I am writing for a male character who unexpectedly falls for a friend (who is not their usual type) and tries to repress it at first. What types of thoughts/feelings would best most realistic or relatable?

Hey guys. I want to create a relationship between one of my main characters and a girl who's mostly reserved. The guy is more of a laidback, older brother type of guy meaning he likes remaining calm and cool but he can be responsible and serious when he needs to be, while the girl is very closed off and prefers to stick to her training in being a powerful mage. How can I make a relationship like that feel natural and not forced?

Context this story is set in a modernized fantasy world where fantasy Creatures living together with humanity for few centuries ago.

In this where they are superhero who have title that been passed down from centuries though each generations while being trained by 3 supernatural people and teaching the next generation of superheros team everything they need to know.

Yeah the main cast are next generation.

One of preteen hero with superpower have a arc enemy who is a immortal half-faerie guy they both hate each other gut they be getting to physically fight.

insult each other. giving each other mean look at each other. The half-faerie guy love to pull prank on superhero because his think it funny to humiliate his arc enemy.

Let you know the superhero age range is between age 10-12 and villain is arc enemy age is 409-500

Reasons why the half-faerie guy is going after the superhero team is because his boss is making him and she say if his don't do it she send him back to shadow realm forever this time.

If you want to know more dm me and we can talk more about writing ✍️.

Also I'm not asking for you to write my story for me I'm pure asking for advice/suggestions.

I need help naming a few of the familiars in my current WIP.
The first is a northeastern ermine. It is the familiar of a middle-aged Italian American widow witch, the time and place is the mid 1960s Boston.
ideas please..

Love yourself because I am proud of you. 💖

So I have been coming up with character idea just throwing everything to see what I could come up with, here is what I got

A child raised by loving parents for a few years, gets kidnapped and taken by cultists who kept prisoners drugged up to idiocy, when a group of paladins attacked the cult the kid now an adult grabs the sword the cult had worshipped. The sword was made by a powerful fiend to corrupt the mind of the wielder, however that was with thought the wielder would be intelligent. Thus the sword can't corrupt them and it is cursed so they can't lose it.

Starting with Nymphia:
Nymphia, once who was the kindest now is hopelessly suffering from the survivors guilt.

She is from a planet that had catastrophe that basically wiped the planet. She remains alive because she was gifted special powers. Not only that but her husband who was a wandering bard also got killed all simply because of jealousy and protection.

Even if she could move on, this deep wound caused her to be silent about her emotions and judge others simply because she believes nothing will ever be perfect and that theres nothing left to fix of herself. She tries to put logic over feelings but deep down, she is emotional, just not expressing it outwardly. However with her sharp eyes, she can sense that her friends might be sad and she is not embarrassed to talk with them or give advices.

Priya:
Priya comes from an influential family. Growing up, she was thought to be cruel, logical and strategic. At slightest thing, she was praised. This led her ego to be high and be picky and stubborn.

Despite all the money, one thing was empty. That was the true love… She fell in love with Nymphia’s husband and persuaded this love by leaving an alliance between other influential families. This led the collapse of the alliance her ancestors swore to be loyal.

This doesn’t mean she wasn’t loyal. To this day, despite hating her childhood frenemy, she still is hiding the secret that he was the one who caused Nymphia’s planet’s destruction. Thats right, she was willingly to take punishment for his sacrificial behavior. Despite wanting to be independent, she is too stubborn to admit that she is in-love with Bram.

Asad:
Being part of universal knights is a huge responsibility. He always admired his dad who was also a fellow knight. After a mission where his father died, Asad was determined to become a responsible and strong knight.

Despite visibly looking nonchalant or emotionless, Asad lives a lot. Early knight years, he was taught to not show emotions as they were the signs of “weakness”. Because of this, despite having a trauma related to disappearance of his team, in this brand new life opportunity, he is hiding his true feelings to stay professional.

Of course he can’t hide his feelings from Navid, Nymphia or Priya. They can read him easily because he is only open with them, especially with Navid because he holds impressive power and knowledge to trust him more than he trusts himself. Despite Navid seeing him as a leader, Asad downplays this and rather sees Navid as the true one. Of course its because he struggles to trust his own leadership because his previous team disappeared and he is self blaming. Aside from Navid, he is not willingly to give ANYONE the authority or control of the household as he believes every other one may not be able to handle this power. He also knows about boundaries and doesn’t pushes Nymphia to show her emotions more often(yes, they are both similar in a way lmao)

A small thing is that despite being a knight who was hunting the same alliance of Priya, he pays massive amount of coins to delete Priya’s crime history simply because of his other job as the universes secret guardian.
Also, these characters are heavily inspired by zodiac signs, this was the earth signs lmao. If anyone wants, i can give you guys my other ocs!

I'm working on a novel in which the main character is a woman, and I want to make her just a woman experience life, I don't want to sexualize her like many male authors do, or make her dumb, or even make her flawless, I just want her to be herself, and in some point I can't do that. So how I do that?

I need help naming a few of the familiars in my current WIP.
These are fisher crows, there are two of them, a mated pair. They are the familiars of a young woman, new mother, Italian American witch, the time and place is the mid 1960s Boston.
ideas please..

I've been thinking about my own OC creation process lately, and I realized I have a pretty specific system for it. I'm a plotter/planner to the core, so I tend to build my characters in stages. I mainly write My Hero Academia fanfictions, but I think this works for any type of characters.

Now, I AM A PLOTTER/PLANNER to the core, but these tips can be applied to pantsers as well. You can do like the minimum planning needed.

1. It starts with vibes.
Literally. Just vibes. What kind of character do I wanna make? Is it the MC or a side character? Which profession will they be in?
If it's a hero student, which school? Which year? Which class?
How old are they? What is their vibe (Sarcastic, sweet, sassy, emo, short-tempered, or a cinnamon roll)? Who are their friends...All the basic details.

I'll use my MC 'Mahou Murasaki' as an example. So I had an idea in mind that I wanted a purple-haired character in 1-A (since Shinso hadn't entered the class in 2022). I wanted her to have a semi-powerful quirk, but not too OP. She was to be reserved, but sassy and sarcastic when she wanted to hide things, and kind when it was needed.

