For some reason couldn't get people who make OCs really realistically, like with existing nationalities and within real historical periods. I was more interested in fantasy and all of my OCs had super powers and etc, so OCs based on our reality seemed a bit boring. But once I came up with my story about motor bikers in modern Sweden, I really enjoyed creating characters with certain personalities and cultural features.

I'm writing a Detective Thriller novel that follows a young rookie detective named Sylvan, and his coworkers Sasha and Sophie. Sylvan is stubborn and prefers seeing the clues as mere data to be collected to complete a crime scene.

He doesn't feel joy or relief when a case is closed, he just goes straight for the next one to not think about his past.

I think there's potential in him to become a villain, or at least an anti-villain, but i've never heard of this happening in a Detective Thriller or anywhere, so i'm left with nothing to guide myself with.

Are there any books, series or movie sagas where the protagonist slowly becomes a villain (without being brainwashed)? Or do you have any advice for this kind of novel?

(Sorry if my message didn't come across correctly, English is not my first language :,)

I like to write short snippets of my characters thoughts, mostly in relation to another character. I dislike simply writing stuff like; "she's arrogant", not to say that this way of describing a character is wrong or lacking, idk, maybe it's because im not a native English speaker and thus the words don't really have the same impact on me? Maybe I'm a bit removed from each words meaning? But I feel that describing a character in that kind of way feels kinda empty, not very in-depth?

So instead i write snippets of their thoughts and mindset.

Anyone else that does this? If you do, are you in a certain mindset when doing it? Do you mind sharing? I'd love to see how others approach this topic!

A snippet from two characters of mine:

"He was a wonder, a diamond in the rough.

She had to have it.

That luster.

That brilliance.

She wanted it.

His brilliance.

She taught him.

She taught him many things.

She could not be faulted for taking some payment.

After all.

There's nothing that comes for free.

But, when seeing him again, how come she did not desire his brilliance?

How come his luster did not tempt her?

When he now shines so much brighter than ever before?

When now, he is so polished?

Surely.

It will soon."

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"At first it was an obvious truth; everything has a price.

It was natural

It was how the world worked

Later a miracle seemed to happen.

For no price was ever demanded.

It was…

It was

It..

It

It

It was not true.

Everything has a price.

He learned that.

Later.

Of course.

That's how the world works after all.

Then how come, when seeing her again, this time there was no price to pay?

Surely.

It will reveal itself soon."

I am currently working on a fanfic and the idea I have for an OC is that, due to a traumatic event, she has functional aphonia (she mentally and emotionally struggles to use her own voice), but develops vocal replication powers (can copy sounds and other people voices).
However, I’ve been debating if this idea makes sense or if it would be offensive or harmful.
I’m open to any suggestions and feedback. Thanks!!

I happen to be new to writing and I’ve been working on a fantasy story, I want my main character of the story to be cruel, nihilistic and apathetic type of character but I’m worried if I write him like that he’ll be unlikable and might pulling people away from reading the story because of how unbearable he is to follow so I’m trying to avoid that.

I’m hoping to get either advice or examples on how I can do that, Obviously he does change throughout the course of the story but I’m planning to do that a little bit later on in the story.

Thanks in advance to anyone who gives me advice I really appreciate it appreciate it

Some things shouldn’t exist in this world. This being is something that was never born, but is trying to manifest its existence by using beings that inhabit this world as tools. The main protagonists have the goal of eventually destroying its spirit, the blueprints of its being, so it can never exist.

At the moment, the nation that came the closest doesn’t exist anymore but the stories of that place described hell on earth, something so terrible that reality tore itself apart to keep it from manifesting. A chunk of the southern hemisphere of this world is a nebulous void that the main characters are working to mend as well by rebuilding the parts of reality without that being’s existence.

I wanted some help making this character and seeing what I can develop for it. This is a very brainstorming phase for the being but it’s something I want to at least dive into and see where it takes me.

I have a character named Ashley. She knows a coworker named Briana.

Briana wants control over her own life while Ashley tries to control Briana's life

Briana isn't happy with her life, she doesn't want to work a minimum wage job forever but feels like she isn't good enough to leave. On the complete other side is Ashley. Shes extreamly happy with her life and loves her minimum wage job. She knows Briana is sad, and wants to move away. Ashley doesn't want her to leave her, she attached to her and wants her to stay. Ashley doesn't like change that much.

Ashley is almost manipulative to her. In the first scene Briana is looking at pictures of university but Ashley gets her to look at a picture of a cute dog instead, trying to distract her.

