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Anonymous Coward · 11mo

What kind of characters do you have trouble writing? And have you ever had a character go from hard-to-write to easy-to-write, or vice-versa, or go back and forth?

In a scene in which all four boys are present, I always forget to give either Stan a line or Kenny a line and now that I’ve pointed this out you’ll see it in a lot of my stuff. When I’m doing Kyman or Kyle and Cartman centric stuff, Stan and Kenny are more just…props to fill a scene so their dialogue doesn’t matter as much. It’s either always Stan that Cartman and Kyle are bouncing off of or Kenny that Cartman and Kyle are bouncing off of but I tend to forget to use both.

I suppose Stan is my weakest out of the main 4 because he’s kinda…basic…and I revert to “depressed drunk Stan” when the plot calls for it because he’s more interesting to write than baseline Stan. I stand by that though because it makes for good fiction. I think I use him well when I do. Stan having some angsty pining for Kyle in Eric Cartman Must Die was pretty good imo. Scream and Creep are both “Stan is depressed” fics and they’re some of my more successful fics by ratio. I just don’t have a good…balance for Stan is all. I mostly use You’re Getting Old Stan.

I’m someone who does routine rewatches for character voice so pretty much everyone else’s little quirks come to me easily, if I’m not writing them close to canon I’m comfortable with my headcanons for them and find my interpretations for them pretty fun to write!

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