I'm just gonna be blunt. My father was legally psychotic, I almost ended up a sociopath, and I still deal with people who have a emotional issues on a regular basis. So I'm a bit of a human behavior enthusiast. I enjoy learning about how humans function. what will happen if one says something to another. What motivates different people to do different things.

Pretty much now a lot of my interaction with other humans is pretty business, small talk and idle chitchat. And you have no idea how hard this makes it for me to enjoy x reader oneshots or anything. The character is so out of character for me.

"I'm lock people up in my basement and cut off their body parts." And how does that make you feel?

"My parents are so mean." Mean by what standards? Taking away your electronics until you do your chores isn't abuse, people.

"You wanna help me with something?" What will I be helping you with? Momma always said, never just volunteer for something if you don't know exactly what it is.

THE CHARACTER IS SO NAIVE IT HURTS. And yeah, hanging out with me might make you feel like you're being interrogated by police, but I'm really just trying to understand what makes you think the way you do and what motivates you. It just makes it really hard for me to relate to the character. They're always either too emotional or not emotional enough.

You know something. You lot make things about emotionally hurting characters all the time but you only ever cover a few different kinds of emotionally wounded people.

You've got you abused person. Runs away from home, ends up with anime characters.

You got your emo. Show character reaches out to them.

You got your person with anxiety. Now, I can relate to some of these, but all too often you guys make their anxiety attacks so dramatic and awful. Dude. Sometimes you just get panicked, without sweating and crap like that. You just get scared, no big attention grabbing fit, no stopping in your tracks. You just walk around, going about your day, feeling traumatized like someone just came up, violated you, and walked away. And there's nothing noticeable about it, but you're having an anxiety attack right in the middle of the store as your looking through clothes or food or whatever. You're just standing there, scared and shaking. Not big "There's an earthquake" shake, but just enough of a shake to make you feel unsteady. Not everyone's anxiety attack is a big panicking, earth moving, screaming, sweating fit. And if that how YOUR anxiety attacks are, I feel severely bad for you, cause, DAMN.

Oh, and then you have your normal person who gets dominated by that character they've only met a few times, but the spontaneity is the point, right? You are so silly, you hate it when guys are actually dominating and controlling like that IRL, but you fantasize about it secretly.

Those aren't the only kind of emotional issues people! Sometimes, your emotional issues are actually stuff that you made up to make yourself feel better about who you are. "t's everyone else's fault you're a snarky b*tch". Now that's a good story. Character makes them open their eyes and accept the fact that everyone is actually really nice to them, and they're just a jacka$$.

Personalize your oneshots more instead of just doing the same cliche things over and over again. More so, why can't the reader be the happy-go-lucky one and the character be the one who's depressed?

It will be a cold day in hell the day someone writes a oneshot I will truly enjoy.