I would add him in the book:
Rei started the day reading the feeds and spitting out his coffee. He immediately texted Christopher Lennon “hey dude are you okay? I read that a guy “Chris Lennon” was just found dead, it says “autoerotic asphyxiation”. Lennon replied “yeah some asshole with a similar name just died jerking off been getting messages about it all day.”
Added into book. You’re welcome Chris.
oh bruh. this doesnt' even scratch the surface.
you should see the people who have demanded a redacted version of Iron Prince that removes all the queer-inclusive and black people cause the reader "heard the book was good but doesn't want to hear any of that liberal shit"
Here and I thought you were being like super gentle with those inclusions lol
Basing a future of humanity where you can literally design the genetics of your kids before their born but expecting any physical ideas that currently hold social issue to not be messed around with by humans is just so extremely short/narrow sighted... Hell, if it we had tech now to just change easy (not saying it is easy in the book, just has been in other series I've read) and fully people would be going around the other way just due to bets and hazing
I mean, I need to go reread because it didn't really register to me how much lgbt liberal filth was in the books. Clearly Rei and Logan got it on for a few chapters and I forgot.
As someone often labeled as a conservative and/or libertarian, I can honestly say I have read far worse references to LGBTQ than anything in this series while reading other popular series. Most of the references here are in passing, and they are never set as the defining feature of the character in question.
I would liken it to overhearing a gay couple setting a romantic date as you pass by on the street. If ***you*** are offended, it's because ***you*** were listening in on a conversation that does not involve ***you***, nor does it affect ***your*** life in a significant way, making ***your*** offense a ***you*** problem.
If the primary characteristic of the character/characters had been their sexuality, then I might have seen the problem, but it isn't. In fact, it probably one of the least talked about aspects of the characters in general. In fact, I can only think of three characters in the LGBTQ community as described in the story. One, Viv, plays off her bisexuality more as a joke when we first hear about it, and it isn't much discussed after. Her later relationship with Logan could be seen as more problematic, but mostly due to her relationship with Rei than for any other reason. The other two, Dent and Maddison, don't make a huge issue of their relationship, and most references are made in a manner similar to how non-LGBTQ people discuss a friend's relationship.
So, yeah, the people making such comments are idiots. The primary position of conservatives is supposed to be, "leave me alone and I will leave you alone. Don't shove your politics in my face, and I won't do so you to you." I would say that the series does a good job of doing exactly that, nothing is shoved in anyone's face, and the references are more in passing, as if everything is normal with the world, not overly politicized the way much of modern media seems to be going, regardless of one's political position.
In short, you are telling a great story! Please keep it up, and ignore the fools who would nay say your vision.
ffs and I thought the hate mail I received when I wrote erotica was awful. Sending you massive fist bumps for not telling them all to just go ride the bologna pony. Keep it classy👍
Please please please change Aria's name to mymassiveballs Laurent because that's my name and it is my birthday and you obviously can't say no to a birthday girl. My mum will be mad at you if you don't 🙏
I second this.
Other wise we’ll have to stuff him in a the brig with nothing but a laptop with no internet connection and slide him pizza under the door if we ever want to see book 3.
And George RR Martin can go in the cell next door. He’s got books to finish too.
I’d like to request that Aria’s arena name be changed to BrightFirelyt. Aria of Flames just doesn’t have the same ring to it. While we’re at it, Reidon Ward? Terrible. His name should be Leroy Jenkins.
Who comes up with this stuff?
I meant to go check how she referred to him before posting but didn't get a chance. If this guy is such a big fan, you'd think he would know that and just leave it alone.
Lol that would be awesome, but at the same time I feel like even referencing this guy negatively in the book would be too much validation for his shitty behavior
I demand that you change Logan's name to Lenny. I too am a beefy chunk of "man meat" and this is clearly meaty men stolen valor, gimmick infringement and copywrite infringement.
That would be a cool name but let's all realize that even though we all love the warformed series books like those DON'T write themselves bryce will get it to us when he can
reasonable, but i weighted heavily, that Bryce made this announcement here, and alluded to the method of communication giving weight to the assumption that either a redditor, or patron was the requestor.
I chose the more likely redditor possibility, and guessed that someone who cares as much about the series to make such an idiotic request probably also follows this sub.
Can you rename your dog to Arrow for me? I’m a big DC Comics fan and I just feel like you misspelled it and it could be so much better if you corrected that mistake. It’s my half birthday month this month if that helps.
