Sounds easy, but it isn´t.
What is the biggest flaw of your character?
What is his power?
And how is it connected to the story?
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Evangeline:
Strengths: Intelligence on and off the battle field and very agile. She is able to see things others don't, being very observant is one of her best abilities. She is a nice person, but she is often very careful and looks to do her duties before anything else.
Weaknesses: She is loyal, which comes to be great most times, but she will die with those she supports no matter what happens. She also is very stubborn, which, again, can be a good thing, but her mind is unwavering and her opinions are still. The biggest weakness she has, however, is her amnesia. No one knows what happened, but she is often stricken by lack of knowledge in her past and that leads to missing gaps in basic knowledge in the kingdom of Collosicus.
My main character, Xepholen, is a high-class criminal who has been eluding the military for 3 years. He seems to be able to handle himself just fine. Being a Wastelander majority of his life, he is used to living off the land and able to handle any threat that gets in his way. He seems rational, calm, collected, and fearless. Until his younger brother, Zalken, is put in danger all rationality is thrown off the window! Xepholen will go at any length to keep his brother safe, even if that mean self-sacrifice.
Loyalty can be a flaw when she gets used by the people she is loyal to.
Being stubborn can be good or bad too.
Amnesia sounds like her real weakness
Oh my, how do I pick only one flaw? She has so many cx
Meet Kestrel, she's a thief and main character in my comic.
Her biggest flaw: the denial is strong with this one. Kestrel ignores or simply denies things that would ruin her self image and her vision of the world. This includes both nature of the world around her and things she has done herself. From very small details to serious things, she lives in a bubble of her lies in which she wholeheartly believes herself. Well, it's going to catch up with her sooner or later.
Runner-up flaws: her social skills (while she can easily talk with others, she has an empathy of a brick, plus she's very conflicted between 'people are so naive and stupid, I don't need anyone and I'll just use them' and 'I actually like people'), she's also very greedy and impulsive.
Let's say that her biggest weakness is herself.
As for her strengths, she can quickly notice small details- opened window, hidden doors, missing objects or that something another characters said connects to a bigger picture.
She also has a newly-obtained power of making people asleep, though currently she's using it mostly to avoid conversations she doesn't want to have.
For the story it´s best when you can connect the weakness/flaw directly with the story.
There are 2 great movie/story examples for that:
Groundhog day and Tootsie
Both protagonists have one central and defined flaw. Tootsie, the way he treats women and then
he experiences how men treat women himself and that makes a change.
I think people want to read something like that in a story
Strength: even when my mc Grimnir's actively trying not to, he still cares for other people. This can be a weakness too, but I think it's the best part of him, so I count it as a strength.
Weakness: he always looks for shortcuts, quick easy ways to archive goals. He cares more about having immediate satisfaction for his needs than being sensible and see the big picture. And because he always looks for the "quick and easy way", he's not able to deal with feelings like guilt, grief and sorrow (hence, the bad drinking habit).
Is the weakness connected to the end of the story?
Would exactly the same story also work with a different character?
The story will need him to overcome this weakness multiple times in order for him to proceed, and in the end too, yes.
About the last question, I'm not sure I get it? I think the story would work, but it would be different.
Oh, thanks. Answering your questions really helps me a lot in making clarity in my head. Having no-one to discuss the plot with is hard sometimes. 
I´m happy to read this and I know that feeling. I have friends and family but no one to talk to about the plot,
I think one reason is that it is boring for them and I don´t want to bore them. They want the finished
product and not my thoughts of character development or my struggles with hating the story I wrote
You guys really some it up pretty well when it comes to having no one to talk about the plot QwQ A whole-hearted thank you for the thread! :3
Okay, so for strengths, Josi is pretty perceptive and catches onto things faster than her peers, as well as curious, very open to learn new things! She‘s also very loyal and conscientious when it comes to the team - which is why she‘ll end up becoming its leader one day and certainly tries her best on seeing her tasks through to the end.
Going into her weaknesses; even though she is perceptive, that doesn‘t mean she mentions what she noticed her right away, instead she overthinks a lot, which ends up in her bottling a lot of things up. Also, since she‘s young, she‘s can be naïve & very immature (as it can be seen in chapter 1.3, being a little stubborn towards her best friend), as well as obnoxious sometimes. Same goes for the curiosity, which gets her in all sort of dangerous situations throughout the story.
