Hey, do you have a character idea that you're pretty sure sucks? Same! Let's create a steaming heap of garbage, because getting the crap out frees us to create things that are actually good. And hey, one man's trash could be another man's treasure.
Even if you have no bad character ideas, just take one noun, and put it together with another, and that will probably suffice.
The jock child of two brilliant but nerdy parents, who the kid is embarrassed by (that's surprisingly not as bad as I thought it would be, huh)
Oh boy, here we go.
A person who can control fire, but has no sense of limitation and often burns everything to the ground. And what could make this even better? They're supposed to be the hero. And the villain often has to stop them from burning everything down, basically reversing the roles.
Bruhhh I could name countless characters. One of my worst however has been this idea from like 6th grade.Its about this elf boy who finds another elf girl who was supposedly human and he takes her to a magic school. Just typing it out I'm cringing. It was basically a rip off Keepers of the Lost City.
oh boy
ohno
i'm 90% sure none of yall want to hear this
but here goes
i even named this character !
gracie
she's blind in like one eye, i think
and has a horse
like,,, people just walk around school with a horse, right ?
yea, that's so bad, i know
i'm cringing so hard at that idea rn,actually
I had a character named Robin that some of the old school folks around here might remember
He had ginger emo styled hair
He had blue eyes
Really short of course (I still do this ngl)
He could talk to animals
He had bad anxiety and never contributed to the group
Afraid of heights
Afraid of fire
Literally just a burden in every way but cute ig
He had a bunch of animal friends in the forest that all had Google translate Latin names to be quirky
In his canceled story it was basically just like Maze Runner but it was an island and nothing happened
The only interesting thing about the island was that there were cliffs on all sides because naturally, Robin is afraid of heights and I must make this a struggle
The story was canceled for a reason
Two, actually. It was bad and I had literally no motivation to write more than two pages
Just- the clumsiest idiot ever. Really sweet, means good, but the joke is that whenever they try to help somebody, they mess up and the problem is bigger than before
coughcoughMarinetteDupen-Chengcoughcough~
A guy who can only walk backwards
This one time my brother and I came up with a terrible character idea. He's a superhero, and his real name is Scott Winters (because he's Scott Summers' distant cousin or something like that) and his superhero name is Jellzo. His power was that he had the ability to shoot red jello out of his eyes.
@Starfast That would be a hilarious superhero parody lol
Oh boy, here we go.
A person who can control fire, but has no sense of limitation and often burns everything to the ground. And what could make this even better? They're supposed to be the hero. And the villain often has to stop them from burning everything down, basically reversing the roles.
basically Endeavor from mha tbh
Oh boy, here we go.
A person who can control fire, but has no sense of limitation and often burns everything to the ground. And what could make this even better? They're supposed to be the hero. And the villain often has to stop them from burning everything down, basically reversing the roles.
I actually really like this. Role reversal is always fun.
I was looking through my old journal from like fourth grade when I wanted to be an author (cause ofc a nerdy fourth grader was gonna become the next Jk Rowling) But I found this one character I made and she was 10 years old, she was in a wheelchair for some reason, and she had a child. That's it. I guess fourth grade me just didn't feel like elaborating on this clearly amazing idea. Idk, I was a fucked up 10 year old lol.
In elementary school (idk how old I was but whatever) a friend and I came up with a superhero called Fartman who had a wife named Tootwoman and they basically used farts to propel themselves through the air and poison their enemies.
