Okay, I cannot believe what I've just done.
You know, I just realized I'm a terrible asshole.
Writing nano here and I think I may have engaged in a terrible stereotype. I didn't even realize it. Not at all. But I'm looking for thoughts.
The main character is Agatha. Agatha's backround is daddy is Native American ( Regrouped Crow Indians of the West, Wyoming ) and Mommy was some Heinz57 basically, but favored an Irish appearance, flaming red, curl hair. Agatha really doesn't take after mommy in her appearance except a little in her build. Otherwise, daddy all the way.
Agatha is not perfect, I hate perfect characters and I realized I gave her a horrible vice, that, to me, seems the least horrible. Agatha enjoys herself some booze. Fucking head desk. I haven't written her drunk or anything, because she really doesn't get drunk, it's just a bit of a coping mechanism, because she has a shit life. That's the point of the story. I abuse even my original characters, in fact, I may be even harder on my original characters, after all, Agatha will eventually get shot in the head by her best friend, and get to go through hell for my own take on Dante's inferno.
The most I've written on her drinking hobby, is from the POV of her lover, Nel, who at one point indulges in a little rot gut to take her mind off things.
I just. . . I don't know what to do. Everyone has some sort of addiction, especially in the post-apocalyptical world I'm creating. Agatha definitely doesn't smoke, her character tells me that much, and Nel would never let her. It would stink, as Nel says in my head, besides, I don't think too much tobacco or weed is being grown when it's a struggle to get things like potato and corn to grow. Agatha isn't really an angry person, she's the type to keep it inside, and channel it in other ways, and take her frustrations out in other ways. She's a 'Revenge is best served cold,' type.
I just don't know what horrible vice I can give her in a world where there isn't much but violence, death, guns and booze, ya know?
I could really use some help with this dilemma. <3