female mc persona questions

[xelestial]

The plain MC who is actually beautiful, the spineless MC, the stupid MC, the damsel-in-distress MC, the bland MC.

People constantly complained about these MCs during our Kickstarter campaign and we assured them our MC was not going to be that way. We personally also had issues with these types.

There's nothing wrong with creating the kind of MC people want to be like, rather being so concerned about how much they can relate to them that they have very few personality traits at all.

[Cakey]

I don't like lack of reality and logic.
I found every narrow-minded or unlogical/stupid person VERY frustrated and irritating. They just make the same bad decisions again and again and think in a way that is completely urelated to how actually reality works(they rather lie to themselves to feel some kind of comfort), there are people like that(a lot actually...) but i hate it so much!

[DCH]

Female main characters written by young adults and teenagers is that they always seem to be "outsiders" or unsociable people. Often these characters are "pretty" but mysteriously do not have friends or are awkward/clumsy, but only at a level that serves to make them adorable. Avoid giving your female characters flaws that are not actually flaws. If they have flaws they should definitely suffer for them or have a poor reputation because of it. For example, if your character overly blunt, she should be disliked for it. People do not like insensitive people, but fictional characters all too often get a free pass for speaking their mind, even when they should not.

It's very easy to make an adorable and cutesy character and it becomes tempting to cast them as everyone's little darling. Avoid doing this. While doing it, avoid running to the opposite, making some bad-ass action girl with no vulnerability or sexuality at all-- it is unrealistic and hard to enjoy the character.

Consistency is something that matters the most. Your character should have enough of a personality that we could tell what they would do in most situations or how they would react to most things.

While the subject matter of the game is a bit gross, the female characters from Euphoria actually had a few stand out performances, particularly Rika. She is a girl who relies on cuteness-- she acts weak and pathetic to get what she wants, which usually works, however, through each route of the story you start to really find her pitiful and obnoxious. She always takes the side of whoever she thinks is best able to care for her and her selfishness while at first cute, eventually makes her detestable. She is well written because she is entirely consistent, her personality shows in everything she does, and you can tell what she would do in nearly any situation. Most of which is crying and hoping someone takes care of her, because that is her life strategy for dealing with problems.