Talk:Monster Girls/@comment-37028137-20190205092422/@comment-37028137-20190205212601

I would agree with you on several points. The mangas where a miserable bastard is seeing multiple girls and either they don't know or don't care because he's HOT is just crap. I really want to focus on the interpersonal relationships of the characters as the driving force behind the story.

Since I really do want my let's say novel (at this point it's pretty big) to follow a realistic structure I want the characters to start off as friends and comrades before fleshing out any romantic possibilities. And since I plan on my book being 60-80 chapters long I have plenty of time for that to happen naturally instead of the girls swooning over the guy.

My goal is to make the characters realistic with strengths and weaknesses. I created my first two characters with one or two glaring faults that they can't or won't fix and they need each other's help to work through their for lack of a better term 'inner demons'. If I add a third character to the group I'll give her a few dark spots too.

Without dropping too many spoilers my TimeLord protagonist survived the Time War and lost his adopted daughter, this understandably leaves him emotionally scarred and believing he can't love or be loved as anything he cares for dies horribly. He also suffers from CP (like I do) and ends up addicted to a very famous and disturbing drug used in literature after attempting to cure his disability, (I won't name it as it would completely ruin the twist) which only leads him to further distance himself from those around him.

My lilim character on the other hand is a complete drunk when she's off the clock. This stems from the fact that she can open portals to other dimensions, but can't control her abilities. She can sense dimensional rifts but doing so causes her great mental fatigue and agony, the only way to make the signals stop is to get wasted.

I'm really trying to give my heroes more personality than "look at me I'm a hero simply because I can be" and have them wrestle with the idea of "Can I really be happy and fall in love dispite how screwed up I am?"

Your character suggestions are really intriguing and I will certainly look into them in depth, I hadn't even thought of using a feew of them so it certainly opens up possibilities. All in all thanks for your response its helped me a great deal.