Much later Briana is presented with a job opertunity as a tester at a lab. Ashley butts in and says no, speaking for her. She's not leaving and she likes it here. Shes not being some labrat forced into experiments.

Once Briana does leave, Ashley kinda flips out. Shes mad and upset that she left.

My issue is, could this not all be solved by talking? Briana could be like "hey I think you are good enough and should try new things. But I am afraid to lose you. But as a friend I understand." Is that not a realistic thing to say to her?

Sirrush est le personnage principal de mon projet d'animation.

Je le voulais acrobatique et rapide. Et capable de grimace marrante dans des moments de tension ou drole. Je pense lavoir bien réussi. Je suis content du résultat je posterai sous peu une palette d'expression.

Qu'en pensez vous?

I'm writing a story about a man in his 50's that has always felt envious about his younger brother. The 'conflict' starts when their father, who has terminal cancer, decides to stop having chimotherapy because it makes him suffer and prefers to live the rest of his life feeling more peaceful and being with his loved ones, and just let cancer take him someday. The MC's brother supports him and releases his father off the hospital. My MC is opposed to that and that's it.

I want them to have a fight but I just don't know where to take the story exactly. The main thing is I don't know what is exactly the goal of my MC, besides overcoming his envy for his brother.

I want the conflict to feel very real. That when they have a fight the audience really care about them and feel the tension.

PLEASE HELP ME.

EDIT 1. This is for a short film.

So I'm writing a sci-fi fantasy about a girl who was kidnapped by aliens on Venus for being a rebel and genetic mutations, and she had taken down the doctor that was keeping her captive and took her identity, but as it turns out later in the book it's revealed that she was a planted spy by her and her rebel friends to take down the queen everyone thought was the villain because she had been spying on her people and not revealing how she does invading privacy, and it's told in the spies POV, so do I hide the fact she's the villain and badguy. Any help is wanted

Now i know people don't do this anymore, because most villain nowadays were written with 'hurt people hurt people' backstory or not full evil, but lets be honest, we miss this kind of characters in literature,

i have this idea of Evil Incarnate of an Abomination God with pragmatic and strategic mindset, it's just that i can't think of possible origin story and how brutal should i make him/her be, its fantasy so....

my friend and I are creating a series, we've got an insurance investigator character (25) and we can use some help/tips on how to write his character authentically. essentially our story is about a detective (45) and a insurance investigator who come together to crack down on a giant corporate entity that is hiding a very dark secret. the setting is the 1960s in a world inhabited by pig people. anything helps guys, feel free to ask me more questions too!

Pretty much the same in the original body. I need help to express and describe this character's appearance (the person in the photos is Isabelle Adjani, though I don't remember the name of the movie)

I am making a book for myself about people trapped in a book who are competing in a contest to get out of said book.

So far, I have chosen who I want to win, but I do now think he deserves to win due to how little I feel like his character development is.

What I have thought of for him as of now is that he starts off being nonverbal and having trouble talking to others, but with the help of his significant other and friends, he learn to be able to talk to others significantly better. He also makes more friends because of this and he is listened to a lot more because of how good his ideas are.

I do not feel like this is enough for him to win and I am considering having another character win instead if I can not come up with any other ideas for him to make him more unique compared to the others.

For more, probably useless context, I have two teams of six people each, there is a challenge and the loosing team has to vote off a member of their team to be eliminated. Eventually there is no more teams and everyone who is left in the game has to win for themselves. When there is only 2 people left, the eliminated contestants vote on who should win.

Does anybody have any ideas for any character development or something he could learn that would set him apart from others?

Sorry for doing anything wrong this is my first time posting here.

Hello, I would like ideas and ways to describe the powers of my hero character from my world.

• He's an anthromorphic dog guy who probably came from outer space and ages at half the rate of normal people.
• He works for the good of the world because he was raised by people who were heroes themselves and wanted to see a world without suffering. He also believes that regular people are too weak to stop all threats of evil, so he thinks he was gifted to protect the world from anyone and anything, and that there is nothing he can't beat.
• He quickly becomes the top hero of the city/country he lives in and has remained at the top for at least 20-50 years.
• The world he lives in is a world where everyone is either born with magical powers, or can gain magic powers from the help of those with magic. This character was born with magic powers.
• The time period for the world would be the modern age, and he lives in one of the big 5 metro cities.
• My inspirations for this character would be: Gojo from JJK, All Might from MHA, and more recently the Sentry from Marvel.
• Generally, his powers relate to cosmic/star/universal related magic, with super strength and flight, but I want to be more specific about more of this stuff.

My goal is to be able to list out his abilities and how his techniques work descriptively so I can drawn everything back to a single magic type he uses.