What’s a guilty pleasure your characters have?

sleepykuya 2023-09-30 23:43:23 UTC #1

What’s the one thing your characters would rather die than have people know? I think my main character, Libum, really enjoys personifying the birds that are in the Village. Kolupati and Tikba, though, are so shameless I don’t think either of them have anything they’d be guilty about

MK_Wizard 2023-09-30 23:51:02 UTC #2

I wouldn't say they're ashamed of them, but some things they are less comfortable sharing than others...

When it comes to Astra, she is a huge romantic and loves romance novels. The REAL kind with depth not the trashy superficial kind. She also loves dark chocolate like crazy. Her other big guilty pleasure is that she loves sewing and can even make clothes if she wanted to.

Psychoborg's guilty pleasures are spicy udon, tinkering and collecting gadgets like a little boy does toys, and while this one is a secret, he loves flowers especially white roses. He just finds some kind of comfort in them.

stiatent 2023-10-01 00:34:24 UTC #3

Owen's Guildy Pleasure, he's generally a 'good kid' who listens to his parents but sometimes his urge to finish a mission in a videogame kicks in. Thankfully he got a TV in his room and his mobile, so he just waits when the others are asleep, lower volume and time to beat that mission!
He doesn't do it often as he usually hates disobeying his parents

Evan's Guildy Pleasure?
Just like your Kolupati and Tikba, he has zero shame and cares little about what others think
The need to splash temporary dye on his hair for special occasions, putting ketchup on everything (pizza and popcorn too) and 'x-rated' indulgences would probably be guilty for others but not him XD

ButterflyEmpress 2023-10-01 02:22:03 UTC #4

It's not technically something she'd die over, but more of beloved hobbies that were dropped due to peer pressure. The MC of the webtoon I was working on gave up nerdy hobbies like manga and video games. Her mom and high school friends told her that they would get in the way of her studies and no one would take her seriously.

When she moves to college she meets a student who also like reading manga, but he's open about it, has friends who respect him, and he's a top student. So she starts to realize that she was ashamed of nothing.

DasIstWunderblyat 2023-10-01 02:36:33 UTC #5

_{One of my characters is a necrophiliac; literal guilty pleasures that can land him a guilty verdict. Despite said character being pretty brazen, he actually feels shame for it.}

I'm planning a scene of my protagonist enjoying seafood through allergy. Enjoy now, difficulties or regret later.

Vikthetoonaddict 2023-10-01 06:03:55 UTC #6

Oh, This is a good one!

Well, The Blue Fedora's guilty pleasure is reading some of those cheesy pulp comic books (with those old-school 1930s heroes). She's the world's earliest comic book geek, lol.

Otto's guilty pleasure is eating a jar of peanut butter.

CarltonIsaac 2023-10-01 06:48:27 UTC #7

LIL D can't help falling in love with dancing girls everywhere.

Stargazer31 2023-10-01 09:14:25 UTC #8

Amelie is always vaping. However, she's a gargoyle, so she doesn't have lungs that can be damaged by it
https://m.tapas.io/series/Gargoyle/info

cLonio 2023-10-01 16:19:41 UTC #9

This guy here is a god, but he a big fanboy of a certain celebrity, really want to be famous one day, and btw he's also poor as hell.

abigaillmartin 2023-10-01 16:35:14 UTC #10

Ernest likes eating cream and cabbage. But most of all he loves a good batch of colcannon.

Rosemary loves singing very silly and loudly to get her stress out

Elsie is a sucker for anything sweet.

Roy finds a billion reasons to smoke his pipe but he also loves a good adventure story. His favorite book is 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

LWriter 2023-10-01 16:38:04 UTC #11

My protagonist Captain Lily's secret hobby is writing smot lol. I even included a chapter in the novel where she's writing it, and it's so bad it's hilarious lol. If anyone ever wants to read it:

feuersichel 2023-10-01 18:53:31 UTC #12

Uuuuui, my OC Osram has this facade of being an ultra awesome adventurer, who doesn't fear anything, is just cool and independent and stuff... But in reality she is romantic and loves to read trashy romance novels xD

I can't wait to draw that scene about her ^^

psto1464 2023-10-02 17:09:16 UTC #13

Dusk hasn't really discovered anything like that yet.
Pyrite has no shame and would never add guilty to his pleasure
Micah loves romances novels, and craves for things like that to happen in real life. He would die of embarrassment if others found out.

willmarstudios 2023-10-02 17:37:43 UTC #14

Conri loves really enjoys the smell of tobacco, but he doesn't smoke himself. So what he'll do is occasionally buy a cigar, light it and stand outside with it on an ashtray.

Landis enjoys eating food out of their containers, like Peanut Butter, Ice Cream, etc. With just a spoon or something hahaha (sometimes if he's really hungry he'll just use his finger)

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LostKelp 2023-10-02 18:35:09 UTC #15

Alya - No guilt, they love everything with 100% sincerity. They love trash romances, soap operas, reality tv. Anything a bit melodramatic.
Najm - ASMR
Rahat - I feel like they have a constant undercurrent of shame to everything they do. But also barfights.
Qamar - k-pop (or the scifi equivalent, they'd probably also like Taylor swift)

2DLenzy 2023-10-03 16:47:04 UTC #16

Bit early, but I'll hint that my chicken MC - Friar- does something off scene -NOT pleasureable at all, but it will explain why he's bald. To be revealed later.
Bucky is also a shameless character, enjoys 'pleasuring' hens without guilt -- though no hen as of yet is attracted to him.
The head rooster of my flock -Gallus- occasionally enjoys a bit of baby-talk and petting from his owners. He's the prettiest c*ck of the yard, so it suits him!
Dr. Avius Fowler may enjoy listening to classical music.

Dr. Apis, to-be-revealed vegan, may indulge in a boiled egg every once in a while (shh, don't tell anyone).
Alec Tryon, a rather dull, aging white man, loves to listen to gospel music. So did his wife.
Luke Tryon, well, likes sleeping in late. And working the rescue, and disappointing dad...

allisoncandraw 2023-10-03 17:05:43 UTC #17

This is an interesting question, I've never thought about it much

Bobbie's is probably junk food, but he's a teen boy so no surprise there. And I doubt he's very ashamed of it lol.

David strikes me as a "watches trashy reality TV but only in private" kinda guy.

And finally R.J....maybe corny dating sims? 🤣

GodbreakerComic 2023-10-03 22:54:31 UTC #18

I've given each of the main three a food guilty pleasure.

Ragna loves Taco Baco (the Taco Bell of my universe), Ravening loves leftover cake from the fridge, Randy loves candy on pizza.

EncryptedWriting 2023-10-03 23:13:12 UTC #19

100% Vance. This doofus knows how to lighten the mood and always manages to have a little smart talking mouth. He isn't seen much at the start, but he ends up having a really good relationship with the MC as the story progresses.