For the less psychological & more physical part, she doesn‘t have the best stamina (which also has a reason which I won‘t spoil right now), which means that she tires out a lot after fighting and once she gets to use her true power (which has been sealed for the reason of being that powerful), she‘ll drain herself like a broken phone battery within a short amount of time over and over.
Spoiler for what the power actually is, since it won‘t come up until the end of Part II
It‘s none of the 7 basic elements, being fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, light & darkness, but one of 2 unique powers, being the ability to manipulate space - the counterpart being time manipulation
She‘ll learn to open portals and use them to fire energy beams, by overlapping them or create own pocket dimensions, etc.
Since it is that overpowered, she‘ll come to fear her own power and what it is connected to, which is basically the main conflict of Part III and a reason why she‘s gonna go through major changes in Part IV!
I like that she has weaknesses and that they are connected to the story,
I can understand the not wanting to spoil part 
Oh yeah, that's a pretty big weakness. Though for me it's more of a result of her other flaws combined with poor decisions (not only hers, she's still young and people around her should had known better), so that's why I didn't place it as a main weakness. Later in the story she regrets a lot of those, especially after realising what she could've had, but also feels that's it's already too late for her to change and is quite conflicted.
It was easier to write the character development for her that way, like, having to overcome those obstacles (some of which she puts them there herself - for example the thing I put in the spoiler just now) and of course, the plot being - as stated in the description of the comic - her becoming the most legendary leader the team Sky Diver ever had ^^
There's a lot, actually, that I can't spoil, due to not being relevant to Saga 1 (Origins) or taking away too much for it, if any of my readers find my forum replies xD
Erik
Strengths: a very nice snowman. He has telekinetic powers at his disposal. He’s intelligent, quick-thinking and deferential to authority figures.
Weaknesses: secretly, he is cold and manipulative.
Okay! Here's my babyboi Toby!
His strengths:
He is very enthusiastic and nice. He is very outgoing and often approached people himself. He has no problem taking on responsibilities and helping anyone in any way he can. He is very loyal and has a strong thrive to make people around him happy.
His Weaknesses:
He can be quite the burden with his hyperactive non-stop talking and moving. Sometimes he acts reckless by doing something without thinking about possible consequences. Many times his drive to help everyone around him can make him neglect his own wellbeing and health. He has a lot of self-doubts and often stumbles over his own words.
Follow his silly lil story <3
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Here's my character Naota Nakaoka.
Biggest Flaw: He's a narcassistic jerk who uses his harem as a way of showing off his status. Due to him losing his looks in the stick figure world, he has no choice but to study the beauty standards of that world to show off again.
In short, he's a superficial d-bag who doesn't see the beauty deep within.
What's his power?: He was rich and good-looking, but now there's not much to him. The only thing that he has is his brain which is like anime to the TENTH degree. He's able to adapt very quickly and slip out of situations whenever he can.
Btw that pic on top represents his ego and how he struts around with it despite losing everything.
Strength: She's a princess who can use spears, daggers, incredible athlete skills
Weakness: She's a mop
All right, a little look at the psychology of Rekki Lune...
Rekki thinks her greatest strength is... literally being really strong.
And Rekki thinks her greatest weakness is that she's never as strong as she needs to be and she lets those who rely on her down.
But if you ask the people who care about her, Rekki's greatest strength is that she is always willing to shoulder responsibility. If there's a problem, but solving it requires getting your hands dirty or risking pain or even death, Rekki is the first one to roll up her sleeves and get stuck in, and she'll always put on a brave face while doing it so nobody feels bad for letting her take the brunt of everything whether it's physical, emotional or even political.
Rekki's greatest weakness is that she is absolutely desperate to be significant and important. She can never just be "a really good knight and a dependable friend", she always has to be "the strongest knight ever, whose achievements are legendary and definitely live up or surpass to those of her peers and famous family members!" It means she was easily manipulated by a certain authority figure into taking on disproportionate responsibility for crumbs of approval.
Rekki is really in over her head in so many ways (more to come on this in upcoming pages, hehehehe).
My MC, Cameron Berkeley’s greatest flaw is his anxiety mixed with people pleasing. He has spent his whole life at the mercy of others, because he is too afraid to say how he really feels. His strength, however, comes from his concern for others and patience.
My other MC is Alastair Malum, who’s biggest flaw is his depression which feeds his overwhelming guilt and self-doubt. He constantly is worried he isn’t doing enough and struggles to accept himself. His strengths are his stalwart sense of right and wrong, ability to understand others, and dedication to creating a better world.
They both balance each other as Cameron patiently shows Alastair how to accept himself and Alastair encourages Cameron to pursue what he really wants.