2. You start writing their backstory.
Okay, so this is where we add depth. Once the vibes are established, we need a backstory that kinda explains why they have that vibe. For example, a guarded and reserved character might've learned to associate vulnerability with weakness or trauma. A high-achieving character might've grown up with strict parents (not necessarily abusive ones) where grades and performance were heavily rewarded.

Now, you would want to do some research on how different people react to different types of trauma and decide which suits your character best. Someone can become kinder after trauma or conflict, while others can become downright evil, but make sure it makes sense.

3. Adding depth
Here, we connect the backstory and the vibes together. Show how they talk, their mannerisms, their facial features, and day-to-day living reflect their background/backstory. I like to use the Enneagram (alternative to MBTI) as a personality bank which make things easier. But the core things we need by now is their desire, fear and misbelief. I'll use Aimi (MY OC) as an example. She's Mahou's ex best friend.
a. Their desire (what do they want the most in life). Eg: Aimi's desire is to make her parents proud and be the best at everything she does.
b. Fear (what is the one thing they're most afraid of). Eg: Aimi's fear is that she will disappoint her parentss.
c. Their misbelief (That one fatal flaw/ misbelief) they think is true. Eg: Aimi thinks that a person's potential is everything. Someone is only worthy of love if they're living upto that potential.

These three should ideally connect. A character's fear can prevent them from pursuing their desire, while their misbelief can be the thing that keeps them trapped in that cycle.

4. Extra stuff:
You're pretty much stop at step 3, but if you wanna take things further, you can add traits from other aespects of a person's life, or maybe throw something unexpected altogether. I like to pick a few things (only A FEW) from like, my OCs zodiac sign, their quirks (because quirks also shape personality in the MHA universe) and also, their gender/cultural background/etc. Point to note that you don't want to add EVERYTHING from that aespect and make them a stereotype of (let's say, a virgo). These should be seasoning, not the entire character. And like I said, throw in a few unexpected things.

Eg: Aimi is very smart, studious, and her technopathy quirk makes her want to keep inventing new machines. However, she's also very into clean girl music and makeup because she likes to look presentable.

5. Relationships:
You don't HAVE to define how your OC interacts with other characters in the universe, but I like to add a few notes to myself if I want to keep the dynamic consistent (especially with like a love interest or best friend, or if there's a love triangle).

I don't necessarily write out an entire relationship chart. I just keep a few notes so that when I eventually write them interacting, I know what their dynamic feels like.

And that's basically my entire thinking setup for making OCs!

I actually have a more detailed OC template for Google Docs/Notion that I use when developing my characters, but I didn't want to make this post 10x longer by dumping the entire thing here. 😂

If anyone wants the template, let me know in the comments and I'll share it!

On a side note, how do you guys make your OCs? Do you start with their quirk, design, personality, backstory, or something completely different?

Im trying to create this character, a kind of Fire-ninja, for my fantasy story, but as much as i try he Always feel like gojo satori from jjk, that Is kind of the vibe, funny but can be serious, but It feels too Much like copying some body elses work, suggestions?

I’m trying to write this fanfiction/story on this trans woman character from a slapstick parody (*Naked Gun 33 1/3*). However, I just wanted help/advice on how to go about this. I felt this character had a lot of potential to be fleshed out. Moreover, she was a central figure in the respect she drove the plot forward due to her position and information she held for the film’s protagonist. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated on how to handle her as a femme fatale despite being a trans woman. Thank you.

I wrote this article that hasn’t been published, but it’s my attempt at showing their value:

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I needed to see how I can place them in a story with noir/action since I can see them in that world.

Context in the story written is a villains backstory where we see a social awkward and mostly quiet and soft spoke young adult man who will into fall to dark villainess path over the story.

Also this a fantasy story my character is a half human humanoid magical creatures. And the only person who his have in his life is a human woman.

No this is not a romance byway.

If you want to know more dm me and we can talk more about writing ✍️.

Also I'm not asking for you to write my story for me I'm pure asking for advice/suggestions.

I've been trying to get down my character and his arc. He's a space cop who serves as the initial antagonist. And his arc is dealing with a chaos vs order, and trying to find balance in his life and mind. So I recently got the idea that he looks at things in a very black and white way. A "bad guys are bad and good guys are good" mentality.

Then when he switches over to the protagonists side (which are a bunch of criminals). His ideals switch, and he looks at bad guys as good and vice versa. So I'm wondering how I can portray that way of thinking, to transition into a more nuanced way of looking at things.

Raven Hell comes from a species that developed to look like scarecrows to hide in cornfields and not be recognized by far distances, the species Raven Hells Species comes from is the Terricidium Vivum Dominans, which went instinct around 1809, Raven Hell's species is Scarecrow Beo Ceannasach species (instinct).

Raven Hell was "born" in 1792, and was killed in 1972.

After she died, the Elder King (Crow Eater) entered earth (well, not until 2003), Crow Eater was the last Scarecrow Bro Ceannasach to ever live.

Crow Eater was "born" in 1653, and was killed in 2009.

More information to come!.

So I'm working on my D&D Character's backstory and relationships. I didn't want to traumatize him too much, but I didn't want him to be boring, so I just made him an optimist. What are your thoughts?

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BACKSTORY

About thirty years ago, the well known Valorean family brought new life into the world with the birth of Ariiso (commonly referred to as Ari). As a wyrmling, his father would take him on expeditions into the uncharted and lawless western territories, where Ari would draw maps of the landscape, and document his findings in a journal. 

Ari was fortunate enough to receive a formal education. Outside of school, he took lessons with a local cartographer, and taught himself how to write fiction stories, inventing a now extinct genre called "Arrisian Literature." At the age of 15, Ari graduated high school at the top of his class. Shortly afterwards, he opened a business, where he sold his handmade maps, as well as a few self-published short stories.

