[quote=@Odin] I mean, I'm not a real Hagenees, since I'm from Voorburg originally and currently living in Leidschenveen. But I live like 200 meters from the Kyocera stadion, so I guess even the most Haags thing isn't even in the Hague anymore. :lol But yeah, for real. I already noticed you were Dutch, the name on your art gives it away. I think something to keep in mind when writing shy characters is that... I wanna say 'nobody cares about them' which sounds harsh and is not entirely true in the sense that people do care about them, it's just that shy people tend not to get noticed. Because it's a self insert, because it's the easiest thing to write, because they are lazy, or because they want their character to be the center of attention (which is somewhat paradoxical because you're writing a shy character that doesn't like attention). [/quote] Haha, we're in the same boat there; Assen mostly has the TT going for it, yet the racetrack itself is in Witten :') Yeah, the name kind of does, doesn't it :') And I think you really hit the nail on the head here. From what I've seen there's a lot of 'please put effort into me' going on with those characters; wanting people to reach out to the character even when the character pushes them away several times, without realizing people aren't going to put that kind of effort into a fictional character they have no investment in. ---- Another thing that irks me about very needy characters is; when I write a particularly empathic character, the sort where I can't ignore such a shy creature without breaking character, and someone keeps making things happen to their character so that he or she needs to be comforted, so that the rp more or less revolves around them.