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essayofthoughts · 18 hours ago

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Genuinely, I think one of the most fun and crunchy things about any character is

How far they will go for things they want

What they will do to get things they want

Things they won't do, no matter how much they want what they'd get in exchange

Because these things tell you some very important things about the character, namely their limits, their price, and their absolute No's. (And it lets you create some really REALLY crunchy conflict)

#a prime example is batman joker and jason todd #which puts all of that into conflict #bc of batman's refusal to kill - even when that would solve the problem #even when it hurts him and his son both in different ways #(to jason: bruce valuing his moral code above jason's life. valuing the joker's life over jason's.#To bruce: if he broke that code he wouldnt be HIM anymore. You see?)#also imo #most villain characters are people who will go far beyond the “average” limits people have #for example #delilah briarwood “breaking the world” for sake of sylas #she didn't care about anyone BUT her husband #extreme tunnel focus #tag meta #writing things #fic things

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