are lazy characters relatable?

[CheertheSecond]

Like a girl doesn't want to take a shower multiple times a day so she decided to stay indoor and avoid getting sweat.

Or someone who schedules their masturbation before going to bath.

Or someone having no dinner and going straight to bed so that they don't have to do the dishes.

 

[Temple]

That doesn't sound like lazy though. Sounds more like a mental issue.

 

[Crash0537]

You just described my life lol

 

[ArchlordZero]

Is the second paragraph really considered lazy?

I'm a lazy person then?

 

[HelloHound]

those characters sound sort of depressing to read

 

[RepresentingPride]

The only one who sound a bit "lazy" are the last one to be honest. There a few novel with lazy mc if you want to take inspiration from them.

 

[Tsuru]

@CheertheSecond There are good and bad written laziness

Manhwa : The MC don't even move, and let the (female) mage bodyguard, move him around, and float the food to his food. Then end with him being reprimanded. Its relatable because probably near all educated human thought at least once it would be nice if they had telekinesis, for turning off light or etc

Bad one. The jp series with a blonde hair "tenshi" popular female classmate FL : MC is a male character that can't even clean his room and have the cliche of ton of garbage around on the ground.
This cliche is ALREADY disgusting when a female character do it, but with a male character its even worse.
The series doesn't even wrote yet good points to why the MC should be liked by FL, and readers and shown this.
Even if later on he pull out a "i am a savior" or "assassin killing evil", its hard to redeem the damage.
Because "first impression" mark people a lot. And need x10 efforts to change this. If compare to manhwa that showed his opness and how he is tired of bloody lives x999999, its totally not the same.
"Tenshi" FL clean his room for no particular reason. Its like taking care of a NEET.
HENCE RELATABLE for lot of spectators..............BUT "why is this useless MC that can't even clean his room the one getting a popular pretty blond-haired girlfriend that is kind and a kuudere that don't speak a lot, AND NOT ME !?" is what the readers will think.
But same series still won an anime adaptation, because of how pretty FL is, and how sweet she is, with over-used isekai trend becoming less popular.

 

[BlackKnightX]

Or someone who schedules their masturbation before going to bath.

You schedule your masturbation?

 

[miyoga]

You schedule your masturbation?

You schedule?

 

[Bobple]

I mean, everything can be relatable.

And Laziness, is something pretty easy to make relatable. But I think it is important on where the laziness is coming from.

- Exhausted Laziness (Tried from school, work, etc)
- Selfish Laziness (Being Lazy for no reason, besides the simple fact you can)
- Relaxing Laziness (Basically similar to Tired, you have set aside time to be lazy, and you want to enjoy that time)
- Distracted Laziness (Basically Lazy cause you are doing something else, mostly because the other active is something "Fun", which is why kind of different from Exhausted Laziness)
- Unskilled Laziness (Usually because you can't do the task well, so you don't try to do it. Has a wide range that can fall within it, and characters with this laziness can be annoying or you can feel sad for, but wide margin between those two)

Honestly I could keep going but that's too much work, I'm feeling kind of lazy.

Also, the examples you gave. Only the third one feels lazy. Option two kind of gets counter balanced with the planning, and Option one really depends on the context, cause I wouldn't consider someone not lazy for having multiple showers, I mean, in a way, having showers for a lot of people is a form of relaxation as well, and having multiple showers a day can be kind of overkill.

 

[PeacefulMyst]

That doesn't sound like lazy though. Sounds more like a mental issue.

agreed. The only 'lazy' one is the last one. The others are.. well,

 

[BlackKnightX]

You schedule?

Wanna come and find out?

 

[Le_ther]

Like a girl doesn't want to take a shower multiple times a day so she decided to stay indoor and avoid getting sweat.

Or someone who schedules their masturbation before going to bath.

Or someone having no dinner and going straight to bed so that they don't have to do the dishes.

This ain't even lazy, this is just the symptoms of depression

 

[J_Chemist]

That's not lazy. Sounds like a child that needs a parent. Also, I second the mental issue thing.

Plus, the first one is gross and unsat. Especially for a gorl. You don't have to shower several times a day, but at least once a day. More and/or as necessary if you are active

 

[Succubiome]

These all sound like coping mechanisms for someone with extremely low physical and/or mental energy, due to depression or whatever, who is nevertheless attempting to stay presentable?

They're all about energy-efficient ways of staying clean.

 

[Lodur]

There a few novel with lazy mc if you want to take inspiration from them.

 

[CrimsonGenius]

What about a character that is always sleepy?

 

[AliceShiki]

... Isn't not showering multiple times a day simply a time-management issue?

I can't shower in less than 1h (if I'm in a real real hurry, I can do it in 40min or so at most), for example, and if I wash my hair it's easily 2h... There's no way I'd ever shower more than once a day.

2nd one I don't have anything to say.

3rd one would be more worrisome than anything. Sounds more like depressive symptoms than laziness... Could also be ADHD symptoms depending on the execution (like, if the person kept on procrastinating on eating by doing other stuff over and over again, until it was 3am or something and they felt like they didn't want to wash dishes this late at night, so they went to sleep without eating... This happened to me before, btw).

So uhn... Well, I don't think your examples were ideal portrayals of laziness?

But to answer the question... I think it depends entirely on the reader and on the execution? I personally have a very hard time relating to laziness because I've never been a lazy person. Every time someone accused me of being lazy it was just me constantly blaming myself that I needed to do something, but I hadn't done it and I was incredibly frustrated about it and... Well, it was all my ADHD's fault.

So, to me, laziness isn't relatable, but I can enjoy a well-written lazy character regardless... I think people who understand what it feels like to be lazy would be able to relate to it more easily though.