Between hurting and healing

my fave ship dynamics! saw it going on twitter and thought it was rl cute uwu

It can be hard to find that balance between a character that is too perfect for readers to love and a character that is too flawed for readers to relate to.

Something I like to remember when thinking of flaws to give characters is that very often, flaws can be positive attributes that are in excess.

(This is related to Aristotle’s Virtues and Doctrine of the Mean.)

FOR INSTANCE,

Courage is a positive trait.

But taken too far? That can lead to rashness, or recklessness, which are negative traits. And without enough courage? The character is meak, fearful and cowardly, which are also negative traits.

Here are some examples to think of for your characters of positive traits taken to the extremes.

Virtue- kindness

Excess-easily taken advantage of

Deficiency- selfishness

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Virtue- ambition

Excess- greed/avarice

Deficiency- lazy

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Virtue- honesty

Excess- harshness

Deficiency- secrecy/dishonesty

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Virue- decisiveness

Excess-impulsiveness

Deficiency-indecision

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Virtue- passionate

Excess- irritating

Deficiency- apathetic

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Virtue- strong leadership

Excess- over-controlling

Deficiency- indifferent/passive

Let’s make a Coffeeshop AU game! We’ve updated the game, and now have a website for you to feed in your dialogues :D

Also, a few new characters! Yuri, Otabek, and Yosuke Hanamura, thank you @kazehita for modeling him <3

You can find the game & play on your browser at melissaran.itch.io!

Also, I want to tell you about our website, which is linked in the description under the game on itch.io. Using our mini-language, you can write stories with the tons of animations, settings, and characters we provide you! You can hit submit, then everyone will be able to play your story in-game ;)

“Hiking”

@blackbarbooks gave me some “homework” to do to help me through my depressive slump and get some art started and going, and one of these tasks was “draw a happy Kirishima” with “draw a happy Bakugou” as a bonus. I decided to throw them together because I love them and haven’t drawn them in a while.

The beautiful thing about Bakugo Katsuki and Kirishima Eijirou is that they aren’t just a beautiful ship, but they are also beautiful best friends. Referenced the outfits they’re wearing in the official merchandise “mountain climbing” series <3