/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19288824
Mhm, I feel you. I think R07 himself said it very well: "every character needs to have two sides", like how Rena is a really sweet and caring girl, but in stressful moments her much more serious persona is shown. For flaws you can just take the character's good traits and portray them in such a way that they end up being bad ones, too. Like for example, being loyal, but to the wrong person, or being kind, but too naïve. Let characters make mistakes and ultimately grow as people. Whenever I self-insert as my characters I try to really get into the emotion of the moment and live through them. It sounds weird, but it really helps me visualize things. For example, I had this idea for a romantic scene where the characters would be talking about God and then the girl turns to the MC and says something about how Adam and Eve were always happy when they were in Eden and were with God, similar to how she feels when she's with the MC, so she sees proof of God in him. I know it's really cheesy, but if I hadn't really put myself into the place of the characters, I don't think I could've thought of something like this and I don't think it's commonly done AFAIK.
Hope that helped you out at least a little but and good luck with your Japanese and writing!
>>19289297
Well, there's over half the userbase of /cgl/, most of which would be into Umineko's design since some of them are based on existing Lolita clothing. And then again, there's a huge tumblr following, too.