Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-30179626-20180629093221/@comment-30439574-20180705200926

Nabukun wrote: Well I don't think it's a good method, not bad, but there are definitely better methods imo.

What usually separates the good Stand from the bad Stand is that the power is thought with an unusual mechanism. A good Stand doesn't shoot rays. A good Stand doesn't make something happen just because it's here. There should be a trigger, even as simple as the Stand touching something. Frankly, you can always look at the XMen and then add a restriction to a power.

You should also expand your sources. You should look at many more things than songs. There'll always be a song to name your Stand with, the name is not important.

Look for illnesses, especially mental disorders. Look at everything around you and ask yourself how you'd die from it even if it involves a stupid scenario. For instance I invented Champagne Supernova which when you drink it, makes you attracted to a star in the sky and make you "fall" into the sky, forever. Look for verbs. For instance "dry". What if a Stand dried you to death? How can you use a chewing-gum to attack someone.

Look outside the box, seek esoteric beliefs. Araki use cryptids, fengshui, pseudosciences, religion to fuel his imagination, no reason why you shouldn't.

Instead of imagining powers, for one-off villains, imagine a scenario like a mugging, and then ask yourself how the villain can make it easier through a Stand.

Here I just imagined a chewing gum. You chew it, you stick the gum on something, and that something will inflate until it violently explodes. Now it's a chewing gum Stand, where does it come from? Does the User produce it automatically, at which interval? Let's say he's got a Pez dispenser that always deal chewing gum. Let's say he's got to chew it until it's not solid anymore. What's its name?... What about Sugar Shack from the Phish? I like the song. Here it is I got a Stand.

Then I'd build a character from the power. He chews gum, he sticks them somewhere. He must be laid back, surely a little disrespectful, surely young. What about being a girl? A kid? Or go for the contrast and make it someone mature and respectable looking? I'll decide later.

I'm going to use this from now on. Not just for Stands, but everything ever write.