Dynamic characters are most interesting to me because it symbolizes some kind of fundamental alteration and modification (at least the sorts of dynamics I am most interested in), but that's pretty scary for most people since it means those individuals would need to open themselves up a bit.
It's a funny thing, art. In acting --and something that I have heard musicians remark on/borrow from acting with regard to "feeling" a piece (and in acting, feeling a character) -- in argument to whether or not an individual can truly play a character and scene if having not experienced in real life what that character or scene is about, one of the responses is about death and a dying scene, and that, if by that logic (needing to have actually experienced it yourself in order to play a convincing role) an individual playing a character with a dying scene would have actually then needed to have died in order to play it right.
I'm just thinking about the funny thing about a truly dynamic character, and being able to write one of those most interesting characters into a story. I don't know, the tricky thing is making that character not only display different behaviors (sometimes bordering on a basic split personality), but that character being capable of fundamentally resonating differently with the reader/audience. That's a whole different thing. What I am most interested in, in terms of the writer's "responsibility" is that, it is tempting to simply give an individual character a lot of color, and all of that color being what comprises a character. But, those dynamics, however varied, actually become patterned, predictable and eventually just as "static" as any other character without all the color. Without an actual evolution taking place, without an actual metamorphosis taking place, no matter how many colors the original character is given, they will always be the exact same colors, used over and over again and ultimately, the general resonating with the reader becomes some kind of co-dependency, at best.
However, a true evolution involves not just a display of many colors, but a fundamental shift in the
kinds of colors (for example) an individual actually has available to them. And, not only that, there will ultimately be some kind of replacement that occurs, as some of the old colors become pretty much tired and useless anymore, at least in comparison with the new ones.
So, my interest in the writer's ability/responsibility would be, HOW can a writer
possibly write THAT kind of dynamic character IF they themselves haven't any morsel of understanding regarding a fundamental metamorphosis ? If a writer is limited to a certain understanding of color, how can they fathom a character who has a greater capacity than their own ?
Topic: Dunning-Kruger Effect: inaccurate self-assessment concerning our own competence