Seventeen & Maldusk: A Supernatural Soap Opera

How can anyone find Ion annoying??

I know, right? Ion is adorable! Granted, when looking for a test reader, I probably should not have picked "Reuben".

Honestly writing is just…Don’t make your character too fun or he’ll be annoying, don’t make them too sad or they’ll be annoying, don’t make them too angry or they’ll be annoying, and then if you avoid all that you’re told your character is ‘too flat’ * eye roll*

:joy: Yes! And don't even get me started on the "don't make your female character too smart or she will be annoying". Grrrrr!

My characters tend to be kind of extreme (extremely clueless, extremely grumpy, extremely chaotic... etc.) because that's just part of my own sense of humor. Weirdly, my other sense of humor is often so subtle that most people completely miss it. I don't know how to do middle-ground apparently.

Thanks for your comments. :smiley: Tre comes across as overwhelming in part because I myself find extremely outgoing people overwhelming. And you also see him almost entirely from the point of view of three much more introverted characters. Tristan loves him in spite of and because of his flaws. But Annie and Reuben both don't like him much. I don't let Tre have his own POV chapters often because I want him to mostly be seen through other characters' eyes.

I sometimes use the Meyers-Briggs 16 personality quiz as a tool for thinking about my characters. Usually not until I've developed them a lot on my own first, but later on, to get some more ideas. Once I know the characters well, I take the quiz answering as I think they would to see what comes up. I recently did this with the main characters from Seventeen & Maldusk and, interestingly, Tristan and Tre come out complete opposites. :lol:

Tristan: ISFJ-T
Tre: ENTP-A

(Reuben and Ion also came out pretty much opposites as well).