You know what I feel like we don't see?
Characters with facial scars. I feel like most characters with scars have them on everywhere but their faces, so I try to add in characters with facial scars. Ayla has a scar all the way down her left eye (a la Anakin), Jayson has a glasgow grin (can it technically be called that? The blade didn't enter his mouth, but was dragged across his face), and Jon has a pretty faint but still noticable scar on his cheek.
Facial scars are my favorite. Most of my characters have a ton of scars
A lot of mine has scars too, I'm fairly certain that everyone has at least one physical scar by the end of my Twyllo story, except for maybe Meg, by the virtue of her not being heavily involved in physical combat.
almost all of my characters from a certain species have facial scars as it is part of a tribal ritual.
I don't know what you're talking about, I see facial scars everywhere on every character ever… Usually to make them look "edgy", "mysterious", "cool", or used to show their unrealistically tragic backstory.
Is that just a PaigeeWorld thing?
No I see that
My guy Tano has scars on his arms from the work he does. Silas has a lot of small arm scars from cutting himself. (Not in a depressed way.)
my girl feraen has nicks all over her hands bc she nicks herself while skinning game
Joan has burn scars on her arms from the fire she was in.
Same with Rollan, except they're from his face, down his shoulders and to his wrists.
Also Chion would have some scarring from her persecution.
Jon later has a long scar down his lower leg from events later on.
(Sorry to be that person but this is a thread for saying what you want have less of in books not what you have in your books..) I want less, "good plot fights going good, we're about to kill the bad guy annnnd, WAIT WAIT" Author furiosly starts new chapter "lets changes the entire focus of the book to these two characters falling in love. yep- good job team."
(I personally find it fine as we're citing examples, and as the creator I officially decree that if you have a book/character/anything else from your story that subverts a trope mentioned on here, add it. Please. I want to be comforted in knowing these mistakes aren't being repeated lol)
Oh my gosh those are the literal worst!!! Like, I have romances, but they don't take over the plot most of the time, they act as motivation if anything.
My romances sucked. They were just so awful. Now I actually have decent characters instead of cardboard cutouts that kiss. retching noise At first it was the two nice people and then the jerk girl falling for the protag. Jeez.
Now my first couple actually are formed people that complement each other. Arenna is the one who is so genuinely kind to everyone and Falaun is just a friend to everyone so they work well together. Then they go through trauma and change but oh well. (Hey wait! Another cliche breaker. People actually change when they go through traumatic circumstance!)
Then Sarai literally is just a friend after the first book because she was a jerk to him. It isn't until the end of the second book that they are seriously in a relationship.
I have a lot of romances but I like them all so they're staying.
I have a lot of romances but I like them all so they're staying.
i feel that, a lot of my romantic pairings are comfort characters so
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I'm debating whether or not to have one of my pairings together from the beginning. I don't really have time for a lot of romantic subplot between side characters, so I figure if they're already together, it would work out a lot better maybe. What do you guys think? I know a lot of you, including myself, said there need to be more pre-existing relationships in stories.
I mean, you lose out on the slow burn if they're together right away, but you also don't have to deal with the awkward set up and stuff for a relationship.
I have other relationships with more prevalent characters that are more slow burns, so I think I'm okay in that respect. Definitely less set up stuff I'll have to do though.
I think an already existing relationship would be great.
I think if it feels right, do it.
I have several pre-story relationships (Maia/Esther, Lucas/Ophelia, Francesca/andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer), Claudio/Liz, and Henry/Victor) and I think the key is to still give them focus, not just let them drift into the background since there's no during-story set up.
One thing that is constantly being missed is having relationships that are just moving along without drama. Just a good, solid relationship would be fun to read every once in a while.
Too true. I'll try to write it in and see how it goes. And if it doesn't fit in earlier on, I can act like they started officially dating during the one year time skip. But they've known each other since their teenage years and been friends, so it works.
One thing that is constantly being missed is having relationships that are just moving along without drama. Just a good, solid relationship would be fun to read every once in a while.
I plan on having a slow burn friends-to-lovers in one of my stories where two friends fall in love slowly and don't get together officially until their senior year because soft romances are the best. There's not much drama in the relationship, just outside of it.
Same with Victor and Henry, the drama they deal with isn't (often) caused by misunderstandings and stuff, but by one of them (usually Victor) getting held hostage or otherwise injured or sick, or issues involving money and college.
Money and college. I feel this deeply.
Yeah Victor couldn't afford the college he was at after he lost his partial scholarship and his parents disowned him so now he goes to a less expensive one with Henry.
Eesh. I too will have to spend hours typing papers of eloquent begging to receive the money I need for the knowledge I desire.
I'd like less "sassy protagonists without a filter" please
Like I love snark as much as anyone else but it irritates me when they just blindly mouth off to anyone they interact with ever without considering consequences (such as leaders or strangers with power or authority figures in general). Give me a sassy protagonist who still knows when to keep their mouth shut.
I'd like less "sassy protagonists without a filter" please
Like I love snark as much as anyone else but it irritates me when they just blindly mouth off to anyone they interact with ever without considering consequences (such as leaders or strangers with power or authority figures in general). Give me a sassy protagonist who still knows when to keep their mouth shut.
(my main yells at her future love interest who is the crown princess five seconds after meeting her, not knowing she is the crown princess, and now i feel Attacked)
the princess knows how to shut the fuck up tho