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Critique this main minor character, please.

Bree Harding

Name: Bree Harding (Superhero name: “Yellow Jacket”)
Grade: Sophomore

Full psyche/Who they are?:
Bree is one of the friendliest people, you’ll meet at the heroes’ high school. She can’t suffer it when a student is bullied for no reason. That’s why she was voted to the head girl. Sometimes she can become really angry. Then it is recommended you can run a marathon. Bree is very intelligent. She is optimistic and tries to hearten peoples (Particular, her friends.) when they are sad. Generally, she is pleasant and polite. Except, if you disgruntle her. So, don’t be mean to the other students!

Logic, Methodology
In keeping with the motto: “help, but with thinking.” She learned in her freshman year that not everyone needs help. However, she still has to learn it who needs it and who not.
Bree is also a little teacher’s pet. (But popular)

Ethics & Soul
Because of she is a daughter of a rich guy, she avoids seeming spoiled. She is also vegetarian since her mom told her the animals doesn’t like it live in narrow stables. Remember that she likes to help. Once she paid the ski school trip for a poor guy.

Posture, presentation, affection
Remember she is a friendly person. But she appears adult. She gives her affection to helpless persons. And her future career.

What they need to become a better person
She has to accept that not every person likes her and need helps.
Bree must control her money problems when she goes shopping. Does she really need this pair of fuchsia-sparkling high heels?
She is also a little bit perfectionist. (The devil is in the detail.)
Bree has to learn that she doesn’t get exploited by someone.

Impulses, needs, wants & desires
As a superhero-to-be, she always wants to help. Even when nobody wants it. Particular, she helps her friend where and when she can.
Bree hates it when somebody, except the school’s mean girl, doesn’t like her. She is always trying to adapt herself that the person likes her. That doesn’t work often.


Physical Characteristics & Facts

Bree is able to fly through her bee-like wings; she solves some problems, which can’t solve by any other hero, through shrinking.—Even if it’s just bringing the key, which fell in the drain. (She likes to help.) Bree also has tech-equipment. For example, laser bracelets. Do you want to test them?
Bree has honey blonde hair, blue is, and she is white-skinned.
Bree wears an armor which fits her powers topic very well. She wears a yellow one with honeycomb-shaped patterns on it. It looks like a mix of daily clothing and metal armor.
Nature-themed powers run in the family. Her mother is able to speak with animals and control plants. Her father can manipulation metal. That’s very useful for his job. (Boss of an international tech and video games company.) She has no siblings.
 
Critique this main minor character, please.
In your “My series idea” thread you said, “I would like to avoid the
hero’s journey.” but didn't answer my question about that. I suspect
you want to avoid the hero's journey because you think it's a cliché.

This character is a cliché.
The name is a Marvel comic book character.
Her appearance is a standard cliché; blond, blue eyes, white.
As the daughter of a rich guy she tries to not be spoiled – cliché.
Over and over you say “remember she is a friendly person” - okay! We get it!

There is nothing you wrote about this character that is interesting.
She is the embodiment of a “Mary Sue” - her only flaw is she is too
good.
 
She's a nosy white savior and thinks she's the answer to everyone's problems.
She doesn't think she's spoiled but can't control her impulsive money spending everytime she goes to the mall. She acts like she's humble but she flies around in shoes that cost more than other girls outfits. She doesn't even need the shoes to walk!

She's the teachers pet and everyone hates her but they're nice to her face and she's clueless about it. She wasn't really voted head girl, she is such a teachers pet that they rigged the contest so that the teachers could manipulate her and have control of the student body :)

also.. she is bold and armed with the self confidence of the ignorant.
Due to her naiveté she believe she could solve the conflict in the middle east.. if they'd just let her help!!
she is very capable and in her youth she has yet to encounter a problem too big to solve
 
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I really don't get how you are thinking! You just have described a character. So, What's next?
What happens in the movie? What will Bree do? What will happen to her? What will I see on the screen?
Any character is usual and unintresting before something happens and they take action. Neo was for sure
a usual person. Leonidas could stragle with money before the war. Cladiator might be a vegan. So what?
Just write what is happening and the characters will arise naturally.
If your story is good, given the fact that stories happen from people and not from rocks, the characters will also be good.
Don't take steps back and buid things which will arise naturally.
Watch what UCLA Professor Richard Walter says about characters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLpIOO59_yw
 
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