Can you base characters on yourself? Memorable characters?
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Re: Can you base characters on yourself? Memorable characters?
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Often people base their characters based on who they want to be, and these are generally bad because while most people avoid Mary-Sue characters, it's also rare for somebody to write a character that's properly flawed. Usually their flaw is 'caring too much', 'being a perfectionist', 'vulnerability', 'moodiness'. 'anti-conformism' or such like, which is unrealistic. Nobody keeps their flaws in their characters. Nobody makes a good-guy character whose flaw is selfishness since Wuthering Heights. There aren't nearly enough good-guy characters who have uncontrollable rage, or bad-guy characters who are caring and loyal. If it's too easy to sort a character into 'Good' and 'Bad', then it's a badly written character in my opinion.
And if you're basing a character on an idealistic version of you, then it'll be easy to sort it into 'Good' because you want to be a good person.
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