Love Your Characters

        This article covers characters. It tells us that we must love our characters before we can write our story. We must take our characters completely seriously no matter who they are.
       This article tells you that if you don't love your characters, they appeared forced. There is no appeal to the character. The main character needs the love, of course, they are doing something with their life that changes the world around them in some way. But also the protagonist can be someone who doesn't change at all, but rather changes those around him. Like that little lovable Wall-E. He didn't do anything to drastically change, and there wasn't much to him, but he did help Eva to change her ways.
        The article tells us to have opposites. Opposite characters, like Carl and Russel or Wanda and Cosmo. Or a character who is completely opposite from their environment, like Wreck-It Ralph in Sugar Rush. Opposites do a lot for characters. If every character was the same there would be no substance. Using the concept of opposites keeps thing fresh and exciting, and could also lead to plot twists here and there.
        If your antagonist is weak then your protagonist is going to end up being weak too. Your character should have an equal match. If your struggle or conflict is too weak or too vague, you're not going to get very far. The protagonist is only as strong at the  force against them, so don't give them some weak block wall and instead build them a great wall of China that they have to find their way through or around. Remember to keep them evenly matched though, if your protagonist is weaker than your antagonist or the other way away the story doesn't go anywhere exciting.
        Remember to love your stories and put love into your characters. If there isn't effort put in, it shows and people lose interest. Development gets you a long way in the long run.

        This article showed me that it is important to love your character, or at least enjoy their appeal and build them properly. You shouldn't have to force anything out of them, it should flow smoothly. I want to take this advice and go somewhere with it because I've never really made my own characters.
        Learning about how opposites are important intrigued me, I didn't realize how far opposites could take you until now. Opposites really do attract, attract attention that is.