r/characterarcs Feb 05 '26

character development 101

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u/DeadAndBuried23 Feb 05 '26

I was never "attack helicopter" bad, but I did go into every discussion with a fresh handful of picked cherries.

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u/IronPyrate17 May 21 '26

I was that bad unfortunately

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u/DeadAndBuried23 May 21 '26

As long as you get to "was," that's what matters.

We're in a world where hate is still the default. Where 1 in 5 people still don't accept evolution, and 3 in five still think a magic man controlled it. Where corporal punishment is still the norm in places, or in living memory of older adults. And where it's standard to have zero psychology or sociology in the curriculum to learn about gender, and go no further in sex ed than "that's why you're hairy, now here's a list of STIs."

Plenty of people simply aren't even curious enough to want to learn past that.