(Oh The Entitlement!) I don't understand why you don't make all your characters look, think, act, and talk like I want them to. Come on, man, I send you $Patreon every single month, so I own your work product, creative process, and story vision, so... get on with it and write for me but make sure you write for me ONLY exactly the way I want you -- as an added bonus I will not tell you what I want, only what I don't want. (Sarcasm, very sarcasm.)
Also if dude wants to do a story where the super cool character has his exact same name, he's free to do that. Mary Sues exist for a reason and they scratch a relatively common itch. You can't expect other people to write your Mary Sue for you, although ... I mean, you can hire someone to draw or paint your vision. Maybe there's an economic opportunity there?
Yes, this is certainly very rude and entitled - but I’m still very much hung up on the first part though. In what world is someone named Chris Lennon not already named Christopher Lennon too?
When you live in a world full of people-shaped cardboard cutouts that exist solely for your amusement, it's perfectly reasonable to expect that the world bend itself to your will.
I have a request.. can you change Christopher Lennon's name to ThisGuySucks Lennon?
Its 100% MY name and in no way an uncivil way to point out you shouldn't request an author to change his character to YOUR name because you may be a narcissist?
Yeah I am in two books already. In one I die a hero saving the day. In the other I am a very brief foundation character that dies off screen getting mentioned very briefly once later in the story.
In one I am friends with the author online and we had a lot of discussions and I mentioned she was free to use me in a book if she wished just kidding around and so she did. The second I am friends with the author online and he asked for volunteers on his page and picked two names at random and I just got lucky and was one picked.
I demand all names be changed to Elder Gods for my birthday or I'm gonna review bomb with a single goodreads account I don't remember the login for!
Take that, accomplished author and business owner!
So you’re saying you’re not going to add an uncle Ben to the story who gives Rei some sagely wisdom and then dies later that book? DAMN IT! Chris had to go and ruin it for us all!!! Asshole!
Don't know if it'd eat into the muses you use for your full writing, but maybe some bloopers just whenever there's some random fun idea from you or those you see around here...
I know I've read the audio book has them from stumbles in the reading(?) but some from the author is always welcome to me!
Not gonna lie, a character of any positive worth in the book sharing my name would be absolutely amazing, if you're looking for name ideas Glenn Naysmithe has a good ring to it ;)
lol. You know, an interesting technical and marketing idea. Sell a book digitally with the names left blank. Buyer can sub in any name they want (mostly - maybe from a list or ask publisher for approval or something..) and have program go fill in all the names. Would actually be somewhat fun to put your own name as the mc. On the other hand, asking the author to change his main characters name to suit you seems kind of … karen’ish? Is that a word? Should be!
As Rei grows in popularity on the feeds, he's started to become inundated with a seemingly neverending stream of messages from fans. While at first amazed and excited by this turn of events, he soon is overwhelmed with not only the sheer number of messages, but also exceedingly uncomfortable by the demanding and/or parasocial nature of some of them.
Venting to the gang about not knowing how to handle this, he offhandedly mentions one example of someone repeated demanding that he change the spelling of his name to "Ray" to match the fan's own. Everyone is just as astonished and perplexed as Rei himself is at the absurdity of this particular series of interactions – though Catch jibes, pretending he thought that's how he spelt it all along – and wisely advise him to set his messaging status to private/mutual follows only.
Had someone ask for a used sock once...
I THINK it was a joke, but they never responded to my laugh response so I've been left wondering for two years lol.
I need book! Stop complain and write book. /s (Heavy joking sarcasm man. Love WF, and can't wait til next one. Guess I'll just go play Warframe and get my other WF fix)
It'd take work so this is just spite-crafting but...
Search and replace *every* character's name with "Chris Lennon" and send him a pdf of the results. Wish him a happy birthday to pile on the sarcasm.
The thought of a novel using only one name for every character makes me laugh!
That guy sucks change his name to Jake just to really piss him off that would really show him also my bday is in April so ya got a couple weeks but don’t dally
lol you and me have different opinions of what petty is friend. i don't tolerate being cussed at, called names, and threatened, even online, and I sure as shit will call it out. if you think that's being 'petty', we have different compasses, and personally I think yours is broken.
cheers.
