Mkay, so I seem to have this annoying habit of making my male MCs heroic. I mean, in Oops Rocky got kidnapped by a "crazy homicidal kidnapped chick" (his words, not mine... well, they are mine, but you get the picture) and yet once he found out that she was only trying to keep her brother from being killed he immediately offered to help. Like, seriously?
And in The Lucky One, Lucky's pyrokinetic and half angel, half demon with a human heart. He's like the whole friggin' package. Understanding, gentle, fierce when he has to be, and freaking hilarious in battle.
Even the characters who aren't the protagonist get heroic tendancies. Aidan, in Way to Kill, is a self-sacrificing Slayer who is seriously drool-worthy. And Eli in Death and Other Things I Fail At stands up to his father and the rest of society to defend Sophia.
They're all so... perfect! *pulls hair out* Did you know that when we did Character Superlatives in NaNoWriMo's YWP forums, Lucky won five awards? Funniest, Wittiest, Most Charming, Most Accident-Prone (yeah, okay, this is true), and Best Character Overall. That's ignoring the Best Couple catagory (Jasmine and Lucky won that, from SHIFT) and the catagories he got second place in (Most Likeable and Most Unique).
... This sounds a lot like bragging, but really, I'm appalled.
I didn't mean to make him so perfect. :P
'Cause seriously, are guys like that in real life? I wouldn't know. I've never actually really held a conversation with one, soooo... I'm basing all my male characters on idealistic boyfriends? Wouldn't be the first time an author did that, I don't think (Jace. Enough said).
Anywho, yeah, it's not so bad. Boys are so hard to get down. Tips would be great. ;D
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I never really knew what guys were like, either. Most of the ones I knew were total wimps, or the kind I wouldn't want to write. But I think I've learned a lot recently. They know what they like when they see it, and they will fight to make their opinions known. It's also okay to make their personalities a bit contradicting, especially if they're a teenager, with rampant feels and no idea what the heck is going on!
ReplyDeleteRight? I love boys sometimes... when they're not being total jerks... I learned that they're really kind of narrow-minded, y'know? Like, driven when they have in mind what they want, but they totally miss the little details and things that a girl wouldn't miss. Yeah. Thanks for commenting!
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