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Enough « who has the best/worst parenting style in the Ushiromiya parents » I want to know what type of toxic management style they have at work and which one you’d rather go through.

Beatrice : you get bullied for your boss' entertainment and she low key bites. Kinda fun tho.

love when an absolute nightmare of a character is introduced and all you can think is "jesus christ buddy what the hell is your problem" and the narrative gives you a hot minute to stew before explaining Exactly what is Their Problem. and you just sorta sit back in your metaphorical rocking chair and think "huh. yeah okay fair. that would do this to a person, yes."

I need everyone’s best character advice. STAT.

You're not creating real people, you're creating the illusion of real people. You don't have to mention their favorite food if it doesn't come up, you don't even have to know it, though if they were actual people they'd have one. You can throw plot events at your characters to force them to take certain actions, or you could just rewrite the characters to be the kind of characters who would take those actions anyway. Your characters have a life of their own in their own little world, but don't be afraid to play god to get what you want out of them.

In the vast majority of cases, a character's strengths and flaws should be the same thing. There are exceptions (you can have a character be clumsy for the lols without needing to find some way that it's an advantage), but for most character traits, the difference between a flaw and a strength is the situation at hand and learning when to indulge it.

desire is the source of action, so your characters should WANT things. all of them should have something they want that's good for them, something they want that's bad for them, and something that's just a little silly, for spice.

Treat your secondary characters like they are the main characters of another story. I don't mean you have to know everything about them, but if their role in the story could be replaced by a cardboard cutout, then the story will feel flat where it encounters them. Give them their own motivation/wants/desires, and it will help you immensely in writing their interactions with the main character, and make the world seem bigger/more real to the reader.

Thinking about how Lion habit of pinching ass as punishment can be seen as like, a little weird quirk they actually see as useful for educational purposes and nothing more but then you read you read the Omake and it's like Oh no actually they like that. They're into that.

by Abbe Mandega

[Image: Displayed on a mannequin is a "top" made entirely of pairs of silvery metal scissors, attached together at the handle with the sharp ends pointing out. Notably, while the scissor handles are attached to each other, they are not linked closed, meaning that any movement could open them for cutting or stabbing. The top two rounds of scissors, rather than being attached to the rest of them or to each other, are instead held in place around the mannequin's neck by pins inserted into the mannequin, one through each finger opening of each pair of scissors. To handle this garment almost certainly means to be cut.]