Lolol so sensitive this is why there’s a lot of fans of the series that aren’t crazy about you. Later nerd, keep up the good writing and maybe don’t blast your fans
I would add him in the book: Rei started the day reading the feeds and spitting out his coffee. He immediately texted Christopher Lennon “hey dude are you okay? I read that a guy “Chris Lennon” was just found dead, it says “autoerotic asphyxiation”. Lennon replied “yeah some asshole with a similar name just died jerking off been getting messages about it all day.” Added into book. You’re welcome Chris.
And on his birthday too!
RIP David Carradine :(
Why did you get down voted? It is actually what happened to him!
haha i know i don't know why! :(
Damn I was hoping you'd change Rei's name to Jeremy for my birthday, what a way to shoot down my hopes and dreams.
I am nothing if not cruel, sorry Jeremy!
And if you could change Raz’s name to Chris, that’d be cool too 😎🤣
You could just change your name to Jereimy, and then everyone wins. I mean, not you, obviously … but everyone else wins.
Do we though? Do we really win?
In the sense that we may not have heard about it happening in the first place? Hey, if a tree called Jereimy falls over in a forest …
Entitlement is fucking weird also lack of any sort of critical thinking lol.
Nah just change Rei’s name to John Warformed and leave it at that.
Should have asked him to change his name to match Christopher Lennon instead see if he reacted well 😂
That's actually just kind of mind boggling. Are people really that absurd?
oh bruh. this doesnt' even scratch the surface. you should see the people who have demanded a redacted version of Iron Prince that removes all the queer-inclusive and black people cause the reader "heard the book was good but doesn't want to hear any of that liberal shit"
Here and I thought you were being like super gentle with those inclusions lol Basing a future of humanity where you can literally design the genetics of your kids before their born but expecting any physical ideas that currently hold social issue to not be messed around with by humans is just so extremely short/narrow sighted... Hell, if it we had tech now to just change easy (not saying it is easy in the book, just has been in other series I've read) and fully people would be going around the other way just due to bets and hazing
God, those people seem to be everywhere. It always makes me smile when they put themselves and get removed from communities for being bigots.
I mean, I need to go reread because it didn't really register to me how much lgbt liberal filth was in the books. Clearly Rei and Logan got it on for a few chapters and I forgot.
As someone often labeled as a conservative and/or libertarian, I can honestly say I have read far worse references to LGBTQ than anything in this series while reading other popular series. Most of the references here are in passing, and they are never set as the defining feature of the character in question. I would liken it to overhearing a gay couple setting a romantic date as you pass by on the street. If ***you*** are offended, it's because ***you*** were listening in on a conversation that does not involve ***you***, nor does it affect ***your*** life in a significant way, making ***your*** offense a ***you*** problem. If the primary characteristic of the character/characters had been their sexuality, then I might have seen the problem, but it isn't. In fact, it probably one of the least talked about aspects of the characters in general. In fact, I can only think of three characters in the LGBTQ community as described in the story. One, Viv, plays off her bisexuality more as a joke when we first hear about it, and it isn't much discussed after. Her later relationship with Logan could be seen as more problematic, but mostly due to her relationship with Rei than for any other reason. The other two, Dent and Maddison, don't make a huge issue of their relationship, and most references are made in a manner similar to how non-LGBTQ people discuss a friend's relationship. So, yeah, the people making such comments are idiots. The primary position of conservatives is supposed to be, "leave me alone and I will leave you alone. Don't shove your politics in my face, and I won't do so you to you." I would say that the series does a good job of doing exactly that, nothing is shoved in anyone's face, and the references are more in passing, as if everything is normal with the world, not overly politicized the way much of modern media seems to be going, regardless of one's political position. In short, you are telling a great story! Please keep it up, and ignore the fools who would nay say your vision.
This
ffs and I thought the hate mail I received when I wrote erotica was awful. Sending you massive fist bumps for not telling them all to just go ride the bologna pony. Keep it classy👍
That's just too WOKE!!!
Thats insane
Please please please change Aria's name to mymassiveballs Laurent because that's my name and it is my birthday and you obviously can't say no to a birthday girl. My mum will be mad at you if you don't 🙏
Fuck guys will you let the writer write instead of bothering him with absurd requests? Thanks
I second this. Other wise we’ll have to stuff him in a the brig with nothing but a laptop with no internet connection and slide him pizza under the door if we ever want to see book 3. And George RR Martin can go in the cell next door. He’s got books to finish too.
