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Your character must do something they know will annoy everyone.
@golgaloth Yep, revising a section like that, today. The MC got sorta kidnapped, but the goons want her to do a job for them. Everything she says and does is snide, snarky, full of innuendo, and provocative—designed to annoy as she waits for them to enlighten her. Can't post the excerpt because there'd be way too many content warnings necessary...
Verbal* tics are the easiest to pull off as a writer but you need to take care not to irritate your readers too much either.
*Non-verbal tics also work, obviously, but they are annoying to write and the eyes of most readers will quickly just pass them without touching.
A few other things:
- littering
- dropping cigarette butts in not quite empty glasses
- putting a pacifier in their mouths each time they think of their baby, months after their wife gave birth.
@Jantar
Think more along the lines of the character having to make a decision that will lead to people being upset, but is something they feel they must do.
All right.
The first thing coming to mind is something that happens quite a bit in real life too:
A grown-up person moving back to the place they came from, to take care of a dying parent who had abused them while they grew up and whom they had succesfully escaped by creating a happy & successful new life with a tight group of chosen family.