Characters and Emotions Part 2

Characters and Emotions Part 2

We talked all about characters in part one. Now we need to dig deep into the emotion. The emotions in the character changes the emotion of the reader. They don’t have to be the same emotion. Anger can make the reader sad...sometimes. It depends if you like the character.  Let’s start from the real simply short lived feels.

I tried to keep the list short and important

PEACE:

The nonexistent emotion. No character is every at complete peace in the beginning.  And at the end is also never in full state of calm, they’re just more peaceful than before. They can’t be at peace if they haven’t found themselves and usually early in the book they don’t know what that means. The character will say at the end they have found peace, but unless it is their life long dream they get in the end, they haven’t. As the author, you have control over that.

“We made it out alive, that’s all I ever wanted for us.”

HAPPINESS

It is either with peace hanging in non existent land or at full power in the beginning. This means either way the character will go through anything to reach happiness.  If the book starts out with no sense of happiness the character motivates themselves to  finally be happy. If the character loses all their joy, they will fight to get that same feeling, but make their happiness in the beginning seem bleak compared to  the sense at the end.

“No one ever told me this, that rising from hell would feel so damn good.”

LOVE

This should hit a character. The feeling should overwhelm them.The love interest is usually one that no one in the book saw coming. The feeling can be played out two ways: Fake and Real. Kind of like boobs.  To where one love is being manipulated for the other person's use, real love interests share the connection.

Love connection is important. Try to make the real love raw. Have more scenes showing the character’s affection and go into details.

“Don’t leave me. Promise me that when it ends- you’ll be here with me.”

HATRED

Fuel. What makes the car run. Every story has hate. A hate for the villain. A hate against the hero. Hate for mittens. There is always hate. Use hate as fuel, just like it is used in real life. Hatred makes people do crazy things and can provoke war of any kind.

“I dream of killing you every night.  My days are  nightmares when I know you're still alive.”

ENVY

Hatred that breeds jealousy. Wanting what another has. Usually it is over small things and not often seen in the protagonist. Usually envy is in the villain over the fact someone has a better life than they do. The protagonist can be fueled by the same thing, but that is rarely portrayed. Hatred and envy can lead to the later topic of jealousy

“What does he see in her. He should be mine.”

ANGER

I personally find anger very attractive when it’s possessive. I talking about when someone hurts the person someone loves and they go crazy.

Anger causes bad choices, most of the time. You are irrational and are only thinking about one violent thing.  Anger usually starts off when that one person takes the “step too far”.  Anger is is long-time buried feeling that erupts and then gets buried again

“When I get my hands on you, and i will, you’re gonna die. I. Will. Kill. You.”

TRUST

Another emotion that a character explodes with or kicks away like dirt. One important point that needs to be made: Trust is ALWAYS broken by someone. Someone always does something against what another person says, this simple act breaks trust.

“Your plan could damn well kill us all, but when have you ever been wrong?”

JEALOUSY

This can be magic or hell. When played outside your OTP, usually by someone who wants  someone in it, it can be annoying. When they just don’t get it. But, when it triggers jealousy in the OTP, it is adored. In all honesty, it’s not jealousy if it’s yours- it’s being protective. This emotion can trigger anger and start wars. Not small and  very deadly.

“Let him even cross your mind again, and I’ll hunt you down.”

VENGEFUL

Used a motivation. Revenge is played out by both parties. Someone was mistreated now they’re a villain. The vengefulness can trigger a chain reaction and soon revenge is all either side wants.It’s completely  dangerous. It spawns dark thoughts in any character. Someone is always expected to take the higher route, but sometimes no one ever does.

“This is the last time- the last damn time, I take your shit.”

DESPAIR

All hope is lost. There should always be a moment in the book where everyone feels this. No one knows what to do. They feel lost and broken and scared. They see dark at the end of the tunnel. This moment is important because, this emotion makes the light at the end seem brighter, the closer they get to hope.

“I can’t make it through this anymore. I don’t think I want to.”

Now we can connect it all together!!!!

The character has a peace in their life. Everyday is the same, just how they like it. Then someone comes into their life. Two someone’s actually. Someone good and someone bad.They love that good someone. But then the bad rolls in. They hate them. Jealousy and envy build inside of them. And they live to break the happiness in the new couples life. They get close to them, and soon break their trust. That person gets angry. They lose themselves and that person. They seek revenge. When everything spirals, they fall into a pit of despair. Until that good comes back and brings happiness and a new kind of peace.

That’s a story with 10 basic emotions.

MY WORK HERE IS DONE.

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