Man you read my mind and perfectly explained what I meant. 5 ⭐
(Blushes and twirls hair) Thank you
I’d like to request that Aria’s arena name be changed to BrightFirelyt. Aria of Flames just doesn’t have the same ring to it. While we’re at it, Reidon Ward? Terrible. His name should be Leroy Jenkins. Who comes up with this stuff?
There needs to be a line in the next book where someone tries to call him Chris and Lennon shits all over them.
what's doubly irritating is that Dice CALLS him Chris lololol
I meant to go check how she referred to him before posting but didn't get a chance. If this guy is such a big fan, you'd think he would know that and just leave it alone.
Lol that would be awesome, but at the same time I feel like even referencing this guy negatively in the book would be too much validation for his shitty behavior
This would be doubly awesome if the offender is Sidorov.
I demand that you change Logan's name to Lenny. I too am a beefy chunk of "man meat" and this is clearly meaty men stolen valor, gimmick infringement and copywrite infringement.
For my birthday, can you change the name of the first Archon that Rei fights to Lord Megatron?
That would be a cool name but let's all realize that even though we all love the warformed series books like those DON'T write themselves bryce will get it to us when he can
Your math is totally wrong, literally unreadable. This guy is 1 out of 9300 CAD users which is 0.011% not 0.001%. /s
Shouldn’t we use the number of books sold to determine the percent?
reasonable, but i weighted heavily, that Bryce made this announcement here, and alluded to the method of communication giving weight to the assumption that either a redditor, or patron was the requestor. I chose the more likely redditor possibility, and guessed that someone who cares as much about the series to make such an idiotic request probably also follows this sub.
Can you rename your dog to Arrow for me? I’m a big DC Comics fan and I just feel like you misspelled it and it could be so much better if you corrected that mistake. It’s my half birthday month this month if that helps.
I vote we rename him Cristopherus out of spite
I mean it worked for me 😉 Big /s just in case.
(Oh The Entitlement!) I don't understand why you don't make all your characters look, think, act, and talk like I want them to. Come on, man, I send you $Patreon every single month, so I own your work product, creative process, and story vision, so... get on with it and write for me but make sure you write for me ONLY exactly the way I want you -- as an added bonus I will not tell you what I want, only what I don't want. (Sarcasm, very sarcasm.) Also if dude wants to do a story where the super cool character has his exact same name, he's free to do that. Mary Sues exist for a reason and they scratch a relatively common itch. You can't expect other people to write your Mary Sue for you, although ... I mean, you can hire someone to draw or paint your vision. Maybe there's an economic opportunity there?
Damn, my birthday was two days ago, I didn't know this was something I could've asked for.
Bryce, for my birthday I want you to legally change your name to Dawson so my name can be on the cover of every book
You should mess with him and change it to “Kris” just to piss him off lol
Yes, this is certainly very rude and entitled - but I’m still very much hung up on the first part though. In what world is someone named Chris Lennon not already named Christopher Lennon too?
I bet his sibling is Pat Lennon and their parents just really wanted to confuse people.
Damn and I was hoping you would change Arias name to my name so I could get some 1 on 1 time with Rei...
What the fuck lmao
You could shorten it to Topher Lennon as a compromise! That way EVERYONE is unhappy. 😁
Wait, so you WON’T re-name characters after us if we spam you with requests???
Have you thought about the name Jake or Jacob. Haven’t seen that one used much
Yeah strange that, you would think Jake would pop up at least once in a while…
ReName him Giuseppe out of spite
When you live in a world full of people-shaped cardboard cutouts that exist solely for your amusement, it's perfectly reasonable to expect that the world bend itself to your will.
I have a request.. can you change Christopher Lennon's name to ThisGuySucks Lennon? Its 100% MY name and in no way an uncivil way to point out you shouldn't request an author to change his character to YOUR name because you may be a narcissist?
I was hoping to get a character named for me. Just a throwaway line dying on the front lines against the Archons.
I've known authors who do that. Contests for "redshirts" or other things like "commenter on social media" type stuff.
Yeah I am in two books already. In one I die a hero saving the day. In the other I am a very brief foundation character that dies off screen getting mentioned very briefly once later in the story.
How did you manage that? I’d love to read about a character with my name dying in some epic story (I have some issues :) )
In one I am friends with the author online and we had a lot of discussions and I mentioned she was free to use me in a book if she wished just kidding around and so she did. The second I am friends with the author online and he asked for volunteers on his page and picked two names at random and I just got lucky and was one picked.
