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Okay has anyone ever had characters that just, for some strange reason, wrote themselves in stead of you designing them. Like you try to write him* one way but it just doesn't work and has to be the way it ends up (did that make any sense?). Or maybe you write the whole book and find an undeveloped side character a full fledge personality ready to take centre stage (unless the personality prohibits).

Please explain the times that this has happened to you, if it ever has.

It is rare that my characters end up the way I plan them orignally. Priestist was suppose to be a goofball with nothing to do but run. Now he is deadly and serious about everything. The Morries were suppose to be tough, now Rio is just hilarious (in my opinion) and Kerry right behind him. Hiro was suppose to be funny as well (weren't they all) but now he is more to the goofy side and is very distracted all the time. Cinel generally remained the same. You can't change poor Cinel.


*just to get this out of the way: he is both a masculine and neuter pronoun depending on context, the context above suggest neuter.

Your cold-blooded killer became goofy ... my wise-guy became dangerous. That's funny.

Mine tend to be like that.

That has happened to us from time to time. Mostly in roleplaying. Nehima was going to be cold, indifferent and ruthlessly efficient, but he turned out somewhat grumpy, old-fashioned, stubborn and utterly lovable. If annoying. And bossy. And arrogant.

That happens to me too in RPing. Hermonie was supposed to be like Hermione, but ended up as a mixture of Hiei and Yuusuke with her own side and a history that I didn't even expect at first. Such as her mother abusing her and she being half blind most of her life. And she's extremely smart and talented, but for all those strengths, she has a lot of weaknesses. Like, she can learn a language almost the instant she hears it (of course she has to learn vocabulary first), but she tends to mispronounce many things and sometimes change the grammar, but she's still able to get her ideas across. Also, most of the time it is extremely (need an equivalent to that, I use it too much) hard to kill her, but easy to knock her out. The only area she doesn't seem to have a weakness in is music. Even when she can't speak a language right, she can always sing it right.

(and the grammar book says subjunctive case isn't used much...ignore me here.)

Yup. All the time. The most "famous" example I have is a character that pops up everywhere in my writing anymore. I was originally going to have her be somewhat indifferent to everything emotional, excluding a love of money, but I was also going to give her values. Like not stealing.

That went down the drain in about the first paragraph. xD

Oh right, I also have this issue with characters not liking the backstories I gave them. Dx A character of a comic I'm working on had a pretty basic backstory, and then all the sudden it got kind of twisted around. >.> I like it a lot better, but it's a completely different way to get her into position at the beginning of the story. Same with most the characters, there, actually.

Who are you talking to?