#I just don’t get this false dichotomy of Wylan

[aphroditestummyrolls]

If you’re looking to avoid the wild oscillation of mischaracterising wylan van eck (the pendulum between uwu baby and mini kaz), it helps to just… stop blanket-labelling behaviour. Unlearn the idea of something being blank-“coded”— these things are fun and funny when they’re memes, but if you’re writing the character (or ANY character), stop approaching things like a handful of moments with limited context can determine what “type” of person he is.

Like… just let him be a person. Keep his backstory and his motivations throughout your story in mind as you take him from point a to point b to point c, and explore his thoughts and his reactions.

I don’t know, maybe that sounds tedious, but it’s one of my favourite parts of character work, and it’s a pretty huge part of writing. I honestly don’t understand how you can like writing and not want to do that, but I digress. If you’re looking to understand a character more completely, though, it helps to take the TikTok Typology of Characters out of your brain, and see where wylan takes you when you stop judging his every move so hard.

#anyway #this goes for any and all characters like it just makes everything so much more interesting when you… let them be people? #I usually stay out of all this stuff and just let my own feelings on characterisations come out through my writing because #I just don’t get this false dichotomy of Wylan #I hope this doesn’t come off dick-ish and I’m not trying to engage in the Disk-Horse #but I apply this to all my characters and it has only ever made me love them more and love my own writing more #wylan van eck #wesper #six of crows #shadow and bone #grishaverse #character design #character work