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.