A street kid explains to a few new companions the nature of his name, his typical haunts, and the strangers who occasionally occupy them.
#WIPSnips | Spooky (Close)
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SFFNovel #Orphan #Streetsmarts #Nicknames #Sidecharacters
#WIPSnips | Spooky (Close)
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SFFNovel #Orphan #Streetsmarts #Nicknames #Sidecharacters
![KITE TOLD THEM his nickname came from being the only one of his friends who could jump during a summer wind and get carried a few feet, but added that he was also really good at getting to high, tight spaces.
“Buttisnot like I can fly. I went back to [redacted] ‘cause I left my pack behind. We was staying there ‘cause it’s been ‘vacuated. It was us and some other guys. Older guys I never seen, but they looked tough so we didn’t want to cause any trouble. They kinda ignored us — we was downstairs and these other guys was upstairs. One day one of them goes absolutely mental. I mean wow! He was screamin’ and bangin’ on the walls and the bookshelves and I thought he was gonna kill someone. So we get real spooked and we ran out of there. When I went back there was cops all over and they had my stuff.”
Taken from part six of “The Fourth Sigil”
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October 27, 2026 at 6:55 PM
A street kid explains to a few new companions the nature of his name, his typical haunts, and the strangers who occasionally occupy them.
#WIPSnips | Spooky (Close)
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SFFNovel #Orphan #Streetsmarts #Nicknames #Sidecharacters
#WIPSnips | Spooky (Close)
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SFFNovel #Orphan #Streetsmarts #Nicknames #Sidecharacters
Side characters who only serve your hero read like furniture. Give them one small want (a train to catch, a grudge, a secret) and their lines gain friction.
What does yours want that has nothing to do with your lead?
#CharacterCraft #SideCharacters #IndieFiction #BookSky
What does yours want that has nothing to do with your lead?
#CharacterCraft #SideCharacters #IndieFiction #BookSky
October 21, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Side characters who only serve your hero read like furniture. Give them one small want (a train to catch, a grudge, a secret) and their lines gain friction.
What does yours want that has nothing to do with your lead?
#CharacterCraft #SideCharacters #IndieFiction #BookSky
What does yours want that has nothing to do with your lead?
#CharacterCraft #SideCharacters #IndieFiction #BookSky
Jojos Bizarre Adventure Part 1 (manga): a very fun but at the same time, somewhat underwhelming start to the series. Araki does really shine in writing sidecharacters. I love Speedwagon
6/10
6/10
October 21, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Jojos Bizarre Adventure Part 1 (manga): a very fun but at the same time, somewhat underwhelming start to the series. Araki does really shine in writing sidecharacters. I love Speedwagon
6/10
6/10
Endlich ein wenig Action. Der Overpowered Skill kommt langsam zur Geltung und teaser eines Sidecharacters?
Vielleich bleib ich doch noch ein wenig am Anime dran.
'Magic Repo Man: Dumped by My Party, I'll Cash In With a Cute Support Fairy to Become the Strongest!' ep 3 #Animezeit
Vielleich bleib ich doch noch ein wenig am Anime dran.
'Magic Repo Man: Dumped by My Party, I'll Cash In With a Cute Support Fairy to Become the Strongest!' ep 3 #Animezeit
October 18, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Endlich ein wenig Action. Der Overpowered Skill kommt langsam zur Geltung und teaser eines Sidecharacters?
Vielleich bleib ich doch noch ein wenig am Anime dran.
'Magic Repo Man: Dumped by My Party, I'll Cash In With a Cute Support Fairy to Become the Strongest!' ep 3 #Animezeit
Vielleich bleib ich doch noch ein wenig am Anime dran.
'Magic Repo Man: Dumped by My Party, I'll Cash In With a Cute Support Fairy to Become the Strongest!' ep 3 #Animezeit
It's just I started Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries thinking it would be a sapphic love story between a scholar and a fay, and that is not what it is at all.
Like it's a good book, fun read, but I lost so much steam when I realized there's only a sapphic couple of sidecharacters.
Like it's a good book, fun read, but I lost so much steam when I realized there's only a sapphic couple of sidecharacters.
Sigh
ALT: Sigh
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September 27, 2026 at 5:13 AM
It's just I started Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries thinking it would be a sapphic love story between a scholar and a fay, and that is not what it is at all.
Like it's a good book, fun read, but I lost so much steam when I realized there's only a sapphic couple of sidecharacters.
Like it's a good book, fun read, but I lost so much steam when I realized there's only a sapphic couple of sidecharacters.
I keep falling in love with the sidecharacters in my head
September 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
I keep falling in love with the sidecharacters in my head
At this point it feels like the Amani were sidecharacters in their own story.
