Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160518062840/@comment-24534644-20160521161103

I find it odd and backwards that you would concede to Yuri not having much of anything going for her character at this time, and yet would make a character who becomes so infatuated with Yuri's finer traits that she molds her own personality just to please her. What traits are Ratree attracted to? What makes Yuri worth changing for? These are really the sorts of things you should think of BEFORE making a romance subplot.

I'll say now, I'm a fan of the romantic writing where two characters who already have their personalities written beforehand are put together because said personalities can bounce off of and support each other in a potential romantic scenario. But if you make characters with the express intent of making them lovers, and then shape their personalities accordingly (as tempting as it may be to do so), again, you most often end up with shallow characters who have no identity other than their relationship to the other person.