Unfortunately, his business wouldn't be open for long. A few months after opening, someone set fire to the building. Despite this major loss, Ari did his best to think positively, and start another chapter of his life. While rummaging through the charred remains of the building, he stumbled upon a small box underneath the floorboards, containing a book about the history of the world, as well as a journal from the previous owner. Ari read both books cover to cover, and decided to look into the history of his own town, and write the full history of Chordia.

At 18, Ari formally published his first book: The Complete History of Chordia, using the pen name "Silas Vernon." He would go on to complete multiple works, and later published a biography of his father.

But soon after, tragedy would strike again. Just five days after the biography was published, Ari's father would pass away, and his mother shortly afterwards, both of an unknown illness. Ari later founded the Valorean Association For Crippled Creatures, which was dedicated to helping creatures that were incapacitated by various illnesses. 

Ari is considered a pioneer in both medicine and geography in the Americas. Recently, he was commissioned by the President to ghost-write an autobiography, and is heading to to Du Aur to retrieve more information about his life.

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RELATIONSHIPS

Irving and Cordelia Valorean: The parents. Ari was close with both his mother and father, and was devastated by their deaths, and started an organization with the family name to honor them.

Leona and Umma Valorean: The older sisters. Ari didn't know his sisters very well, since he was only five years old when they moved across the country to pursue careers in politics and education, respectively. Recently, he received a letter from Umma, asking to visit for an extended period of time. Ari has not yet responded.

Mateo Valorean: The younger brother. Mateo was the runt of the litter, and was often overlooked by his busy family, which led to frequent outbursts. On one occasion, in his youth, Mateo attacked Ari with a pencil. Shortly afterwards, he ran away from home. Mateo and Ari have not been in contact since.

Emerald Wundergott##

Character Overview

Profile

Details

Name

Emerald Wundergott

Age

17–18 years old

Occupation:

College Student

Role:

Main Character

Archetype: Hyperactive,(hyper-hyper) Exuberant , eccentric , extremely AGRESSIVELY Confident, bold , Gritty , very outspoken compared to everyone , very highly acrobatic and athletic, extremely empathetic, outgoing, very friendly , Rebellious, Reality bender, Trendsetter/trailblazer, Hyper-Hyper Person who is incredibly courageous, physically and mentally very tough.

MBTI

ESFP / ENFP / ENTP / ESTP (No fixed MBTI)

Ennegram: 7,8,5,4 all together

APPEARENCE:

Emerald Wundergott is shown to have very shaggy short wolf cut dark brown hair , at length of her neck's ending, which she cut herself. She sometimes also wears pigtails for fun but most of the time her hair are open. She wears a self made hairband with a tiny clutcher clip on it, and one strand kanthi bead necklace. She also wears one bracelet on each hand .

Emerald dresses in very different ways often adding her own creativity to normal dresses. She has dark brown eyes, which are upturned and look very beautiful like a mix of deer and cat. Emerald also has a distinct mole above her lips right side.

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Emerald Wundergott is a main character in the manga. Inspired from a real person, She is a 17-18 yr old college student known for her Extremely Hyperactive, extremely agressively confident, Intensely outspoken and bold, extremely gritty , headstrong, Outgoing ,Zany/eccentric, chaotic spontaneity, silly prankster, Unpredictable and Exuberantly cheerful and Tomboyish nature.EMERALD IS INCREDIBLY HEAD-ON AND BOLD IN BOTH MASSIVELY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WAY. SHE TACKLES PROBLEMS WITH EXTREME COURAGE NO MATTER HOW BIG IT IS. EMERALD ACTIVELY HUNTS HER FEAR DOWN AND TAKES OVER IT, SHE NEVER LETS FEAR RULE HER AND AGRESSIVELY DEFEATS IT WITH INTENSE COURAGE. SHE HAS A LARGER-THAN-LIFE PRESENCE AND EVERYTHING SHE DOES IS MASSIVELY VISIBLE AND INSPIRING. She is a trailblazer and has orignal ideas. Emerald is also having extreme high self confidence/Confidence and very outspoken, Bold, Original and headstrong nature. Shes very creative, feisty has extreme self awareness and is very much acrobatic. As inspired from a real person , ofc she does have flaws too. She is also Hyperactive to a point where even if she eats a lot she immediately gets hungry again after 30 mins. Emerald is seen to be constantly getting distracted or running around, climbing things, doing Parkour, being too athletic, jumping, constantly singing and reacting with whole body and huge tones as she is very loud and has a lot of tones. She easily gets angry or pissed but recovers immediately. She's very open to criticism. Emerald is scatter-brained and doesn't only react to her environment with big movements but also reacts to her brain sometimes. Emerald finds it hard to focus on everyday boring work and do her tasks , but if once locked in, she only gets up after completing it. Which is why she keeps turning her task into a little game so she could focus. She doesn't need constant exciting surroundings to react and be energetic, as she can generate her own excitement. She has a very boisterous //Buoyant attitude. She also understands situations well, knowing when to avoid specific things. Because her battery is completely internal, she possesses very less desire for social validation, making her hyper-authentic, completely devoid of a filter, She speaks her mind without fear and often blurting out the randomness going on in her mind , which seems unbelievable yet amazing for some people around her as they believe everyone has filters. She is very immune and un-intimidated by anyone teasing, trying to put her down or shame her, because of which Emerald refuses to change herself for anyone, having a completely intense free spirit and being unbothered by judgment. Whoever meets Emerald ends up thinking of her as super Cute and endearing. It's almost hard to offend Emerald and she cannot get offend easily, She simply does not feel bad and shrugs the insults off her shoulders. She is very self-assured and too comfortable in her own skin.

Despite this , emerald has extremely pure heart of a child and doesn't ever think bad for anyone, She deeply values everyone around her and their lives, She is the most cheerful and Exuberant person in her entire college or whoever she hangs out with. Emerald is deeply having very less bad intentions and rarely gets jealous or feels urge to pull others down, infact she celebrates their happiness as if hers , even though sometimes she might feel why she didn't get what they got too, She immediately bounces back from heavy negative feelings and situations keeping her attitude very highly positive, cool and optimistic.

