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Aug 2024

Insecurity and jealousy

David has a crappy job as a paper boy, he is a nerd, has no car and lives in the basement
of his parents home. He is now dating this bombshell girlfriend with a lot of admirers.
Nobody understands why she is dating him. David doesn´t understand why and all that makes him very insecure


Mukhtar has three, one is minor and the two other is vast.

The small trait is that he's such a tease on the girls. Though we have seen it only once, it's stated that it's done more than once:

The biggest one is his curiosity, and he done it numerous times and some nearly leads to his death and also a danger to others:

1. Wants to check the insides of a Centipede serpent:

2.Nearly got cut into pieces by a djinn carpet with sharp threads:

3. Entered the storage deck under the crew deck to see some valuables. Only to have his body controlled and almost unleash a powerful djinn:

4.Drink mead to know its taste:

The last trait is that he keeps his situation to himself. Selfless yes, but not a wise move:

He got his back shredded by a hippolion:



Although he survived, and recover his wounds with alcohol and bandages, it is not enough to stop the bleeding.

Despite this, he still keep it to himself to make sure his mother recovers fully from fever. He doesn't want her to get worried, believing that telling her would make her feel worse.

Worse still, he fights a boy to teach the bully a lesson and got his wounds open again:



He still won, and make friends with the bully (sort of).

Nevertheless, his wounds is now bleeding:

Luckily, his brother stole a high quality medkit, and his sister is an expert for handling wounds like these:

Despite his flaws, I still adore him, and his siblings.

I adore him too, he has everything a relatable character needs

That's funny to think about! Well, let's see...

Nate's is his negative mindset. I'd like to say it was his impulsiveness, but it gave him a boyfriend lmao. With all his negative thoughts he'd aways think no one likes him and he deserve to suffer.

Matt's is the way he never shows how he trully feels, he'll aways hide it. He starts to show it to Nate, with him Matt starts to feel secure enough to cry when he needs to. But to his best friend, Mike, he mostly just tell what is happening because they have this kind of brotherly relationship, but he never goes too deep in the sentimental stuff. He hides so much that he started to have night terrors since he was young.

Mike is... well, if Matt hides stuff, Mike is like a pandora box. He keeps so much to himself that he began to have anger issues and it's pretty easy to annoy him and make him punch you. Even to Matt he never say a thing.

Charlotte is too naive. She believes in everyone and never says no, putting herself in bad situations. Even after a traumatic experience, she kept beliving in people.

I think that's it? I think about those being their "defects", things they have to work through.

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Hm yes well... Dimitri is what one might call a racists.

It's ok Thea is causing him great amounts of strife for it currently.

@TAMAnnoying I feel so guilty trying to write characters like that :cry: The mother of one of my boys is homophobic/transphobc/everything-phobic and I get so sad writing her :cry: I didnt list her cuz she doesnt appear thaaat much (because of lore stuff)

Renée wants to be everybody's friend, and as such can be too trusting of people.

Terry, as a result of his super-religious upbringing, doesn't do well with crowds.

Mike is the creative type who doesn't adjust well to non-creative environments.

Ludwig gets annoyed at other people's lack of knowledge, and can't help but think that people only like him for his brains.

Bonnie thinks boys are disgusting, perverted monsters, so she's unprepared when she finds one she actually li--err, can't hate.

Katrina doesn't take abandonment well, and doesn't trust most people as far as she can throw them.

The best thing is to remember that they're not real xD but I agree it can put you in a depressing state of mind.

The benefit for myself is that Dimitri goes on a character arc and gets better (tho the amount of "better" I think will be determined by the audience) having a character with really bad flaws can be a big leap for a lot of people, and writing them going through an arc can be even more of a struggle. I really only recommend it for people who have actually experienced the character arc themselves or second handedly through friends/loved ones so it doesn't just end up being like "and then he wasn't racist/sexsist/bigoted anymore"

That or just doing a bunch of research/reading :sweat_smile:

Unfortunately this is a lot like my male lead Kattar, almost down to the night terrors. he's still afraid of the dark at 29 years old because of the way he was raised, but he keeps these things to himself.

one of my ocs mothers is colorist, and it's so hard for me even trying to figure out how to write mean comments like the ones she makes to her own children!

i honestly feel like clumsiness is one of those flaws that is not a crime but takes a very patient person to deal with lol. One of my male leads is very awkward with conversations, and it takes a really patient person to be able to carry a conversation with him

@TAMAnnoying Yeah, I get that. Well, I see a lot, and I mean a lot of homophobia in my country, we have huge religious group that involves themself in politics, it's pretty hard here for lgbtqia+ people. I'm asexual, so I didnt suffer too much, just invalidation (and a lot of times from lgbtqia+ people lmao), so I look at all my country's situation to make this character. She kinda goes through an arc like that, but because she doenst appear too much, it's subtle. It happens in the background and we see it manifest on the way she starts to treat her son little by little (some therapy helped a lot hahaha). I can't say I went through this arc myself, as I never had those prejudices (idk how but I was like that since I was a kid fr), but I know how it is to change a mindset and I try to imagine it's like that.

@Leyelle

I feel so sad writing him suffer in silence ;-; Mine also was raised badly and he's pretty traumatized, but will he show it? will he try to heal? hell no, he'll laught it off. And he smokes a lot lmao

RIGHT?? I struggle with that too. It's so hard to make a mother being so mean to their child. As I said before, it makes me sad writing her, because it goes in the extreme oposite way that I think. I wrote a scene in the scrip where she goes crazy on her son being with a boy and I have to read again and again to make sure I could show what I meant to show.

unfortunately it's too real and too relatable for so many people

Eli's, my main character, is too trusting. He has a hard time believing people are not who they say they are.

Lottie, my main character from Lottie Dressmaker, wear her emotions on her sleeve. It makes her really easy to read and guess what's she's thinking.