writing characters

"Tale of two queens" is my YA fantasy retelling of "The Book of Esther", featuring Vashti and Esther as dual protagonists and POV characters. In my story, Vashti's arc starts after she lost her position and banished from court. She moves into her personal estate and mopes for a while, but then...

I'm not sure I have one to be honest, I try to write my characters as different as they need to be to fit their role in the story. That being said I do tend to lean on a couple of tropes, but those tropes aren't like, the whole character, if that makes sense. Though I find it really difficult to...

So in one of my projects I have a very...innocent character. She is strong and mighty in numerous ways, but seduction is not a thing she's capable of, she's too shy for it. One of her antagonists can withstand everything she throws at him, at one point I'm pretty sure at one point she breaks...

In one of my stories I'm writing a stoic character, the hitch is he's spent enough time people watching (In a non creepy way) in his workplace that he's, kind of figured out emotion. He fully admits that emotion in and of itself is still a mystery to him, but he understands the social cues...