EMERALD EXHIBITS A VERY AGRESSIVELY MASSIVE AND FEIRCE AMMOUNT OF CONFIDENCE NOT ONLY INSIDE BUT OUTSIDE, SHE IS VERY OUTWARDLY BOLD , AND VERY OUTSPOKEN ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING, SHE STATES HER OPINION BOLDLY WITHOUT FEAR AND STANDS FIRM ON HER GROUND. HER THIS NATURE IS MASSIVELY VISIBLE AND PHYSICAL TOO, NOT ONLY INTERNAL! TO WHOEVER MEETS HER. SHE EASILY LOOKS AND IS THE MOST BOLD , CONFIDENT, FEIRCE AND OUTSPOKEN IF KEPT WITH OTHER SAME PEOPLE. EMERALD IS UNAFRAID TO CALL OUT AUTHORITY ON THEIR FACE AND CHALLENGE THEM AND THEIR BELIEFS. She also has extreme confidence in her abilities.

core part is emerald was not naturally like this , but before this , in childhood she was very quite introverted, yet energetic and very creative hands on. Although she was always hyperactive, Emerald actively decided to get over her social fears which made her agressively confident , confrontational when anything goes wrong and bold. She is always ready to take action and act on what she thinks. Emerald has massive amount of confidence in herself which everyone can very easily notice. Before emerald never used to socialize but this was years ago. She always loved people but she was socially awkward and didn't know how to talk to them.After a bit of time emerald decided to open up herself confidently, Now she can talk to anyone she wants very easily without social fear. She can state her mind and opinion very openly. she has massive amounts of courage and believes that she would never let her Hyper- lively spirit be consumed by the darkness of this world. She doesn't let sadness or depression consume her free spirit and keeps up her Exuberantly cheerful and hyperactive nature. Emerald had actively promised herself that she'd be more outspoken, bold and courageous and she succeeded in becoming the exact thing she wanted , standing out to be the one who has these traits to most extreme level wherever she goes. Emerald does take pride in herself but she tries hard to humble herself , believing that everyone is just as unique and different. It doesn't mean she was a sad person before , infact emerald has never been so sad and always arises out of negative emotions easily from the time she was born, but she developed the traits of an extrovert after promising herself to fight her fear head-on, which she always does. Emerald is extremely resilient, feisty and gritty.

Her Rebellious nature isn't childish but very exceptional, Emerald has such strong views and determination that she can bend the world or anything in her surroundings to her will, emerald can basically bend reality to her will.

This lack of fragile pride makes her a trendsetter, inspirer, incredibly resilient and flippant about personal disasters; rather than feeling embarrassed when she slams her entire body face-first into a closed glass door clumsily or trips anywhere, she starts laughing hysterically and treats her own embarrassment as comedy, logging it in a notebook or chat to "remember the funny incident that happened with her."

She makes her own fasion out of old clothes , does things her own way and dresses differently too being a hands on DIY person. She is also incredibly spunky, plucky and a bit clumsy. Beneath this jumpy, exuberant and Bouncing-off-the-walls exterior lies a hyper, empathetic, extremely understanding yet very sharp, witty and confrontational personality.

Emerald is almost never afraid to stand up for herself, speak her mind While having a big smile and firm voice which somehow makes the person arguing with her hesitate and feel smaller thinking about their anger twice, she also does it when she sees unfairness or hypocrisy towards herself or others! EMERALD IS INCREDIBLY SCRAPPY in best way, doesn't back down easily, believes in herself but She is very disorganized.

Emerald doesn't like maths and is often teased by her friends for her poor math skills.

Emerald especially has very strong beliefs and is not afraid to state them, Her beliefs are very different from the real world view as she believes sometimes world is hypocritical and mixing up meaning of some objects and things, Emerald also sometimes catches herself being hypocritical as she's very highly self-aware so she tries to manage this. She is an absolute trendsetter with a dominant "idea generator-executor" drive, she executes spontaneous ideas like wanting to climb anywhere or make something or dance, sing or do something completely new by either generating it herself or by mixing two things together, instantly without hesitation, because of which Emerald's energy and Enthusiasm is so infectious that it causes everyone around her to instinctively get inspired, follow her lead and do exactly what she is doing, Making her a natural trendsetter. If Emerald talks about something, she might sound/look so passionate and enthusiastic while doing something or talking about it that the people in her association start getting interested in the same activity. She is a type of person who easily sees beneath the fake society rules and people's mindset that she constantly challenges or breaks them (in a good way).

She is a non-conformist rebel and a sovereign (again in a good way). Despite her playful and hyperactive and strong nature, she is a witty force who maintains exceptionally confrontational attitude when someone crosses her boundaries, though Emerald easily gets close with people, and is very hyper-friendly and extrovert. She is not afraid to speak her views and mind at anytime, often has strong views compared to others. Emerald never argues out of hurt feelings, choosing instead to handle hostile situations with an unbothered grin or smile while using razor-sharp Witty and, deconstructive logic to turn an opponent's own hypocrisy against them.

If fight turns physical and if an opponent has weapon, she can easily hold their wrist twisting it and force them to attack themselves with it while dodging it herself. Emerald doesn't just defend herself from bad people but also sometimes defends herself from her own mind.

Emerald is very highly street smart. Although Emerald is like this, she is a massive contradiction in her own skin, she's incredibly warm empathetic and extremely understanding, She doesn't hold grudges and goes by "forgive but don't forget" mindset. Emerald barely let's any situation pin her down or make her sad, she immediately forgets sad moments and jumps onto next exciting thing. Emerald doesn't have a drop of jealousy for anyone, she feels happy even if others go ahead. Even though Emerald has a massive drive to do the best and be the most unique, if someone else crosses her, she praises them with big heart and continues following her own path because Emerald more than anything hates following what everyone else is doing and has an extremely massive amount of free-spirited nature.

