forum Can someone critique and/or draw my character?

Started May 18, 2018 by @robinsonsgalaxy

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just looking for some constructive crit on my character and possibly someone who could draw her?

I can critique, but I can't draw.

that's fine, i'd love some opinions on this character, I'll link her info in a sec

Elodie Marion Sullivan this is her, she's my second main character and also the love interest of the first main

1. It's probably a good idea to use descriptors for skin color that don't involve food. I know it's easy to just go "chocolate," but it's certainly not the way to go
2. More personality traits please! And this part isn't necessary, but I find it really helps to put a description next to each trait to provide an explanation
3. Religion- is she agnostic (believes in no religion in particular), or is she atheist (does not believe in the existence of a god)?
4. Politics- Does she want no government? Pure democracy? Something else? It may not be important to the story, but then again, it could be important to her character.
   Overall, good job. I'm sure you'll learn more about El as you continue to build a story around her, and you'll be able to develop her character and update the profile even more then.

Thank you so much! That was incredibly helpful!

No problem! Glad I could be useful!

HEY I figure this might not be the right place for this, but is there a name for someone who is both a protagonist and an antagonist? Like an ambivert.

HEY I figure this might not be the right place for this, but is there a name for someone who is both a protagonist and an antagonist? Like an ambivert.

Antihero? Maybe?

Kindaaa…? Maybe?

Actually, that's not right… antihero means not exactly heroic, but sometimes does the right thing, maybe through questionable means. So more like the "ambivert" on the hero/villian scale.
I don't think you can have a mixture between a protagonist and an antagonist because your protagonist is the main character trying to do their quest or whatever, no matter their morality. The antagonist is merely a force against your MC, again, no matter their morality.

Wait what

Would it help if you had context?

Would it help if you had context?

Yeah, for sure

Okay…one main character finds an object that, in a sense, curses her. Makes her believe that it's necessary to do some bad things. Sometimes she knows she can't do those things; other times she just does them. She would never willingly hurt others…or would she?
She's also not with the other main characters yet.

Well, she's definitely a protagonist, and because of the reason she does morally questionable things, I'm not so sure I'd call her an antihero.

Magic objects are a strange case sometimes.

She would be an antagonist to a lot of people. Knowing that, can I call her a protagonist?

Yes, because she's the protagonist of the story you're telling. Bystanders' POVs don't really matter in this case.

Ooh, okay. :)

The term you're looking for, though, is "morally gray character"