Carmen Espinosa - True to her name, she can be a bit “thorny”. She is a 17-year-old girl, later 18, in her senior year with an abrasive personality. She has a habit of calling people younger than her “kid”. Since she was born on May 2nd, she is one of the younger seniors in her year. While she is a genuinely kind person, she also has anger issues and deep-rooted self-hatred as well as an annoyance towards children due to having to babysit a bratty 8-year-old boy at the age of 15. Due to her annoyance and self-hatred, she takes her anger out on people under the age of 13 and has even been shown bullying them. Despite this, she genuinely does not want to see another kid injured or in danger and says she “hates” it. She is pretty affectionate with her fellow peers, such as jumping up and down and hugging people like Austin and Mika.
While she does seem to like Anya, she knows she can’t have her and her true interest is the Viewer (another senior), who she created the Highschool Harem Hell “saga” for to reach out to them.
(I don’t care much that this may make her unlikable, she’s supposed to be thorny and a child-hater. Also, this isn’t sexual by any means, these characters are all minors [until the seniors turn 18 later], this is just a high school romance story.)
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
*Condescending towards younger people? *Belittling?
*Judgemental af, in the sense that whatever molded her was so negatively critical, it’s ingrained in her personality that it’s normal to judge herself and others based on every little misstep?
Since you mentioned a birthday, maybe borrow adjectives from zodiacs?
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Also, even tho you didn’t ask for this, but because you mentioned she’s a character in a story, and because other comments also vibe with my first impression of “Idk, sounds like an asshole with random facts sprinkled on,” consider looking up “save the cat”? Note that the thing that makes a character likeable is their choice to actively do a good deed for some extrinsic reason. Example: A train operator on a moving train sees someone tied to the tracks. They pull the brakes. The train stops, and the victim is saved. Meh. What a norm-core thing to do because it barely seemed like they had a choice. If someone else were with them saying “oh my god, if we hit the brakes now, we could derail!”, and the operator low-key knows this and immediately pulls the brakes anyway - that’s cool, because they had a choice, and they chose to do something difficult but good for someone else. Or a person being an asshole in general and poor, but still paying for the dude in front’s groceries when their debit card declines. That’s cool.
Or person going out of their way to cheer up their friend that they noticed was almost too good at masking chronic depression. That’s cool, too. Dr. House without his medical malpractice shenanigans to actively help strangers is just an asshole. …If all this was ultimately excessive and unnecessary for someone else, at least this has been an exercise for me think up save the cat examples. I hope these spoiler tags work. Ta
BeckyStjerne@nord.pub 2 hours ago
Thank you so much! This was just a character draft I was thinking of for her personality