you know something I wish more fiction had? characters who are funny in canon. and by that I don't mean comic relief characters who are funny to the audience, I mean characters who are deliberately characterized as funny people, who crack jokes and make other characters laugh in the proccess. I feel like there are a lot of snarky/sarcastic characters in fiction, which is fine, but they're always cracking jokes for the benefit of an invisible audience and no one around them seems to ever genuinely enjoy their quips (I also think most of these quips are inserted to make viewers laugh and not characterize the character saying them, so it risks becoming a Joss Whedon-style thing where, because every character is constantly going around saying funny and witty things, none of them come across as particularly funny or witty). There's nothing wrong with this style of writing but I guess I just wish we had more "class clown" types of characters. In real life I feel like funny people are very easy to find but you rarely come across them in fiction, and it's just a personality that I wish I saw in stories more often.
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