Scoffing at Character Development · 8:49pm Mar 26th, 2021
Let's see how I can put them down today...
Why Is Character Development Important?
A novel consists of a character interacting with events over time. Character and plot are inseparable, because a person is what happens to them. Without a clear sense of who a character is, what they value, and what they’re afraid of, the reader will be unable to appreciate the significance of your events, and your story will have no impact.
Or we'll just plain not respect it anyway because we don't like how it is nor does it meet our interests or criteria.
Take that.
Like real people, fictional characters have hobbies, pets, histories, ruminations, and obsessions. These characteristics inform how a character reacts to and feels about the things that happen to them. It’s essential to your novel that you understand all aspects of your characters so that you are equipped to understand how they may react under the pressures of events they encounter.
Except it's not JUST how they MAY react, it's how I WANT THEM to act, even if it would come naturally like in all sentient natures.
Your main character’s goal sets the stakes in your story. It doesn’t matter whether your story stakes are big or small, as long as they matter deeply to your protagonist.
Ha-ha! Very funny! These are pawns on a chess board. Puppets on a string. They will feel what I WANT THEM to feel.
How Does Character Development Affect Story?
Your character doesn’t have to save the world: perhaps they are trying to save their family from an eviction, or fighting to keep their business from going bankrupt. Your job is to establish what’s important to your character (ideally, it’s something that your audience can relate to), and help the reader imagine what might happen if they lose that important thing.
Unfortunately, much of the retarded haters I put up with state don't want RELATABLE characters, but rather WELL-WRITTEN characters... as in
-Let go of your past and grow up
-Improve your life for the better
-do something that THEY DEFINE as "Respectable"
...Pathetic!
BB letting go of Terra...
I see nothing respectable about that. What's so respectable about having your heart broken, your dreams dashed? Nothing... that's what. I have no empathy for characters who simply let go like that.
I would rather he be demoralized, and instead of the Titans and the people respecting him, or worshiping him, act like the jerks my haters and demoralize him further to his breaking point.
How to Develop Different Types of Characters
Stories have different kinds of characters. Every story has a main character, called the hero or protagonist. Many stories have a bad guy: the villain or antagonist. Secondary characters round out the story. These characters may help the main characters, oppose them, or be completely neutral, so long as they help the reader understand the protagonist or antagonist in deeper ways.
Well, I do agree with that PARTLY...
when writing stories you should always start with your villains. the villains drive the heroes, and the heroes make the plot go...
But as for that DEEPER way...? ...I doubt it'll get anywhere here.
After all, me my haters, and the readers... are all the same...
I can UNDERSTAND why Terra wanted to live a normal life, but just the same I DO NOT approve of her attitude or her actions (Stabbing BB so deep in the back that it come out through his heart) Therefore, I do not respect her, nor I respect BB for willingly letting her go.
Or even Raven throwing a fit at her birthday which her friends were nice to put together for her...
She had NO RIGHT whatsoever to do that, and that is why I enjoy making up scenes where she gets bitch-slapped, or slammed. (I love revenge) I will not forgive her for it ever.
And if people say she WAS IN THE RIGHT to do that, then I guess my characters have every right to do it too... Like when Stone Heart rammed a wagon into a pile of books, destroying them.
And even BB is justified in VERBALLY insulting her. (She verbally insults him all the time)
In other words... Understanding is not the same as LIKING, APPROVING, RESPECTING, and especially JUSTIFY.
Why should I like or respect something I don't approve of? There's nothing moral or decent about it.
How to Develop a Protagonist
Give the protagonist flaws. Protagonists or heroes don’t have to be perfect specimens of humanity.
Funny, my haters keep insisting Raven is invincible, or that Robin is too tough to be beaten, or that Batman could take out Darksied without super powers.
Which means they have no flaws.
No, I'm all for one... THE FEWER FLAWS YOU HAVE THE STRONGER YOU ARE.
