Forgive me if I’m being ignorant here, but I fail to see why you aren’t allowed to create problematic characters or have them in your story. In my experience, some characters don’t ask politely, some characters are amoral. If someone (even a critiquer) finds your writing problematic because it’s not exactly pc or is a trigger for them, why does that mean you have to change it? There’s no way you’ll be able to please everyone, nor should you…

elumish: You are allowed to create problematic characters, and you should, but at the same time, there should be some acknowledgement that they are problematic. For my story, one of the main issues was the fact that the character was supposed to be a fundamentally good person, and he cannot be both a good person…

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