Give them a clear want, a private fear, and one belief about the world that shapes their choices. Add a contradiction or habit so their behavior feels specific. Let them make mistakes and react in ways that fit who they are.

is anyone willing to give me advice and/or resources for writing characters with npd? I want to write a character with this disorder but I can barely find well thought out results because there's a trillion ableism central nonsense results so even the tiniest of help counts!!

whimsical character traits ⛧⋆˚࿔⋆

“who cares if i’m pretty, i feel like i’m phoebe” .⋆♱

humming to themself without realising it

naming every houseplant

waving at animals

carrying the band-aids with cartoon characters on

leaving shiny objects out for crows

collecting antique keys without knowing what they’ll open

knowing the latin names for plants/trees/flowers

having an uncanny ability to find four leaf clovers

having lucky socks

Recently I developed a character for a House my little sister developed in the lore of our story. It's actually one of my favourite pieces of lore in the entire story and they're one of the most fucked up white haired families since the Malfoys in Harry Potter and the Targaryens in Game of Thrones.

But the character I developed for the House was a 13th Century knight who fought for the Anglo-Norman forces against the Irish and became the Earl of Leinster after defeating the head of a rival Irish Clan. Then when he came back home he was spurred on by his Earldom, desire for land, and the Catholic Church's opposition to consanguinity to kill off a sect of the House that was practicing incest, and he blooded his children by getting them involved in that battle.

So, overall, a pretty fucked up guy even when dealing with something that we can all agree is pretty fucked up. He prevented the House from becoming the Targaryens, but at what cost?

But the characterise him, I didn't need to do a lot of work to be honest. Besides noting that he was extremely arrogant and had nice hair, there was one bit of characterisation I gave the Earl of Leinster that basically sums up his whole personality.

And here I give y’all a sneak peak into the first chapter. I’ve written, like, two pages so far and this excerpt is just under one page.

I plan on making very long chapters, and my goal for the wordcount is however many words it takes me to get to my chapter break lol

Probably not even an eighth of the way there, but I’ve only just started so I can’t give a good assessment

I plan on having long chapters for my fic, my readers will be eating good

I’m surprisingly finding it easy to write a child, I thought it would be harder. When it comes to writing Ceres, I’m focusing on highlighting her innocence as a child so that it hits harder when responsibility starts to pile up on her.