Ah thank you so much Thin! That was really helpful!
Now for me to give advice back...hmmm.  I'm no way as experienced a writer as you are so I'm afraid my advice might have been something you've figured out but I'll give it a go anyway!


I'll be talking about quite weak minded characters if I'm honest, so that may not apply to Ed. I hope it helps anyway.

Good, pure characters are actually quite easy to write (If you grew up on a diet of them anyway)! They come in all shapes and forms, and varied histories are usually fine with them.  I mean, good, pure characters never really do have to have a happy history anyway.  A happy life doesn't have to mean that the character would become a good person. Sometimes you find that even the happiest of people are struggling with the darkest of thoughts. 

However, when writing these characters you have to have it in mind that they can and will have to be corruptible.  They love more than others, they are more innocent and they believe that whatever they do should have an impact on the world around them. They are naive, is what I'm trying to get at.  They yearn to have an impact on the world around them and would do just about anything to have it be that way.  

ERRRRR THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR NOW BUT I'LL UPDATE IT AND EVERyTHING :)