Hello! Can you tell me about your characters? I'd love to hear about them!
I am so glad ! Oh I have so many I don't know where to start. (I don't want to spoil the story in case I find the motivation to write it again)
Reblogs are off (I like disappearing off the face of the internet with a tap of a button) but comments and questions are greatly appreciated.
So let's start with the main characters :
The six members of the special military team that is apart of the Japanese ground self defense force. Their ranks were so confusing since they are different compared to the military in my country or the US .
I chose their names based on kanji that describes things about them -like their personalities or role in the story- (there's also one theme that appears in some of their names and I did it specifically for a tiny little secret)
First lieutenant Seto Tadashi , the team leader and the oldest (38) . He's part of the mystery and mystique. Certified boy dad to Hareta(another character)
Then there's Master Sargeant Suzuki Kazuke , he's 34 . He's the right hand man and the main narrator but I fear that rubbed on him cus he's boring . But i am trying to make it part of his personality . For now i settled on him being an only child who's been pushed by his father to follow his lead in being a soldier with a high rank and for the sake of his parents' relationship (his mom wanted her son to follow his own path and that caused a lot of clashing. Yea, she's the favorite parent for sure) .But now that his dad is dead and he feels like he's in a good position, he feels like his life is boring, that he is also boring, and that he's in his 30s and already done for, but he's too comfy to try to change it ? . . Then the main story starts , idk how to raise conflict tho, maybe make him be the observer as every other member starts tweaking and as he tries to calm things down ?(But that's kinda boring. Idk how to write characters who aren't in on the inside joke lowky)
There's also my most well written character here (but his growth is in the story so no spoilers) , Sargeant first class Kawase Arashi : he's 36, he's the shortest, he's divorced, and has a 5 yr old daughter (Hina) who is his main motivation in investigating what is happening in the story . He's the angry growling type, and he gets mad quite easily but he'll lean. Mechani
Then we have my second most well written character here , and the third stoic guy (tadashi and kazuke. Bruh i need more variation) , Staff Sargeant Izumi Araya , 29, the youngest but early gray hair has hit hard, the quiet guy. the guy who'll get hit with the horrors . The software guy
Then we get to the best buddy of Araya, Sargeant Kobayashi Kaijun , the cheerful guy, the laid back one , might have gotten demoted before, doesn't know how he got into the special operations team somehow. 30yrs of age. Good at fixing stuff and relationships ( not Arashi's marriage, that was already doomed) . More laidback about the horrors. Thinking of making him a great sniper, what is more scarier than a sniper with a smile .
Then the least written fella after our guy suzuki, our medic, the one that asks too many questions !!! Staff Sargeant Okamoto Azuka. Despite the name, he is a guy (the site said it was a gender neutral name in my defense) , he's 31 , the tallest (180 but people said it's still short, low-key i am 160 and anyone who can see the top of my head is considered tall in my eyes) , he's a gentle guy with his own spark, keeps getting cut off by kawase , would rather spend the night analysing the weird stuff than actually sleeping. He probably wears glasses but I wasn't too sure
Then of course, the main character, the whump victim , the boy, the legend, Hareta
the shortest technically, but he's not part of the team, 15 year old boy, somehow makes ocean green eyes look just as eery as blue ones. Half japanese half scottish , has scared the military staff one too many times . Also terrible at math.
But we can't talk about hareta without Mér, his pet cat
Orange, large , mainecoone with green eyes. The ankle bandit, the anti-rat police, the biggest cat those men have ever seen. They have a bite tally in the break room, and arashi is often at the top (Tadashi is second place but they don't know that. ) . If the cat is here, the boy is over there, very ready to apologize for the teeth wounds u finna have
There is so many though , Probably 30+ . I am a great world builder , but story builder, very terrible.
Whenever i try to raise stakes in my story, my OCD makes me live the character. Like I can't even do bad decisions in fictions. Need tips for curbing that btw.