What's your main character's biggest flaw?

[ThisAdamGuy]

Topic.

Henry's biggest flaw is her imposter syndrome. She's strong and a great fighter, especially for her age, and she can think on her feet and improvise like a master. But she's also a Blue, the lowest and weakest class in klaon society. On top of that, a brain injury from when she was a baby left her without the psy-comedic powers that other klaons have, making it even more difficult for her to feed on laughter than it is for most Blues. Despite this, she's accomplished some great things, but she's constantly beating herself up because all she sees is what she's not. She's not a Red like her psychotic cousin. She can't read people's senses of humor and needs to use a laughter inhaler to stay alive. She's young and impulsive, and her mentor is constantly on her butt about growing up and being responsible. And to top it all off, since every klaon has the potential to become a maiam if they get too hungry and vampirize the laughter out of someone, Hunters like Henry naturally aren't too popular.

What's yours?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Jack Diamond is a moderate smoker who takes almost nothing seriously, partly as a defense mechanism and partly because he is just a good-natured jerk at heart. Mostly the "jerk" part... :D

Kelly Pierce has only seen hints of her greatest weakness but is also not ... quite herself. Or not quite himself... or something like that... Actually has a lot of little weaknesses, including a big debt to an unknown great evil...

 

[Rhaps]

Charlotte's greatest flaw is her inhumanity, despite being the representative of humanity in a death game made by the World itself, and her soul being an amalgamation of all human past and future.
She can't connect with other people no matter how hard she try, cruel and violent toward everything that displeases her, especially other species. She would kill children first because "Children are the future" before moving to up the age, she want to get rid of the red list by making those animals go extinct. An extremist to the very core.

Yet despite her nature, she want to guide humanity as its very avatar like her predecessors.

The most human of all is the furthest thing from being a human.

 

[EliseValkyria]

I don't like to complicate my life with weird or pretentious things, so my protagonist is the guy who says everything is fine when clearly it's not and everyone around him can tell and they're worried that something very bad is going to happen because of it.

 

[Anonjohn20]

Topic.

Henry's biggest flaw is her imposter syndrome. She's strong and a great fighter, especially for her age, and she can think on her feet and improvise like a master. But she's also a Blue, the lowest and weakest class in klaon society. On top of that, a brain injury from when she was a baby left her without the psy-comedic powers that other klaons have, making it even more difficult for her to feed on laughter than it is for most Blues. Despite this, she's accomplished some great things, but she's constantly beating herself up because all she sees is what she's not. She's not a Red like her psychotic cousin. She can't read people's senses of humor and needs to use a laughter inhaler to stay alive. She's young and impulsive, and her mentor is constantly on her butt about growing up and being responsible. And to top it all off, since every klaon has the potential to become a maiam if they get too hungry and vampirize the laughter out of someone, Hunters like Henry naturally aren't too popular.

What's yours?

In one of my stories, my MC has serious abandonment issues (he's an orphan). In another story the MC has an inferiority complex due to always being treated as lesser to his older brother, the heir (MC is a bastard child of a noble family). In a third story, the MC has some severe antisocial tendencies due to being ostracized for so long (she had to flee society to escape racial persecution). The three stories are set in the same universe.

As for where my (possibly bad) stories are, I'll start posting chapters if I ever finish the stories. I will not curse my few future fans (probably like 2 or 3 people) with the infinite hiatus message.

 

[JulieYBM]

Rachel from TOP EGG suffers from being a bimbo stricken with a great lack of proper education on her autism and ADHD. As a result, she can tend to run away from the world, rather than facing it head on. Eventually, she begins learning to face the problems that the world throws at her little by little, because she is forced to accept that if she doesn't the people she loves will suffer the most for her refusal to accept responsibility.

Similarly, Candace from Ten Years struggles with facing herself. Candace hates the parts of herself that she feels are the reason why she is incomplete as a person, but her struggle is in accepting that her empathy has made her a beloved teacher to her students and an adored girlfriend to her boyfriend, Michael.

