Category: The Mind of a Character

  • Dalinar Kholin: The Blackthorn

    I’ve been sitting on this one for well over a year now. Apologies Dalinar, I didn’t mean to put you off for so long. It’s been a hot minute since I took a deep dive into a Stormlight Archive character. Kaladin was one of the first characters I ever analyzed in this series and Shallan…

  • Jin Sakai: Discarding Honor

    Jin Sakai: Discarding Honor

    In my review of Ghost of Tsushima, I was more than a little critical. While I did enjoy the game, it’s repetitive mission design, dated and unresponsive combat, and boring side content kept me from loving it as much as I had hoped I would. A solid, but not incredible game. But you know what…

  • The Challenge of Introducing a Character

    The Challenge of Introducing a Character

    Characters are the lifeblood of a story. They drive the plot forward, guiding the audience through the events of the story as they themselves live it. Through them, the audience enters the world of the story. But they don’t just pop up out of nowhere. Your audience won’t immediately know who your characters are. So,…

  • Trafalgar D. Water Law: The Surgeon of Death

    Trafalgar D. Water Law: The Surgeon of Death

    One Piece is a series with a lot of characters. Shocking, I know. The 1000+ chapter long story has a huge cast. But among that cast, very few characters are properly fleshed out. Only the most important characters, mostly the Straw Hats themselves, are even given a backstory. Then there’s the best non-Straw Hat character…

  • Sazed: A Crisis of Faith

    Sazed: A Crisis of Faith

    Here’s the sauce for that amazing Sazed image I used in the thumbnail! Go check it out, it’s amazing! *Major spoilers for all three Mistborn books!/ Minor spoilers for Rhythm of War at the very end!* I’ve wanted to do a character analysis of a Mistborn character for a while. But I struggled to find…