult to drop some (a lot?) of characters into one of these two categories when there is so much grey area in between...</blockquote>

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