You Can Kill The Spell Of Identification Just As Easily As You Can Create Itif You Lose The Readers Sympathy

You can kill the spell of identification just as easily as you can create it—if you lose the reader’s sympathy for the character. You can lose reader sympathy by having your character commit acts of cruelty to another character with whom the readers identify more strongly or for whom they have strong sympathy. You can lose reader sympathy by having the character make dumb choices—acting at less than maximum capacity. The idiot in the horror story who responds to creepy noises by going into the attic armed only with a candle is an example. You can lose reader sympathy when a character seems too ordinary, is stereotyped, or doesn’t struggle hard enough. The reader wants to cheer a fighter, not witness a milquetoast wallowing in, say, self-pity.

James N. Frey, author of How to write a damn good novel (via amandaonwriting)

Yup! Rule #1 about main characters: Whether they’re “good” or “bad”, the reader should root for him/her, and find him/her “a sympathetic character” (this isn’t the usual definition of sympathy as “feeling bad for someone”, and it doesn’t mean that the character is sympathetic but rather that the reader is sympathetic to the character—it comes from the German word sympatisch, which means likeable/appealing).

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That so doesn't explain Bella from Twilight...

Keep in mind that up until October, so maybe a year ago?, he was still thinking of being with her after the curse ended if he wanted to.  An idea August fully supported.  Then he meets someone else and decides to marry his new girl.  Meanwhile he's upset that Emma didn't tell him about her life and he avoids telling her about his fiancé.  Douchbaggery - it's a lifestyle, not a moment.

Followed by the slow realization that the only reason she wanted the slave you used as a translator is because she understood how fucking smart said slave is.

Headcanon

In my headcanon Regina and her guards have a history of betting with each other.  They bet her that she could not name them all correctly.  She won.  She bet them that she could still name them all correctly without seeing their faces.  She won again.  After Leopold died the Queen's Guards kept wearing the silly helmets as a symbol that even in such an anonymous outfit their queen still knows them.

When I hate both pairings I vote for the one least likely to be a challenge for Emma/Regina :)

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