[Blarg]

Good. If you make him a whole person he will be so much more interesting. I think a character should have something about him that makes him feel like he could run out of the room at any minute and live his own life, but you have to rope him back into the story sometimes because it's just THIS part of his life you want to tell at the moment. I like characters who still have some surprise in them, something I may not be ready for and that is a bit out of the box of my preconceptions sometimes. Just like real people. If I always know what they're going to say next, I start to tune out and feel they are "crafted" rather than real. Pat attitudes about drugs are an instant ticket outta there, for me, as by far most people I know who have taken drugs are exactly like everybody else.