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Character Archetypes - Blog Posts
Beneath the cut, you’ll find #76 character labels that I’ve thought up– they’re underused! I felt like I was sick and tired of seeing simplistic labels that defined the characters situation rather than their personality (eg. the teen mom, the loser, the rebel, etc.). Please like and/or reblog if you found this useful!
Characters whose naiveness is a form of protest, my beloved. Who know that there are dark things below but refuse to look down. Who will not let you take this last bit of childishness from them. Who are doomed by their unwillingness to acknowledge the darkness. Who everyone knows will be destroyed for holding on to something they could never truly have. Who are playing at normalcy and foolishness to avoid having to face the music.
You may not be a child, may not have ever been a child, will not ever get to be a child. The darkness with taint anything resembling a childhood, no matter how much you shelter yourself. Yet I will love you anyway, and I hope that you can slowly begin to look through your fingers, to remove your hands from your eyes. I hope you learn to acknowledge and deconstruct the darkness, because I love that you will not let the darkness take any more.
I hate archetypes but I simp so hard for characters who absolutely are archetypes but like multiple opposite ones stuffed together like my characters include-
A hopeless romantic princess with a minor addiction to pink that you would literally never see without multiple swords at her waist and no one bats an eye at it.
A gruff mean political/ war tactician princess who can absolutely sucks at swordplay (she says it's cause of her power, only partially true) literally feel everyone pain/sadness and a little obsessed with saving everyone (and totally oblivious that literally bring kind to them would do that)
An exiled princess who loves reading and traveling is literally one of the best people who also does dark magic and and casually tries to wake a literal wmd beast
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