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We’re working on a bad habits series for fictional characters right now so feel free to look around to see more ideas for bad habits for your Fictional Characters. Use these toxic bad habits freely, but don’t overload any one character with all of them.
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10 Toxic Bad Habits For Your Fictional Character’s Relationship that Are Surprisingly Dangerous
1. Trying to always help the other person and never asking for help
2. Moving in together before marrying
3. Always paying for everything and not letting the other person pay for anything
4. Never dreaming with the other person and always smashing “Dream Talks” where the other can dream about the future
5. Being overly passive and always giving in to what the significant other wants
6. Wishing the significant other acted more like your character’s other friends or family
7. Being Jealous of other relationships
8. Comparing the relationship to other peoples’ relationships and whether or not what they have is better
9. Using Scare tactics and fear to manipulate them into being the person you want them to be
10. Worshiping your significant other
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10 Toxic Bad Habits For Your Fictional Character’s Relationship that Are Surprisingly Dangerous
Toxic bad habits like these help writers think about what goes on in a character’s mind.
Giving fictional characters toxic bad habits is a good and natural way to create conflict and resolution between your characters.
Fictional Characters need to be seen as not perfect, but as primitive and mortal. Unless of course they are immortal 😉 but even then, adding some sort of weakness to them helps our reader mesh with them.
Don’t overthink toxic bad habits. Just work on giving your fictional character a few that make sense.
Combining three or four makes sense, but don’t overdo it with 10 or more unless they are supposed to be a real slob.
Also, figure out good consequences for the habits you give.
Do some bad habits affect others? What are the consequences of certain combined toxic bad habits?
Do your characters move in with each other?
New studies are showing surprisingly that couples that move in together and even sleep together before marriage are not as happy as couples that wait for marriage. Even more of these move-in couples end up in divorce than those that wait.
How can you use these new cultural ideas to shape a story into a surprise that your readers aren’t expecting?
Do they find out more about their partner than they wanted to know?
Do they get into more fights after moving in?
Do they annoy each other in ways they didn’t expect?
Where do your character’s bad habits lead them?
Do they lose a friend?
Do they lose an apartment after a breakup?
In other words, feel free to think through what bad habits you want them to have and how bad habits can affect each other and have a compound effect on your fictional character. We hope that 10 Toxic Bad Habits For Your Fictional Character’s Relationship that Are Surprisingly Dangerous helps you think through writing ideas that will help make your fictional characters come to life.
Happy writing 🙂
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10 Toxic Bad Habits For Your Fictional Character’s Relationship that Are Surprisingly Dangerous
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