4/12/2023 0 Comments Snow white with red hair shiiraPerhaps they haven’t failed, perhaps they are left behind for another reason, because they are “too valuable”, or because they’ll be more useful back home. Following from point four, if a character is not good enough they can be left behind, perhaps it comes from a place of love, an attempt to protect them from enemies too strong, yet it still hurts. Just let them fail and feel the world crumble.ĥ.- Being forced to stay behind. Take that feeling and reflect it into your characters, it doesn’t have to be an exam, it can be anything, a task they’re parents asked them to do and they tried their best, a mission, anything. We have probably all felt that emptiness, that feeling as the world crumbles around us, haplessness, when we failed an exam in school or just couldn’t get the house clean in time for that visit. Also, unlike character death, they’re still there, there to taunt you with their mere existence.Ĥ.- Failure. It was so obvious yet you were all so blind! As blind as the other characters. When you as a reader fall head over heels in love with a character, only for them to betray the rest, it’s heartbreaking, especially if when you read back the foreshadowing was there. When well done, it’s worst than character death. Two characters with a strong bond arguing can be heartbreaking, even if you know the argument is going to resolve itself eventually, going from cuddles and banter to cold looks and the silent treatment, can easily hurt the audience just as much as the characters.ģ.- Betrayal. Later on your character will feel loss and so will the audience.Ģ.- Arguing. The important thing is you show just how important it is to the character, make them happy and excited just to talk about it. For this to work you’re going to have to set this up early on, it could be a childhood toy they need to sleep at night, a necklace they swear gives them good luck, and old family trinket or any number of things. So, until that moment, here’s a quick list of things you can do to tug at your readers emotions:ġ.- Destruction of an item of value. Not to mention, depending on your genre, character deaths are often reserved for later in the series as a way of telling the reader that things are getting serious. Character death is sad, but it also has huge consequences on your plot that can’t be reversed.
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