Does anyone have any tips or advice on how to talk to your fictional characters as seeing them , hearing them and feeling them physically. I don't want to hear any oh there fake? There fictional their not real? I don't want to hear that does anyone know any way to use the mind to the point where if I imagine where I want to be I will feel like I'm physically there. And if I'm in a public area and I miss my characters I will be able to fully see and imagine them physically and hearing them.

Does anyone have any tips on that?

So in a story I’m writing, there are three late end teenagers, (all 18)... Teen A, B and C are all at a higher education college, where Teen C’s father is their primary Teacher.

Teen A and B both are in Love with Teen C, and both decide to approach the Teacher to see if they can try and get permission to date or try to date Teen C.

So now the teacher is in a bind, if he says no to Teen A and B, he’s basically putting a block on his child getting romantically involved with anyone.

If he says no to Teen A or B, then he is playing favourites with his students, which would cause tension in his child’s friend group, while also potentially stopping someone who could be good for his child

And if he says yes to both, then it could cause greater tension between the two teens, and his child... meaning he child could lose interest in dating...

His child has previously mentioned they... are interested in both Teen A and B... and didn’t know who to try and date, as they didn’t want to hurt either of their friends.

How could he act in his child’s best interest while also maintaining peace between his class and his child’s friend group?

He gets dumped of course.

Let's call the girlfriend Alice and boyfriend Bob.

The general basis of the relationship is that she confesses to him and he accepts. They have been dating for about 2 years and are comfortable at the moment. Alice is kind, but also a quite shy, and tends to avoid conflict if possible. She likes Bob for his straightforward but hardworking nature (something that she lacks). Bob likes Alice platonically but feels nothing romantically. So he doesn't love her at all but stays since there's nothing "wrong" with the relationship as it is. I suppose in this case, he's emotionally cheating on her?

I'd say that because she's kind (and a doormat) that she's willing to keep being friends with him but what's a natural process to this?

(If it's anything important in the context to this question, Alice is the younger sister of the Bob's best friend.)

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As the title implies, my main character, Herenui, has a near total lack of empathy at the start of the story. She's in this state because she was raised in a guild of assassins and mercenaries. This guild gather orphans they find in the street and put them through a harsh and sometimes deadly training to make them become skilled soldiers. "Survival of the fittest" being the master word, Herenui has learned to trust no one and to hug the walls to avoid attracting attention.

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She's taciturn, easily hold grudges and can be selfish if her survival is at stake. Also, like all the members of the guild, she takes pride in owing no one, always making sure to repay her debts if someone ever did her a favor. That last point is important as it's what will put her in some dilemmas later on.

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As other informations, she's 17 and from the Paumotou's tribe, who have given their name to the archipelago they live in. Long story short, she was injured and made captive in a raid made by slave sellers from the Great Continent, where Paoumotous are feared and hated for the peculiar features (humans with red eyes, white hair tanned/dark olive skin and a slightly above average strength) yet also considered exotic slaves that only the richest can afford.

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On the Great Continent, the raiders attacked another town before heading back to their country. They made new slaves and Herenui helped to defend a young girl who was being beaten by a guard. She didn't really did it to save the girl but more out of frustration for being held captive and defeated a few days prior.

This incident triggered several reactions. First, Manava, the woman who took care of Herenui's wounds when she was taken aboard unconscious, forced Herenui to swear to protect Natsuko (the girl she saved) as a way to repay her debt, knowing she wouldn't/couldn't refuse. Secondly, the chief of the slave sellers, Fernando, who heard about the fight got interested in her and decided to keep her as an assassin/henchman. To fulfill her promise to Manava, Herenui agreed to the offer as long as Natsuko could stay with her.

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That's how Herenui got stuck with Natsuko. At first it was a weird relationship as Herenui didn't want to make any effort to befriend her companion, while Natsuko was confused as to why Herenui saved her yet was so cold afterwards. The two girls not speaking the same language also didn't help. After a bit of time and a lot of efforts from Natsuko, they started helping each other a bit, Natsuko offering to teach Herenui the local langage if the Paumotou showed her how to fight.

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Herenui carried on several missions for Fernando, until one day she fails to assassinate a general from the neighboring country and gets arrested. To avoid death sentence/jail and be sure that Natsuko was safe, she betrayed her master and agreed to join the general's army and go to the military academy. Before that, she's sent to an orphanage to learn the langage. She's also tasked to look after the children in exchange for food and lodging.

