| I'm particularly fond of believable characters with complex backgrounds who evolve gradually throughout a story. The worst kinds of characters, in my opinion, are the ones that don't change or learn anything at all |
aikaflipMar 3, 2015 9:51 AM
| A character that is fully fleshed out where the viewer becomes knowledgeable in its personality. I dislike one-sided characters that are written solely to fill a certain role without a personality of their own. |
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| Hey I joined this club! I would disagree and say that there are good characters who don't change. A good example I think is the cast of steins;gate. With the exception of okabe, none of the characters really change, and they stay relatively the same at the end. But I still got attached to all of them, since they didn't change, we just saw different sides of them throughout the story. |
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Ketsubutsu31 said: Hey I joined this club! Welcome! I would disagree and say that there are good characters who don't change. A good example I think is the cast of steins;gate. With the exception of okabe, none of the characters really change, and they stay relatively the same at the end. But I still got attached to all of them, since they didn't change, we just saw different sides of them throughout the story. Although I don't like it when characters don't develop in obvious ways, there may be exceptions. I still need to finish Steins;Gate. >_< I'm only on episode 3. |
| Welcome! Excellent Steins;Gate example. I was attached to all the characters before the plot fully kicked in. aikaflip said: [ Although I don't like it when characters don't develop in obvious ways, there may be exceptions. I still need to finish Steins;Gate. >_< I'm only on episode 3. Yussssss |
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aikaflip said: I'm particularly fond of believable characters with complex backgrounds who evolve gradually throughout a story. The worst kinds of characters, in my opinion, are the ones that don't change or learn anything at all That, but to add on to what you said, I like when the characters are fully fleshed out or have substance to them. It makes it more intriguing and leaves you wanting to know more. A personal favorite of mine is Makishima Shogo from Psycho-pass. As despicable as he was, he was intriguing and the way he was written was amazing. |
| Another question, how can we differentiate "characterisation" from "character development"? I for one always consider backstory as characterisation - such as - and anything from minute 1 onwards as "development", which gives "time location" the sole distinction over the matter, but may end up a bit too simplistic for some storrytelling formats - Haruri being a good example. |
| Maybe characterization is how the characters are initially established, which includes backstory, and development is how they change overtime. |
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