User blog comment:Corbierr/Character Creation Do's and Don'ts/@comment-5180442-20141122164316

HOW HAVE I ONLY JUST SEEN THIS?

Everything is perfect, particularly the making characters have a dark history so they're more rounded.

I understand that it's true that many people unfortunately don't have much happiness (lalalalalalalalalala) in their lives, but honestly I get really annoyed whenever I see people making characters and they literally have nothing positive that has happened in their lives. To me, that sort of says that happy people don't make for good, interesting characters, which is totally not true. Also, I really hate it when, in a story, practically every character has a dark background, and is suicidal, depressed, has some kind of disorder, etc. Again, I get that these are, sadly, things that do happen in life, but I really find it hard to believe that there can be so many characters in a story and there is not a single one within them who has had a happy life and doesn't struggle as much with the topics I listed above.

(Of course, I'm not hating on any stories that do go with dark themes, nor am I in any way intentionally disrespecting any of the issues I mentioned.)