Do your characters ever do things you really dislike?

Leyelle 2024-08-01 13:45:04 UTC #30

Chili and Texas both let their cat sleep in their beds. It's gross to me. Why would you want to sleep in pet dander and get it all in your hair and on your pajamas (shudders.)

Leyelle 2024-08-21 15:13:26 UTC #31

Mora lies like a lot. Also she straightens her hair, and I don't like the smell of heated hair. Christopher goes for ages without talking to the people around him, which is just an introvert thing, but as an extrovert myself this gets pretty frustrating lol

Leyelle 2024-09-10 15:47:15 UTC #32

Kattar is super finicky about people leaving clothes and stuff around. this isn't a crime, but given that I'm the person who will forever leave clothes laying around, I find this annoying lol.

This is coming up in next week's chapter

supriyashukla2398 2024-09-10 16:13:50 UTC #33

It's My Main Character, Kiet. he stopped Milo's studies and confined him in his mansion. He always tries to control him and Milo is still trying to adjust himself in Kiet's life. That's sad.

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Leyelle 2024-10-01 12:07:41 UTC #34

Alicia has a bad habit of keeping potentially hurtful secrets because she doesn't want people to be hurt, but they'll still be hurt when they find out, so she's just delaying the inevitable

alontheus 2025-03-12 01:01:24 UTC #35

@Leyelle My main character for my core storyline starts out as a very selfish and manipulative person, but I intend to show his evolution into a better person. He is coming from a culture that is very toxic and slowly is exposed to people who are not like that. He remains a bit of an antihero throughout, but he has good intent.

eldritchtroubadour 2025-03-12 13:28:57 UTC #36

Yes, they do. Caelan 100% does things I find morally reprehensible several times, both in his backstory and in the current timeline. But that's what makes him interesting in my opinion hahahahaha.

Chapter 14 for instance. It might have been a mistake, but he did hurt the person who he loved the most in the whole world, right when they were at their lowest point in life. He's also ex-special forces, so he had to have some sociopathic tendencies to keep his sanity on that job.

If you want to learn more, why not pop up and give it a read?

Oriflamme 2025-03-12 15:13:56 UTC #37

I mean Alex is 100% a war criminal. This includes the violation of the saint petersburg declaration, Multiple violation the first Hague convention and by extension the geneva convention. Some of them were not voluntary, but oopsy daisy is not a valid defense for war crimes. This also extends to Nives, but her crimes are limited to the use of hollow point and explosive bullets.

More importantly from the perspective of the reader, Alex will go pretty near what could be considered domestic abuse, and is the type of person who will not hesitate to kill a dog.

Although my plan is for him to eventually get better.

Lensing 2025-03-12 15:23:43 UTC #38

I love to write stories about people who do things that I dislike.
I just started writing some episodes about a guy, one of his hobbys
is internet trolling. It´s really fun to write a character like that and
to imagine what´s going on in a person like that

NGChloe 2025-03-12 17:29:18 UTC #39

Definitely, that's the benchmark of good character writing for me. Can I give the characters moments of being unlikeable? If they're always within my boundaries they would get stiff and robotic. That's why I try to push back that bug in my stomach that tells me what they're doing is wrong and say LETS DO THIS!
Like i felt uneasy about implying Setsune used to be racist back in chapter 6's flashback, but it was more humanizing to me to have her affected by the culture where she grew up, even if that was long in the past.

vieveda 2025-03-12 20:03:20 UTC #40

Rather than doing things I dislike, it's more that they don't always act in the way I had planned. I might have an amazing idea about where to take the story but it would be contrary to their characters - so in that sense they can be pretty tricksy!

Leyelle 2025-03-12 20:12:09 UTC #41

my characters are like that too

MarvinDziamski 2025-03-12 20:28:25 UTC #42

My next MC will be a Bully.
But it's for his character development.
He will go through a big change in heart.

remiquise 2025-03-13 01:39:54 UTC #43

Miss Fortuna.
Awful being, scratching people who love her, animal cruelty in the form of playing with mice until they die, even tries to eat the merman on the crew!

The joke here is that she's a cat.

