My personal favorite character I've created is Dallas, an 18 year old Goth guy who is being stalked by an unstable woman (Lisa, the main character) who is sexually obsessed with him.
I personally HATE it when people make their Goth characters whiney, depressed social rejects (most Goths in real life are NOTHING like that), so I really tried to avoid every negative Goth stereotype.
Dallas is friendly, very observational, and mildly autistic. He's also asexual, and has no romantic or sexual feelings towards Lisa. He's naive and trusts people way too easily, which leads to his death. Lisa goes psychopathic on him and shoots him 5 times. She puts a bullet in his left knee, one in his right arm, two in his stomach, and finally puts one in his head.
I haven't written that scene yet, but it's the part that really lets readers know how psychotic and unstable Lisa is.
I personally HATE it when people make their Goth characters whiney, depressed social rejects (most Goths in real life are NOTHING like that), so I really tried to avoid every negative Goth stereotype.
Dallas is friendly, very observational, and mildly autistic. He's also asexual, and has no romantic or sexual feelings towards Lisa. He's naive and trusts people way too easily, which leads to his death. Lisa goes psychopathic on him and shoots him 5 times. She puts a bullet in his left knee, one in his right arm, two in his stomach, and finally puts one in his head.
I haven't written that scene yet, but it's the part that really lets readers know how psychotic and unstable Lisa is.
October 30th, 2013 at 02:54am