Check out Nonconforming if you like BL and soulmate stories. 
Azariah
Strength - She can become very obsessive, achieving amazing things while throwing everything else into the wind
Weakness - She can become very obsessive, achieving amazing things while throwing everything else into the wind
OP described this dilemma perfectly.
I think my main character's a little bit of a mess, but let's see if I can get a summary running of June, main character of Urban Wolf.
First of all, she's a highly capable swordmaster. That tends to count for a lot when you're in a city with a bunch of drug cartels, and she can be a little handy with more than just swords. Her vocal range is also pretty good-oops, I might be foreshadowing a little too much.
As for her actual personality? She's rather observant and focused, with a degree of austerity that I'd think most people would almost covet-cool, but never too freezing to pop off a few fun lines when among people she can reasonably trust. But above all else she's pretty tough physically and mentally, able to harden herself into doing the kind of things nobody should have to do if that's what it takes and avoid breaking down when it actually counts.
Now to the bad parts.
That psychological hardness is kind of a weakness, though; it leads her to being very insular, and she never seems to truly let out whatever feelings she might have within due to a lack of outlets. This combined with a bad environment and a history of keeping it all inside leads to her sense of morality corroding over the course of the story. Not completely or all at once, but by degrees here and there. Though given how much trouble that was giving her, maybe that's just her way of adapting. After all, damaged people are dangerous because they know how to survive.
But yes, the silent misery of it all is a pretty annoying side effect as well.
Strengths: Hinan boasts extraordinary speed, strength, and intelligence. As the daughter of two high ranking soldiers, she is blessed with genes superior to those of the average person. A prodigy in both swordsmanship and fire manipulation, Hinan is well above most adults in terms of skills and all-around lethality.
Weaknesses: Because of the way that her family raised her, Hinan has developed an almost psychotic mindset. She lacks empathy towards those she does not find interest in. Hinan won’t hesitate to kill people that she feels are against her or her values. Unless she can fully trust someone, she truly is a bitch to a lot of people.
Again, she is not a Villain lol.
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@powerplantanimations
Why would turning him into a stick-figure make him caucasian? I don't think it was funny when Andrew Hussie made the joke and I'm not sure it's funny here either.
I'mma call that the character's weakness is they think race is a bigger deal than it really is.
Rip Vykirson from my series Dragon Sparking biggest weakness is that he's prone to tunnel vision. His biggest strength is how dedicated to his ideals and any given course of action he can be. He's all the way in, all the time.
Strength and weakness for him are both tied together. Dedication can easily give way to harmful stubbornness. He also doesn't adjust to change easily because of that, and can have undirected anger take over his decision making progress easily.
Vivian Chambers - protagonist of Oni Hunters
STRENGTHS
- Able to process information at an amazingly fast rate.
- Strong memory (can recall past conversations and events almost flawlessly)
- Unique sense of humor
WEAKNESSES
- Utter lack of social skills
- Does not easily trust other people (with the exception of her childhood friend)
- Crippled self-esteem and self-confidence due to childhood traumas
- Co-dependency issues to the point of an irrational obsession which can cloud both her judgment and moral compass
- Very frail and weak, physically and emotionally
I'm actually glad you asked that question: because it's not supposed to be a joke.
The whole point is that Naota resurrected as the most basic stick figure there. Like those generic bald stick figures you see everywhere (which I assume are Caucasian due to white paper lmao). That and I wanted to name him John Johnson (which believe it or not, has MASSIVE significance to the plot).
THAT and the point was not to give him any traits he'll take advantage of... because again, he's very adaptable.
Not only that, but it adds to the mystery of if he really did reincarnate or if he's just an otaku that needs to chill out (next episode touches on that). After all, he acts more like a fictional anime character than a real life person which should be taken into note.
There's also a third twist that I won't spoil; but keep in mind that I knew what I was doing with this specific plotline and it'll pay off really well.
Also also: I didn't say being caucasian was a flaw. Naota was just monologuing like an anime character. Again, going with the whole concept of him not acting like a real person.
Aster
Strengths:
She is smart.
Weaknesses:
She has problems controlling her emotions and also sharing them, also she is hypersensitive to sound.
How it's connected to the story:
In the comic it's shown, how she got emotional issues from her childhood and relationship with her family, how her hypersensitivity made it worse and results of these problems. It's also shown how she studies in university and creates a device for telepathy with her studymate. This project in the end will be used to show the results of Aster's emotional issues.
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