Character Archetypes - Blog Posts

Beneath the cut, you’ll find #76 character labels that I’ve thought up– they’re underused! I felt like I was sick and tired of seeing simplistic labels that defined the characters situation rather than their personality (eg. the teen mom, the loser, the rebel, etc.). Please like and/or reblog if you found this useful!

Characters whose naiveness is a form of protest, my beloved. Who know that there are dark things below but refuse to look down. Who will not let you take this last bit of childishness from them. Who are doomed by their unwillingness to acknowledge the darkness. Who everyone knows will be destroyed for holding on to something they could never truly have. Who are playing at normalcy and foolishness to avoid having to face the music.

You may not be a child, may not have ever been a child, will not ever get to be a child. The darkness with taint anything resembling a childhood, no matter how much you shelter yourself. Yet I will love you anyway, and I hope that you can slowly begin to look through your fingers, to remove your hands from your eyes. I hope you learn to acknowledge and deconstruct the darkness, because I love that you will not let the darkness take any more.

I hate archetypes but I simp so hard for characters who absolutely are archetypes but like multiple opposite ones stuffed together like my characters include-

A hopeless romantic princess with a minor addiction to pink that you would literally never see without multiple swords at her waist and no one bats an eye at it.

A gruff mean political/ war tactician princess who can absolutely sucks at swordplay (she says it's cause of her power, only partially true) literally feel everyone pain/sadness and a little obsessed with saving everyone (and totally oblivious that literally bring kind to them would do that)

An exiled princess who loves reading and traveling is literally one of the best people who also does dark magic and and casually tries to wake a literal wmd beast

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A list of (sometimes angry) (often male) INFP characters with daddy issues because there are a LOT

Kylo Ren/Ben Solo - Star Wars

Zuko - Avatar the last Airbender

Gaara - Naruto

Shinji Ikari - Neon Genesis Evangelion

Adrien Agreste - Miraculous Ladybug

Luke Skywalker - Star Wars

Will Byers? - Stranger Things

Alluka Zoldyk - Hunter X Hunter

Muichiro Tokito - Demon Slayer

Junpei Yoshino - Jujutsu Kaisen

Mitsuha Miyamizu - Kimi no Na wa

Nico Diangelo - (Percy Jackson)

Dobby - Harry Potter (😂)

Todd Anderson - Dead Poets Society

Rui - Demon Slayer

Edward Scissorhands - Edward Scissorhands

Eri - My Hero Academia

Quasimodo - Hunchback of Notre Dame

Faramir - Lord of the Rings

Wylan Van Eck - Six of Crows

Carlos De Vil - Descendants (mommy issues)

Ratcatcher 2 - DC Universe/Suicide Squad

Patroclus - The Song of Achilles

Frankenstein's Monster - Frankenstein

Feel free to add more, I skipped over the ones I wasn't sure about

Edit: why did I realize like several hours later that not all of these are male characters? I apologize

After much deliberation and manic procrastinating I now present my official list of favourite charcter archetypes:

Character who does objectively good things and is on the side of good but is still an objectively terrible person

Gruff loner parent who adopts other characters and care about them deeply in their own way and it's really heartwarmingly obvious but they will never actually say it

Absolutely feral rough and tumble fighter who is misunderstood as a troublemaker, gets mad when their friends are hurt and will sacrifice themselves at the drop of a hat but would never admit it

At some point had big protagonist energy but all their friends are dead or gone and are just trying their hardest after getting in over their head but still wanting to do good in the world

Gods who literally couldn't give two shits about your problems and what humans these days are up to

Someone who has escaped a terrible situation and hated the person they were when they were in said situation and is trying to be better but has terrible self-worth and succumbs to the power of friendship™ and a well written recovery arc

Prick "I know more than you" academics who are snarky and absolute smug little shits especially to the antagonists but have a heart of gold

Antagonist that everyone but the person they "work for" knows is the one who's really in charge

Character who can and will easily kill you in 101 ways with their bare hands but will feel bad about it afterwards (bonus points if PTSD and their personality is absolute baby) That one shapeshifter who's just here to have fun, cause some chaos and prank everyone

That one shapeshifter who can transform into one (1) thing and that one thing is an absolutely fucking terrifying beast of some kind when they go Apeshit

Flirty pretty femme boy or girl who probably doesn't care about gender at all so long as they get to look fabulous and tease people they think are cute

A group of 'orphans' who findfamily in each other (feat. Intimidating but objectively good parent who has unofficially adopted everyone, older sibling child trying to take care of everyone, the chaotic dumbass, the innocent bean, the one who's having none of their bullshit, etc.)

Amnesiacs who are just trying to move on with their lives and turn over a new leaf and are honestly terrified of finding out the truth of who they were in the past