CasparTheGhost: Since I learn about myself by analyzing my OCs I've learned that
Sparrow was what everyone wanted me to be. The hero, kind, courageous, and brave. Never the villain in the eyes of people that mattered. She was a perfect lie that I believed for a long time and that is why I grew to hate using her.
Caspar was the cold truth, she wasn't at first, but I pushed her, I pushed myself to write not what others wanted to see but instead, what was real. Caspar doesn't always save people, she is not always the hero, she hurts and destroys and she has fallen so far in the recent stories destroying everything she is for what she thinks is right only to lose the battle she spent months preparing for. There are people that see her as a hero, and those that view her as a monster.
That is the kind of story that is worth writing. The kind of character that is relatable. Caspar will never get along with everyone. I'm never going to take an OC and play them the way someone else wants me to. I'm not going to bend my writing to the will of those around me. Never again. It doesn't do the other justice and it certainly doesn't make a good story.
Sparrow was what everyone wanted me to be. The hero, kind, courageous, and brave. Never the villain in the eyes of people that mattered. She was a perfect lie that I believed for a long time and that is why I grew to hate using her.
Caspar was the cold truth, she wasn't at first, but I pushed her, I pushed myself to write not what others wanted to see but instead, what was real. Caspar doesn't always save people, she is not always the hero, she hurts and destroys and she has fallen so far in the recent stories destroying everything she is for what she thinks is right only to lose the battle she spent months preparing for. There are people that see her as a hero, and those that view her as a monster.
That is the kind of story that is worth writing. The kind of character that is relatable. Caspar will never get along with everyone. I'm never going to take an OC and play them the way someone else wants me to. I'm not going to bend my writing to the will of those around me. Never again. It doesn't do the other justice and it certainly doesn't make a good story.