Comments on: 9 Traits of Sympathetic Characters http://www.darcypattison.com/characters/9-traits-sympathetic-character/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Checklist of 17 Character Qualities http://www.darcypattison.com/characters/9-traits-sympathetic-character/comment-page-1/#comment-11107 Checklist of 17 Character Qualities Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:27:25 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=2509#comment-11107 [...] Likeable, Sympathetic Characters. Is this a character I want to spend time with? Do I care what happens to him/her? [...] [...] Likeable, Sympathetic Characters. Is this a character I want to spend time with? Do I care what happens to him/her? [...]

]]> By: Darcy Pattison http://www.darcypattison.com/characters/9-traits-sympathetic-character/comment-page-1/#comment-11040 Darcy Pattison Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:52:39 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=2509#comment-11040 Absolutely right. You must pick and choose to fit your story and beware of TOO good. Dracy Absolutely right. You must pick and choose to fit your story and beware of TOO good.

Dracy

]]> By: RB http://www.darcypattison.com/characters/9-traits-sympathetic-character/comment-page-1/#comment-11036 RB Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:51:54 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=2509#comment-11036 Be careful though, a lot of these traits can be deeply unsympathetic as well. Like being loved - having someone hero worship them sends out big Mary Sue warning signs and makes the worshipper and the worshippee extremely irritating. A lot of this stuff sends out major "I am pure, selfless, epitome-of-goodness AWESOME and you should all BOOOOWWW to my awesomeness!!!!!!!" signals. Ones I definitely disagree with are Loved, Morality, What's In It For Me and Promise Keeper. They all tend to lead towards an annoying goody two shoes, however many flaws you pile on them. I realise I'm ranting a little, sorry :-) Long story short, if a character was all these things, I would hate them. Even just a few of them would make me want to punch them in the head. I like my characters HUMAN, not pure goodness and light angels. And no, a token flaw or two does NOT help. An angel who plays cards is still an angel :-) Be careful though, a lot of these traits can be deeply unsympathetic as well. Like being loved – having someone hero worship them sends out big Mary Sue warning signs and makes the worshipper and the worshippee extremely irritating.

A lot of this stuff sends out major “I am pure, selfless, epitome-of-goodness AWESOME and you should all BOOOOWWW to my awesomeness!!!!!!!” signals.

Ones I definitely disagree with are Loved, Morality, What’s In It For Me and Promise Keeper. They all tend to lead towards an annoying goody two shoes, however many flaws you pile on them.

I realise I’m ranting a little, sorry :-) Long story short, if a character was all these things, I would hate them. Even just a few of them would make me want to punch them in the head. I like my characters HUMAN, not pure goodness and light angels. And no, a token flaw or two does NOT help. An angel who plays cards is still an angel :-)

]]> By: Cassi http://www.darcypattison.com/characters/9-traits-sympathetic-character/comment-page-1/#comment-7737 Cassi Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:55:02 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=2509#comment-7737 Great post! Saving for reference. Also very curious about this new Ender book, tho I've only read the first 3 and not ventured further. I hadn't heard much about the rest of the series. Great post! Saving for reference. Also very curious about this new Ender book, tho I’ve only read the first 3 and not ventured further. I hadn’t heard much about the rest of the series.

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