99% Invisible Architecture Infrastructure Cities Objects Sounds Visuals Technology History Support the Show Your donations are vital to keeping us independent and strong! Contributions are used for: Paying our exceptional staff Paying outside contributors Travel costs for more ambitious stories Weekly Pakistani buffet Donate The Loud House Encyclopedia Leni L. Loud is a main character in The Loud House. Biography Utopian, Dystopian, Fantasy Fictions » Final Essay: Gender in Speculative Fiction What makes an author give their characters the personality traits that they do? Generally speaking, in every book that you read or film that you watch there is one distinguishable trait that you fall in love with that the main protagonist has. This could be some special power that they have, or a personality quirk, or even a scar (yes, I am talking about you, Harry Potter). One of the key traits that writers quickly distinguish is if that particular characters is going to be portrayed as masculine or feminine. Masculinity is defined as having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men, especially strength and aggressiveness. While femininity is defined as having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with women, especially delicacy and prettiness.
Martin Mystery - Martin Mystery Wiki - Wikia Martin Mystery (French and Italian: Martin Mystère) is an French-Italian-Canadian animated television series based on the Italian Martin Mystère comic by Alfredo Castelli. The show was produced by Marathon Media, Rai Fiction, and Image Entertainment Corporation along with the Japanese animation studio, Tatsunoko Production. Plot The series re-imagines the comic books main characters (Martin Mystery and Diana Lombard) as 16-year-old step-siblings attending Torrington Academy, a high school in Sherbrooke, Quebec. They work for a covert organization referred to as "The Center", which covertly protects the people of Earth from supernatural threats.
Do Your Characters Have the Right Flaws? By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy “Characters must have flaws” is one of the cornerstones of fiction. Flaws create more interesting people, they give you the foundations for your character arcs, and they help you write more relatable stories. But just having flaws isn’t enough. You want the right flaws that will best serve your story.
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Character Flaw Index To make characters realistic and relatable they are given flaws, because if there is anything a writer can be sure of it is that no one in their audience will be perfect. Flaws are character traits that have a negative impact in the narrative, unless they are simply informed. They can also be exploited. See Good Flaws, Bad Flaws for a scale of flaw acceptability. Compare Seven Deadly Sins, Ego Tropes. Abusive Parents: Habitually violent and cruel to their own children, often because that's how they themselves were raised.
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Diana Lombard - Martin Mystery Wiki - Wikia Diana Lombard is a character, a student at Torrington Academy and the tritagonist of the animated series, Martin Mystery. Background Diana is a serious, rational, and obsessive straight-A 16 year old student with nothing in common with her stepbrother. As an agent at The Center, she strives to bring more seriousness into Martin's life, and is Martin's female counterpart during investigations.