Let’s talk about characterization

Style: Fantasy Author: Human arsenalWords: 1622Update Time: 24/01/13 14:13:32
Suddenly I want to talk about characterization. Because if this kind of thing is directly explained in the text, or expressed through dialogue or psychology, it will be very awkward, very, very embarrassing, so I will just summarize it as a writing summary. (Don’t tell me to shut up here, many authors can write summaries.)

Let’s talk about Qingzi.

First, let me talk about the latest piece that I am very proud of. In the content related to Flag War, I designed a three-fold silent progression:

Preliminary plot: Aoko is close to home, gives up and goes home, and rushes back to join the war.

The first level of psychology: He wanted to protect the people in the small team and the teammates of 1777. Because of this, he chose to rush back.

After the action took place here, there is a description of a psychological conflict point: after showing near-top combat power, because of the desire to protect 1777, Aoko wanted to stay in the ordinary team to fight. He stayed, stayed in 1777, but after his psychological desire was realized, he was only a little relieved, but not happy.

His psychological self-conflict is presented here.

The second level of psychology: After entering the battlefield, the logic here is that if it is just to preserve 1777, Aoko does not need to open it like that.

But in this place, through the few minutes before entering the battlefield, I first used Liu Shiheng's perspective to tell that his eyes were not in the right state, and then through Lao Jian's perspective, I used one word to describe him: guilt.

What is shown here is that Han Qingyu began to feel responsibility because of his ability, not just for the team and the people around him, but a more universal responsibility.

That's why he was such a coward, for the sake of his unknown foreign comrades, and in order to make less sacrifices, he opened the door at full speed when he entered the scene, and kept opening it, swallowing the metal pieces until his orifices bled.

The third psychological step: the act of fighting the red shoulder and picking up the flag.

Here are two thoughts: From Qingzi’s point of view, is there a danger of death in Zhan Hongqiang? What does it mean to have a blue flag on your shoulder?

So why do I express these two points through a state of confusion?

Some people may feel that doing it in a confused manner does not seem sincere enough.

In fact, no. In fact, when a person is already confused and still wants to do this, but still remembers that the flag cannot fall this time, it shows that this kind of mentality has gradually formed in Qingzi's psychology, but he himself has not yet clearly realized it. arrive.

Looking at it like this, he just regained his consciousness and immediately went to get the main ship. Is it really just for the metal pieces? Regarding this point, I wrote a sentence before. I don’t know if you have noticed it. Qingzi knows: he can threaten the main ship. If he is here, there will be fewer sacrifices.

The triple progression is like this.

So, why didn’t I just write about Qingzi and just think: I want to be a hero, I want to work hard, and I can sacrifice?

First, because it doesn’t fit the character, it’s too embarrassing to write like this, and it even feels fake and empty. (Of course it doesn’t fit in with my easily embarrassed writing personality.)

Second, let’s review Aoko’s identity and journey:

Qingzi is not a time traveler, he is not omniscient and omnipotent, he is just a 19-year-old rural boy who failed the exam. Moreover, he came to Azure under threat and came with hatred.

There is a small detail setting in the big plot earlier. The recruit Zhang Daoan values ​​​​the most is Qingzi, but who is the friend he really made over the years? It's Wen Jifei.

why? Because for the blue power group, Qingzi is extremely difficult to get close to and get to know.

I don’t know if you have noticed, but it was after Zhang Daoan’s death that Han Qingyu gradually began to become friends with Lao Jian. This was actually a psychological change.

He is always wary of the blue power level.

Did you see his attitude towards Shaky when we first met? Indifference and rejection have nothing to do with gender, it just shows that her status is not low. It was not until they got along in the second school that he said in person: We will be friends from now on.

But it’s also personal.

On the whole, the persecution of Qi Shantong and the evil of the Alphonse family have made Qingzi unable to let go of his vigilance and distrust of the power of Azure. This has made him subjectively not fully agree with Azure and cannot be completely willing to do it. sacrifice.

So for whom would he make such an active choice? The answer is: the blue public.

The silly and seductive Mira, the sister with a scar on her arm who gave him a ray of sunshine, the doctors and nurses he knew in the hospital, and a certain ordinary soldier on the battlefield... these are the people, because they are more similar to Aoko, sacrifice and dedication , giving it a more pure feel.

So we saw that he desperately rushed back to the 101 Medical Station and faced the active choice of 300 people. This is an active and clear choice.

Qingzi is a person who only wants to survive and go home. For such a person, it is illogical for you to ask him to actively choose to fight every time now.

I also don’t want to directly portray the great and upright mentality.

In short, I am portraying a character's psychological journey and transformation bit by bit.

I don’t mean to criticize anyone, after all, there are almost no relevant comments. I just want to say that if a vague, subtle way of portraying character transformation is a sin in online articles, readers who support it are asked to have more patience and trust.

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