#angry characters

[dont-be-gentle-please]

The way I struggle to write anger and angry whumpers has started to get on my nerves.

Help.

[louk419]

It's Point a Finger/Blame Someone Else Day 👉

The first "Friday the 13th" of the year is traditionally known as Blame Someone Else Day and these Richard chaRActers are pointing a finger at the person they intend to confront. If I were that person, I wouldn't cross them, would you?! (Well, maybe Rich reading for CBeebies wouldn't be too threatening, but the rest?! No way!) 😳😰

[emptyheadmybeloved]

Need me a character who:

1. Believes forgiveness is good but not necessary 

2. Forgiveness is a privilege, not a right. It is not owed to you

3. Even if someone is genuinely sorry and is trying to do better, you can accept their apology and still not forgive them.

4. It is valid to be angry and act angry but doesn’t let it control them.

5. They can do bad and morally wrong things and still be a good person/hero.

6. Knows the difference between calming down and relaxing.

7. Anger is a human emotion and is okay to feel.

8. Being upset and angry is what sets boundaries and show that you are not willing to put up with certain behavior.

[raz-b-rose]

So this is a post I've been working on for awhile now, and I wrote some of this along with this reblog. But I felt it was important to still make a separate post for this topic as well.

I loved the new episode because its a huge part of learning to deal with your temper, or anything similar, to embrace the reality and take control of something that you have always believed or been told is out of your control.

Huey controls his temper now, or is at least learning too. Its a hard thing, and I'm so glad the writers are moving in that direction but it scares me as well.

Everyone has a bad part to themselves, its how you handle it, express it, and control it that matters. I really, really liked the scene and I hope it doesn't get taken out of context (used as an excuse to behave however you want).

The way the media has always delt with characters who have a temper or bouts of anger has bothered me for awhile.

And while I love the parallel of "inheriting" the McDuck temper, to me...its not a positive thing that everyone keeps making it seem, but its a real thing, i can at least appreciate that.

I learned my temper from my dad, and his is not....pretty. Its rough emotionally growing up with that, and being around that. It's rough being that person and learning the damage you cause around you.

I tired of being angry, I'm tired of anger being used as almost a positive and likable character trait. It sucks and its time we encouraged positive ways to handle it, then to just let it run free.

So while I'm glad Huey is getting this moment of dealing with that, please DO NOT encourage this as a positive thing. Its nasty, and mean, and fills you with guilt. Its not funny, or should it be used for fun entertainment. I understand a need to show real characters, someone everyone can relate with, but there is a balance.

Donald was always the character I related to the most as a child because we both had a "temper" and it was always put in a "funny" or "positive" light...its not. I had to relearn a lot things about myself, take notice of my surroundings in greater detail than before. The moment I stop focusing on my emotions, reactions, and thought process I slip and it sucks, its exhausting, but worth it.

And wonderful thing is, Donald and I have both grown. This version of Donald is my favorite, because he's more than just the angry guy who makes everyone laugh. He's a family man who loves and works hard and his temper has only been shown (except in the pilot and a few smaller instances) as a means to protect his family. The scene with his therapist was also so wonderfully emotionally for me. This version of Donald means so much to me.

Huey is getting that chance as well. A chance to positively represent emotions for other kids who are dealing with the same things I did and do. This is just so important to me especially when the last few years the messages have been "you don't control your emotions" and "feeling anything and everything is good".

Remember you control your actions, you control how you interact with situations and people, you control everything about YOU.

Mistakes will be made, and sometimes you will need to apologize, try something new, and rely on people.

Work hard and learn about yourself. Just because its a part of you doesn't mean it is you.

I am an irritable, emotionally driven, excitable, anxious, easily worked up beautiful mess. I am also trying on so hard to be kind, loving, patient (dang that's a hard one) genuinely happy (not that fake happiness that's just anger dresses up in a pretty disguise) and enjoy everything life throws at me. I rely on God and my husband and this is a fight I will fight everyday. Its not something that will go away, but its something I can gain better control over every year.

This means so much to me, and I love each and everyone of you that related to this as well. 💛

I hope for the best writing possible when it comes to this lesson, thank you so much for reading my long messy feelings.

[chaihighwrites]

Comfort Zones

Okay, here’s a fun one.

So for the last few years I’ve tried my hardest to have these really charming and socially savvy characters that get by with words instead of fighting. I’ve played these characters through video games and my writing alike to avoid heartache through conflict. For me, at least, I think this stems from a need to do well in social circles. Apart from the times when things seem out of my control and I have a hard time putting my heart into doing well for others, I do earnestly try to make people like me.

With some encouragement from online friends and a desire to do something a little different, I created just the opposite of that for the first time in the last few months.

Fredrik likes raising hell. He started smoking and getting tattoos to piss off his parents who, to his understanding, neglected him in favor of his twin sister who was smart enough to get people on her side at an early age. A lot of his shortcomings can be drawn back to taking everything she did personally. He picked fights with other kids because they couldn’t hurt him (healing abilities). He moved out of his home at sixteen because he could, and because he had had enough of his family. He joined the main antagonist of the story because he wanted a better life.

He goes out of his way to make people angry at him, and that’s the only way he gets to understand them. A great lack of sympathy in every day life is replaced by a deeper understanding of others by exploring just how much he can push them before they snap.

I’d be lying if I said he was easy to write. Some days I slip back into other, sweeter characters, whose emotional complexity comes from sad, quiet places. Fredrik is loud. He doesn’t hide how he feels easily. He’s the angry part of me that I wish I could express every day in little moments, like when I’m stuck behind a slow driver or can’t be alone for five minutes.

He’s a bad person.

He’s so much fun.

[erawls-themaskedstoryteller]

CHARACTER ABUSE

CHARACTER ABUSE #characterabuse #raisingawareness #amwriting #authorrants #fanrants #writersbeware #angrycharacters #madfans

I am bringing attention to something which many writers have overlooked. But when you’re the reader or viewer having to face this problem, you know what I mean. It’s time we brought awareness to this epidemic I call: “character abuse”! Words from a distraught fan who’s tired of great characters getting abused. *my furious face*

Please, dear people. Allow a fan to spell it out for you: (more…)

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[whitexblackrose]

Apparently when I write angry characters I go the extra mile

In the fan fiction verse: Sarah threatening Jareth with an iron frying pan. Jareth shoving Loki into a pile of chicken crap. Jareth beating up Robert. Jareth verbally one upping Robert. Bombs going off. Sarah locking a chastity belt on Jareth. And so on...

Semi fan fiction verse (Journey of a King): Arthur getting pinned with a knife against his throat (more than once). Arthur having a mountain fall on top of him. 

Original fiction verse: Price: Family feud blows up a building, totals several cars, and kills 20+ by standards. Liam (vampire) gets shot. Rebecca (witch) gets set on fire.

Sense Me: Elizabeth cripples a one thousand year old vampire and threatens a ten thousand year old vampire while crippling him.

Scarlet Shadows (series): A character's memory is wiped clean. Town is set on fire. (And millions of mind-fucking moments due to illusions and hallucinations.)

Gears and Lace: Edmund gets stabbed. Carriage explodes. Train explodes. Edmund get's slapped (for endangering his life to defuse a bomb). And a villain gets shot with a gun ring.

Shadows and Blood: Someone gets killed via a bullet to the eye. Million and one slaps.

Secret Rose: Romance interest gets shot.

And now with homework: Guy reveals that he's not dead and gets beaten to a pulp by his best friend (which was the reason for why he had to leave - he sold his soul to keep her alive).

Gee...No wonder I'm good at HCS. I keep writing drama to defuse...