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And that's where I need help! I plan on having Herenui evolve into someone who can care for those she loves (Natsuko, the children at the orphanage, her comrades at the academy), but how can I make her become emphatic without it being too rushed?

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tl:dr : My main character was raised in a "survival of the fittest" environment and doesn't trust nor care for anyone and I want her to become more emphatic throughout the story.

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ps: To new members, don' be shy and give your opinion!

Okay, here's the bare bones of it. There's about 7 characters that can have a relationship with the MC. The MC is specifically in love with his senpai. The main setting is a high school.

The "gameplay" (well, at least for a visual novel) consists of you planning out MC's school schedule, stat building, and how you react to certain events. Like, you can make the MC join the basketball club which has this character you interact with more or the manga club which has this character. It's in a similar tradition to Tokimeki Memorial except it's BL.

The MC himself is a workaholic and very blunt in that he may hurt other's feelings without intending to, having a tendency to shoot from the hip. He's naive on how relationships work (so long we're comfortable, it's okay = his current girlfriend). The MC is in the closet but he finds himself completely infatuated with his senpai and doesn't understand why. So his solution to this is to date a girl and ignore his feelings. The plot will eventually ask the MC to confront his feelings for his senpai but it won't make you have a relationship with him if you don't want to (or rather, don't have the requirements).

Plot-wise, there's two (possible) love triangles. The first one is his girlfriend vs senpai. The second is (character) vs senpai (if it's senpai you're gunning for, then there won't be one).

The thing is...what about the other characters? The MC is blunt in that if someone admits they like him, but he doesn't, then he will say that he doesn't like them. I would like to think that 'oh as long the MC has feelings for character x then character y will back off ' and it will work out. But considering the amount of characters that can fall in love with the MC, it seems like more love triangles would be inevitable but I don't want to write more ._.

ALSO when and if comes down for 2 or more characters falling in love MC should I give more of a reason? As in real life this is super unlikely? Like I kinda really, don't like blank playable characters (too passive...) but I kinda understand why they're 'ideal' for these kind of games. Characters can fall in love with them because they can be literally anything they like. The MC has a defined personality, and arguably it's one that not everyone would like (bossy, buzz-kill, insensitive are some of his negative qualities.)

Perhaps I'm overthinking certain parts since it's just essentially a dating game and the end goal is just romancing someone and it's not as if the plot is super important.

So the gist of it: love triangles in visual novels, yay or nay? How much can the "plot" be separated from the game?

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For a story I'm planning, the main character has a stable long-distance relationship while he's on his adventures.

I'm doing this for two reasons

1. To avoid my natural tendency to make relationships between the MC and other characters of the opposite gender revolve around romance (I know, I'm sorry)
2. To act as a storytelling device. Instead of simply telling the reader what he thinks, they can find out his private opinions and thoughts through him radioing his girlfriend.

So the question follows: how can I make their relationship feel genuine, and not simply a storytelling tool I shoe-horned in to make telling the story easier?

(Also, really love the sound of this subreddit! I think real, interesting relationships between different characters are key to making me really interested in any story. Thanks for starting it!)

So in my planning for writing, I made the choice that the second half of my story would focus around the human adopted daughter of my main characters and her eventual relationship with the Overseer she was sent to guard. The two big things here are that a) Overseers are incredibly thin, seven foot tall lizards with just enough muscle mass to push a button and walk, but little else, and b) Overseer culture is all about a lack of emotional connection with others. The daughter would eventually manage to cause the Overseer (named Mildred) to begin forming that emotional connection.

How do I actually write a romance where one half is struggling with emotions she doesn't know how to handle and doesn't know how to act, and the other half is a foot and a half shorter and human? I want to make it a good relationship but am not sure what to do, since it doesn't use the general themes my other romances follow.

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I'm writing planning a story about a pair of young women. The story takes place in a science fiction setting and the two meet on a space station. Valeer is a refugee who was orphaned by a war on her home planet while Darshi is a stowaway who came into owning a freighter after the previous crew was captured by the Provecture.