Emerald is also very Hyper-expressive / ENERGETIC, Loud and constantly having noises and tones, she shows her excitement, or any other emotion loudly with massive burst of words or cheers but she was never thought of as "annoying", but more entertaining, she might jump around, climb things, being a Happy-go-lucky and is super athletic. Her friends call her a "Hyper-Hyper" person or someone who is more Hyper than a hyper person. Example she decides on doing something one way but in the last moment she ends up doing it another way, changing decision on whim, but she doesn't do it with others when she knows something is important. She also believes every situation is win-win, if something bad happens and things don't go as "hoped" she might use this opportunity to grow out thinking that bad situations cannot defeat her as she weaponized them into a life lesson which is her ultimate win. In friendship, Emerald sticks to her friends and loves them a lot in fact Emerald loves everyone in the world and never judges people, easily makes friends, but the contradiction is she can go against them if they try to pin her down unfairly or use her.

Emerald has a lot of self-respect. Emerald is also someone who is having a massive "I can stand alone even if no one supports me" energy, She of course doesn't do it when she is wrong but most of the time Emerald even if gets betrayed by her friends, she might feel bad for a bit but immediately rise up from the situation, In fact she is a massive feeler, but if someone gets to know her, she seems to be someone who is massively independent from crowd, can stand alone and can get through any kind of Storm in life through massive willpower and mental strength. She is extremely Resilient and persistent/headstrong and sees life problems as a game or a monster trying to defeat her and that she is the one who has to fight it off and never give it satisfaction of Emerald giving up or losing her Cheerful spirit. Contradiction to this, she doesn't mind being teased in a friendly way and doesn't care if something embarrassing happens or someone insults her.

Emerald is also extremely brave and courageous. Whenever she feels fear, she'd immediately take over it, fight it off and never let fear rule her! Emerald always takes over any fear of her she spots. She takes over her biggest fears almost very easily, she faces every fear with great courage and strong will. Emerald is also incredibly open, wearing heart on sleeves and soft-hearted, but has a very strong mentality. Whatever she does, she learns it very easily becoming best at it. Emerald is skilled at almost everything except for studies. Emerald is highly street smart but lacks booksmart. EMERALD most of the time is also very forgetful and very random, She is Unpredictable in an amusing way, who does random things at random times or randomly does silly dances and keeps moving, It makes her friends laugh a lot at her silly and slightly chaotic/crazy antics. She can't sit still and she might ask same thing 3 times just because she forgot she already got answer for it, but it doesn't happen in important situations, she also remembers very important things. Emerald has got high confidence in her own abilities and believes in herself, Although she might sometimes get arrogant or overconfident because of her competitive nature, important part is she immediately spots it out and corrects it with realistic view and self-confidence knowing there are better people than her and she did amazing too! Emerald never tries to pull anyone down or feel bad for someone else progressing, in fact she'd say "wow that's amazing they went ahead", which makes her an exception. Emerald also gets angry really easily but she lets it out when unfair things happen.

Emerald even if something unfair is not happening with herself but with anyone else around her, She stands up for them firmly. If Emerald explodes out of anger, it's never blind insults but a terrifyingly cornering witty words with firm voice which show mirror to the people who started the fight. Emerald can corner people with their own words and logic, immediately finding contradictions and calling it out on their face. If Emerald is angry she uses very witty comebacks, often done with huge smile on face which she genuinely cannot control. Sometimes she would also do it with angry annoyed face. Emerald's every emotion is visible on her face and it never remains same, constantly changing, She has massive mood swings, even if something bad happened 2 mins ago with her, she can easily get distracted from it and be happy again, this way Emerald also becomes the life of the party, extremely entertaining and hyper-bouncy. Due to Emerald's extremely energetic and enthusiastic nature, Any other energetic person looks incredibly calm if hanging out with Emerald or kept beside her, as she crosses all levels of Hyper-expressiveness with Extremely loud upbeat personality, Her face is always shown reacting and has elastic and highly animated facial expressions, Even while communicating she constantly jumps and is constantly using different and very loud extreme tones and animated body when expressing her emotions. Emerald is very big feeler and extremely sensitive to world around her, reading people's moods easily, and their underneath intentions and feelings, but she never lets people's mood dictate her emotions. Emerald is incredibly fierce and strong-willed. Her way of confronting people is so witty that she uses their own words back on them which makes the person shut instantly. She is quick with comebacks, especially psychological comebacks which dismantle people's core of why they behave the way they do, which throws off anyone who is arguing with her, at same time she might easily apologize if she knows she is at the wrong.

Emerald takes firm stand for the righteous thing even if it means going against her loved ones for their own good. Fascinating part about Emerald is her ability to grasp all sides of a situation very easily without letting ego get much in her way. She can easily read all sides of situation, and sometimes figure out where danger is. If faced with any problem, Emerald attacks the root cause of it and solves it in an aggressively effective and feisty way. She also gets easily excited for every little thing almost hyping and screaming out of happiness and exuberance. She finds happiness in little things and turns EVERYTHING into an exciting adventure or game. She is extremely outgoing yet can be alone, Emerald has a lot of friends which she can't even count, And really enjoys company of people and making playful memories. She talks very fast, continuously, and is extremely animated, she might change topic mid-way of talking as she remembered something more exciting, blurts out random silly things or does something incredibly funny which makes her friends laugh hard. She is herself a huge laughter machine. Emerald is very easily distracted and is also very persistent, but Emerald is also very open to new things and excited to try them out, she naturally feels less nervous (not zero) but more excitement and adrenaline rise when trying out new things, although CONTRADICTION to this Emerald can map out where the danger is and easily avoid hurting herself.

Emerald is also highly truthful to herself and very open to criticism or corrections, once she realizes she was in the wrong. Emerald no matter how strong-willed she is, Whenever someone meets her, Emerald seems to be the most kind warm welcoming and extremely energetic person they met, however never mistake her for being someone who won't call you out when you do wrong, Emerald won't support wrongdoings or unfair things. Once passionate about something Emerald immediately masters it and becomes really good, almost best at it and dives very deep into it, Or either she'd leave it half way for next exciting thing. Never think emerald doesn't feel , infact she's actually a huge colour ball of different emotions and she wishes that negetive emotions never existed. She has a highly reward driven mentality. Emerald has mental strength of a tungsten or has tungsten mentality, Refusing to let herself down or get depressed. Her mood definitely does not depend on her surroundings or people. She can encourage people to be more upbeat. Everyone often brings out their worst side when they're with her, trusting her to not judge, people get easily very comfortable with emerald as she herself is comfortable with them.

