What is your OCs worst character trait?

Lensing 2024-08-14 07:14:36 UTC #16

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

ladyofthedarkwoods 2024-08-14 10:13:42 UTC #17

Ellie’s worst character trait is that she doesn’t think before she acts And she’s a bit too trusting sometimes :3

Leyelle 2024-08-14 14:14:21 UTC #18

lol, unfortunately, Kattar shares this trait with him at 29 years old, yikes

ccmatta 2024-08-14 23:54:30 UTC #19

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.

TAMAnnoying 2024-08-15 00:14:13 UTC #20

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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.

ccmatta 2024-08-15 00:48:08 UTC #21

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

kitschensyngk 2024-08-15 01:29:32 UTC #22

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.

abigaillmartin 2024-08-15 01:40:44 UTC #23

Looks like me and you have something similar.

Poor babies

TAMAnnoying 2024-08-15 03:03:25 UTC #24

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

SumireHime 2024-08-15 05:09:12 UTC #25

Gyeong-Wan is very clumsy. This is because he's always preoccupied with something else on his mind. He'll bump into things, trip over himself, drop things, etc. luckily, the boy who likes him thinks this is extremely cute and human.

Leyelle 2024-08-15 15:26:22 UTC #26

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.

Leyelle 2024-08-15 15:29:33 UTC #27

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

ccmatta 2024-08-15 20:37:02 UTC #28

@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.

ccmatta 2024-08-15 20:44:27 UTC #29

@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.

Leyelle 2024-08-15 20:53:13 UTC #30

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

krazycafetales262 2024-08-15 22:53:42 UTC #31

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.

abigaillmartin 2024-08-15 22:55:45 UTC #32

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euphridia 2024-08-15 23:01:31 UTC #33

Rae thinks alot, but she doesn't say what needs to be said. Come on, Rae, tell people how you really feel!

But... what if I make them upset?

That would be splendid, actually.

Leyelle 2024-08-17 17:12:02 UTC #34

honestly that's not a problem unless the people around you are toxic. honesty is a good thing

2DLenzy 2024-08-17 17:49:46 UTC #35

Alec is emotionally distant from his son, especially since his wife died, he's been more focused on business than family.
Luke is unmotivated, mostly, to do anything productive/worthwhile, but that's gonna change soon.

Friar(chicken) is really prideful, despite being faithful, he has more faith in his ego than in goodness.
Bucky(chicken) is lazy, like the happy kind of lazy. All I could think of, cause he's too wholesome XD

Jaime, my newest char, has a bad temper - reason to be explored later - but she's about to get served a slice of humble pie real soon.