 

[Bartun]

My MC's biggest flaw is her self-righteousness. She comes from a prestigious house, goes about with this 'holier-than-thou' attitude, has strong preconceived ideas about how the world should be and thus judges others based on her values.

 

[aj.canaan]

His blindness to the consequences of his actions in order to achieve his main goal.

 

[Jemini]

The MC of the story I'm working on now is a bit of an anti-sue, (the reverse of a marry sue, a character that's a little overly flawed,) so it's hard to pick just one flaw.

However, I'd say teenage angst is probably the one that's gotten her into more trouble than any of her other flaws, so that definitely makes it the prime contender for the position of "biggest."

The other contenders, by the way, are social anxiety, lacking self-confidence, being timid, difficulty speaking (resulting from the previous three,) and to top it off, being traumatized by an event that happens near the beginning of the story.

There are a few other flaws that she has in addition to these, but they are not big enough to be considered anywhere even close to her "biggest flaw."

The idea with the series is to give her an entire laundry list of fairly relatable flaws at the beginning of the series, toss in a little trauma to justify dialing them all up a bit to exaggerate them for the sake of drama, and then have her work through them and become an all-around strong character who has reversed all these flaws into their opposed strengths by the end of the series.

 

[Biggest-Kusa-Out-There]

Natasha has anger issues she'll never completely overcome, abandonment issues, father complex, drops slurs on the regular, and is superhumanely xenophobic.
Valentina is addicted to sex, mild narcissistic personality disorder, ableist, racist, xenophobic, ultranationalist, and sexist (she's a hermaphrodite and thinks monosexual phenotypes are inferior).

 

[WinterTimeCrime]

She doesn't work well with others.

 

[Astrolust]

His ADHD, whenever he spots something that interests him he hones in on it like a sniper, and then as soon as it loses its luster he drops it like a bad habit. His habbit is so bad his Yandere gf is developing it slowly too.

 

[Rezcore]

Patience, Roland De Kefreen isn't a patient man, so much so he singlehandedly reshapes Europe

 

[Arch9CivilReactor]

Mine is that the MC is way too willing to do bad things he’ll regret later.

 

[theInmara]

Impulsiveness, apparently.

She does think about things a lot, but she can't consider every possible thing, and misses a lot of details, taking their explanations for granted. But, ultimately, when push comes to shove, she does a thing, following her intuition, sometimes regardless of what her reasoning was leading up to the choice.. And it gets her into such delightful trouble.

A lot of it has to do with suddenly being a full dragon, no longer disguised as a human, and how her C-PTSD plays in that. Before, she was choosing flight, freeze, or fawn responses to every stressor. But now that she's got scales and claws and feels confident in her body for the first time in 50 years, she's started choosing fight.

 

[Jocelyn_Uasal]

She's reactionary.

Elizabeth would rather lash out in violent protest than find a rational solution, though I guess that's most characters huh?

 

[theInmara]

She's reactionary.

Elizabeth would rather lash out in violent protest than find a rational solution, though I guess that's most characters huh?

We've been writing so many stories in which the characters are opposite. They'd much rather find a rational solution than lash out (or let someone else lash out).

And you know? They are tough to write well! This switch up where our MC is like, "I'm a dragon so I'm going to attack that," really frees up the writing and makes it flow. So many ridiculous things happen now.

 

[Sola-sama]

My character's biggest flaw is that he's not cringe. He's just fucking racist.

 

[Corty]

My MC's biggest flaw is me, his writer.

 

[Jocelyn_Uasal]

We've been writing so many stories in which the characters are opposite. They'd much rather find a rational solution than lash out (or let someone else lash out).

And you know? They are tough to write well! This switch up where our MC is like, "I'm a dragon so I'm going to attack that," really frees up the writing and makes it flow. So many ridiculous things happen now.

Oh that's fair lol I just remember a quote from some screenplay writer that went you can't have a movie unless your characters are kind of stupid and I liked it