How do you make a tragic backstory for a character?

6 Tips for Writing a Sad Story

1. Tap into your own emotionality.
2. Know the difference between sentimentality and truth.
3. Leave room to be surprised by specific detail.
4. Pair strong emotions with ordinary ones.
5. Use backstories to add weight.
6. Use sad moments to further character development.

What are some sad backstories?

A dead loved one: parents, siblings, best friend, spouse and children, or a whole Doomed Hometown. Physical and, sometimes, sexual abuse by parents or lover. Being abandoned by one or both parents. Being tortured or raped, or being Forced to Watch it happen to a friend or loved one.

How do you come up with backstories?

Here are some tips to help you write compelling backstories:

1. Build a timeline of your character’s life events.
2. Make sure backstory details are relevant.
3. Draw inspiration from real life.
4. Show, don’t tell.
5. Don’t overload your first chapter with backstory.

Who has the worst childhood in anime?

Here are some characters over the years, new and old, who have experienced a lot of pain in their lives.

1. 1 Guts – Berserk.
2. 2 Hänsel & Gretel – Black Lagoon.
3. 3 Lucy – Elfen Lied.
4. 4 Seras Victoria – Hellsing.
5. 5 Crona – Soul Eater.
6. 6 Nico Robin – One Piece.
7. 7 Hyakkimaru – Dororo (2019)
8. 8 Itachi Uchiha – Naruto.

What anime character suffered the most?

Top 10 Anime Characters Who Suffered the Most (Ft. Todd Haberkorn)

1. #1: Guts. “Berserk” (1997-98)
2. #2: Rintaro Okabe. “Steins;Gate” series (2010-18)
3. #3: Subaru Natsuki. “Re;Zero – Starting Life in Another World –“ (2016-)
4. #4: Shinji Ikari.
5. #5: Homura Akemi.
6. #6: Hyakkimaru.
7. #7: Kariya Matou.
8. #8: Ken Kaneki.

What are some well known cliches?

Here is a list of clichés you should avoid.

• “The wrong side of the bed.”
• “Think outside the box.”
• “Loose canon.”
• “A perfect storm.”
• “Can of worms.”
• “What goes around comes around.”
• “Dead as a doornail.”
• “Plenty of fish in the sea.”

What are some common tropes in anime backstories?

Whether a hero is examining how they got there or a high school character is explaining their childhood, there’s bound to be a few common tropes between all anime backstories. There’s nothing like a guilt trip to put an anime character down a hero’s path.

What makes a character’s backstory tragic?

Most tragic backstories involve death of some sort—usually the character’s family. While that’s certainly sad, it’s also overdone, meaning readers won’t be as affected by it. It’s not that modern-day readers are a cold-hearted species (well, maybe we are a little), it’s just that if they’ve seen it too many times they don’t care about it anymore.

Why do you like backstories?

It’s usually the sad, traumatic stuff that really changes a person and drives him on to a goal, whether it be revenge, closure, penance, peace… you name it. But I’m not the only one who likes backstory, as evidenced by the surplus of tragic backstories cluttering up every angsty teen novel or movie.

What is cliches in writing?

Cliché is the enemy of good writing. We, as writers, are trained to kill clichéd phrases in sentences. But that’s not the only place they can hide—they can infect the spaces between the words, too. Clichés can infect storytelling techniques.