In fact, those protagonists tend to be boring.
Perhaps to some... but sometimes that's just how it is.
Great characters emerge from the trials they encounter.
Pathetic...! I don't believe in that bullshit, for that matter my haters and detractors don't either.
Lightning Dawn lost his entire planet at age five, and he survives all alone, drifting across worlds, fending for himself. Then he trains hard, fights endless battles to better his strength and skills and keep the world safer.
Yet my detractors dare to say that losing your planet (Watching it blow up before your eyes) and all that other stuff means nothing.
Beast Boy quit being a Teen Titan and went on to become a successful pro-gamer and makes plenty of money to keep himself going and survive, and he's had a really hard life of tragedy, hardship and betrayal, but apparently that's no good either because he verbally abuses people and refuses to reconcile...
Their hypocrites are showing. Once again, all they're saying is Raven is justified in blowing her party to shreds like that, but Beast Boy isn't allowed to call her out on such things or insult her EVER... for ANYTHING...
...Not how it goes... Not anymore.
,and believable characters have human flaws, just like people in real life
Except, as I have just stated, too many flaws in my view makes you weak and unworthy, and I don't believe in OVERCOMING such things.
Raven made her mistake and Blew up her party in a fit like that= that's the one rotten apple... the bushel is spoiled. I will never forgive her.
Give the protagonist an arc. A good character undergoes some sort of change over the course of the story. That change is called the character arc. You can also choose to create a main character who doesn’t change, but that decision should be intentional.
Or you can just NOT...
Sometimes the characters DON'T NEED those things, especially considering what is supposed to be happening...
Starfleet Magic isn't about learning morals of friendship, or teaching people how to get along (Not all the time) It's an action pack Power Ranger/Dragonball like series featuring MOTW, battle scenes and sci fi.
Also, having the characters CHANGE may not make them LIKABLE...
Look how badly Twilight Sparkle changed as the series progressed...
True, she became less anti-social and was willing to open up to things, but as a result, she became ignorant, obsessive. compulsive, and even went back on her own Friendship Lessons.
-She tells Pinkie to stop brothering Cranky Doodle... only for herself to stalk and harass Moondancer in a worse way.
-She gets scared about being Tardy when not sending a friendship report to Celestia, and instead of being rational about it, she goes berserk and causes danger.
-She frees the pony pillars, not thinking before she acts, and unleashed the Pony of Shadows.
-Banning the CMC from her school of friendship after wrongfully accusing them of making Cozy Glow fail her test, without conducting a thorough investigation, examining ALL facts rather than assumptions, and LISTENING to what others have to say.
Which is why I deem "FORGIVENESS DENIED" a very befitting story and punishment for Twilight.
In other words... Twilight has so many flaws, and so many characteristics... WHAT IS SHE?
Is she an Angel or a Devil...
Is she Good or is she Wicked?
Is she Smart, or is She ignorant?
...PICK ONE!!
Yeah, this sounds lazy, but it's way I prefer things, and besides it's how most fanfiction works (We're taking characters ALREADY DEVELOPED and changing them)
Even if you do change, that does not mean I like it, or approve of it, or forgive you.
Raven may try to apologize for blowing up the party...
Terra may want to apologize to BB for breaking his heart...
The other Titans want to apologize for being so demoralizing...
I don't want to GET ALONG with them
I want to GET EVEN with them
I don't want them learn from their mistakes
I want them to BURN for their mistakes.
...Like Twilight getting burned in FORGIVENESS DENIED (and she deserved it)
Why ALLOW the characters to succeed when I don't want them to succeed, and feel they don't deserve to succeed...? Just like my haters think BB doesn't deserve to succeed as a gamer, even though it was the Titans who drove him to it.
Which also brings up yet another thing... people are always saying "I'm undeserving" It especially burns them up they failed to turn Tara Strong and Greg Cipes against me.
