Sometimes good hero
needs a sidekick or a best friend. They can provide the comic relief as Ron
Weasley so often did. They can be helpful and save your hero’s behind like
Timon and Pumbaa. They can sometimes be annoying like Edmund in the Narnia
books (or worse like Eustace Scrubb). Sometimes, the sidekick simply gets your
characters into more shenanigans like Ethel of I Love Lucy.
Either way, your
character isn’t a solitary figure. (Unless you are writing about the last man
in the entire world). Use those people around them to create a richer world and
a richer character.
Here are some
pictures of my two favorite best buddies:
