I'm not crying.
Best way to make a reader cry??
Let your MC mess up so so so badly. Like, almost irreparably so. And have everyone hate them for it. Let the MC be wrong and everyone else be right.
This is gold. Like usually i get annoyed with many protagonists because they do nothing wrong absolutely ever, and everyone in the story/fandom thinks they are an absolute angel. But having the main character mess up really helps to make the character more sympathetic/realistic
Let your MC mess up so so so badly. Like, almost irreparably so. And have everyone hate them for it. Let the MC be wrong and everyone else be right.
This is gold. Like usually i get annoyed with many protagonists because they do nothing wrong absolutely ever, and everyone in the story/fandom thinks they are an absolute angel. But having the main character mess up really helps to make the character more sympathetic/realistic.
"everyone in the story/fandom thinks they are an absolute angel".
Sans.
Let your MC mess up so so so badly. Like, almost irreparably so. And have everyone hate them for it. Let the MC be wrong and everyone else be right.
This is gold. Like usually i get annoyed with many protagonists because they do nothing wrong absolutely ever, and everyone in the story/fandom thinks they are an absolute angel. But having the main character mess up really helps to make the character more sympathetic/realistic.
"everyone in the story/fandom thinks they are an absolute angel".
Sans.
Yo ive seen so much cult following for that character, he's overrated
GODDAMMIT SANS! WHY ARE YOU SO POPULAR! He's probably the one that made me almost QUIT undertale…
Have the MC have an animal, protective and loyal. Been there since the MC was little. But while the story goes make the animal try and protect the MC but instead it dies. ;-; Animal deaths are the worst…
N ostap.
(I am going to call the two MC's Jack and Rene) Rene and Jack are deeply in love. The reader is entranced with the romance. One day Rene is hit by a car. She is rushed to the hospital and they make it in time. She enters a 6 hour surgery and comes out alive. Yet something is off…something is different. Rene was overtaken by amnesia. Jack pleads and tries so hard to make Rene remember him. But nothing works. As Rene sits there, a face of stone, Jack breaks into silent tears.
Omg…writing this almost made me cry…I never cry ;-;
Have the MC have an animal, protective and loyal. Been there since the MC was little. But while the story goes make the animal try and protect the MC but instead it dies. ;-; Animal deaths are the worst…
They are the worst! A lot of people are really turned off from a story if there's animal violence. I was reading an amazon review for this book I'm reading for school and they said that they stopped reading the book all together after there was a graphic animal violence scene.
Have the MC have an animal, protective and loyal. Been there since the MC was little. But while the story goes make the animal try and protect the MC but instead it dies. ;-; Animal deaths are the worst…
They are the worst! A lot of people are really turned off from a story if there's animal violence. I was reading an amazon review for this book I'm reading for school and they said that they stopped reading the book all together after there was a graphic animal violence scene.
Oh dear…I didn't know someone would close a book after an animals death ._.
I mean, it's sad, but I watched Old Yeller and I'm like, well OK then…Like, if my (non-existant) dog got shot, hell yeah I would cry, but it's just a movie/ book. I don't get super attached to an animal in a movie. I know I sound super unsympathetic,but whelp.
Have the villan be just a generally depressed person and make the reader start to like them. Then make the main character get in a fight with the villan, where the villan pleads for their life. The main character finds all their work for nothing. After years of trying to catch the villan, they turn out to be a good person? Then the main character murders the villan, and everyone hates them. The end!