They also say Beast Boy is undeserving, because he's not smart enough, strong enough, he's annoying, and such things should be impossible for him.
Well, there's the "Change, and have flaws" thrown out the window just a little.
BB CAN become a completely different person, be it good or bad. It happens to everyone. We can't stay as kids forever, we physically change, and some things we had feelings for once, we lost our tastes for.
Then again, Terra changed and became THREE different people... form a wandering loner... to a manipulated apprentice... to a below average civilian... each with a different attitude and taste.
Why can't BB become like Masquerade? He CAN... it's POSSIBLE...
...I know my haters, just like me, they simply DON'T WANT IT, and prefer Beast Boy to remain as he is, a happy-go-lucky goofball, with a brain the size of a walnut, and take very little things serious.
I guess they're not all for CHANGE after all...
"I'm all for Change... I can take it when new things come in."
Then why try to Keep Beast Boy EXACTLY as he is?
You said you were all for CHANGE... he's changed. Now pay for it.
How to Develop an Antagonist
Give the antagonist morality.
There is nothing moral about being a bad guy. Nothing at all. Morality only makes a villain weak and foolish, not strong and powerful.
even Count Logan succumbed to that blunder. He should've killed Terra while he had the chance instead of locking her in a jail cell, planning to kill her later.
But then again, that's how villains stupidity works.
Scott: "Aren't you even going to watch them? They could get away."
Dr. Evil: "No, no, no... I'm going to leave the alone and not actually WITNESS them die, I'm just going assume it all went to plan."
Lots of villains fall to that. then again, that is a rule, but just the same... I deem morality "A weakness" not a strength, and it TAKES AWAY from the villainy.
A villain’s motivations should create a crisis for your protagonist. Every villain needs to have their own morality, however warped. If a villain spends part of the novel killing people, you need to give him or her believable reasons for doing so. Make the reader understand exactly what desperate need or twisted belief has driven the villain to commit their crimes, and make those motivations personal to their history and upbringing.
I did, but the haters all consider it BS simply because BB didn't move on and let go of his past...
"BB should've been stronger to RESIST the evil."
But he's NOT strong, he's too shaken up form all the bad things that happened to him, and all the bad things that are STILL happening to him (Namely the Titans demoralizing him)
-He cannot overpower The Dark Prognosticus. (Once it chooses you, that's it)
-If he tries to defy his orders (To destroy everything) the book will torture him and force him to do it.
Then again, when Yamimakai took over BB and made him do terrible things HE DID NOT WISH to do (Making BB an innocent victim) the haters and retards still bullshit him for NOT resisting the power simply because they don't want BB to be evil (well too bad)
BB is still too weak from his sadness and anger, meaning the spirit can easily overpower him.
Make the antagonist powerful. Readers want to see your main character succeed—but they don’t want it to be easy. Your villain should not only be a match for your hero: they should be even more powerful. This forces your protagonist to collect the skills, items, and allies they’ll need to defeat your antagonist, which creates further opportunity for character development.
Well what do you know?
In a way, this IS exactly like how I change BB and make him OP, and I make it so THE HEROES have to do the same thing when their ordinary skills and powers won't be enough to beat him alone.
You have to BE OP to BATTLE the OP. Outsmarting and Outrunning them won't be enough this time.
6 Tips for Writing Great Characters
Develop characters who reflect your interests. You’re going to be spending a lot of time with your characters, so the fiction rule “write what you want to know” applies to them as well. Don’t be afraid to invest your protagonist with familiar qualities, but prioritize your passions and make sure that your main characters emerge from the setting and topics you’ve developed so far.
Aha... I completely agree...
It's MY STORY... so it's MY WAY... and MY INTERESTS...
...You got a problem with that? Instead of bullying and bullshitting me about it, make your own stories, then YOU can do what YOU WANT...
But don't tell me to write things YOUR WAY, especially if I don't like YOUR WAY.
