Yeah. I mean, I think everyone has their emotastic teenage days. I know I did read some really terrible angst emo woe suicide fanfics willingly back in the early days of high school, but I tend to think that part of growing up is learning not to take life so damn seriously. I'm still not always very good at it in my own personal life, but the people who make me feel the most obscurely sorry for them and irritated with them are the people who never learn to laugh at themselves. It's one thing to live in a tragedy and just... deal with it, it's another thing to make your own life into a tragedy, and I find the second one a lot more frustrating than the first.
Ginji's an awesome example. I tend to value book intelligence too much in my characters for Ginji to ever be one of my favorites, but I love the way he started out as this utterly tragic character and now he brawls happily with Ban over the last slice of pizza. I wish more people would do that to their characters.
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Date: 2008-01-31 12:05 am (UTC)Ginji's an awesome example. I tend to value book intelligence too much in my characters for Ginji to ever be one of my favorites, but I love the way he started out as this utterly tragic character and now he brawls happily with Ban over the last slice of pizza. I wish more people would do that to their characters.