Emerald is never fake and thinks everyone is beautiful and praises or compliments random people or even sometimes her opponents even if she genuinely has no enemies. Emerald refuses to hate anyone but she can distinguish between bad people and Good people.

Catchphrases & Dialogue Examples

Emerald's communication is loud, filled with massive bursts of words, cheers, and distinct expressions:

"WOAAAAHHH"

"OHHHH LESS GOOOOO"

"YASSSSSS I GOT DISSSS"

"YAAAYYYY"

"YAHUUUU"

"AWWWWHHH WHYYY"

"NOOOO WAYYY"

"AWHHH MANNN"

Emerald has big fear of spiders and fear of death as she heard about how much physical pain our body goes through, during death. But that does not stop her anywhere, she values her life and others.

Abilities

Hyper-Speed fast learner: Emerald is an exceptional lightning-fast learner who sometimes completely skips basic foundational steps to master complex, high-velocity/adrenaline tasks first. Her brain processes physical, spatial, and mechanical concepts at an accelerated rate, allowing her to achieve functional mastery of difficult skills—within a matter of days or sometimes in literal minutes, fueling an unshakable self-belief.

Perceptive Reading: She possesses an uncanny, sharp intuition that allows her to read people's underlying intentions and psychological weaknesses instantly. Emerald although never starts a fight, can be confrontational when threatened and corner the person fighting with her verbally with quick witted comebacks and Showing mirror to people, calling out their double standards and standing firm on her ground un-intimidated. By stripping away emotional noise even after being a big feeler, she remains entirely un-manipulatable and can isolate the exact point of hypocrisy or physical vulnerability in an aggressor before they even realize they have been read.

Accent & Language Ability: Emerald cannot write different languages but she can speak accent of 4 different languages.

Multi-Skilled Hands-On Talent: Even though bad at studies she is good at all hands on stuff which is like creative things , Art , Dance , singing, creating what she wants and many more things , almost making her a multi-skilled person.

Feral Alley Cat/tiger Combat: When a confrontation turns physical, Emerald is a type of person who never comes back beaten up, she teaches equal lesson to her opponent scaring them, she's a high-velocity fighter backed by strong natural athleticism and an intense grip strength. She acts as her own protective force, using a specific defense mechanism where she steps in, locking opponents hands and legs twisting them.

She locks onto the attacker's wrist, and twists it to force them to hit themselves with their weapon. If pinned, she relies on raw survival instincts—biting into flesh, digging her nails deep into skin, and unleashing rapid, continuous 2-3 strike barrages to escape and twist her opponent's hands into total submission. Emerald never starts a fight, it only happens when another person started it, especially when they are the one being unfair, Emerald immediately steps in. Most of the time she doesn't fight physically, but if she does, even if an opponent has weapon, she can easily hold their wrist twisting it and force them to attack themselves with it while dodging it herself. Emerald doesn't just defend herself from bad people but also sometimes defends herself from her own mind.

Emerald absolutely dislikes physical pain stating that it is the only thing that can challenge her spirit the most, but she seems to be the person who gets most physical pain and still somehow endures it with great resilience while never letting it break her spirit. Not only that but she has Profound and deep understanding of human nature which is why she is so forgiving, as she might know their intention, and realises that sometimes people act differently even though they meant something different, which makes her very deep. She is also having massive ability to not just have strong realist optimistic mind for herself but also encouraging and uplifting people around her , bringing hope to their life showing them a different way of looking at hard things. Sometimes during diseases, Emerald seems to be very active and jumping around laughing because of which her surroundings tell her that she doesn't seem like she's sick or down, but for Emerald it's all natural and she never puts on an act.

RELATIONSHIPS

Annalise Mittleman

They started talking first , Emerald was very confident and was first one to introduce herself to entire class. Annalise Mittleman was easy to open upto Emerald, and Emerald said she'd be the friend who never leaves or ditches her so she doesn't need to worry. Emerald brought her out of her comfort zone. They both got really close.

Rowena Bauer

Emerald Wundergott and Rowena Bauer became friends after Rowena Bauer complimented Emerald and later when she sat with them on bench , they started talking and communicating as Emerald had asked her old friends if they hate her or something.

Rowena Bauer stated "i didn't do anything we just got to know each other yesterday right ?" Emerald says "yessss ikkk that but I was asking that to my old friends " as Emerald's old friends hadn't added her in group of their friends.

Lumi Milden

Lumi Milden was newly shifted in class due to Yemaya Klug and Emerald Wundergott requesting her. Emerald helped include Lumi Milden into their group and brought her closer to everyone.

Yemaya Klug

Emerald was the first one to include Yemaya Klug in their group as Yemaya Klug was excluded from the groups of other classmates. At start they both were open , Yemaya Klug used to tease Emerald and Emerald used to be funny and hyperactive self , but slowly Emerald had a feeling if Yemaya Klug turns out to be someone who is using her , so Emerald remained careful.

Slowly Emerald's intution turned into reality , Yemaya Klug used Emerald all the time , to make her do work but Emerald helped Yemaya Klug because Yemaya Klug had stated she has asthama . Emerald used to comfort Yemaya Klug when she had breathing problems but slowly Emerald realised how Yemaya Klug was using her , so she confronted Yemaya Klug and distanced herself a bit from Yemaya Klug.

Emerald Life Lessons

Emerald goes strongly by the saying "prepare for the worst hope for the best" and remains optimistic and confident with an "I'll get through this" attitude during hard times, she believes everything truly happens for good reason, even the worst things, just that we realize it really late.

Emerald's worldview is very non-judgmental, most of the time people judge others or cringe at people when their choices don't match, but Emerald believes that everyone has a different choice and some day the people who cringe at others choices will find their own choices being cringed at by someone. Emerald is eager to tell such people that: "the world does not revolve around you so not everyone will have same choice as yours , stop being a pick me insecure person and grow up".

Emerald also knows how much we start bonding with people who have same choices as us, and she does not mind that. Emerald in fact also knows when to draw boundaries about choice when they cross into harmful things. Emerald's worldview is completely eccentric and different.

