Some psychological things for writers (probably typos too)
As someone who likes to breakdown the psychology of characters here is some psychological things.
A trauma doesn’t always appear in the form of nightmares, the brain can block the memory to protect itself but it can appear as lingering things like phobias or just an awkward feeling.
(For romantic stories) Let’s say Character A suffer from a break up which give a chance to Character B to get together with A. But A suffer a lot from the break up and B tries to heal them, B will slowly see that they’re taking advantage of a situation that is making their loved one suffer and B will feel like trash from profiting of the pain of A for their own gain.
The “mere exposure effect” : If a character cames in contact often with something (even something they hate) they will progressively like it or consider it as familiar or reassuring. It’s also one of the factor that comes into place when falling in love, closeness makes the heart grow fonder.
When in a situation of tension, the mere exposure effect applies even more. The brain is in desesperate search of familiarity and will either reject all or be extremely attached to any people getting close.
A character in true despair isn’t a character who screams or cry, it’s one that stays silent and doesn’t even ask question since they’re in too much pain, sadness and sorrow to have any energy to refute or fight against the reality of things. It’s even more effective on characters that are extremely expressive or has a strong temper.
(Just when where on the despair train) Depending on the chracters personnality, despair can be either expressed by sadness (crying, giving up) or anger (struggling, screaming, refusing to accept reality).
When a character loose someone close to them, they will hang on to the other close person to them even harder of fear of loosing them too, as well as being more protective ect.
When something is new, you fear it. Basic instinct.
In a situation of life or death, even the most stoic person can break by simple shock. Like I said, the brain is panicked and hangs on tight to anything familiar.
A real asshole doesn’t break people physically, but emotinaly. Female villains do that more than male ones do by the way.
Familiar = good. Basic Instincts as well.
For a character that has a hard time making social connection when they do have one, they will hang on to it with all their might and feels like they must protect the other at all cost.
“Friends are the family you choose” keep that in mind.
Even when a character is like : “Yeah I would die for this or that”, the fear of death is extremely real and the brain tries to reject it at all cost.
The most precious person to someone isn’t always someone you love romantically.
When you truly care for somebody you don’t say to them the things they want to hear but the things they NEED to hear.
Everything can be important. To a person, a object, or a word.
Love is a slow process. And even if love at first sight exist it takes time as well to realise it ect.
Tolerance to pain and torture change by each person.
Everybody can be manipulated or angered. You just need to push the right buttons.
Facing a threat they are three main reactions : Submission. Opposition. Evasion.
Their is always a reason for everything in a characters personnality. Little events can do major changes.
Sometimes when you’re exhausted you can get angry easly since you want people to leave you alone.
A character with a low self-confidence assure all the time that what they’re saying insn’t meant to offense.
(While I’m on low self-esteem) When those characters tries to do something but can’t no matter how hard they try, they can’t stop themselves from crying, it’s incontrollable. The brain wants to show to the poeple around the struggle they’re in like a call for help.
I have more things to write but since I’m scared my computers gonna crash I’m going to post only this for now I’ll update later.
