Dion is a drug addict and a chef, but these two sides of him never seem to conflict. There’s no sense that whatever drives him towards addiction interferes with his creative side – or, as with Vinyl’s Richie Finestra, fuels it. He’s a chef and an addict, and if you drew a Venn diagram of his various attributes, you’d find two bubbles barely touching.
Characters need to have some dichotomy in order to generate that inner conflict
