We give our readers action, romance or suspense by creating obstacles that our comic / novel characters need to overcome, but would we be able to be as determined as them?
(In my case I don't think I could be as resolved as Nereida,2 but I would take the leap anyway. Living as a student of an important sport academy must be great)
Sep '19
Sep '19
No, not really.
Zeta has PTSD.
X has problems with insecurity.
Alice is distrusting and manipulative.
JESS, is a can of worms that'd take years to explain.
Having element based superpowers and naturally blue hair? Heck yeah!
Having your bad mental state literally weaken your soul? Heck no.
(Also there's all the other drama.)
No. Not really. With what's going to happen to them in the future, I'd just rather avoid the whole situation.
Though, their lives outside the story are pretty average.
Nope. Even if it wasn't exactly in any of Splitting Image's mains' shoes, Aeolia sounds like a horrible place to live compared to modern comforts. Not only your and your loved ones' lives can be snuffed out at any moment by a sudden magical disaster or a rampaging giant animal, even if you live in the safe towns, you're at constant risk of nearly starving every winter and food/water/medicine shortages happen as soon as one major town gets a crisis in any island. A pretty place yes, but not one I'd like to see with my own eyes, at least in that time period.
sadly yes since atleast i wouldnt be a very dislikable person who honestly cant help it since i made my characters seem likable... at least to eachother.... plus magic 
I like to think I'd like to. My character has major flaws but they're based on the ones I already have. Physical disabilities and a serious self-esteem issue.
Knowing the emotional trauma I'm going to put her through? Not really sure. I've paired her with some pretty awesome guys, but I haven't given her any easy decisions.
No, Gil is haunted by an eldritch entity, that for no apparent reason turns horror stories around him into reality, and even by itself is a horrific thing to encounter.
Knowing where the story is going... no, no I wouldn't want Felicity's life. That's more responsibility than any one person should have. I'm perfectly content with my ordinary life, thank you very much. 
Leaning to no. Having a Minecraft build outside of time is great and all, but with great power comes great responsibility. The job entails making tough political calls, catching magical criminals, and avoiding assassinations (with the occasional death and subsequent rewinds). Quite stressful unless you have a certain grit.
My whole story is all about "Why being a powerful half-immortal-time-traveller may suck."
HELL NO!
*cough cough * Excuse me...
To explain, all of my characters are going through some deep shit that would honestly be too much for me. I mean, some of their experiences are based off of things that have either happened to me or to someone I know. However, for the sake of drama, many of those experiences are revved up.
As an example, one character (whose name I won't reveal because it would be too spoilery) is a prince who was born (for the lack of a better description) visually deformed. His mother's fidelity was questioned because of how different he looked from everyone else in that region, and some religious extremists thought he was cursed or maybe even a demon. Many assassination attempts have been plotted (also because his father, the King, is not very popular). Anyway, he also worries about whether or not his father loves him at all. This prince character also has PTSD from fighting in a bloody war that's still ongoing, along with his older brother, who almost DIED. He also has to watch his brother grow gradually more depressed as he's married off to a woman whom he doesn't love and also doesn't love him. She eventually ends up cheating on his older brother. Anyway, after his nephew, his brother's toddler, dies in an assassination attempt meant for him, his brother tries to kill him.
Their family is very complicated.
Another character is the daughter of a poor farmer. She has to deal with essentially medieval life problems: disease, lack of good medical care, heavy taxation, extreme misogyny, an underdeveloped and unfair legal system, no air conditioning etc. Also, her mother died in childbirth (#BadMedievalHealthcare) when she was thirteen, and since then, she's had to raise her younger sister and basically run the house. Every day, she has to worry if her father is going to die from overworking in the fields, or wonder whether the harvest will be fruitful enough for the winter and to pay their taxes.
I have way more examples, but they just get more depressing from here, so I'll stop. (All of these characters are from my comic, Whispers of the Past, btw, in case you were interested in reading it.)
Given my character is pretty miserable maybe not but I would have the ability to potentially destroy the entire world...which would give me excuse to tell the fans I can't do a sequel.
brb retconning my comic as japhin so I don't have to bother with more work.
Sure!
My main character is more than 20 years younger than I am, that's already an incentive 
Plus, he's pretty much like the extroverted version of myself when I was younger, so that would be an interesting experience (I'm extremely introverted).
Nothing too bad happens to him.. he meets interesting people and has the opportunity to travel.. yep, I would like it.
Having a monster boyfriend would be great!
Unfortunately I like modern medicine, technology, and indoor plumbing too much.
No because almost all my characters are crazy and/or trying to deal with tragedy. And most of their flaws are flaws I see in myself but turned up way too high.
a bit on the fence about this; being a magical, biologically immortal demon is pretty sweet though only if you stay the hell away from most every other demon and isolate yourself from their extremely hierarchical society that operates on wanton violence and murder. which is pretty much what the main characters are doing at the start of the story anyway.
as for the only human character, Jamie...a bit of a spoiler but while he does get a happy ending, it's not before getting put through the wringer quite a bit, especially before the start of the story and towards the end of it. kinda ironic since I originally meant for him to be an escapism character before I discovered my love for making my character suffer mentally and emotionally 
it...depends on which ones 
some of them are rejects living in a wasteland on the edge of a literal metropolis
others are outcasts living in the center of a dangerous wood along with a broody bounty hunter with a pretty crappy past
I think the only characters who I'd consider swapping places with is on of the monsters living among their kind in a thriving small town or the misfits making what they can of their city only at the expense of the occasional conflict with their self named rivals
The honest answer may be a no but I think if i felt tempted enough and was able I just might say yes
