# Contra Gloveon 07 Jul 2009 at 7:30 am Whoops, I forgot to add one thing: Please, please, PLEASE do not use rape or other sexual traumas as a quick-and-dirty way to give a female character a tragic backstory! (See ???Rape is the New Dead Parents??? on TV Tropes.) I will confess, I???ve given a female character this sort of backstory, though with something far milder than sexual assault.