well… i don’t want to list off anyone’s entries…
but a character being able to effortlessly do really big tasks is a gigantic “ugh” when I’m grading :S or characters being really full of themselves with very little downside… I guess. it’s hard to explain it, because sometimes pompous characters can be awesome, but they also have to have worked hard to get there or done interesting things in interesting ways for me to like the character haha
I just go bored out of my mind if a character has very little personality aside from I’m So Cool And Good At What I Do
I like writing GK a lot because he’s not full of himself as much as he is confident; he knows what he wants, he knows what everyone else thinks, and he knows what not to say to keep getting what he wants. it’s the right sort of sneaking and manipulating personality that’s super interesting for me to get into…
but imagine if GK just talked loudly about how much he was fucking everyone over? or just rubbed everything in everyone’s faces? I don’t mean just talking personally to mike about his story, but if he openly talked about things he deceptively did, on purpose, to just everyone, and faced no repercussions. that sort of thing bores the shit out of me
it was a little tricky because GK was in a spot where he was able to go “well you kind of have to help me or else you don’t get to go back” to mike, and that sucked, because there was really no room for argument there - he has the reigns in the situation! and that becomes interesting, because despite the fact that he could just say anything he wanted (who will do a thing? it could fuck up time), he is rather selective…
…because real people are selective about what they say to others, especially if they know that their morals are not the same.
um sorry to go off on a little tangent about gk haha, i was just thinking about how easy it would be to skew him into a really poorly written character that i would hate
it’s a hard line to walk sometimes, and it takes a lot of going “what would a real person do?” - and it takes some thought about how people besides you operate in situations, you know? I just want to see more thoughtfulness in characters