[ SECRET POST #3057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3057 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Polandball]


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03.
[The X-Files]


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04.
[Nick Lea/Krycek]


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05.
[Plague Inc Evolved]


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06.
(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)


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07.
[Grimm]


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08.
[Discworld]


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09.
[Magi the labrynth of magic]


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10.
[The Clangers]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 052 secrets from Secret Submission Post #437.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Unlikable Characters

[(Anonymous)]

For me it depends how they're unlikeable, and where I sit on the barometer of reaction towards that unlikeable trait.

A lot of characters written to be likeable piss me off, because I don't associate their traits - ditziness, helplessness, whining, self-centredness portrayed as agency, shafting other people for their own ends when it's supposed to be 'sympathetic', doing stupid things that are supposed to be 'cute' - with likeable people. I associate them with people who annoy the fuck out of me.

So personal dealbreakers will also make for fictional character dealbreakers. If an unlikeable character doesn't hit any of my Nopes, then I won't have that knee-jerk reaction and will take a wider view of the narrative as a whole. Like real life, the best characters won't be black-or-white, they'll have decent traits along with the bad, so a lot of the baggage you bring to it in relation to your own feelings on those traits can make or break it.

It also depends on the context of the story. The GoT thread makes me realize I don't technically 'like' about 85% of the entire cast, but I can still empathize and even feel a tiny bit of respect for their choices within the framework of the narrative. I like them as characters even when I wouldn't like them as people.

Re: Unlikable Characters

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

Bingo. In a similar vein, I don't have much sympathy for people who complain all the time, so if I'm clearly expected to sympathize with a character who is petulant, sullen and self-pitying, there had better be something else--either great world-building, or other characters I find interesting, or awesome prose--to keep me turning pages while Author's Darling pisses and moans their way through their chapters.