bugcore:

I was reading a post about character design and I was really digging it until it said this

No offense but this is whack ass advice. Good characters don’t have to be relatable. Sometimes the best characters are the characters you relate to the least. Undertale is a great example of having unrelatable and strange but fantastic and enjoyable characters.

Papyrus for example, is a fandom favorite but I rarely see people call him relatable. He’s a lanky, narcissistic skeleton who’s incredibly dumb and naive, but he’s very caring and loving, always trying to motivate others and do the best for everyone. What’s endearing about him is his personality and his design. It’s very strange but charming and you rarely see a character that has a massive ego BUT is also very caring to the well being of others.

Hell good characters don’t have to be likable, just interesting and well rounded. Making your character cookie cutter and bland for the sake of not looking like a “special snowflake” is trash advice. It limits creativity and is overall just really pretentious.

So make your pink-purple-blue haired goth who wears nothing but hot topic gear, as long as their interesting and endearing, it doesn’t matter!