Activity

@sarah-inkdragon How to make readers like an obnoxious character? Make something even worse than her show up and have her totally overmaster it and blow it into the ground. Nobody likes Tony Stark, but the terrorists are even worse, yeah?

Have her trade snarky insults with the worst of the worst and have her use her brilliance to defeat evil. It will only take her so far…but it will take her somewhere. And since the readers won’t like the evil bad guy, they will enjoy her triumph over him and start to root for her to win. As the story continues, have the evil ramp up the ante so that she has to learn emotional maturity in order to win…then she can take on more friendly qualities and grow in Christian character thru defeat. This will send the positive message to the reader that growing in character will allow for victory in their own lives. If this character is a side person in a larger story, so much the better – as long as it doesn’t bring in too much tension with the theme of the main story.

Now you may be wondering how this is different from the male version. For the female version, you might want to bring in some social intelligence (not emotional maturity, which is totally different). She might work through others to end the evil bad guy at hand. Example: she bribes three guys to ambush the evil bad guy and take all of his money which he was going to use to build a brainwashing machine.