Floria Tosca ([info]floriatosca) wrote,
@ 2009-03-31 14:14:00
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I should probably stop worrying so much about whether my characters are sympathetic or not - people will like whomever they like, as the "Watchmen" fandom so clearly demonstrates - and I don't want to get so invested in other people's opinions that I go around telling reviewers that they're reading the text wrong and making inferences about their probable psychological disorders. But still, I haven't reached a state of sublime artistic detachment, and so I worry about the line between "easy to exploit due to her tendency to trust the wrong people, especially when the alternative is believing something horrible about someone she knows and wants to like" and "criminally morally irresponsible and too dumb to live."

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[info]paraxdisepink
2009-03-31 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Honestly, I don't think it matters whether one likes a character, but whether one can relate to them. All my original characters are jerks with serious disorders, for example, but hopefully there's enough human truth to their actions that people can connect with them.

It's when we can't connect with them that I think we hate them or just get bored with them, so I think it's more important to concentrate on whether we can understand them, whether they have an internal logic, etc.

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[info]floriatosca
2009-04-01 03:54 am UTC (link)
That makes sense. And it seems that in a lot of cases characters who are well developed enough wind up becoming interesting, even if you'd want to avoid them at all costs in real life.

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