User blog comment:DatAsymptote/What to do when you're genuinely unhappy with the concept of a character, but you don't want to change her?/@comment-26958589-20180222162533

i felt like this with heartha for literal years. i didnt wanna edit her too much, due to her being unlike any of my other ocs and being adopted, but i felt unable to work with the concept and get invested in her. i was able to get past this when i took the concept back to basics and made her something i could enjoy writing. i wasnt happy about changing her at the time, but ive become happier now knowing i have an oc i can like and use and who isnt just sitting around. i think bessie would be happier than that being the outcome of the adopted character than her not being used.

hence, my advise is to just suck it up, take her back to basics, and edit the concept in a way that is faithful to what you want to keep but different enough that its workable.