Reveal their physical world through detail. Different writers focus on different details to evoke character, whether deliberately or not. Balzac focused on his characters’ physical appearance. Dashiell Hammett never fed his characters, while Charles Dickens fed his extravagantly. Some writers are interested in revealing character via clothing, as Flaubert did, while others attend to mannerisms or physical appearance. Whatever details you choose, it’s important for you to know your characters' physical world intimately, and how they relate to it.
Well... BB lost Terra, he willingly let her go, which I don't approve of, and so instead of moving on and being happy, I prefer he remain demoralized, wallow in despair, and all that be heavily induced by what happens to him...
-Automatic doors don't open for him
-He is not considered cool or interesting by anyone
-He clearly has the right of way to cross the street, but drivers ignore this, nearly run him over and shout at him while letting other pass with kidnness
-Dogs growl at him and cats hiss
-Flowers wilt
-He takes a simple drink from a drinking fountain, yet people look at him in disgust, and call the cops on him.
Ect, ect...
(Hey, if I want to make him a villain, or an anti-hero... he's gotta be pushed)
Give them the right skills. Your characters should have skills that will allow them to function in your setting. If you’ve chosen to set your novel on the moon, then make sure your character has a space suit or learns how to use one.
I did that... the people still insisted that Beast Boy shouldn't have said skills...
Meaning he cannot change and develop said skills later... or he can't have some hidden talents that start to show up (Like all humans have)
the point is he CAN develop skills, or improve on ones he already has.
BB AS MASQUERADE...
-BB was already well-into video games, and like all of us, he can play constantly, watch others play, and learn and develop and improve his skills, and that goes the same for other table top games, like cards, chess, or even athletic sports.
-Robin trained all the Titans in Martial Arts (as a precaution in case their powers should fail) so BB already knows some moves, maybe he could learn others and perfect them
...So you see HE CAN have these skills (Whether I/you want him to have them or not) It's simply a matter of BUCKLING DOWN.
How do you think Sci-Twi became a geeky super genius? Because she constantly studies.
Why is Rainbow Dash a strong athlete... she practices all the time.
It's not a question of whether or not ARE YOU CAPABLE of developing said skills, but rather are you WILLING TO TRY AND DEVELOP.
I could study develop better writing skills and make REAL stories that people would enjoy... but... I won't
-I don't want to be a real writer (Not even if it means lots o money)
-I don't want to read real original stuff (To me, fanfiction is cooler)
-I'm in this for Revenge and Satisfaction (To beat up or correct things to my standards) That's ALL it is be used for... nothing else.
I could study more and become REALLY, REALLY smart like Twilight is... but I won't...
-I have little to no interest in Science, history, physics (We already covered literature)
-I have no intention or desire of being some teacher or getting a job or perfect the world.
In other words, I'd be doing what Moondancer did... Just studying, nothing else. No improvement, no employment, no conversation... no purpose.
Just study for nothing. (Just HAVING the information is stupid)
Nope, I only study WHEN I HAVE TO, not WANT TO.
...Point is, BB can Buckle down, study and develop skills or improve existing ones. So don't tell me it's beyond his capacity, or you really are saying BB can't change.
Create memorable characters. When creating important characters that the reader is going to meet more than once, be sure that they’re memorable in some way. Try to give each one a quirk or quality that can be used later to help readers recall who they are. This could be a title like “chief of police” or a physical attribute like “ginger-haired.”
Sorta did that already, but haters and retards are still haters and retards...
-Saying Logan needs an outfit change. (Saying his outfit is goofy looking doesn't cut it) I like it just the way it is, and so do others. You don't like it, fine, but don't bitch at me about it. I'm not going to change it.
Whether it is good or bad, you still remember them...
Everyone Remember Logan pulling off Flurry's head
Just like I remember Raven for her callous, cantankerous, rude, and dull attitude.
they just said make it memorial... they didn't say it had to be good or bad.