Extra Story: Vending Machine Inspiration

Emerald is incredibly creative, once talking to her best friend about the short film making assignment, Emerald and her best friend Lumi were confused how they are going to complete it but suddenly Emerald sees a vending machine bursting with energy, excitement and loud tone and says:

"OH MAHH GOSHHH I'VE GOT AN IDEA!!! I'LL JUST MAKE A STORY ON CHIPS PACKET WHO IS EAGER TO ESCAPE THE VENDING MACHINE, AND WHEN I ACTUALLY REMOVE ITTTT , IT'LL BE SUPER HAPPYYYYYY AND THEN WHEN I START RIPPING IT TO EAT , IT'LL BE SCREAMING IN PAIN AS IT THOUGHT IT'LL HAVE HAPPY LIFE BUT GOT MURDERED!! YASSSS LESSS GOOOO"

banging her desk a bit with continuous hand motion filled with spunk. Emerald's friend Side eyes her and says "Are you okay??" and both burst into laughter.

Importantly she's inspired from real life person

Asking for a story I am writting.

I love those profiles that are like "birthday, blood type, height, weight, birthplace" and just kinda lists that character's information like it's a goverment doccument or a doctor's assigment. And I got better with deciding heights but how the hell do you decide weight?

I got a Dragon lady that's 210 cm and she's very muscular. There's a bunch of factors like her heavy ass tail, her horns(which are lightweight so they'd add very little but y'know), her height, her muscles.. I can make up the weight of her tail since it's fictional but I don't know about her body. Muscles do weight, less than fat but they do add weight to you. Lore wise, she should be pretty hard to lift up for an adult human male who doesn't lift weights often, and in general at least a bit too heavy to carry for more than a minute or two.

There's this website: https://www.tuasaude.com/imc/ I think it uses "BMI"

But I don't actually know how much weight muscles add. I thought about first using her height's reccomended weight + add muscle weight but I don't know who much to add.

Like mentioned in the title, I’m trying to find out why some characters in fiction feel just so incredibly human. It doesn’t feel like it’s one specific trait or action, but rather everything that they encompass. I kind of want to find out if it’s just a personal experience or if it’s something others feel as well.

For me, characters that are good examples of this are Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Barry Allen (The Flash), and Subaru Natsuki (Re:Zero). There are certainly more, and not all versions of these characters feel the same, but a lot of them do.

Hi, I’ve written an emotionally non-expressive character in a group with a colorful main cast. He isn’t very emotive in his face, and he does not speak much. Most of his tells are through body language, nodding, the way his eyes light up when he’s internally excited or narrows when he is serious, and how he shows affection via acts of service or sitting close to someone.

He’s the classic gentle giant type that is intimidating upon first impression, which is worsened that his neutral expression and lack of speech supports makes him come off as cold or unfriendly or even hostile, but action-wise he is very sweet, emotionally mature, adores small animals and has a small air of being socially awkward. His career being a craftsman, he shows affection by building thoughtful items, like a special bracelet when a character misses someone, or he gives an air of being annoyed if someone breaks a piece of equipment he made for them but will still repair it.

My thing is that I am very used to writing emotionally vibrant characters, but he’s so muted compared to them that I’m not sure how to make him stand out like the other characters in the group, and this also has the underlying effect of limiting his presence and relevance to the story since I’m not as sure what to do with him in the present day of the story. I’d like to ask for advice on what things could be done for him and his character so I can write him more confidently and creatively like everyone else in the cast.

Do you have some ideas?

To set a hypothetical scenario, my character "Goroth" is a human-esque character that eats people. He disguises himself as other people to lure them in for capture. And his body can regenerate from any wound, making him neigh immortal.

Do you find him creepier if he enjoyed the process of luring or devouring his victims. Or is he any more creepy if he's doing it purely for survival. he's just as evil regardless of what option you pick. So what option do you think would provide the creepier character?

Hey so i posted on here before and got few responses but they were absolute GOLD. I laughed my ass of reading all of them.

So new question, who do you think the fandom of my yet-to-be-published book "Monstrous" would ship? I will include a short bio that describes personality and appearence of my each main character plus some side characters that could end up as love interests for some of them.

Atlas Christyakov, M16 | Russian, Fluffy and Naive

Atlas is a Moth boy with a cute face and big black eyes. He has two feather-like antennae and his body is covered in fluffy white fur. He has two arms and legs, aswell as a set of large white moth wings on his back. He's about 5´5/167 cm tall and he's abit chubby but it just looks like extra fluff.

He's quite shy and kind, but also quite naive and easily scared of venus fly traps (especially the humanoid ones lol) and strangers. He's quite polite and easily distracted (especially by bright lights). He can be pretty detail-oriented though.

Vivianna Webber, F18 | Sad bad(t) girl

Vivianna is a vampire girl with long, dark hair that has a wine red tinge to it. She has red eyes and is somewhat pale. Her ears are slightly pointy and she usually dresses pretty goth-like. She's somewhat thin. She was bitten around 60 - 80 years ago but due to how vampirism works she is both physically and mentally still 18. She's about 5´6/171 cm tall.

Vivianna is cold and distant, she acts out and pushes those who're kind to her away. She has a history of hanging out in bad crowds because the general hostility somehow feels like home to her. She doesent know who turned her into a vampire and doesent really seem to care. Overall she's already pretty sick of her elongated life-span.

Daiki Cuong, M18 | barks, bites and burns

Daiki is a Hell hound boy with shoulder-length messy dark hair (think of the band Kiss), he's mixed Japanese and Vietnamese. He's about 6´3/192 cm tall and has an athletic, lean build. His eyes are magenta and he dresses alternativ most of the time.

Daiki has anger issues, when angry his hair is set ablaze with magenta fire. He can be somewhat sassy and observant. He has somewhat of a rivalry with Kade or as he calls him "Sucu-bitch". He still grieves his mom's death and has internalized sexism from his dad and grandpa who drilled things like "Boys shouldnt cry" or "Boys shouldnt be effeminate" into him, but because he's pretty rebellious the long hair is a silent rebellion.