It was all about Orweyna and Liadrin.
It was all about Orweyna and Liadrin.
September 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
At this point it feels like the Amani were sidecharacters in their own story.
It was all about Orweyna and Liadrin.
It was all about Orweyna and Liadrin.
as sidecharacters in the RPs I did with my gf.
I think the only stand-alone characters I made up in the last 10 years (so not randomly drawn, but deliberately made up with the purpose of becoming main characters) were the Roaring Tides character? 🤔
Linework: @lucrecia84.bsky.social
coloured by me
I think the only stand-alone characters I made up in the last 10 years (so not randomly drawn, but deliberately made up with the purpose of becoming main characters) were the Roaring Tides character? 🤔
Linework: @lucrecia84.bsky.social
coloured by me
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
as sidecharacters in the RPs I did with my gf.
I think the only stand-alone characters I made up in the last 10 years (so not randomly drawn, but deliberately made up with the purpose of becoming main characters) were the Roaring Tides character? 🤔
Linework: @lucrecia84.bsky.social
coloured by me
I think the only stand-alone characters I made up in the last 10 years (so not randomly drawn, but deliberately made up with the purpose of becoming main characters) were the Roaring Tides character? 🤔
Linework: @lucrecia84.bsky.social
coloured by me
#DoctorWho spoilers
Full camp ep? Socialist propaganda (might even be read as pro Palestine with those red black and green poppies)? Awesome sidecharacters? Hints of the Timelord Victorious? All the clues RTD is dropping? My beloved The Rani? Bi-regeneration still being a thing? This ep had it all
Full camp ep? Socialist propaganda (might even be read as pro Palestine with those red black and green poppies)? Awesome sidecharacters? Hints of the Timelord Victorious? All the clues RTD is dropping? My beloved The Rani? Bi-regeneration still being a thing? This ep had it all
May 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
#DoctorWho spoilers
Full camp ep? Socialist propaganda (might even be read as pro Palestine with those red black and green poppies)? Awesome sidecharacters? Hints of the Timelord Victorious? All the clues RTD is dropping? My beloved The Rani? Bi-regeneration still being a thing? This ep had it all
Full camp ep? Socialist propaganda (might even be read as pro Palestine with those red black and green poppies)? Awesome sidecharacters? Hints of the Timelord Victorious? All the clues RTD is dropping? My beloved The Rani? Bi-regeneration still being a thing? This ep had it all
Daria's 4th season starts a bit of flanderization esp for the sidecharacters, and Daria does a lot more just add on-snark in some episodes which was my original fear for how the show would always be, but at the same damn damn they do a whole plot-line and character growth.
July 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Daria's 4th season starts a bit of flanderization esp for the sidecharacters, and Daria does a lot more just add on-snark in some episodes which was my original fear for how the show would always be, but at the same damn damn they do a whole plot-line and character growth.
"Big Joe" is one of my favorite sidecharacters, but like many in Atalis, he meets an unfortunate end.
February 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"Big Joe" is one of my favorite sidecharacters, but like many in Atalis, he meets an unfortunate end.
Have you ever read the Eden!Verse series? Maybe that fits the bill?
Crowley and Aziraphale rescuing/protecting/saving each other, basically in turns. >500k Fantastic worldbuilding. Loveable sidecharacters. The first part is properly devastating. But it all leads to a happy end.
Crowley and Aziraphale rescuing/protecting/saving each other, basically in turns. >500k Fantastic worldbuilding. Loveable sidecharacters. The first part is properly devastating. But it all leads to a happy end.
June 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Have you ever read the Eden!Verse series? Maybe that fits the bill?
Crowley and Aziraphale rescuing/protecting/saving each other, basically in turns. >500k Fantastic worldbuilding. Loveable sidecharacters. The first part is properly devastating. But it all leads to a happy end.
Crowley and Aziraphale rescuing/protecting/saving each other, basically in turns. >500k Fantastic worldbuilding. Loveable sidecharacters. The first part is properly devastating. But it all leads to a happy end.
In the case of Been There done that when it comes to sidecharacters: The Seigi part of the second Himi book turned out to be one of the best parts of the book. That part, that took many chapters to tell, was only expected to be one little paragraph 😂😂
July 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
In the case of Been There done that when it comes to sidecharacters: The Seigi part of the second Himi book turned out to be one of the best parts of the book. That part, that took many chapters to tell, was only expected to be one little paragraph 😂😂
I cannot tell you how often I screamed FINALLY in my mind; FINALLY a BL thats not just an OS or two volumes, finally a series and its not set in our world?! Its a fantasy series?! Amazing premise, twists and turns, important and interessting sidecharacters, cool fights and such a cool main ship!?
