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Guide to Writing The Hero

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Strong Motivations

The hero is usually unsuspecting of their part in the conflict until it hits them in the face, so it’s important that you build a believable motivation in them to take action against the antagonist in the short time between finding their place and embracing it. 

Make The Reader Care About Them

The hero is the hero because the reader roots for them. If the reader has no motivation to give a damn what happens to them, they won’t, so you need to create a substantial reason why the hero deserves the role they’re in, or a reason they rise to the occasion. 

Family Matters

A hero’s family history, family issues, or chosen family structure forms how they progress along their journey. Make the family one of the most interesting part of the hero’s story, because no hero is a hero without the guidance of people who care about them.

Flaws That Match Their Strengths

I have a post on this topic that goes into depth about this dynamic:

Flipping Character Traits On Their Head

Giving Characters Flaws

Giving Your Protagonists Negative Traits

Compelling Internal Conflict

The typical character archetype must include a sense of aversion to accepting their role in the conflict. There should be a conflict in their mind about whether it’s worth risking whatever it is in order to help the cause, and whether they feel it’s their responsibility to fight the antagonist. 

Pump Them Full of Contradictions

Archetypes by themselves are boring. People are complicated and contradictory and shifty. The hero shouldn’t be one-dimensional simply because they do the right thing in the end. 

Equally Compelling Villain

For every good hero, there needs to be an equally evil villain. Not just evil, but also complicated, rounded, and easy for the reader to (somewhat) empathize with. It’s not a story if it’s just some random person walking through the forest for 17 chapters to come upon an evil witch with no real motivation or backstory or traits that create conflict in the hero. If a hero is just there to kill the problem instead of holding onto some hope that the villain can be saved, they’re just an assassin. 

Common Struggles

Hero versus antihero...

Hero: Virtuous individual who commits to doing the right thing and has traits such as routine honesty, bravery, and kindness.

Anti-Hero: actions of a hero but without the typical heroic traits. Might be conceited, dishonest, unkind, etc. but are ultimately the central character that is compelling and sympathetic.

Avoiding a Mary Sue… A Mary Sue typically occurs when an author sticks too closely to an archetype or creates more of a self-insert central character rather than a well-rounded, flawed, and complicated personality. In order to do this, you have to sprinkle in some contradictions and a pinch of unpredictability (though too much can just make their characterization inconsistent).

Not making the hero the center of the universe…The hero may be imperative to solving this conflict, but the sky will not open up before revealing the face of Jesus Christ himself when the antagonist is finally slain, so don’t treat the hero like he’s the most important thing to ever exist, because that destroys their relatibility to the reader and that delusion of grandeur can cheapen the conflict. 

Hero versus Vigilante… These things can sometimes be one and the same, but it’s important to note the fact that vigilantes are defined as those individuals who take the law into their own hands. Superman and Spiderman, for example, both fall into the category of vigilantes, but not every vigilante is a hero. It’s about intent and outcome.

Heroine versus hero… Not to be controversial, but they’re the same thing. One is male, one is female. Yes, typical hero archetypes are notably masculine while heroine archetypes are notably feminine, but they truly are only separated by gender. It’s about how their gender affects their journey within their inner conflict and their actual handling of the main antagonist, and it’s up to you how relevant that is in your story.

Related Resources

Resources For Describing Characters

Resources For Describing Emotion

Alternative Method of Character Creation

Resources For Creating Characters

How To Fit Character Development Into Your Story

Making Characters Unpredictable

Connecting To Your Own Characters

Interview As Your Characters

Giving Your Protagonists Negative Traits

Writing Good Villains

Giving Characters Distinct Voices in Dialogue

Showing Vulnerability Without Death

How To Analyze A Character

Giving Characters Flaws

Conveying Emotions

Gradually Revealing Character’s Past

Making Characters More Unique

Tips on Introducing Characters

Creating Villains

Flipping Character Traits On Their Head

 Keeping Characters Consistent

“Male characters are more relatable”

Designing A Character From Scratch

Calculating Emotional Reactions

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an update on my older picnic blanket design. feel free to message me if there’s more colors you’d like to see! creator id: 6967-4663-0249

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i designed a little fox outfit for you guys !! the flowers in the hat are based on yellow foxtail flowers.