2YN - Assignment 9

Assignment 9:

Sometimes it's too easy to make your main characters, antagonist and protagonist, represent black and white aspects of good and evil. Even when we create flaws, we don't always incorporate them fully into the stories. They are only scars we've painted on the character and forget exists. For this assignment, work out your protagonist's weaknesses, flaws, and phobias.

Afterwards, ask the one really hard question: Could the villain of your story offer the hero something which might tempt him to give up the fight? Is it the lives of his friends, whom he fears he might lose? In a romance it might be the offer of a better life for the heroine and her family if he walks away. Would your fantasy heroine be tempted to give up the fight if the enemy promised to leave her village unharmed? To return of a loved one?

You may write this material in any way you want: a list, a scene, a letter from your character. Do it for as many other characters as you want.
Answer:

Notes to self (free form ramble): Flaws. Now, he has a short temper. He keeps pretty good control on it during times outside of work, and especially during his working hours, but he can snap and he tends to be rather on the vicious side when he finally does. He has problems working with certain types of people and can come off as abrasive until that person manages to get used to him. He softens around the person but still he has some sharp edges that come from having to pick up the pieces of his siblings lives, in some cases.

That’s another flaw he has. This need to pick up his families lives no matter how many times they screw up. He doesn’t give them money, not any more, but he does help in any other way that he can. It tends to leave him hurt and feeling raw. But he still does it. Which can be a weakness to, his family. As much as he hates some of them, and barely gets along with the rest, he will do what he can for them.

As for what the villain can give to him in return of leaving the fight behind? I don’t think he has anything in this book. The only villain that goes up against him and his group of people is his ancestor and they’ve already gone head to head a few times. There’s an animosity there that won’t be going away anytime soon.