: Re: Making characters multidimensional and unique. What can I do? I'm writing a sci-fi/fantasy story and I have quite a number of characters that I want to deploy in the story. However, these characters

Give the characters something unique: It doesn't have to be something mind-blowing or some kind of superpower. It could be something as simple as a toe fetish or not being able to remember dates.

Give them an unexpected behavior: The wife of one of them left him and he reacted by ... cleaning the house from morning to night?! What?

Give them an inexplicable behavior: Maybe they like to collect canned cocktails or go to the beach during hurricanes.

Give them complex back stories: Humans are complex beings. If you want your characters to be more human, enliven them with rich back stories.

Don't make them cliched: The mad scientist, the jock, the drunk wife beater, you know them. However, you can also grab a cliched character and turn it into a non-cliched character (e.g. Tom is a jock ... who secretly attends ballet classes at night).

Don't make them black and white: I'm not talking about race but to avoid making your characters either completely good or completely bad. These characters are boring, because they are easy to predict.

That being said, I think your characters should be a reflection of your plot. If your plot is interesting, your characters will be interesting (it also works the other way around).

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