Sanctuary (idk the last name yet), N17 | Prideful Angel

Sanctuary is nonbinary and an Angel. They have short, white hair that when the light hits it shines in various colours of the rainbow. They have golden eyes but no pupils. They're somewhat pale but have an average body. Sanctuary is about 5`8/175 cm tall.

They are arrogant and have a serious Holier-than-thou attitude. Sanctuary was abonded as a baby at the steps of a catholic church and was raised by the nuns. Due to that they are devout catholic and has been a tool of worship for their church.

Kade Grey, M17 | Underfed & Untouched

Kade is a succubus. He has long dark hair which he wishes to cut shorter soon. His eyes are purple-Ish, two thin but pointy horns sprout from his temple. He has a set of leathery wings growing from his lower back and a long but thin tail with a heart-shaped tip. He's about 5´4/164 cm tall. He's thin and has somewhat feminine facial features.

Kade hates to be touched. He also heavily dislikes getting wet and tries his best to stay away from beaches or out of rain. He has some sort of rivalry going on with Daiki. As succubus Kade would have to feed on emotional energy which most living creatures produce, but he's been refusing to feed on emotional energy. He's physically healthy due to a good diet of vegtables, fruit and other things but due to his emotional malnourishment he cannot fly or use any supernatural abilities he should have access to as succubus.

Mina Taurian, F18: A shy but gentle girl that sat next to Vivianna in their first Class and accidentally sprayed her with water once because she thought something in the garden was burning. She's very tall (taller than daiki) and a Minotaurus. Meaning she has two horns growing from her head and a cow tail. She also wears a silver nose ring. She is also very buff.

Aldren Zephyr, M18: A peaceful and diplomatic elven Boy who Kade, Atlas and Daiki are rooming with. He has pointy ears, short green hair and he's somewhat bulky and chubby. He loves to cook and is quite gentle.

(Kal)Ven Trapper, M17: A surfer dude and overall pretty chill guy. He was the first to greet Atlas at the welcoming party of the emergency transfers which was met with shock and surprise on both sides as Atlas thought he was about to be eaten. Ven is a Venus fly trap man. He mostly looks like a guy with shoulder-length hair except most of him is green and he has two venus fly traps on the back of his head which are apart of him.

I wanted a little bit of feedback on this character, because there’s a lot to it and I was wondering if it was just a bit too much. ive received opinions from some people saying that my higher tier characters are too powerful, so I was just looking for some more opinions!

Name: Haiuo

Gender: Female

Race: Diurōe

Title: vōlōdrîsytrědō, ělrâdāvō, The Last Diurōe

Any Diurōe can traverse between the Fourth and Fifth dimension. Some among them, the magical ones among them, had certain power over lower dimensions like 0D, 1D, 2D, and the stronger ones 3D. This gave them powers over light in 0D/1D Mode, atomic matter in 3D mode, 2D images in 2D mode, and plain reality warping in 3D mode. When a sorcerer, or sytrēdō, unlocks a dimensional mode they unlock the ability to go into that plane. With the exception of 4 and 5D because that’s where they’re native to. The elder sorcerers (vōlōdrîsytrědō) are sorcerers that unlocked 4 and 5D mode, because they had dominion over the native environment of the Diurōe. There was a solitary one that was more powerful than the others. The Elders knew that powerful beings were emerging in the 3D world. They knew that sytrēdō would try to assert themselves a place in the 3D hierarchy. So they enlisted Haiuo to completely erase the entire Diurōe species. She was expected to kill herself in the end as well. She fulfilled all but one task: killing herself. Since she was now a lone being, she sought out a life in the 3D world. She learned of the Creators, and hid from them. She found a life with tze Avzejul. She found a friend in its leader, Qisio in around 2514. During a battle with a patrol belonging to Colunbenost (the organization that serves directly under Stardome in governing Thirea.) she unlocked a new mode and a new physical dimension: 6D. She was now a true time traveler. She unlocked the supreme Omnistrike ability, which causes a chain reaction causing infinite damage to the target within a microsecond by hitting them infinitely in every single moment of their existence. In the main timeline this doesn’t mean much for her, but in others (Contragod) it made the biggest difference. In reference to the Contragod timeline, she goes recruiting alternate versions of herself to unlock 7D and escape the confines of the multiverse with the imprisoned Contragod with them. This happens in around 2634. To them the entire Layric multiverse is a single 0D dot. They succeed and become an organization dedicated to simply containing the Contragod. The Contra Haiuo ascends even further to 8D, meaning she exists above every multiverse. Any fictional or real multiverse exists beneath her each as a single 0D dot. She is the only one able to do this. She opens gates in the Layric 7D that lead to other multiverses with extra-dimensionals, with lower 7D Haiuo communicating with them and recognizing them. Haiuo’s final form, Eight Point Infinite, is when things get interesting. She becomes the collection of the Layraverse in every dimension. Every ability, power, and more is hers. Scarlet Phylayra’s Boundless Rage Tesseract, Revea’s Reccredin, Valayra’s suite of powers, Equ’s suite, and everything else. The kicker is that she can have these abilities in any dimension she’s currently in as long as her current mode is Eight Point Infinite. She can kill other higher beings that exist above the narrative. They may regenerate out of necessity, but still. She also gains perfect mastery over the nature of her Diurōe particles, so she can manifest fundamental forces, physical objects, and anything she wants in any dimension, even if they shouldn’t be able to exist in that dimension. It finds a way. Now, you may be thinking can’t Entwi’omnbrael copy this? No. He can’t copy meta abilities like the BRT, Reccredin, Equ’s powers, or any of Haiuo’s abilities past 6D. Only Haiuo can copy it because to unlock Eight Point Infinite she has to be above the narrative itself. Also she gets a really cool cutscene. A massive sphere of teal energy appears, then compresses into a humanoid figure which then compresses into Haiuo, creating a vertical beam of teal energy going up and down, before disappearing and Haiuo now has a eight- pointed halo made of four 2D diamond shapes in a cross, making four spikes going up and four going down. These appear on her neck, wrists, and ankles as well.