tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335579424504291008.post7861317249771224037..comments2023-09-23T08:35:27.971-05:00Comments on Character Names Galore: Musings of a Lonely Writer! ----- Appearance vs. Personality!Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289821930109632241noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335579424504291008.post-69490244263774849852016-02-15T18:02:19.202-06:002016-02-15T18:02:19.202-06:00In my story “Death of the Heart Song” one of the q...In my story “Death of the Heart Song” one of the quotes before a chapter will be this…<br />Anyone can love a rose but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to the love the beautiful but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary. – Unknown Author <br />I think that quote is beautiful for everything it means and fits my story to a T. <br /><br />In that story as I mentioned my character Misery is classified ugly in her Kingdom and her personality puts some off as well. But when she comes to train and tutor Prince Camden “Cam” he begins to like her but she realizes and tells him she knows he was trying to bed her as part of a bet but as time goes by he realizes he really does care for her. He has every gorgeous woman in the Kingdom to have in his bed if he wants but he falls in a deeper sort of love with Misery. It’s because he becomes attracted to her personality, her toughness, her cleverness, ect. <br /><br />Prince Cam finds that Misery is complicated and closed off because of things that happened and as they unravel to him he sees a beauty in her heart, a beauty that his deceased mother had seen in Misery, as Misery tells him of what his mother had said to her on a few occasions when Misery was a child. <br /><br />Prince Cam comes to give up his throne to be with Misery as King Philippe will not allow the marriage because she came there to kill Prince Cam to get back at King Philippe whom she blamed for the death of her Heart Song Companion but as time went by Prince Cam broke through her tough façade she had built over the years and she fell for more than his looks and in the end couldn’t bring herself to kill or even harm him. <br /><br />Misery Appearance- stringy dull puddle brown hair, equally dull onyx eyes, a nose that is crooked, lips that are overly paper thin and rough dark skin. Skin isn’t sun kissed and golden as her mothers but instead overly brown from too much sun. Cheeks aren’t plump like some others nor are they pronounced but rather flat. Large untended eye brows and a slight hair above upper lip.<br /><br />***<br /><br />That’s funny I’ve had a character similar to yours too that was beautiful and others always pointed it out and it seemed to make her self-conscious and weary of other people’s motives concerning her. <br /><br /><br />Thanks so much for weighing in on this topic! I love to hear how others view such writing / reading matters!<br /><br />Cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14289821930109632241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335579424504291008.post-38758641262021011752016-02-15T17:57:08.620-06:002016-02-15T17:57:08.620-06:00You know I didn’t even think about Legendary / Myt...You know I didn’t even think about Legendary / Mythological characters. I mean Gods and Goddesses of Greek / Roman Myths among other cultures as well were portrayed as beautiful, divine and otherworldly. Even sculptures and paintings depict ideal body types, male and female, of that time and the change in desirableness since then down to our era. <br /><br />In a way it is true, look at Fairy Tales who always have an ugly step-sister or step-mother who are ugly and evil/ mean to the pretty heroine and the good=beauty bad=ugly mentality does play out in the thoughts of many in such stories. <br /><br />I am glad to see someone else taken in more by personality than appearance, or rather often liking a combination of both. It seems more and more people feel the same. <br /><br />***<br /><br />Oh thanks for bringing up Romeo and Juliet, I had totally forgotten about them. My last Musings of a Lonely Writer post was about Insta Love or Insta Don’t. Romeo and Juliet are famous examples of Insta Love. Thanks for bringing them up. I may edit and add to Musings of a Lonely Writer ----- Insta Love or Insta Don’t and bring them up because you’re right their meeting and Insta Love were bothersome in a way. Because had they more time they may not have really loved each other or else annoyed each other. <br /><br />***<br /><br />I like characters that are in between being so sure of themselves and so unsure. I like to see them tested and see them fall but have the courage and inner strength to stand up for their people, selves, ideals, ect. <br /><br />I see where you’re coming from. Each reader / writer comes at a character differently. There are different types of people and characters portrayed sometimes but I find not enough diversity with characters. I heard someone say their boyfriend asked why all male heroes seem to be gorgeous white guys, why wouldn’t there be more diversity. I think now there is more diversity but there still is an ideal in ones head of what makes an ideal hero / heroine but as more writers and readers abound I think more diversity whether nationality, appearance or background will continue to improve in stories. <br /><br />A sort of combination between interesting appearance and interesting personality will continue to progress and improve as needed as time goes by. I think I’m just picky on what I see as not diverse enough, but we can’t have everything, lol. And I’m probably not looking at enough of the diverse stories already out there, which is my fault. <br /><br />***<br />Cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14289821930109632241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335579424504291008.post-6543215425575983782016-02-12T20:58:16.509-06:002016-02-12T20:58:16.509-06:00I think the idea of having a beautiful looking cha...I think the idea of having a beautiful looking character has always been an intriguing one. After all, there are legends such as Helen of Troy whose beauty caused a war, as well as famous and tragic stories like Deirdre and Naoise, Tristan and Isolde, Lancelet and Guinevere- clearly all of these characters were beautiful, standing above all around them. It's not as if anyone would fight for the love of an unattractive or plain-looking woman (or man) and it seems as if the beauty of the hero/heroine reflects their personality: good= beauty and bad= ugly. <br /><br />Personally, I prefer the character's personality over appearance. Characters are more interesting when they're flawed and people don't fall in love with them because they're so beautiful or striking to look at- that was one of my main problems with Romeo and Juliet. It was a love at first sight moment and these two very young couple barely knew each other before declaring their undying love for each other. Who's to say that, if they'd gotten a chance to know each other well, they'd find quite a few things about the other to annoy them? <br /><br />I really prefer characters who mess up and do stupid things, people who aren't quite sure of their own confidence and sometimes make the wrong choice- but I also like characters who seem put together as well and than put in situations that test that. Beautiful characters don't equal perfection and good characters/heroes don't equal beauty either and the world is full of more than just one type with more interesting descriptions types, forms and shapes. Besides, I think both personality and appearance make an interesting combo- imagine a short stocky woman weighing nearly 200 pounds who's very lively, charismatic, and someone who always makes a splash wherever she goes, and a tall willowy blonde who looks like she could be a movie star who likes visiting cemetaries and reading names and dates, etc... Interesting personalities, interesting appearances...<br /><br />Ironically, I have a character who's very beautiful- people notice her at once but her personality is rough to say the least. She's rude, argumentative, temperamental and to get to know her you've got to really stick around because she doesn't make it easy. It's because of her looks that she's this way, as a kind of defense mechanism so that her friends aren't just around because of her looks. Mean, yes, but someone who always comes through for her friends. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com