OGone
Troubadour
Writing him, I realize it now. He's a womanizing, self-centered idiot who's attempts at humor are vulgar and immature. He pursues a woman throughout the story who's oblivious to this, he's distracted by every other single attractive woman in the novel. He's rude and relatively unintelligent. He changes towards the end of the novel, becoming more driven by his his primary love interest but he also deliberately defies orders out of jealousy (albeit he thought he was doing good) and winds up getting two other (likable) main characters killed. I can write it so the other characters are not aware that he was responsible, but I'm worrying readers themselves have absolutely no real reason to appreciate this character.
He *does* change towards the end and if I ever wrote a sequel I'd show him to have matured. His motivations *are* good, he's not morally evil and doesn't intentionally hurt anyone but he's just... a bit of an asshole...
I'm not trying to change the character, I like him how he is. But how does a reader take to a character they find easy to hate? He is one of two (maybe three) main viewpoints so he takes up a fair chunk of the reader's time. I'm worrying because he's a dick who doesn't really deserve it and yet he becomes a hero and (of all the characters in the story) he gets the happiest ending.
He *does* change towards the end and if I ever wrote a sequel I'd show him to have matured. His motivations *are* good, he's not morally evil and doesn't intentionally hurt anyone but he's just... a bit of an asshole...
I'm not trying to change the character, I like him how he is. But how does a reader take to a character they find easy to hate? He is one of two (maybe three) main viewpoints so he takes up a fair chunk of the reader's time. I'm worrying because he's a dick who doesn't really deserve it and yet he becomes a hero and (of all the characters in the story) he gets the happiest ending.
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