But real talk; Most every character I write are bad people and so I don't agree with a lot of them. I mean, heck, I joke about the cat in this one story but it's a pirate crew. The first scene is them attacking a merchant vessel to steal their stuff and deciding they're gonna wipe out the crew because they fought back. One of the crew members is terrified all the time because he was kidnapped from another ship and being forced to work with them. There are 2 crew members aboard super keen on the idea of a merfolk genocide. Lots of them are just kind of assholes...
And that's not even mentioning some of my other stories; namely the one I haven't decided on posting or trying to get published yet. Leading man really just beats the leading lady in the streets, SA's her, belittles her, compares her to a dog so many times, ect ect and is somehow still the lesser of two evils for her. But... yeah, we ain't gonna talk about that travesty rn.

MelancholicOtaku 2025-03-15 16:24:13 UTC #44

My character Naaririel is keeping a huge secret from main character Elyn. It’s for a good reason and he does plan on telling her but he hasn’t found the courage to tell her yet.

stiatent 2025-03-15 20:17:04 UTC #45

Yea they got their flaws, cant say I strongly dislike all, guess various strengths always brings various weaknesses and thankfully they'll learn their lessons lol

Evan Moriarty- his daring , live in the moment attitude makes him entertaining, spontaneous and resilient within a survival setting but can also make others in his life feel dragged into instability and emotionally betrayed.
We are introduced to him as an optimistic big brother when the world becomes a hellscape but as we see him interact with other young men it's clear he's a play boy. Those who hope for something more, he takes them for granted. He also gets his fix from gambling with death (risktaker), dragging his little brother into situations without thinking about the consequences, should things go opposite.

Owen Moriarty- he's a 12 year old kid prolly understandable. Having a more sheltered upbringing, he's accustomed to his parents giving a final approval and mostly keeps himself back from many opportunities. With the brothers stranded from the parents he sees himself left with no other choice but to listen to the 'next adult in family', his big brother Evan. While he loves his brother and tries to keep up even if not by choice, deep down some of his father's negative sentiment towards Evan (he witnessed in 1st episode) remains in his conscience. Owen has a hard time accepting he may not be able to reunite with his parents and begins to blame Evan much like his father did.

Quim Kidd- At 19, he is a quiet guy who much like Owen, looks to his older cousin Quest and uncle Braden to take charge (prior to April 5th, he lived with them on his paternal grandparents' farm after both his parents died in an accident at a young age). Fair enough on April 5th, he's shaken after witnessing his grandparents turn into monsters, but while someone like Owen would be pushed to take action, Quim would rather run away, burst into tears and hide. His child-like innocence, years of being bullied in high-school and failure to 'succeed at anything' leaves him with an inferior self-image and he'll easily trust anyone who gives him attention.
While Evan never knew him personally in HS (Evan was a few grades above) he was Quim's 1st crush and recalls a day when Evan rescued him by beating up the bullies (Evan on some occasions playfully manipulates Quim's adoration of him with little regard to his feelings). His gullible nature can easily work against him but on positive note he's the antithesis of "Mr. play-boy Evan", prefers to remain true to the one he loves.

Saihin 2025-03-15 20:29:14 UTC #46

I think that's when you become a better story writer and it gives one's character an edge which makes them seem more believable.

In my comic, I have a character called Nathan who can be bitchy when he's jealous or Betsey who would do anything to succeed.

Leyelle 2025-03-16 11:33:08 UTC #47

bruh you're 19. He's barely had time to start anything.

Says the 19 year old who constantly stresses about the same thing

stiatent 2025-03-16 19:40:32 UTC #48

@Leyelle Exactly 🤣 tell him

Quim- " oh sorry.. kay I'll...um...I'll try"
[So he says]

On that note, also makes him a people pleaser, trying hard not to disagree for fear of clashing with others, so he'll say 'ok, he'll do it' even if he still unsure and likely chicken when opportunity comes again.
Sorry for this boy when he gets dragged in Evan's chaos adventure 🤣

And dont worry you got this!

krazycafetales262 2025-03-17 14:36:52 UTC #49

Eli allows his feelings to override his judgement all the time. Despite how he wants to come across, he wears his emotions on his sleeves which makes it easy for people to take advantage of him.

Case in point:

A few chapters later

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