March 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I cannot tell you how often I screamed FINALLY in my mind; FINALLY a BL thats not just an OS or two volumes, finally a series and its not set in our world?! Its a fantasy series?! Amazing premise, twists and turns, important and interessting sidecharacters, cool fights and such a cool main ship!?
Nia is as a protagonist more boring then any isekai sloop heroine. Honestly, every overused trope would have added something to her, because she as a character is so empty and soulless. The sidecharacters were entertaining enough, but they are jus like moths to a flame - a flame that is hollow.
February 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Nia is as a protagonist more boring then any isekai sloop heroine. Honestly, every overused trope would have added something to her, because she as a character is so empty and soulless. The sidecharacters were entertaining enough, but they are jus like moths to a flame - a flame that is hollow.
they are kinda similar to ivti hehe also they are more sidecharacters in the first season but the 2nd season is all about them 🫶
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
they are kinda similar to ivti hehe also they are more sidecharacters in the first season but the 2nd season is all about them 🫶
Finished my first playthrough of Va-11 Hall-A!
From the provocative and impeccably written setting, the explicit interactions of not only the main- but sidecharacters included, I could run this bsky post for on and on if only it weren't for the word limit!
It's such a lovely crafted game...
From the provocative and impeccably written setting, the explicit interactions of not only the main- but sidecharacters included, I could run this bsky post for on and on if only it weren't for the word limit!
It's such a lovely crafted game...
January 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Finished my first playthrough of Va-11 Hall-A!
From the provocative and impeccably written setting, the explicit interactions of not only the main- but sidecharacters included, I could run this bsky post for on and on if only it weren't for the word limit!
It's such a lovely crafted game...
From the provocative and impeccably written setting, the explicit interactions of not only the main- but sidecharacters included, I could run this bsky post for on and on if only it weren't for the word limit!
It's such a lovely crafted game...
Not Even Emily: "Why Do Women Love Gay Media?" | #HeatedRivalry #GayBestFriend #EmotionalIntelligence #HaysCode #Minorities #SideCharacters #Romance #Relationships #Vulnerability
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaAl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaAl...
Why Do Women Love Gay Media?
YouTube video by Not Even Emily
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Not Even Emily: "Why Do Women Love Gay Media?" | #HeatedRivalry #GayBestFriend #EmotionalIntelligence #HaysCode #Minorities #SideCharacters #Romance #Relationships #Vulnerability
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaAl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaAl...
this game is tight
#jrpg #rpg #nerd #emulation #nel #roger #funnyface #retro #oldschool #mychildhood #chickennuggets #forest #duggusforest #party #characters #optionals #sidecharacters #playstation2 #skills #action #starocean #starocean3 #tiltheendoftime
#jrpg #rpg #nerd #emulation #nel #roger #funnyface #retro #oldschool #mychildhood #chickennuggets #forest #duggusforest #party #characters #optionals #sidecharacters #playstation2 #skills #action #starocean #starocean3 #tiltheendoftime
August 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Men dressing like sidecharacters on the Hills? The recession is so back.
March 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Men dressing like sidecharacters on the Hills? The recession is so back.
July 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Reminds me of how the sidecharacters more often than not had full names that were written often
February 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Reminds me of how the sidecharacters more often than not had full names that were written often
Some of My sidecharacters. Childhood friends 🌱🫂
March 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Some of My sidecharacters. Childhood friends 🌱🫂
Just another fun little snapshot from the #YA #SF I currently #amquerying about superheroes in the Midwest but through the perspective of #sidecharacters using the #WIPSnips word of the day "half"
#WriteSky #WriteCommunity #ShatteredLens #amwritingscifi #queerwriter
#WriteSky #WriteCommunity #ShatteredLens #amwritingscifi #queerwriter
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just another fun little snapshot from the #YA #SF I currently #amquerying about superheroes in the Midwest but through the perspective of #sidecharacters using the #WIPSnips word of the day "half"
#WriteSky #WriteCommunity #ShatteredLens #amwritingscifi #queerwriter
#WriteSky #WriteCommunity #ShatteredLens #amwritingscifi #queerwriter
Okay. Just the open world showcases here, as well as some fashion to show off the sheer range of character designs you get to work with and make. First four.
Descriptions in the Alt Text!
Descriptions in the Alt Text!
May 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Okay. Just the open world showcases here, as well as some fashion to show off the sheer range of character designs you get to work with and make. First four.
Descriptions in the Alt Text!
Descriptions in the Alt Text!