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capnhanbers · 1 year
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hi!! i love your writing and your art work and i was wondering if you could give out some advice. how do you write effective personalities and relationships? i have a comic in the works but no idea how to actually fit my characters into the mold.
aw what thank u jeez :)
hmm well that's a huge topic i guess! characters are the absolute top priority in a story imo (and relationships are a subcategory of characters). good characters will make everything else work, so focus more on them than plot/world/setting. you shouldn't try to fit them into a mold, you should let everything grow out from them, or like, um, like they're the mold....?. my brain's kinda disorganized right now so i'll just throw out pointers that're specific to how i write uhhhh
i'm a huge believer in "write what you know," but i think it gets misconstrued a lot. it doesn't mean to only write topics that you have experienced irl, it means like...this fictional situation makes the characters angry. YOU have experienced anger, so what does tHAT feel like? you know what it's like to get rained on, what it's like to be excited about something, what it's like to be scared of another person, what it's like to be bored or lost or sad, etc etc etc. you know a lot of things. you gotta take your life experiences and make a reduction to pour over your fiction.
(write what you know also encapsulates "all my OCs have inherited some trait from me, the creator." this is a good thing when it comes to making believable characters, but don't just pick from yourself. take traits from people you know, or strangers you see, or other characters you like.)
another big one when first creating characters: don't over make them. get a guy, give him a few traits, a speech pattern, a fear, and a motivation. you don't need to have the entire history of his life planned out, you don't need to fill out a questionnaire of every single preference and interest. give yourself room to fill in those blanks within the story, it's way more rewarding.
dialogue is everything. so much character development will happen in dialogue. the main thing i always ask, "could i imagine saying this or having this said to me irl?" which helps you avoid the Everyone Talks Like They're Monologuing trap. obviously ppl aren't gonna talk to me about magic irl, but would they pause before saying something difficult? would they stammer? would they make a joke there, would the other person laugh?
then like i said, relationships are just another part of characterization. lmao as i'm writing this it's funny but. i have no idea how to explain writing a romantic relationship lOL i don't really think about it i just enter a Cute Fugue-state and black out. i DO, however, LOVE Thinking about how i've written contentious relationships >:) i only have one hyper specific tip. if you have two characters at odds, GIVE THEM SOMETHING IN COMMON!!!!!!!!! i.e. naya and chara. they both like to sing. cannot begin to gush over how interesting it makes a dynamic, fun tools to help you later galore.
idk if any of this makes sense. make them feel real idk idk
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shittyspellcaster · 3 months
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I needa take a potion of instant energy rn I am so eepy
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dragondawdles · 5 months
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peace and love on planet earth
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geummi · 10 months
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after practice 🐱🏐
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have i ever mentioned how much i love belphie
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thatmooncake · 5 months
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Birthday today! Thanks for having me, everyone <3
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temeyes · 3 months
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lazy dood ft those handsome sergeants
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hinamie · 14 days
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updated version of the 6 fanarts challenge to celebrate 30k !!! thank u all for suggesting and for continuing to support me n what i do <3
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nell0-0 · 2 months
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Some eepy boys
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lee-quiche · 2 months
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Sleep at Boatem! 💤🌕
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yupekosi · 1 year
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dp x dc prompt again bc i am plagued with blorbo thoughts. should i make this a series?? anyway
so we all know that Jason 'Pride and Prejudice' Todd-Wayne is a nerd, right? no amount of muscle can hide that this fridge of a man was once the dorky little kid that was so excited to go to school he skipped out on Robin patrols to do homework.
I propose that Danny 'I Wanna Be an Astronaut' Fenton Phantom is also a fucking nerd. he gets good grades, when he's not having to juggle school, sleep, and secret ghost fighting, and he takes to engineering like a ghost to ectoplasm. he's also the exact kind of space-obsessed geeky kid that would absolutely devour every sci-fi show and book he could get, and I say that as someone who was that space-obsessed geeky kid.
so, as young teens, both boys spent a lot of time in online fandom spaces, and eventually become internet friends. Jason's into classic lit and Lord of the Rings while Danny's into comic books and Star Trek, but they get on surprisingly well. They're chatting on forums and beta-ing each other's fanfiction, that sort of thing... and then Jason vanishes.
he just stops responding to messages, he stops posting, all his accounts are abandoned. Danny is very concerned, of course, but this happens right around the time of his accident, so he has more city-destroying things to worry about than an online friend going MIA. and eventually, as he gets older, he sort of forgets about Jason, only occasionally thinking back to the kid he used to talk to, wondering whatever happened to him.
so time passes, and Danny, now a young adult, ends up meeting the Batfam for whatever reason. is he part of the Justice League? in Gotham for a Wayne Enterprises internship? superhero shenanigans? Ghost King Summoning? secret twin/son/clone bullshit? up to you!
any way, he's hitting it off with the Batkids, and at some point Jason subconsciously quotes something from one of his old, unpublished fanfics from his Tumblr days.
and Danny's jaw drops. the Batkids stare at him; you can see the gears turning in his head before he blurts out;
"You're WingingIt02???"
and something deep in Jason's brain, buried under layers of death-trauma and Pit Rage clicks.
"Holy shit, AstroloGhost??"
[once again, not planning to make this a fic, but feel free to run wild with the prompt! just give credit if you do, please! :3]
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sefusneezed · 3 months
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Initiate stabs skitarii with a scalpel while girldad follows epic tiktok hair tutorial.
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aether-weather · 6 months
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pequeña criatura...
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96coccinelle96 · 2 months
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Happy St. Patrick’s day!! I wanted to make a lil comic of them bc they are always on my mind obv
This was so SO rushed (I pinky swear that first panel is not what you should ever expect from me but I was so tired and I don’t feel like redrawing it 😭)
also excuse me while I have a style crisis lol
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dizzybizz · 6 months
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please consider jellyfish john,, for me 🥺?
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cloudpalettes · 8 months
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eepy time 😴💤
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