Roserida Manorgee

This one of my side characters for my story. Valery Pommier!

She has such an interesting story that she could almost be the protagonist of the story.

And even though I label her as a character, she's more like a deuteragonist.

All right. I'll tell you a little about her. Her full name is Valery Lina Pommier. She moved from Canada with her mom to Paris (should've made it clear before that the setting is in Paris). She's more or less Etrit's love interest. She's a loner herself like Etrit, but she's wise and helpful. Her classmates (especially the girls) often go to her for advice and for explanations related to schoolwork. She's not exactly the nicest person. She doesn't show her emotions (heavily opposite of Etrit). Nobody really wants to be friends with her except Etrit. Even though they're different, she allows Etrit to be around her whenever he wants to. Possibly because he's more emotional, and that's something Valery wants to be more like. She'd never admit that though. Fun fact: She plays viola! As a musician myself, I wanted to give one of my characters the skill of playing a musical instrument. And string instruments can pour some of the most feelings into music imo. Violin is a way too common of an instrument. To me, she just seems like a violist.

I'm almost considering changing her backstory because it's a little too close of a backstory to one of the other side characters.

So, I've been watching a lot of Abbie Emmons's videos (shout out to her because I absolutely freakin' love her content!), and I've struggled in trying to write the perfect internal conflict (desire, fear, and misbelief) for my main character's (Etrit) internal conflict for about 2 months. I refused to start writing my book without knowing that I feel comfortable with my character's internal conflict and that it fits well with my side characters.

I've re-watched Abbie's "What's the Difference between Fear and Misbelief?" video several times. She explains really well. I've had to physically take down notes of the examples she uses.

It wasn't until today that I found the internal conflict that I wanted. I must've rewritten his internal conflict about 5 times (while also writing my side characters' internal conflicts). That's why I was trying to have Etrit and my side characters fit together. And a theme that I wanted to say.

I find it best for myself to figure things out in this order: Desire, Fear, Misbelief, Theme.

So, this is my first official post, and it's for my OC Etrit Donnadieu. He's my first OC that I've fully committed to writing completely and actually care about. I've wrote OCs in the past, and he's actually my profile pic. Because I can't draw, I have to find characters on Google, and he fit the description really well of what I imagined. He's my main protagonist of my story.

Here's a special one-minute vine compilation with other OCs I have for the same story.

Hey there! It's Roserida! From my bio, I said I'm an aspiring author. I've been writing fanfiction for at least 8 years, but I've created this page to motivate myself to write original stories with original characters. The 'original characters' don't actually look original because I base the designs off of existing characters in manga/anime or characters I find on the internet. Because I can't draw for the life of me! Sorry. I plan to share my ideas for original stories as well as introducing my original characters. I can also share my fanfiction if anybody would be interested in that.