Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160425022934/@comment-25396609-20160427044042

Never say you think your character would be a good addition to the show, no matter the quality saying it about your own character automatically loses a lot of credibility, and generally causes people to dislike them.

I like characters who have been through some shit myself, but the abusive foster parents paying for combat training is a pretty fucking massive plot hole.

Putting your characters through hell is one thing, but you need to make sure things line up in a way that make logical sense.

Example:

I have one character who is completely orphaned; parents were hunters, died on a mission. His aunt took him in (good person, but didn't know what to do with him) and he has pretty crippling depression because of the loss of his parents.

One of my other characters was the lead on the mission his parents died during, and felt personally responsible for it; so he started mentoring the kid. Right now Kalte (the orphaned boy) is in Signal, where his surrogate father Rost Smith is a teacher.

So; parents died, but there was close family to take him in. He was 8-9 at the time, so he fully grasped the fact that his parents were gone, which fucked him up emotionally.

An individual who knew his parents and was partially responsible for their deaths came forward and dedicated 5 years of his life trying to make it up to him, leading to him enrolling in combat school.

I am cutting a LOT of details, but the basic point stands; everything fits neatly together, i didn't cram things in just to make the character suffer.