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<< I think it is also possible to make a hero-psychopath one hundred percent sick and revolting, and still make him fascinating for his very blackness and all-round depravity. I very nearly did this with Bruno in Strangers on a Train , for even Bruno’s generosity is neither consistent nor well-placed, and there is nothing else to be said in his favor. But in that story, Bruno’s evil was offset by Guy’s “goodness,” which considerably simplified the problem I had of providing a likable hero, as Guy became the likable hero. It depends on the writer’s skill, whether he can have a frolic with the evil in his hero-psychopath. If he can, then the book is entertaining, and in that case there is no reason why the reader should have to “like” the hero. If there must be reader-identification, a term I am rather tired of, then provide the reader with a lesser character or two (preferably one who is not murdered by the hero-psychopath) with whom he can identify. >>
Plotting and writing suspense fiction. Patricia Highsmith.
Hence, how do we have our characters to be apart and different?
In BL that’s easy. One of them is hetero and homophobic. Or the other is simply unaware due to being a narcissistic wrench; love here is not to turn hate into passion but total indifference into lust. And lust is easier to get through aphrodisiacs than love through attention and open ears. First happens conveniently in seconds, the last… I shrug.
For hetero romcoms, such opposites come as ironic hateable comments that escalate into a twisted flirting. Asexuals… Well we can’t be integrated into scene in spite of being the TOTAL OPPOSITE of sexual people. How do you convince someone who believes garlic bread is better than sex (and sex is LAME[1]) to actually fuck? Love might do, but love won’t make your loins flutter. Love is boring in a very special way.
So we rest upon self hate. Main character hates themselves so they can’t love but things get better… Like in 28 days. Also we disguise the wolf in sheep skin by having the violence and destruction to sleep in the same bed. Now that physical abuse is no longer in, manipulation and verbal abuse leave a track of CPTSD behind…
And I’m using love for the sole reason that loveis like weaponry. War is somehow a good way to make money in Wall Street without losing it to the minor fluctuation. Love is akin in terms of plot interest. It won’t lose 3 points out of the blue just because. Aromantic people and asexual people read romance and love it… Yet, it changes. I won’t say evolve cause some ideas of omegaverses are as new as the XXIIth century.
Long ago, BL was filled with facing homophobe societies, parents disowning their kids because of liking dicks… No cancellation in power. Despite most of BL plots still coming from… Not gay friendly countries, now it pictures nonchalant friends[2] who accept and even demand the gay guy/gal to confess and be done with it; parents giving up in lieu of parental love… So much any mention to spanking Grey and no-one raises a brow. On screen.
Which is why the double negation of the main character’s paradigm is not so easy to cement into foundation and our job to find it through research or playing goof…
Waiting to be antagonized?! Don’t and like this nonsense! (For sure you have already done it since I’m quite annoying at asking). Have a wonderful time looking up how to negate the negation. Pasto kalo.
[1] Remember some asexual are sex positive, I’m just enjoying depicting the worst case scenario! That in yaoi causes the story to crash and burn before there’s any smooth.
[2] To tell you the truth, it ain’t as stupid to depict such plots since below the Dixie line homosexual/black people is still being dragged and tortured/ killed for liking pink or being openly » unusual»… And Europe sports cases of beaten people due to their origin/ sexuality/ colour. What the heck is white I wonder?
Not to confuse with Despicable me, though it is today’s case to speak the villain.
Have you ever found yourself romping over the villain’s evilness? Maybe marveled in awe to their psychological depth, quite contrary to the cartoon drew hero, whose face is unchangeable. The hero who is an upstart karate’s tournament participant; against antagonists with training and training years of experience under their black belt…
Telly, novel, comic or theatre play; without the despicable one, we have no interest. The antagonistic force is not obligated to be the big booty cheerleader @_&46:#4 the main character’s life. Such vanilla cream[1] cliché is too simple to speak of the force helping heroine [don’t confuse with the drug] from reaching her dreams — for not to say ambitions or undercover wishes (since it is more strawberry to say it like that within my super positive outburst of cutesy and I’m going to cringe myself).
See, this thing of antagonistic forces pushed to the limit, raises tension. It’s the corn starch to give body to the plot gravy—bechamel ( no idea if bechamel needs corn starch but you get the idea, too expensive a recipe and lactose intolerant me uses corn starch for aubergine). Robert McKee [yes, that guy who teaches how to write movie scripts in Story] mentions to face main character against his opposing antonym. The double negative of her situation… Breaking the laws of grammar but not the laws of narrative… And that’s a bad joke, I know.
And not, this ain’t any funny drawing in which two circles are side aside a stick. This is a Mexican idiom to express «to explain thoroughly with graphic examples if needed».
So, we have the classical boy meets girl. Both pair of parents hate the other… A family feud of death and bigotry. Yes, THAT PLOT. Ronald B. Tobias explains [20 master plots] how this is old and no longer possible… Times have changed and parents barely pay attention if you woe a goat, so long you woe something. Unless we talk Indian-Muslim characters, J—dorama [ドラマ] or K-durama [aha the Romanization should be ‘do’ but 드라마…] An Ukrainian girl and a Russian guy?[3].
Hence, how do we have our characters to be apart and different?
TO BE CONTINUED
[1] In the original entry time, I was unable to cook the simplest rice whilst talking of cooking terms. Now I can. Yupi!
[2] In the day I learnt such an expression is not used in South America. My Argentinean Korean learner colleague couldn’t misunderstand me more about Mozart and his sexuality when I said Mozart for me needed to be explained through sticks and circles —due to my ignorance. Or to say it better, Mozart for me, needs getting into the weeds of explanation before I even dare to start liking his craft.
[3] No, I’m not using my poor taste here. I’m showing you how this antagonistic kind of force lies very far away from most of us… My country didn’t even go to the Korean war, officially.
