forum Mel Archer The Hot Mess Friend
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@itskayhere

How do you play out a character who is the hot mess of the group? Mel's best friend, Asha, is the mom of the group and Rae, is the extrovert. So I like the balance of my characters and their friendship but I've never done a hot mess character (she isn't the main character) but I still need help with it, please?

@blue_topaz

Well, a few tips would be to:

  1. If Asha is the "mom" of the group, then what Mel does as the kind of messy person could be unintentionally acting out Asha's pet peeves.
  2. Disorganization. Compare the state of her locker (if she has one) to a really neat person's locker. Plan out her schedule, make her always in a rush.
  3. She could be late to almost everything, not eat breakfast in the mornings because she slept in, come to school (if she's that age) with hair semi-brushed, and the same pants as yesterday but still somehow looking good. Also, mismatched socks.
  4. Make her posture pretty casual, for example leaning lazily against walls, sitting on tables, and slouching.
  5. Hotheadedness, being quick to anger, having a big pride, or not thinking things through at all can all be contributing factors.

Hope this helped :)

@itskayhere

@~ TopazWyrmlet ~

What you said helped a bunch :)

Asha has aspergers and like a mild case of OCD. Now I know aspergers and OCD are two different things but Asha has those two tendencies and her big things is science and math. She really into numbers and like the body system.

But her aspergers and OCD she relies on numbers and a set schedule. Like this time I do this time I do that and so on… and having Mel as the best friend who is a hot mess and constantly messing up Asha's schedule for certain things, and it makes her upset. But also she helps Asha in away that tells her it's okay to let loose and have fun and break the rules every once in awhile.

Thank you so much.

The names just came to me lol.

P.s also do you think you can help me with Asha's love interest?

@itskayhere

@~ TopazWyrmlet ~

Here is the link to him https://www.notebook.ai/plan/characters/192276# and yes this a fanfic, lol.

My vision for him is more the Fiona Gallagher type, absent parents and has to take care of siblings, who he has full custody of. He is a great guy he loves everyone and tries to be the best boss, brother, and friend he can be. He wants things in order but basically his life is chaos.

Trust issues because of his exes (one cheated and the other had an incident where one of his siblings ended up in the hospital.

So Asha and Jay are kind of opposites yet the same.

They are both very smart when it comes math and science, they want the best for everyone also love and care hard, Jay has ADHD and Asha has Aspergers.

Asha is kind of a introvert where as Jay is an extrovert. Jay has absent parents and Asha has no parents.

Jay has a lot of money, and Asha has only $500 dollars to her name.

They both know what foster care is like.

If you need more info just ask lol or send it to my inbox.

@blue_topaz

@itskayhere,

When I click on the link, it says I don't have permission to read that content, so maybe try making it public?

From what you told me, it sounds like Asha and Jay are pretty much perfect for eachother :)
Here are some questions to consider (you don't have to actually give me the answer, just ask yourself):
-Is their relationship sweet, romantic, cliche, hot, or angsty?
-How do they meet?
-Who asks who out?
-who is more sure of their feelings for the other?
-Who is more scaredt o confess their feelings?
-Who confesses first?
-Describe their first date
-Every character has quirks. What are some quirks that Asha has that Jay loves/vice versa?
-Do they ever fight?
-Are they honest with eachother?
-What's their first kiss like?
-What unimportant things do they disagree about (preferred cereal, best thing to name an alpaca, etc.)
-What important things do they disagree about?
-Would they stay up all night to stop the other from committing suicide/self harm?
-Who steals the other's sweaters?
-Who proposes (if they end up getting married)?