MOG/QBM - Writing Ideas

Characters:
MC
•	James Grayson/Richard Lincoln/Christopher Lincoln
•	Chris is from Phenac City, while his parents now reside in Agate Town. Growing up in Phenac has given Chris a relatively easy life in comparison to the rest of Orre, but it doesn’t mean that Chris is necessarily blind to what happens in the region. ONBS, the primary news source in Orre, still covers crime, though many of the residents in Phenac turn a blind eye to it. They find it easier to ignore the crime rate rather than try and address it while being caught in the crossfire. After all, most of the crime in Phenac City is white-collar, crime that you can’t physically see. Out of sight, out of mind.  Chris sees the ORI as a chance to travel the region and potentially help Orre in the process. Throughout the story, he may find himself involved in more crimes and become increasingly invested in the region’s rehabilitation.
•	Chris is a suave young man who is generally laid back about many things. He’s more of a thinker rather than a fighter, but he’ll take pleasure in both activities. Chris enjoys a challenge, and will typically rise to the occasion.
FeMC
•	Jennifer Preston
•	Jen is from Pyrite Town, born and raised. Growing up in the city has taught her to be tough, and she can hold her own. After the second Shadow Pokemon incident, her parents moved her younger sister Daniele out of the region to stay in Kanto, where Jen’s older brother Jake is taking on the Pokemon League. Jen’s parents offered to take Jen with them, but this was around when the Orre Reconstruction Initiative was announced. Jenny saw the ORI as an opportunity to not only gain money to help support her family (by becoming Champion), but also a way to make her home a better place. Her girlfriends, Sierra and Kendra, share this same goal.
•	Jen can be impulsive at times and will end up making brash decisions. That being said, she can almost always be counted on to make tough choices when she needs to. Jen may have a temper on her, but she’s got the heart to match it. She isn’t one to get attached to things quickly, but she isn’t cold either. However, in her experience people from Phenac City or even visitors from Gateon Port have tended to look down on residents of Pyrite due to a false sense of superiority.

	Amy and Alyssa - Okay so I have an idea for a set of characters, thanks to Total Drama surprisingly. They're twins. Growing up they did all the cutesy twin shit but it wore out by the time they hit their teens, when both of them wanted to "express themselves" and become separate from their twin. The older twin had a more dominant personality while the younger twin is more submissive. When both twins wanted to branch out, they had some similar thoughts because lel twins. This led to both of the twins becoming frustrated with one another, but nothing serious. Until it became repetitive. The older one started to terrorize the younger one to scare her out of branching out. While the old one would develop. While the other one would develop and flourish the younger one would remain the same and fade into the background. The older one became MC and the younger one became one of the grunts MC wrecks. Hypothetically speaking of course. Eventually the younger one stopped trying to become her own person. She let herself fade and started living life as a blank slate. The terrible tyranny of the top twin continues for a while. No one points it out to her that what she's doing is messed up. The younger twin doesn't seem to mind. She has become numb to it. This is everyday life for her, it's like her daily ritual. Ooh just thought of something. Maybe the older twin will protect the younger one a bunch when they were younger. Then the whole "You need to stop latching on to me" will have more meaning even though it's cliche. But yeah back to now. After something bad happens to the big twin, maybe a breakup or g(irl) taking advantage of her or something she comes home crying to her sister. All her friends are busy or have abandoned her, so her sister is the only thing that's left. When talking to her sister she realizes that she's getting really generic responses. Things you wouldn't hear from your sister, especially not your fucking twin. It's like she's talking to the same person from x amount of years ago, she really hasn't grown at all. The older one comes to a revelation at how horrible she's been to her sister and realizes that her sister has missed out on practically everything and hasn't grown at all. Older sister sets a resolve to be the best sister she can be and help her sister with all she missed out on, like getting laid and getting laid. This is around when the twins come into the story. A twin dynamic but not quite. They have the same line of thinking sometimes but one is a blank slate and the other is trying to mold her into a human. Younger one messes up with finding out who she wants to be and older one messes up with being a good sister.
	Whether or not it's boring lies on whether or not you can create a solid, gripping conflict and really display those character traits you're bagging on.
	how do you think the younger one would work as a character?
	Like would you need the backstory explained for you to care or would you prefer the backstory explained gradually?
	Since this is a very character driven story, you really need to have them drawn out, and have understanding of how they themselves would react to situations and how they respond to stimuli.
	I want the younger one to be a blank slate, but I'm not sure how blank. Like would she age statically or would she be literally blank?
	Does or copies actions that are imposed onto her, in her attempts to fit in
	Not exactly sure. Fitting in would mean being like her sister in some way, when she wants to respect her sister's wishes and be as little like her sister as possible
	The younger one faded into the background because the older sister grabs the attention / is more popular, yes?
	I'd have her have personal security issues
	Because of her position, she wouldn't quite know how to, well, fit in
	That's one of the points I want to focus on
	But as I understand it, you're not sure how to pull it off convicingly?
	That's part of her conflict in the story. She's been gone for so long she's not sure of what to do any more
	because I don't want her to be a robot but I don't want her to have too much personality
	Because in reality, the younger sister is much more open to change
	Maybe that'll be a conflict, too. The older sister has to decide what is best for the younger sister to make up for her mistakes
	Ah, the older sister is essentially shallow
	like in her teenage years she was a huge bitch. Then it started to die down as her reign of terror did too and she aged
	I see some hints of an unhealthy form of narcissism there. The older sister wants to prevent the younger one to develop from being anything else than, essentially, her (older sister) former own self's shadow.
	Given this: "All her friends are busy or have abandoned her, so her sister is the only thing that's left", I could see a mostly utilitarian view of people, where they function for her basically as repositories of trust and validation to be triggered on demand The fact that she does validate the younger sister enough to bother going with her own personal problems to her though indicates that she (older sister) might be looking for a twisted form of self-validation: she knows that the younger sister is basically a carbon copy of how she herself was years ago, so she goes to her to get validation that she (older sister) did the things that she really wanted to do. Given this: why would she _care_ that her sister is twisted that way, if that's exactly what she (older sister) wants? " When talking to her sister she realizes that she's getting really generic responses. Things you wouldn't hear from your sister, especially not your fucking twin" <-- but she _would_ expect to hear this from _herself_, and that's what she _validates_ about her sister