Talk:SFC WHAT-NOTS 58: EXAGGERATED CHARACTER ASPECTS/@comment-5083182-20200121081706

I tend to write a lot of lack of confidence into my characters due to something that has happened over the course of their character development through stories and the like. Whenever a character loses their confidence, someone has to help them boost said confidence again

For example, my characters Blade Eastwood and Quentin Mick Vincent. Blade became depressed after one of the members of the Future Freedom Fighters, Jacques D'Coollette got him turned down for the Future Freedom Fighters, and Blade traveled back in time to the year 3236 to prevent Jacques' birth by attempting to kill his mother Bunnie, but failed. Following this, Blade's confidence dropped to an even lower level, but a bartender convinced him that he could become a hero in a different way than being a Freedom Fighter, so Blade got a bit of training and became a freelance gunman, a Hero for Hire, and he has regained his confidence overtime.

For Quentin, he used to be a confident warrior until he deserted the Zarvok Federations during the first Zarvok-Inquisitor War, and was arrested and sent to prison on the planet Makalov. Following his release, Quentin was never called up for military service again, and this made him depressed, and in turn lost his confidence before he was given another chance to prove himself when the second Zarvok-Inquisitor War started.

I mainly tend to write this aspect of depression and lack of confidence into my characters because of my cynical outlook on life, and because of that, I tend to give my characters this feeling of angst that I instinctively respond to, and it gives me the feeling that me and my characters share the struggle. It's like a pessimist saying to a fellow pessimist "You remind me of me."