They both begin from a similar place of helplessness. However, while Valeer takes charge of her life and becomes a renowned soldier over the course of the story, Darshi falls into ever worse addictive and dependent habits. While Valeer wants to go forth and right the wrongs of the galaxy, Darshi wants to leave it all behind and hide from the war and strife.

I'm trying to work out what would keep them together, if anything. Would they just become incompatible at a certain point? Other relevant factors: These two are on the freight ship together with about seven other characters. They all have a common interest in defeating an invasion force that is foreign to the sector. Also, they all either have nowhere better to be or nowhere else to go. Valeer takes the role of "captain" of the ship about a fourth way into the story.

So a few days ago, I posed a question and people gave very helpful responses. A couple things have changed, and I was hoping for one more bit of advice on the couple (Raven, doesn't want to touch people, he's asexual. Marlowe, fish person, really likes Raven for reasons no one can figure out). Basically, due to some changes I've made to Marlowe's species, she needs to be in a small full-body suit that surrounds her in water and submits her to tons of pressure (about 8 tons of pressure per square inch) to replicate her environment. This allows for small amounts of contact, as Raven is more able to touch someone if there's something between him and the other person.

The problem here is Marlowe's desire to touch Raven and the fact that one of them would die a gruesome death due to pressure. Should I have them work on a way to make contact, even if only for a moment? Or does that overlap with my other main relationship (a living person and a ghost trying to make longer term contact) too much? Is it a plot worth pursuing?

For NaNoWriMo I'm writing a story about two girls who were childhood friends, Noah and Lily, who are reunited about a decade later. I'm looking for advice on how to make their relationship seem plausible and not move too fast.

Background: They became friends in first grade, and in around fourth grade Lily develops a crush on Noah. (Noah probably also has a crush on Lily, but she doesn't understand what her feelings mean and doesn't even think it's possible for her to like another girl at that point.) Lily moves away in sixth grade, when she's 11 years old, but hangs onto her crush for quite a while. Noah and Lily meet again in college, when they're 20. Due to plot reasons Noah has some laser-guided amnesia and has lost a fair amount of memories, but they're eventually restored, and Noah and Lily begin a romantic relationship.

Questions: How to write childhood crushes in general, especially non-fleeting ones? Most childhood crushes I hear about are when a child likes someone older that they admire, that fades quite quickly. Do you think it's plausible for someone to remember and like a person for such a long time? How can I write their new relationship without making it seem like they're simply clinging to the past?

So I've been friends with "Peter" since our first year of high school. I've kind of had a crush on him the whole time, but I figured he was never interested because he never said anything, and besides I never thought I was his type. (He's really smart, and kind of a huge nerd. Plus his family is awesome and mine is a huge drama filled mess.) But I told our friend "Bobby" that I was in love with Peter. Bobby came back later and said that Peter felt the same way towards me, but he never said anything because he thought I was out of his league. So we both want each other, but we both think we don't deserve each other, and we both don't want to ruin our friendship. What do I do? How can I tell him how I feel? He's the kind of guy who might think I was joking if I just said out of the blue that I'm in love with him. Plus me and him both told Bobby to keep it secret, so he'll probably be mad about that.

So two of my main characters eventually wind up in a romance together. This is obvious, I wouldn't be posting here otherwise. I'm not super sure how to write it, however, due to several key elements.

• this is a completely non-sexual relationship. This in and of itself is not the problem. My main character is asexual and sex repulsed, just so you know why I made this decision. Anyway, the problem is that my main character is not a super touchy person, even without accounting for other portions of this. He doesn't hold hands, he doesn't kiss, he's fine with physical contact but doesn't want to have that contact for extended periods of time. I'm not super sure how to fully get it across that this is a relationship under these circumstances, given how much people seem to expect a relationship to consist of constant kissing and other physical activities, at least in fiction.

• I'm a little worried about the dynamic between the two of them, and how people will see it. My main character is generally kind of a jerk, or at least seems like one due to lack of social skills, while his romantic interest is a pretty nice, if not slightly dumb, person. I'm trying to write them in a way that shows that despite any messing with each other they may do, they do care about each other and would do almost anything for each other, but I don't want it to seem like a twilight relationship. That's an abusive relationship that's glorified. I want to write a realistic relationship, or at least as realistic as o can get within my world.

Any suggestions would be very appreciated.

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