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@shadowwriter161

Aw, thanks so much!

Haha, yeah, it’s a big pet peeve of mine when characters seem to similar to the author/to similar to each other, and since I read a lot of fanfiction, I’ve gotten pretty good at spotting it out, since when writing/reading fanfiction it’s usually pretty obvious if a character is OOC.

Personally, I get annoyed about it because it makes the story much more boring, and also because it limits everything to the author’s POV. Any question or answer you get from any character will be from the author’s POV, which also limits tension because people don’t usually tend to disagree with themselves, if you get what I mean. It’s especially a problem in Christian fiction, since the Christian entertainment industry tends to portray everything as very black and white, with clear cut morality that(in my opinion) comes from accepting everything at face value and never looking further. (I’m not saying that some things aren’t black and white, but when it comes to humanity, Christian media and entertainment is really bad about thinking why someone is where they are, not just how to get them away from it. (if you know what I mean lol)).  But characters being clear-cut is just something I don’t enjoy reading and never will. It’s one of my main complaints with Tolkien’s works, because for all his beauty in language and complexity, there’s not much to characters(except for perhaps Merry, Pippin, Faramir, plus Gimli and Legolas’s relationship).

Plus, you really can’t ever have questions to answer if you don’t have two sides in the first place. You may not agree with everything your character thinks at first–that’s okay. That’s what character arcs are for–your job is to simply make sure you’re not forcing your character’s worldview on your audience, but instead using it to make them think about why the correct worldview(the one presented in the Bible) is correct.

I’m rambling again(because honestly I could go on for hours about this), so I’ll quit while I’m ahead and let you attempt to answer to my mess of confusing ideas. XD