— where every other protagonist is just the author with a new haircut and slightly sadder happier eyes. And don’t get me wrong, personal stories can be profound. But there’s a massive difference between bleeding your soul into your work… and just photocopying your personality and calling it depth.
I believe that overthinking is not a personality — it's a symptom. And making a character “relatable” by giving him anxiety, self-loathing, or a vape pen doesn’t make him complex — it just makes him modern. People mistake familiarity for significance.
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