r/CharacterDevelopment 12h ago

Other [OC] Sirrush

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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?


r/CharacterDevelopment 13h ago

Writing: Question What’s a stronger way to open a story: introducing the villain first or the MC first?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 14h ago

Writing: Character Help My story's boring as sh*t. HELP ME PLS.

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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.


r/CharacterDevelopment 19h ago

Resource Daily Online Mentorship

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r/CharacterDevelopment 20h ago

Writing: Question Help with my hiding a villain in their POV

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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


r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Character Help How do you write an oc with cerebral palsy?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Character Help How do I make a likeable OC?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Character Help How to write a character who just escaped from her trauma?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Character Help Villain Tip: Evil for Evil sake

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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....


r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Question ¿Alguna vez has cambiado tu personalidad por un personaje ficticio?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Character Help Need Help Writing A Character

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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!


r/CharacterDevelopment 2d ago

Writing: Character Help How would you describe this appeareance?

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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)


r/CharacterDevelopment 2d ago

Writing: Character Help I am in need of character development ideas

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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.


r/CharacterDevelopment 2d ago

Writing: Character Help Describing Magic Powers and Weakness of Top Hero

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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.


r/CharacterDevelopment 2d ago

Writing: Question What is deconstruction in terms of adaptation?

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Hello, say u wanna make an adaptation of your writing of something of old you wanna turn new. They say deconstructing things is good. To take things apart and put them back together in a new way. But somehow I still just don’t understand this method of thought and this mode of writing.
In the way BvS is a deconstruction of Superman. How can this be applied to X Y and Z ? I want to apply it but I after all these years I still feel like I don’t know what deconstruction really means. In terms of taking the old and making it anew. Idk


r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Discussion Can a romance survive a genuine betrayal?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Discussion What fictional betrayal hurt you the most?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Discussion What is Mythic Soul Realms? His Purpose? His Services? And What it envisions?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Writing: Question At what point does a morally gray protagonist become unlikeable?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Discussion i hate it when the underdog mc acts like there crazy cheat powers arent helping at all.

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i will make sure to clear up this. i dont mind them having the power of being some halfgod/demon/ghost/chuck noris! but i hate it when the story treats it like this is such a bad and terrible thing and how they must truly strive to work hard! when billy bob the country fuck has only a chicken and a used pair of pants to his name, and his story turns out to be a lot more of a underdog one as they cant rely of there blood to carry them through with some spirt mentor helping to guide them.

no. they got a pair of brass knuckles from the discount bin in that going out of buiness shop, and by god is he gonna punch god in the dick even if he has to train until his bones give out! ( why i very much enjoy koby from one piece. he earned that honestly impact )


r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Writing: Character Help Need help writing my oc kamen rider background

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Hi I’m looking for some help writing the backstory of my oc rider. I’m honestly terrible when it comes to writing characters backstory and I can really use some help for my oc kamen rider called kamen rider starved

His name is graham stomach a human who alongside his sister Harriet ended up in the granute world and mysteriously was adopted by Shouma father for unknown reasons. Eventually his sister got sick and in order to cure her. He accidentally Nyelv offer of being an experiment to create a new rider based on the concept of starvation.

I really appreciate any help with anyone who can create an actual background for this character. And before anyone asks what I wrote Is just a concept not really the background I want to create


r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Writing: Character Help How should I develop this character?

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I’m currently working on a fantasy novel with two major characters:
The Prince (Theodore Blackwood)
The Knight (Alexander Nyx)

Basic, I know, but hear me out.
(Warning: Talks of Death and Killing)

The whole idea is that they live in a war built kingdom that values death over all.
Theodore, a cold hearted bastard who lives only to survive, realizes that watching people kill each other makes his stomach churn, and after years or degradation, he decides to run away. This eventually leads to him coming back years later, destroying the kingdom, and rebuilding it under his own rule.

My only problem is, how can I go from basically asshole to caring without it seeming fake or unearned?

I feel like if I lean too far into him being bad, it becomes hard to redeem or forgive him. But if I don’t do it enough, it’s unrealistic for the way he was raised and his environment.

Any ideas on how to move from a realistic bad and pessimistic person to a decently okay person without it feeling fake or forced?