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Mai Masri - Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001)
Imagine deciding to engage in vigilantism at age kid to rein in a middle aged man and prevent him from harming himself and the people around him and end up merging your personal identity with your job until you get a crisis when said person dies and you have no idea what you are✨ then you proceed to go loose a spleen isolate yourself from your support network and work yourself to death until boom your mentor is alive
Now you’re stuck in comics limbo where they don’t know where to put you along with half of your siblings
The Untamed as text posts (63/?) the edition in which i’m not implying that jiang cheng is a peasant, but instead implying that he would rather die than participate in wei wuxian’s love affairs
“Gusu Lan Sect, Lan Wangji.”
“Wei Ying.”
“Emperor’s Smile, I’ll share one with you, can you pretend you didn’t see me?”
“Why would I not dare to turn up here? I’ve faced 3000 people myself before.”
“Ah Xian.”
“I’d like to see just what minor and small evil spirits dare to create trouble here.”
“Becoming strong… this is something that is within my expectations.”
“Being hardworking in studies and practice is a priority for all Lan disciples.”
“How boring, where’s Fairy?”
“Walking quickly is forbidden in Cloud Recesses!”
“Who has summoned me? It sounds so familiar…”
“How did I end up meeting him again?”
陈情令 The Untamed Game Official PV 1
And we have a bonus character who literally has no character card because he’s that extra:
How to Kick a Reader in the Gut
Disrupt the reader’s sense of justice.
This generally means setting a character up to deserve one thing and then giving them the exact opposite.
Kill a character off before they can achieve their goal.
Let the bad guy get an extremely important win.
Set up a coup against a tyrannical king. The coup fails miserably.
Don’t always give characters closure.
(Excluding the end of the book, obviously)
A beloved friend dies in battle and there’s no time to mourn him.
A random tryst between two main characters is not (or cannot be) brought up again.
A character suddenly loses their job or can otherwise no longer keep up their old routine
Make it the main character’s fault sometimes.
And not in an “imposter syndrome” way. Make your MC do something bad, and make the blame they shoulder for it heavy and tangible.
MC must choose the lesser of two evils.
MC kills someone they believe to be a bad guy, only to later discover the bad guy was a different person altogether.
Rejection is a powerful tool.
People generally want to be understood, and if you can make a character think they are Known, and then rip that away from them with a rejection (romantic or platonic) people will empathize with it.
MC is finally accepting the Thing They Must Do/Become, and their love interest decides that that’s not a path they want to be on and breaks up with them
MC makes a decision they believe is right, everyone around them thinks they chose wrong.
MC finds kinship with someone Like Them, at long last, but that person later discovers that there is some inherent aspect of MC that they wholly reject. (Perhaps it was MC’s fault that their family member died, they have important religious differences, or WERE THE BAD GUY ALL ALONG!)
On the flipside, make your main character keep going.
Push them beyond what they are capable of, and then push them farther. Make them want something so deeply that they are willing to do literally anything to get it. Give them passion and drive and grit and more of that than they have fear.
“But what if my MC is quiet and meek?” Even better. They want something so deeply that every single moment they push themselves toward it is a moment spent outside their comfort zone. What must that do to a person?
Obviously, don’t do all of these things, or the story can begin to feel tedious or overly dramatic, and make sure that every decision you make is informed by your plot first and foremost.
Also remember that the things that make us sad, angry, or otherwise emotional as readers are the same things that make us feel that way in our day-to-day lives. Creating an empathetic main character is the foundation for all of the above tips.
Impress your friends and train your core! (impressed friends not guaranteed)
This is the latest update to the Elbow Lever short!
While many progressions are given, feel free to experiment with what works for you! Some won't need all of these. Others will want more (shown on the website in the video).
Have a beautiful day!
how do you people deal with your emotions? I can't even apologize properly without panicking
here’s the meme animation i promised! cale’s suffering will be nothing if not funny to me. he just wants to sleep, guys.
