Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-43795915-20200113155654/@comment-35757757-20200117210033

(Look, just listen:

YOU CAN IMPROVE THE CHARACTER IF YOU JUST TAKE CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, SO YOU WON’T HAVE TO ABANDON THEM.

Seriously, look: stop taking things so personally. Someone not liking your character doesn’t reflect how they feel about you.

And fine, I’ll admit: I don’t like Timber, and I have my reasons. Actually LISTEN to those reasons, please, and I’ll try to give you advice:

Honestly, you haven’t really made Timber likable. Just making him abused and having him cry and stuff doesn’t automatically make him sympathetic because he hasn’t done anything to make us like him. It’s hard to latch on to his personally because you keep having him switch from a sad, shy pushover to a bad*ss. Because of this, Timber doesn’t really have much of a personality since his traits are so inconsistent. Going back to the sad backstory thing: if it were true that just lumping on bullying and abuse to a character makes them likable, then all Creepypasta Jeff the Killer clones would be beloved. It doesn’t work like that if you make that same character do things like, say, ATTEMPTING TO MURDER INNOCENT PEOPLE. And just saying they feel bad about it isn’t enough. It has to have actual consequences on the character themself and those around them, and those effects have to last for an appropriate amount of time. Just try to apply a similar situation to real life, and imagine how real people would react.

There. Now you know.

Now, instead of just crying over it, PLEASE TAKE THIS WITH MATURITY AND PUT EFFORT INTO IMPROVING, OR ELSE YOU WILL NEVER GET BETTER SINCE NOTHING WILL CHANGE. If there’s no change, there’s no possibility of improvement.

There. I needed to get that off my chest.

Now please don’t react like I’m criticizing you as a person when I’m clearly talking about your character. It’s immature to act that way -_-)