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>>38088
I respect the creators enough to call this coal
It just doesn't have the character consistency. We don't see anything that indicates vera has a positive relationship with any students. In fact, in the student files she seems pretty doom and gloom about cleo wanting to become a musician, and from what we see in the pilot, she doesn't seem to find coco especially personable. I don't see her spending time with students playing music.
I also just dislike the whole backstory and shit
>wah she was laughed at, so traumatic
This is generally a line of writing I really hate, a character doesn't need some silly surface level trauma as a character driver, it's just lazy and uninspired. I also personally prefer it when things are left up to interpretation, maybe with a few hints dropped, rather than getting some half assed back story. I find it much more interesting to see what characters do than to what happened to them. I think a character's actions are a much better characterization, and serve much better to paint a picture of who that person is, compared to a flashback, which also breaks the story's structure by inserting past into the present.
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Going a little off topic, but if you really want to disclose a part of a character's past, have the character themselves disclose it. It could be some vague statements that give us a peek into their mind and how they see the world or what happened to them, which we can use to speculate about their past, or simply have the character tell another what happened to them. This way the story structure isn't broken, and the character is also given a chance to more clearly describe the event(s) and how they effected the character, and how the character understands them. Flashbacks are just gay and lazy, uninspired and unimaginative.