laccoff_mawning
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I was going to write a long essay, but decided not to, so I wrote a different, medium-sized essay instead.
1. A common goal (stated as an interest, but I'll go further and use the term goal)
2. Time. With time follows events, and those events are stored as memories. Same in real life, and same in stories.
I generally think friendships should be functional. What one person struggles to do alone, said person does easier with friends. They work together towards a similar goal- whether that be learning, building, saving the world, burning heretics...
I don't know what your characters are like, but if you are looking for something for them to do as friends, I'd suggesting thinking of something said characters might normally do by themself, then just have one of em rope the other into it. Suddenly its a group activity. All sorted.
Alternatively, get something someone wants to do, but can't alone.
Theres nothing wrong with friendships feeling inactive. Some of my friends are at Uni and I obviously can't just join them for fun.
Theres also nothing wrong with friends parting ways. Thats just life. They will pop around at some point or another, at an unexpected time. And then you can catch up with them.
Now, lets talk about introverts and extroverts. From observation, I'd say an introvert generally prefers a few, quality memories with a person, while an extrovert prefers lots and lots of memories, but are less picky about each.
This is gold. Many people metioned similar things along these lines, and I'm going to restate them again, in reverse-order to here.
1. A common goal (stated as an interest, but I'll go further and use the term goal)
2. Time. With time follows events, and those events are stored as memories. Same in real life, and same in stories.
I generally think friendships should be functional. What one person struggles to do alone, said person does easier with friends. They work together towards a similar goal- whether that be learning, building, saving the world, burning heretics...
I don't know what your characters are like, but if you are looking for something for them to do as friends, I'd suggesting thinking of something said characters might normally do by themself, then just have one of em rope the other into it. Suddenly its a group activity. All sorted.
Alternatively, get something someone wants to do, but can't alone.
Theres nothing wrong with friendships feeling inactive. Some of my friends are at Uni and I obviously can't just join them for fun.
Theres also nothing wrong with friends parting ways. Thats just life. They will pop around at some point or another, at an unexpected time. And then you can catch up with them.
Now, lets talk about introverts and extroverts. From observation, I'd say an introvert generally prefers a few, quality memories with a person, while an extrovert prefers lots and lots of memories, but are less picky about each.