Characters Part 2

Who You Are As A Writer

Here are the requirements for Protagonists and Antagonists in fanfic writing.

 

Protagonists:

-Nerdy but beautiful.

-Smart

-Clumsy

-May or may not show it, but they're kind.

 

Antagonists:

-Beautiful but not as beautiful as the protagonist.

-Jealous of the protagonist because they got their guy.

-Evil, tries to harm the protagonist.

-Mean

 

There. If a fanfic has all the requirements then it's amazing! A+

(My sarcasm is dripping isn't it?)

All of those traits mentioned above are overused and are incorrect to describe a character. (Refer to Chapter 6.)

 

My Point of View:

It's overused and cliche that every protagonist is good. Recently, I've been reading a series where the main character isn't good but isn't bad either. It's like...he's in between. You can say that he's not a good guy, but he isn't a bad guy either.

If a character is "perfect" then so what? As a reader, I wouldn't be able to "connect" to the character. I wouldn't be connected to someone who does everything perfect and such. Because I'm not perfect. No one is. We're all humans.

At times in life, we, as humans make mistakes. It's what makes us human. If we don't then we're just robots. Period.

Just please, make your characters human and make sure that there's some unique trait or personality to your characer so that it doesn't become another Mary Sue or just the same as any other protagonists out there. It's your story. You wrote it.

So there should be a level of uniqueness to it.

 

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A/N: Feel free to comment and share your thoughts.

 

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Hilleo #1
Chapter 8: Actually in my school, you dont have to have good grades when youre in a sport team. Even if you have the worst score in the whole school but actually great in sport, you dont have to care about failing.
Shiny_sushi
#2
Chapter 6: I totally agree with you! I really hate Mary Sues with whom you absolutely can't relate to! >:(
Ps: thanks for the precious advice!
Hilleo #3
Chapter 4: I had. And it's annoying-.- i was like,"uhh, what's the use of updating when you only got 5 paragraphs to share?"
Hilleo #4
Chapter 2: Same with you. I don't rush them to update unless the last time they updated was like 3 or more months ago. Hehe
Hilleo #5
Chapter 1: Actually, i write because I always want to share my imaginations with people. I want them to know what I am thinking, what I am feeling...
MoroccanBlackDragon
#6
Chapter 1: OMG I just needed to read this!!! YES I ened to share this with my Jonkey shippers "friends" They kept saying that if I write about Jongkey my fics will way better and so on. But I don't ship Jongkey, so what? I want you appreciate my effort like I appreciate urs T.T why does it hurt to see people neglecting that point : That writer deserve a chance, even if I don't ship that pairing.
travellingIdeas
#7
Chapter 8: I agree. I just realized recently that highschool fic focused mainly on the romance life, I mean, I get it that the genre is 'romance' but it doesn't mean that all the highschool things that the characters have to do magically gone.
more fic with highschool!au genre should describe the struggle of their character as a student more.
Sforzando
#8
Chapter 7: I definitely agree that a title should be memorable and well thought out. It should especially relate to the story. It irks me when the title sounds pretty but has absolutely no significance to the story. One thing I'd have to disagree on is the word limit. "One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies" by Sonya Sones is a great example of this. True, not many titles exceed six words but it can be done really well by those who do.