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Give him his own arc. (I am amused that the gender here is the reverse of what's been a problem for a long time, but the advice applies to any character of any gender.) In the 2017 Wonder Woman f...
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2019-12-13T12:00:47Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T10:15:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Give him his own arc. (I am amused that the gender here is the reverse of what's been a problem for a long time, but the advice applies to any character of any gender.) In the 2017 _Wonder Woman_ film, Steve Trevor is Diana's love interest, but he has his own arc. His job is to be a spy: To spy on the enemy, to find out what they're doing, to report back or stop what they're doing to help the good guys win the war. When he finds out what they are doing, he ends up stopping them, at the cost of his own life. This arc could have happened if he was _not_ lost on Themiscyra and did _not_ meet and fall in love with Diana. So give your Dad his own arc. It can be as simple as self-reflection: he _knows_ that he didn't come by his family wealth honestly, and he decides that he doesn't like it, so he needs to do something to make him feel like he has earned money/his position/his wife/his children/his household etc. Give him a goal (whatever relationship or thing he feels he doesn't deserve) and have him working on it throughout the story. He doesn't even have to _reach_ his goal; failure is also a result, and can tell us about the character.
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2018-11-26T15:09:46Z (almost 6 years ago)
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