pexelukive - Tumblr blog

pexelukive · 9 hours ago

Text

Write Characters with Deep Emotional Wounds

(Without Making Them Walking Tragedies)

╰ Start with the scar, not the stabbing. Everyone talks about what happened to your character (The Big Trauma) but honestly? It’s the aftermath that matters. Show me the limp, not the bullet wound. Show me the way they flinch at kindness or double-check locks three times. The wound shapes them more than the event ever did.

╰ Don't make them "Sad All The Time" People with deep hurts aren’t just dramatic sob machines. They make bad jokes. They find weird hobbies. They have good days and then get wrecked by a song in a grocery store. Layers, my friend. Pain is complex and it sure as hell isn’t aesthetic.

╰ Let them almost heal and then backslide. Real healing isn’t linear. One good conversation doesn’t erase ten years of bottled-up grief. Your character might think they’re over it, and then one tiny thing, a smell, a phrase, a look, knocks them right back into the hole. Make them earn their healing. Make us ache for them.

╰ Give them armor and show the cracks. Maybe it’s sarcasm. Maybe it’s perfectionism. Maybe it’s taking care of everyone else so no one notices they're broken. Whatever mask they wear, show us the hairline fractures. Let us catch the moments where they almost drop the act.

╰ Don’t turn their trauma into their only personality trait. Yes, they’ve been through hell. But they also love spicy chips and bad reality TV. They have dumb crushes and secret dreams. A tragic backstory isn’t a substitute for a full human being. Let them be more than the worst thing that ever happened to them.

╰ Let their wound warp their decisions. People protect their wounds. Even badly. Especially badly. They might sabotage good relationships. Or push away help. Or cling too tightly. Make their past live in their choices, not just their flashbacks.

╰ Don’t make the world validate them for existing. Not everyone is going to understand your wounded character. Some people will misunderstand them. Blame them. Get frustrated. And honestly? That’s real. Let your character find their people, after facing the ones who don’t get it. It’s so much sweeter that way.

╰ Wounds can make them kinder—or crueler. Pain changes people. Some become protectors. Some become destroyers. Some do both, depending on the day. Let your character’s hurt make them complicated. Unpredictable. Human.

╰ Don’t heal them just to tie a neat bow on your story Sometimes the best ending is messy. Sometimes the healing is just starting. Sometimes it’s just hope, not a full recovery montage. That’s okay. Healing is a lifelong, terrifying, brave process—and readers feel it when you respect that.

#ref

5K notes · View notes

pexelukive · 1 day ago

Text

the scariest thing about the generative AI thing is how quickly people have accepted it as an indefinite, irrevocable part of their reality. people have genuinely convinced themselves that ChatGPT is the only solution to most tasks - tasks they did with their own brain without any large effort two years ago. like you know damn well all of us used to write emails ourselves why are we pretending like this is an impossible task to do with your own two hands. what's with the fucking. AI revisionism. i feel like i am going insane.

39K notes · View notes

pexelukive · 2 days ago

Note

May I inquire about a fish which behavior you find interesting... like a peculiar neighbor fish that does weird stuff on its porch..

This bastard eats birds

You get a Channel Catfish

Ictalurus punctatus

#good fish

173 notes · View notes

pexelukive · 3 days ago

Text

im on the floor just imagine what must have been going on in neuvillette and wriothesley's minds when traveler left fontaine and came back a year later talking like that

traveler at the end of the fontaine storyline : time to go to natlan. it has been a privilege to have known you. may we meet again soon

traveler back from natlan: yo bros 😎 this is a bro of a bro 👌 sorry about my grandson haha just a bro in the wild 😎 top bro. bro.

#genshin

229 notes · View notes

pexelukive · 4 days ago

Text

#genshin #this was a good event

8K notes · View notes

pexelukive · 5 days ago

Text

Strong believer that Kaeya can’t stomach anything medical. Injuries during a fight or getting stabbed or cut yeah, the moment it’s being treated? Nauseous and can’t stand to look at it.

Growing up crepus had to hold him in his lap during vaccines to keep his arms pinned cause he used to either try to run away or was a fainting risk, couldn’t even watch Diluc getting his own shots done cause he’d start panicking

Fell out of a tree once playing with Barbara and broke his ankle, Barbara couldn’t leave him alone so they sat there for hours till Diluc and Jean were out from knight training and came looking for them cause she didn’t trust Kaeya not to hyperventilate or injure himself worse if he was left alone (she enrolled into healer classes through the church a few months after)

When he and Diluc had their fight he tried to heal himself but couldn’t stomach the sight of the burns, he tried hiding it and stayed in a cave he and the others used as a secret base but eventually Jean came looking for him leading up to Crepus funeral and found him half conscious with a severe fever. He doesn’t remember it but after that and even well into the months following when it was healed enough he shouldn’t have reacted as badly to the sight, Jean was the only one he let change his bandages

The other knights all like to tease him for it, but even today when Albedo and the church are doing seasonal rounds of shots Kaeya is a flight risk and still has a 50/50 chance of fainting. Klee has to drag him to get it done and Albedo is the only one who can give him the shots without Kaeya trying to run or escape

#genshin #i live for headcanons like these #kaeya n barbara friendship…peam

307 notes · View notes

pexelukive · 6 days ago

Text