Give the reader access to their inner conflict. One way to create intimacy with your reader—and to get them to care about your main character—is to use internal monologue. This means letting the reader see a character’s thoughts as they happen, which exposes that person’s inner conflict, motivations, opinions, and personality. Internal monologue not only reveals character: it’s a neat way to convey information about your setting, events, and other characters.
Ridiculous...
I don't care about certain characters and only write about them to bash them... that's what revenge is for..
My haters do the same things...
some of them didn't even like BB or Davis in canon...
When I/they have made up our minds about characters... no amount of backstory, life style, personality, or growth will change it.
I'm angry at Raven, and I will STAY angry with her. There will be no forgiveness.
-The hug... means nothing
-Giving advice or confidence... nadda
-Saying your sorry and trying to make it up... it' ain't happening.
0:57 to 1:11
and my favorite...
1:33 to 1:40
Queen Twilight Sparkle will give a beautiful apologetic speech for what happened in the past, "I can't change the past, but I'm willing to help make the future a better thing for us, but only if you're willing to help me.
...Will you accept my friendship?" *Extends her hoof*
the guy is ultimately unmoved.
"No... it's wrong and I want nothing to do with it."
Same goes with me not accept Terra's decision for a normal life, and BB willing to move on with it.
ONE MESS UP is usually all it takes me for me to lose my respect, love, and care...
"One rotten apple will spoil the bushel."
Subvert your reader’s expectations. The most interesting characters will surprise your readers. Think about it: We don’t have to pay attention to things that are stable. But when something unexpected happens—a wolf comes out of the woods, for instance—we pay attention.
That's a laugh...
INTERESTING CHARACTERS don't interest me like that...
I'm only interested in things I WANT TO SEE... THINGS THAT I DEEM COOL...
-The only reason I'm into Power Rangers is because of the monsters blowing up when being destroyed, or when the Zords transform.
-The only reason I think Ganondorf is cool, is because of his music and his evil laugh...
My haters do the same thing... They only take sides or view a character as "interesting" because they AGAINST my characters or beating them up, even though some of those characters are disgusting criminals, which means they are supporting law breakers and APPROVING of bullying and abuse.
This is one example...
ATH-LITA from FRIENDSHIP IS FAILURE 5 (Pride and Punishment)
She has a terrible temper, and wails on people who do not comply with her ways, even threatening to beat them with a baseball bat. Be it her brother, her coach, her teammates, ANYONE who dares not do things her way.
Yet my haters claim she is JUSTIFIED in hitting people... No, she is not.
Just like Raven is not in the right to hit Beast Boy simply cuz she thinks he's annoying.
(More on that another time)
But again... she's beating up her brother, simply because he refuses to let of his pride and become an actor HER WAY... that's all my retarded haters care about. She that makes her COOL to them.
...I guess we're all the same.
Nope, Character Development (Most of it anyway) can pack up and hit the road... I'm staying right here, and doing what I want when it comes to stories... and MINE DON'T INCLUDE TOO MUCH OF WHAT MAKES ME GAG... KAPEESH?!!!
DEAL WITH IT!!
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I'm not into wrestling, please spare me the talk (It's confusing)
Those characters have displeased me BEYOND redemption. They have neither the right, privilege or even the permission to make up for their errors.
This is a prison... You're not here to be socially rehabilitated, and you're not here to develop character and all that stuff.
...You're here... to be punished. (Their wrestling days are over... forever)
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The subject was found guilty for violating statures 3-7: "Giving into Twilight Sparkle and friends, turning their lives around and embracing friendship and acceptance in a most intolerable way." and was sentenced to Death.
Execution was carried on December 24, 2020 (Friendship is Failure #20)
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The subject also found guilty for violating said statures. Violation of these laws is punishable by Death, or prison for life."
CRANKY DOODLE... awaiting execution in the Fictional Penitentiary."