Unattractive traits in characters?

[Placidia]

I'm wondering if anyone else has anything similar.  I've realized that there's a peculiar tendency when I DD for me to take some trait that I would consider unfavorable in real life and give it to a character I like.  It's almost like I'm trying to force myself to like that trait?  Or else I just find flaws really attractive. 

 

For instance, education and being educated is something that is very important to me.  And yet I tend to make up characters who are semi-illiterate and/or completely uneducated (in a modern setting).  And there's a likable character in one of my current storylines who is pretty much a stereotypical hillbilly character, with the accent and the bad teeth and everything . . . . 

 

It's like, anytime I decide that I find something unattractive, there's a part of me that is then determined to find a way to make it seem attractive. 

[Wish Upon A Wish]

Does it count that my daydream 'best friend'  I both love and hate, because we're constantly arguing, and she seems to disagree with my just for the sake of disagreeing, but I still have lots of fun in the arguments that happen about 80% of the time in the dds?

That makes it sound like she's real, or I think she's real. She's not. Unfortunately. Or is it fortunately?

[Kirsty Amhert]

I sometimes have my main characters act very uncharacteristically. I just recently realized that it always reflected something that I'd dealt with my actual life. My character is an obnoxiously over confident person, but on a day when my best friend came to me complaining about body issues and low self-esteem, I spent hours daydreaming of my character in states of unassurance, weakness, and even neediness. I think it was because I needed to study the actions of the other characters around him, so that I could maybe try and figure out how to handle my best friend.

[debbie downer]

i have a character who hates everyone that doesn't agree with everything he says, so he is very rude to a lot of people. he has kind of a miserable life so he takes it out on other people. but this character isn't the "bad guy"- he's actually one of my main character's best friends and he can be really nice sometimes.

littleschrodinger'scat - i love your characters' names! :3

[Laila]

Uhhh let's see. My main character had a severe facial disfigurement, caused by a horrific accident. He had acid thrown in his face, leaving scarred tissues. He had health problems that left him frothing at the mouth. He looked sick from taking drugs and filthy from living outside. He looks horrible after he cries, goes into a fit, or wakes up in the morning. He's been inflicted with every mental disorder imaginable, schizophrenia, psychopathy, claustrophobia, infantilism, dissociative identity... The list goes on and on.

But despite all that, I also find a way to make him seem attractive because his boyfriend loves him unconditionally. xD

[Marie]

Since I usually daydream with the intent of making it a story I'll do something with someday, I always try to have some kind of undesirable trait in the characters. Especially if it's the beginning of the story, since it gives them something to work over. And characters with no flaws or undesirable traits are rather boring in a story.

 

I've realized recently that I have a tendency to make my main characters kind of stupid or dense, I think part of this might be because it makes it easier for people or events to fool them, thus creating eventual conflict and drama.

Or it could just be because I read too much shonen manga...

[littleschrodinger'scat]

I think all of my character (at least the intricate ones) have at a few undesirable traits. Two of my characters, Acacia and Ellery, have less than average intelligence (Ellery never even speaks). Clover has a mental disorder similar to schizophrenia (but it isn't schizophrenia) and is incredibly violent (for no reason associated with her disorder). She kills her sister and a girl she met in the orphanage she grew up in. Louie is manipulative. Maxxie is a coward who refuses to kill (even though it is a nessecity for his survival) while he is in Chiasm, and when he gets out he kills his wife. Gretchen is neglectful and has a drug problem. The only ones who most people would probably like are Juliek and Kolya, but Juliek dies and Kolya sort of falls to pieces because of it.

Despite their negative qualities they are still likable because of their positives. Even the main antagonist of my world is shown as having a difficult, traumatic life (not to mention she is married to a sexist, narrcassist. She puts him in his place though, eventually).