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👿 It’s okay for your characters– even your protagonist– to have serious flaws that make them difficult to relate to, or not someone you should emulate.
👿 Characters with serious flaws can be more interesting and complex than more flawless or aspirational characters.
👿 Just because a character isn’t someone you should aspire to be doesn’t make them less fun to read about.
👿 It’s great to have characters that start out with serious flaws that grow and change throughout the narrative.
👿 It’s okay to have a character who starts as evil, and ends up as good.
👿 It’s also okay to have a character who starts out as good to be consumed by their flaws and fall to darkness.
👿 Characters interacting with, struggling with or giving into their flaws makes for excellent conflict in a narrative.
👿 It’s okay for a character in a narrative to overcome their flaws.
👿 It’s okay for a character in a narrative to fail to overcome their flaws and be consumed by them instead.
Just to chime in, people nowadays need to be told that a flawed character is more interesting and complex than some flawless, shining beacon of perfection? Like, there are enough people out there who want their characters flawless for this to be stated?
Unfortunately I have seen enough people who display this opinion of desiring flawlessness implicitly in their media analysis even if they don’t state it outright.
And I have seen people state it outright. V_V
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