#fanfic characters

[questionablecuttlefish]

Last of the "Arcane" art pieces so far.

Another OC villain from the Ill-Omen's Lightcannon fanfic series.

This one a bit more serious than the last, the infamous Mageseeker Inquisitor Kestrel of Demacia.

Jinx will be next 💙

[breezy2733]

Dark Urge bg3 character Nimue that my "Tear You Apart Chronicles" fanfic series is based on.

[nerdgasmgate]

For reference, here is my Tav (aka Rhaenyra) with Halsin & Astarion

In my story, she is a thicc, chubby queen ;)

[ladydancing]

I decided that the Dancing Lady needed one more crew member. I have a smuggle, an ex-Jedi, and a ex-bounty hunter. I figured the Dancing Lady needed someone, who was not a fighter. I needed a mechanic, so I decided on a teenage female Mikkian, who would happen to be a mechanical genius. Meet Tara the last member of the Dancing Lady. She was drawn and designed by Etsy artist, Adzhi Diaz Art

[starclast]

Weeeell...I had a lot of work in these last few days so: I've been too busy or too tired to post some more fanarts 😶 Also, I'm currently tryin to write a new chapter for *Visitantes no esperados* to commemorate the new Villainous comic that recently ended, so yeah, hope to see my chamas sooner than later!! 🤗🤗🤗

[brigitoshaughnessy]

Bingo. I have nothing to add other than do NOT oversell it. Does your character have a catchphrase? Resist the urge to overuse it. Once is enough, but make sure you can find something else to reference in their mannerisms, speech patterns, facial expressions.

If you haven’t creeped on your characters on repeat like they’re your middle school love interest, you’re going to have a hard time with this.

Edit: I lied. I have one more thing to add. Your characters need to THINK in their voice. Don’t just pay attention to the dialogue. If you’re describing thoughts or feeling they’re having, they need to be processing those thoughts it the same way they would speak them. But then I’m not a big fan of a narrators voice.

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[knebellindemann]

[theaftersundown]

the holy grail types of fanfic

[bebx]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

you know a fic is good when it has this

[foolishsunshine]

*proceeds to snooze the alarm for over an hour*

[edwardcreel]

reblog if you believe fanfics are as valid as books that were published and sold by authors who write as their main careers. I'm trying to prove a point

[viskarenvisla]

One of the members of the Ashland Overseer Committee: Pakhan Maksim

[rae-butter]

Honestly, I love it when characters relapse. When someone who’s gotten over their anger issues falls into a situation so out of their depth they fall back on their old habits. When someone who’s learned to open up becomes a recluse again in order to cope with something outside their control.

There’s just something so horrible, so toxic, about watching a character grow and then slip back into their old selves in order to cope, bc you know they still care, that they’re the same inside, but watching them hurt so hard they don’t know what else to do brings a sense of catharsis.

[ginathethundergoddess]

More art of the baby

@straight-outta-hobbiton