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@thewirelessblade I’d second @banana-peacock-warrior . In a story I’m working on, the theme revolves around loneliness. My MC is hyper desperate to be surrounded by people since she’s afraid of loneliness, but also has a long-standing belief that she’ll always be alone. So she unconsciously sabotages her own efforts to make friends, showing her “fatal flaw” to be that she’s withdrawn. Through the story, I’m going to have her realize that expelling loneliness necessitates truly opening up to others and letting them in, rather than pulling away.

So, in a sense, you have to find what your theme is, what your character believes about your theme, and how what they believe is expressed externally. Right there, you’ll likely find your character’s flaw and how it relates to theme. Does that make sense?