10 Flaws To Give Your Perfect Characters To Make Them Human

10 Flaws to Give Your Perfect Characters to Make Them Human

If you're tired of the usual vices like arrogance or impatience, here are some unique (or at least less basic) character flaws to give your perfect characters: 

Pathological Altruism

A character so obsessed with helping others that they end up doing more harm than good. Their inability to let others grow or face consequences creates tension.

2. Moral Narcissism

A character who sees themselves as morally superior to others, constantly justifying selfish or harmful actions because they believe they have the moral high ground.

3. Chronic Self-Sabotage

A character who intentionally undermines their own success, perhaps due to deep-seated feelings of unworthiness, pushing them into frustrating, cyclical failures.

4. Emotional Numbness

Rather than feeling too much, this character feels too little. Their lack of emotional response to critical moments creates isolation and makes it difficult for them to connect with others.

5. Fixation on Legacy

This character is obsessed with how they’ll be remembered after death, often sacrificing present relationships and happiness for a future that’s uncertain.

6. Fear of Irrelevance

A character-driven by the fear that they no longer matter, constantly seeking validation or pursuing extreme measures to stay important in their social or professional circles.

7. Addiction to Novelty

Someone who needs constant newness in their life, whether it’s experiences, relationships, or goals. They may abandon projects, people, or causes once the excitement fades, leaving destruction in their wake.

8. Compulsive Truth-Telling

A character who refuses to lie, even in situations where a lie or omission would be the kinder or more pragmatic choice. This flaw causes unnecessary conflict and social alienation.

9. Over-Identification with Others' Pain

Instead of empathy, this character feels others' pain too intensely, to the point that they can’t function properly in their own life. They’re paralyzed by the suffering of others and fail to act effectively.

10. Reluctant Power

A character who fears their own strength, talent, or influence and is constantly trying to shrink themselves to avoid the responsibility or consequences of wielding it.

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Just thinking about how

Ronald Weasley flew a magically enchanted car and ended up reaching his destination totally (ALMOST) safe AT THE AGE OF 12 ?????

Hermione Granger trapped the animagus of the stinky ass reporter who wrote shit about her and her best friend for like 6 months??? A year????

Harry Potter sass-ed out not only like half of the adults in his life but also the minister of magic!???????

How the three of them literally helped hagrid plan AND execute the escape of a legit very very illigal to keep baby dragon!????? AT THE AGE OF 11!?? AND THEY SUCCEEDED!???

STARTED A TEENAGE REBEL GROUP AT THE AGE OF 15!???

AT THE SAME TIME USED HAGRID'S HALF BRO TO LIKE PICK AND KICK UMBITCH OUT OF HOGWARTS!???? (THAT WAS AWESOME BTW)

BROKE INTO THE MINISTRY NOT ONCE BUT TWICE!???

BROKE INTO GRINGOTTS AND GOT OUT OF THERE ON A FUCKING DRAGON!???

ALMOST DIED (WELL HARRY ACTUALLY DID ) LIKE COUNTLESS OF TIMES AND STILL SURVIVED!????

WE DON'T TALK ENOUGH ABOUT THEIR CHAOTICNESS IN THIS FANDOM I SWEAR


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4 months ago

Sirius speaks German!

I’ve seen a lot of posts on Tumblr claiming that the Blacks spoke French at home. Now, I see where this headcanon comes from: French used to be the language of the upper-class and, frankly, it is pretty sexy too. 

But… German was the language of Gellert Grindelwald.

Okay, let me take you through my train of thought. I have that headcanon that most of the Sacred Twenty Eight would support Grindelwald and his cause because he wanted to overturn the Statute of Secrecy and create a new order in which wise and powerful wizards were the benevolent overlords of a new society. The purebloods would, of course, hope that, once more, they would be the ruling class under Grindelwald’s rule and learn the language of their master: German. 

So far so good. But why do I think that the Blacks spoke predominantly German? First of all, their family origin. Black is an Anglo-Saxon name and therefore closer related to the Germanic roots (they might have chosen to emphasize that). Secondly, given that Viktor Krumm was very upset at the sight of Grindelwald’s mark, his influence seems to linger and there must have been supporters out there to that day. Last but not least, there are many German names in the Black family tree (Sirius’ mum is called Walburga. That is like every German grandma’s name ever). 

And tbh Walburga yelling at Sirius in German is far more intimidating than French. I also feel like Regulus and Orion would have appreciated German because it’s very precise and has many words whereas Sirius would have disliked it; simply because it reminded him of his family, but he’d speak it fluently. 

Then why did other families drop the language? Some of the Sacred Twenty Eight might not have supported Grindelwald in the first place (maybe they preferred Voldemort’s solution?). Other families might be bilingual or not have a high command of the language and other families might still rely on French as the language of the aristocracy. 

Anyway… maybe next time I get to see a prompt/fic/drabble with any of the Black family using German. I think it’s at least a valid theory. 

3 months ago
"Little Did Padmé Realize It, But In The Course Of The Next Few Days She Would Be Dressed As A Mourner,
"Little Did Padmé Realize It, But In The Course Of The Next Few Days She Would Be Dressed As A Mourner,
"Little Did Padmé Realize It, But In The Course Of The Next Few Days She Would Be Dressed As A Mourner,

"Little did Padmé realize it, but in the course of the next few days she would be dressed as a mourner, a soldier, and a bride" — The Official Star Wars Fact File

PADME AMIDALA in STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002)


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1 month ago

I love ships where one of them desperately needs to hear they are loved and Good Enough i’m sure it means nothing about me lol

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Ive been seeing more and more ai fan 'art' and I just want to say that I'd rather see your shitty photoshop skills and stick figure doodles than the lifeless dead eyed renderings of a forest killing machine that scalped millions of images from real artists. Ty.

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2 months ago

There’s a small part in the beginning of the Legends novel Yoda: Dark Rendezvous where it‘s narrated how Padmé was looking out to the distance watching the spaceport landing nearest to the Jedi Temple waiting for someone (Anakin) to land and immediately got her macrobinoculars when a ship landed but disappointedly put them down when she realized that it wasn’t “him.”

There’s A Small Part In The Beginning Of The Legends Novel Yoda: Dark Rendezvous Where It‘s Narrated

(It’s confirmed that Padmé waits by her window, watching the Jedi Temple with macrobinoculars intently waiting for Anakin to come home 🥹 the way she loves this man.)


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4 months ago
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