What's the worst character you ever made?

[MC-Stories]

We've all been there, that one character that you either didn't like in general, or just didn't fit in the story so you had to kill off just to save face.

Mine was Dante from Bianca's Genesis, i tried to expand his character, but nothing was flowing, so he had to go.

But what about you? What's the worst Character you've ever created

NOTE: "Worst" Meaning either didn't like for a certain reason, or didn't like his role in the story.

 

[Sylver]

Worst" Meaning either didn't like for a certain reason, or didn't like his role in the story.

Oh that kind of worst?
My current story is a rewrite, but the first draft had this character I added for a few chapters. He didn't really fit well:/ seemed a bit modern and the story is meant to be medieval Era. It didn't help that he was a character modeled after a friend, and we are not friends anymore XD

He's nowhere in the new version, which makes it an improvement haha!

 

[c37]

We've all been there, that one character that you either didn't like in general, or just didn't fit in the story so you had to kill off just to save face.

Mine was Dante from Bianca's Genesis, i tried to expand his character, but nothing was flowing, so he had to go.

But what about you? What's the worst Character you've ever created

NOTE: "Worst" Meaning either didn't like for a certain reason, or didn't like his role in the story.

My prologue characters, I honestly don't know why I wrote them. I'll just change my prologue.

 

[Eldoria]

We've all been there, that one character that you either didn't like in general, or just didn't fit in the story so you had to kill off just to save face.

Mine was Dante from Bianca's Genesis, i tried to expand his character, but nothing was flowing, so he had to go.

But what about you? What's the worst Character you've ever created

NOTE: "Worst" Meaning either didn't like for a certain reason, or didn't like his role in the story.

I rarely write shallow 1D or 2D characters, but sometimes I do for narrative purposes.

For example, I narrate a pair of fugitive slave traders who are vulgar, rude, and dirty to show how dark the world is. Interestingly, these characters generally only appear briefly before eventually dying due to certain incidents.

It's nearly impossible to narrate a dark world without writing low-level villains. But I don't intend to provide a human background for the villains of humanity.

So, they are indeed bad characters narratively and characteristically, but sometimes they are needed for narrative reasons.

 

[LiteraryWho]

I rarely write shallow 1D or 2D characters, but sometimes I do for narrative purposes.

For example, I narrate a pair of fugitive slave traders who are vulgar, rude, and dirty to show how dark the world is. Interestingly, these characters generally only appear briefly before eventually dying due to certain incidents.

It's nearly impossible to narrate a dark world without writing low-level villains. But I don't intend to provide a human background for the villains of humanity.

So, they are indeed bad characters narratively and characteristically, but sometimes they are needed for narrative reasons.

I don't think a character can be bad narratively, and also necessary narratively. Sometimes you just need a POS to bump the story along, imo.

Anyway, for OP, strangely, my worst character is also a slaver rapist. They exist for plot reasons and are killed (in a satisfying and brutal manner) shortly after being introduced. Otherwise I don't really bother with shitty, irredeemable characters.

I probably should put more work into writing terrible people (ironically, failing to write sufficiently flawed characters is my character flaw), but right now I'm still working on (deliberately) flawed but good characters.

 

[Daeron]

We've all been there, that one character that you either didn't like in general, or just didn't fit in the story so you had to kill off just to save face.

Mine was Dante from Bianca's Genesis, i tried to expand his character, but nothing was flowing, so he had to go.

But what about you? What's the worst Character you've ever created

NOTE: "Worst" Meaning either didn't like for a certain reason, or didn't like his role in the story.

Hmm, Since I already written all context and plots board for entire books, I don't have any "Worst" character that I regretted. Especially when my writing about Psychological Horror and Grimdark Fantasy.

But, if we talk about the characteristic side, mine would be Clarice.
She mentioned several times, as MC's 'sister'. The type of 'kind and loving' sister. But the reveal on my latest chapter about her true nature, showed how 'bad' she actually was. Even I got straight 0.5 star on other platform after I publish it,

 

[MajorKerina]

Sexy muscular tanned beach boyfriend. He is such a himbo. I could've done better.

 

[MC-Stories]

the only reason I'm asking you all this is because for my latest story, i want to create an antagonist similar to Homelander from "The Boys" and I don't wanna screw it up to the point i'll have to kill him off too early in the story.

 

[thegingernut]

There's a story I haven't written yet, though it is the origin of the wielder of the broken blade, who turns up in some of my short stories. I designed it with a protagonist who had the power to manifest shapes and tools through power or will, but initially had no idea how to use his power creatively. He is the driving force behind his classmates fighting crime and doing the "great power great responsibility" thing. He is also the most ineffectual hero on the team. High potential, but deliberately shit in practice.

A few mental drafts later and I actually want to remove him from the story, because he's a sanctimonious idiot who doesn't understand the cost of war. I really like the rest of the planned cast, especially Kuma (a shape shifting martial artist who prefers to take the form of a bear) and the medium (a lazy layabout who lets a dead girl go to school in his body while he reads comics all day. Said dead girl is her own character with her own tragic backstory). Not to mention the aforementioned wielder who… I don't write OP characters if I can avoid it because they suck all the tension out of fight scenes but… she might be my actual favorite OC and maybe she deserves to have her story told, even if nobody will listen. I might write their story one day.

But I will be changing the protagonist or having no specific protagonist at all because that guy is just unbearable. He was a parody of the likes of Starlord or Deku with a twist of Don Quixote but then I realized that I hate those characters too much to even enjoy mocking them.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I would have to go back and find some of my notes from old role-playing games to find examples (but I think that background taught me how to avoid introducing such characters in fiction... so far...) - there, a lot of ideas got tossed out and only the ones that "worked" wound up being used.

 

[Escriba_Sombrio]

Some bums i write when i was 17-18 for my first (failed) book.