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#2: Jul 2nd 2011 at 3:17:16 PM
I think that makes him look more realistic because no one's perfect. As long other characters acknowledge that he's being a dick and you don't try to Hand Wave it, there shouldn't be a problem.
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#3: Jul 2nd 2011 at 3:20:03 PM
Of course. I'm pretty big on my characters being called out on their behavior. Giving your characters flaws doesn't do any good when no one acknowledges them.
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#4: Jul 2nd 2011 at 9:27:56 PM
I agree.
As long as nearly everything he does isn't a jerk move of some caliber then I don't think you've got anything to worry about, really.
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#5: Jul 2nd 2011 at 9:45:56 PM
It's all context and tone. If you can tell the story of him doing something awful from a viewpoint that plays him sympathetically, but lets a rational reader see that there's something wrong with it, then you're doing something right.
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In my story the main character is a normally reserved 13/14 year old (he has his birthday during the story) boy with trust issues. He looses his parents and his loyalty t them becomes an almost unhealthy sort of dedication and he reacts badly to people criticizing them
When he's living with his grandparents he encounters a slightly older boy that he doesn't get along with (and his cousin says is a jerk) and overhears the boy saying rude things about his family. MC confronts the guy and finally recognizes him as a kid that mocked him when they were younger( the kid told the MC was practically a bastard kid' because the main character was the child of a Mundane and not his father's arranged ex-the other kid was basically parroting something he heard from his parents) The main character confronts the other kid-who just brushes him off-and then MC picks up the guy's glasses (that had fallen on the ground upon bumping into him)and snaps them.
Would this qualify the MC as a Designated Hero sort or unlikeable character? Or just a flawed one? He is later called out when he finally tells his friends what he did much later. He is also shown to have a grudge on said character and sometimes acts unreasonably when it comes to that particular guy.
edited 2nd Jul '11 3:08:29 PM by JewelyJ