i’m not directing this to anyone specific but once upon a time i made a comment to an artist asking why all their characters backstories were so sad/painful/depressing/whatever to which they replied “because otherwise it wouldn’t be interesting :P ”. that was replied to by me immediately unfollowing them. i’m sure anyone who reads this will have a few certain artists on their minds, but i won’t name any names. i’m just saying that a character’s back story doesn’t need to be hellish in order for that character to be interesting.

- Anonymous