How To Create A Yandere (+ free characters)

Leo Mince - 5'10

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Here's an example I created. Feel free to use this however you want. No credit needed.

Step One - Give them a personality.

Surface Level Personality: very honest and moral, on a council/executive board, values justice and fairness, strong sense of leadership

Content State: has a powerful atmosphere of authority, good at leading and directing others, tends to obtrusively be manipulative to make sure others listen to his lead

Upset State: expresses his distress to others, vents to close friends, doesn't suppress his emotions, has healthy coping skills for when he gets anxious or feels down

How He's Perceived: he's seen as very competent and capable, everyone trusts him to lead, they think he can solve any problem and always makes everything work out for the best, he's very liked and admired by his peers

How He Feels About His Perception: he's very aware of how he's perceived and knows many people look up to him, he feels a bit trapped since everyone constantly has high expectations of you

Step Two - Discern the trigger of obsession and desire.

Trigger Of Obsession: his love interest seems like the opposite of him and he can't help but feel attracted to their reckless, bad, careless, irresponsible personality, his love interest is a total mess and he finds himself very fond of them

Trigger Clarification: he finds their volatile temper and impulsiveness endearing, their love interest is completely different from the people he's used to, especially the people who actually pursue him

His Perspective Of Trigger: he believes his love interest acts so harsh and brash because of their childhood, he wants to protect his love interest so they don't have to worry about protecting themselves, he wants to make his love interest feel taken care of

Step Three - Form the dynamic between your yandere and their love interest.

How He Feels About His Love Interest: he feels like he's protecting his love interest from the unfairness and cruelty of the world

How He Acts In Public: he doesn't really trust anyone to be around his love interest, he threatens people with a smile and keeps up his social status, people can't tell if he's joking or not but something about his words strikes fear in their core, he's very busy but when he gets back to his love interest he makes sure to show clear PDA

How He Acts In Private: even alone he wishes he could show his love interest off more, he expresses how he wants everyone to know his love interest is with him and doesn't care at all about how they'll impact his image, he praises and compliments his love interest, shows a lot of affection

How He Acts When In Control: he treats his love interest very well and wants to have a balanced and healthy relationship, lots of romantic gestures, compassionate and kind

How He Acts When Out Of Control: he disregards all other aspects of his life and completely focuses on his love interest, wanting to fix the issue as quickly as possible, any reservations, commitments, or promises he made to anyone else doesn't matter anymore and it's all about his love interest

Step Four - Establish your yandere's limits...and their actual limits.

Hinged Limits With Love Interest: all of his immense affection before was love-bombing and when he's willing to abruptly remove all of his attention and affection to get his love interest to miss him because they feel empty and lonely without him

Hinged Limits With Others: he's willing to expose secrets of the people who threaten his relationship with his love interest as well as spread rumors about them, he's very stealthy in his approach and uses his status and reputation to his advantage

Unhinged Limits With Love Interest: he's willing to go as far as bribing his love interest to be or stay with him

Unhinged Limits With Others: normally being very kind, friendly, and giving validation to the people around him, he begins to be apathetic towards them and completely ignores them, he pretends the people he dislikes do not exist

Step Five - Declare the end of your yandere.

End: He will eventually give up and lose interest if his love interest is too resistant to his love-bombing, bribing, and spoiling. It may take a matter of months but he'll bitterly give up at some point. He won't feel any remorse or acknowledge the lives he's ruined in the process.