Characters
A Guide to Writing Fan FicsOnce again, I’m here to bring you another chapter talking about “characters”. Every story needs to have a character, human or not. Without a character, there isn’t a story. I am not teaching you how to make one, I am just giving you examples of characters I tend to see.
A protagonist is the main character who can not necessarily always be a good person but also a bad guy as well. The antagonist is the character which makes the protagonist goes through difficulties. Writing up a character isn't easy, but it's worth a shot.
Mary Sues’
You’ve probably heard of this a lot. What is a ‘Mary Sue ‘exactly? This type of character is a “perfect person”, no matter if it’s a guy or a girl. A ‘Mary Sue’ can also represent the author as well. Isn’t this character just horrible? This character isn’t bad at anything, no one if ing perfect, please be real. Avoid making a character being perfect and being the ideal type of a thousand guys.
I am totally judging you people who write about EXO liking 1 girl. That is 12 guys liking 1 girl, are you serious?
Kingkas + Queenkas. What are those you may ask? They are good looking people who are rich and want to ruin your life, I’m not kidding. Kingkas are “jerks” and some others are “angels”. Queenkas are just “es” who makes your protagonist suffer and tries to take the Kingka away from you. In Korea, there probably aren’t any Kingkas or Queenkas, please avoid that. These are all over asianfanfics. There all the ing same, change them a bit, eh? Maybe you should just not label them as a Kingka or a Queenka if their rich, good looking, and popular.
Cold Hearted. Hey, I’m the protagonist and I’m so cold hearted, but once you get to know me I’m so lovable! How many times have I seen that and arrogant characters?
Intelligent or not. Your protagonist is either the smartest person on the planet or either a really stupid person. Why not making them in the middle?
Nerds. People lately don’t know what “nerds” are and mistakes them for another term and it makes me cringe. Nerds aren't people who wear huge glasses and the smartest person in class. Sometimes I hear people calling them “nerds” when they were glasses which don’t improve your eye vision. That's just stupid. What are “nerds” exactly?
A nerd is a person who does not conform to society's beliefs that all people should follow trends and do what their peers do. Often highly intelligent but socially rejected because of their obsession with a given subject, usually computers. Credit goes to urbandictionary.
Foreigners. Please, don’t get me started with these types of characters. When I'm looking through some fan fics I see some English names which turn me away and many others as well. This is asianfanfics, ok? I have nothing again foreigners; I'm a foreigner when it comes to going to Korea and everywhere else in the world, but the U.S. In Korea, people don't really like foreigners, while others might do. Just stay away from multicultural characters, just using half American and Korean is fine.
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Author's Note: Have fun writing! Making new chapters soon!
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