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Kind of. Most men (and especially most boys) don’t really like to dress up. There are a lot of exceptions though. Some guys are really concerned about fashion, but I think that is mainly just feminization, not a natural instinct. Some are concerned about not wearing clothes for more than a day while others will wear the same set of clothes for a week. Some don’t care a lick about fashion but want to look good. Some are almost perpetually casual but are excessively concerned about their hair. I tend to hover just below business casual but above casual in my dress sometimes going into business casual. Personally, I would almost play rugby (if I knew how to play) in a tuxedo, but I know fellows as go around in casual ware but won’t go a tromping through the woods if their not at all dressy cloths are brand new and spotless. And then of course there are a host of those as don’t care a lick about their appearance what so ever.
So it’s complicated, but it is generally safe to say that men are undressy – at least compared to women.
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Question for a scene of my own. If a young man (around 17) has grown up in the mountains after his mother died not long after his birth, and was raised by a man who he loved (and who died around a year ago, at which point this young man was captured and imprisoned)…anyway, moving on, he ends up finding his real father and speaking to him for the first time. His father didn’t even know of his existence, and the son had thought his father was dead…speaking of which, at this point his father is gravely wounded and perhaps even dying. Anyway, would it be natural for there to be a few tears or at least a quick brush of the back of the hands against the eyes. And what of an older brother, who just found his brother a day or two before and is looking on? Would he get emotional at all?
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A wipe of the eyes sounds believable. Maybe even tears, but the fact that he never knew his father before would work against that.
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Back to this topic with a new hypothetical case.
What kind of trauma would make a young man cry? Would being strangled within inches of death and then having to hide it be enough to loose the floodgates? Assume that he’s already in deep depression and has already tried once to commit suicide. Would this heavy trauma make him cry like a baby? Because I really want the answer to be yes…but I’m scared of misrepresenting my male MC.
If you need extra details about what’s going on in my MC’s life then feel free to ask. I’ll try to tell as much as I can without disclosing the spoilers in my plot.
Certainly not if he wasn’t depressed. If he was feeling suicidal and depressed, he might cry, I’m not sure, but it wouldn’t be like a baby. If he were to have had a real close friend or relative die at the same time, I think that all that together would make it realistic. Still, even if a man cries in earnest, it just isn’t the same as how a baby cries. Generally, its gonna finish a lot sooner and be less intense if it happens in the first place.
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@Daeus what about heaving sobs? Do heaving sobs work?
@the-happy-bookaholic Yeah, that’s more like it. Not that that make a guy more likely to cry, but if he does, that’s more like it. The heaving part shouldn’t be very dramatic though. It would make him seem frazzled, which isn’t the right image.
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