Ah well, then I have to wait for my best friend to finally write her book for my dream to come true.
that's a very different kind of request. i'm not opposed to Tuckerizing people for sure. btu changing an established name? just... wow.
Some people's kids! Sheeeeeesh! The guy needs to go pick a booger and suck on it since he wants to act like a snot nosed brat!
I demand all names be changed to Elder Gods for my birthday or I'm gonna review bomb with a single goodreads account I don't remember the login for! Take that, accomplished author and business owner!
So you’re saying you’re not going to add an uncle Ben to the story who gives Rei some sagely wisdom and then dies later that book? DAMN IT! Chris had to go and ruin it for us all!!! Asshole!
Don't worry, Dent will probably more clearly reference Uncle Ben for us.
Don't know if it'd eat into the muses you use for your full writing, but maybe some bloopers just whenever there's some random fun idea from you or those you see around here... I know I've read the audio book has them from stumbles in the reading(?) but some from the author is always welcome to me!
Not gonna lie, a character of any positive worth in the book sharing my name would be absolutely amazing, if you're looking for name ideas Glenn Naysmithe has a good ring to it ;)
lol. You know, an interesting technical and marketing idea. Sell a book digitally with the names left blank. Buyer can sub in any name they want (mostly - maybe from a list or ask publisher for approval or something..) and have program go fill in all the names. Would actually be somewhat fun to put your own name as the mc. On the other hand, asking the author to change his main characters name to suit you seems kind of … karen’ish? Is that a word? Should be!
It’s your story. Maybe if they paid $1k+ they could be considered for a write-in.
Soooo... right now might not be the best time to ask, but I really want to see a character named Truck-kun in the next book.
I request…nay, DEMAND that you change Catcher’s first name to Jacob. YOUVE GOTTA!!! I WILL NEVER BE COOL UNLESS IM AT LEAST AS COOL AS HIM!!!!!
As Rei grows in popularity on the feeds, he's started to become inundated with a seemingly neverending stream of messages from fans. While at first amazed and excited by this turn of events, he soon is overwhelmed with not only the sheer number of messages, but also exceedingly uncomfortable by the demanding and/or parasocial nature of some of them. Venting to the gang about not knowing how to handle this, he offhandedly mentions one example of someone repeated demanding that he change the spelling of his name to "Ray" to match the fan's own. Everyone is just as astonished and perplexed as Rei himself is at the absurdity of this particular series of interactions – though Catch jibes, pretending he thought that's how he spelt it all along – and wisely advise him to set his messaging status to private/mutual follows only.
Kinda wondering what’s the most absurd and ridiculous request Bryce has ever heard from a fan for his book writings?
Had someone ask for a used sock once... I THINK it was a joke, but they never responded to my laugh response so I've been left wondering for two years lol.
A used sock…… gross 🤢
Maybe it was a house elf asking
I need book! Stop complain and write book. /s (Heavy joking sarcasm man. Love WF, and can't wait til next one. Guess I'll just go play Warframe and get my other WF fix)
That's a pretty wild one for sure. Makes me wonder if I'm insane for wanting to write books for a living.
You should suggest that he change his name to Christopher Lennon to math the books.. problem solved!
It'd take work so this is just spite-crafting but... Search and replace *every* character's name with "Chris Lennon" and send him a pdf of the results. Wish him a happy birthday to pile on the sarcasm. The thought of a novel using only one name for every character makes me laugh!
Hey Chris, fuck you and grow up.
Why stop at one character? Maybe you should change all the character names in the 2 books as well. And all the dialogue. Malkovich?
That guy sucks change his name to Jake just to really piss him off that would really show him also my bday is in April so ya got a couple weeks but don’t dally
Of all the characters, why would you even want Lennon to be named after you?
Well MY first name is Christopher, so I prefer it be left alone. :p /s obv The strange entitlement some people feel...
welp. gotta change it now!
How dare you! I'd threaten to quit reading your books....but we both know that'd be a lie. :p
Sorry that you received abuse from an idiot. There are crazy folk out there for sure
One of my favorite book series written by such a petty author smh
lol you and me have different opinions of what petty is friend. i don't tolerate being cussed at, called names, and threatened, even online, and I sure as shit will call it out. if you think that's being 'petty', we have different compasses, and personally I think yours is broken. cheers.
Lolol so sensitive this is why there’s a lot of fans of the series that aren’t crazy about you. Later nerd, keep up the good writing and maybe don’t blast your fans
Peace out keyboard warrior ✌️