Take character input and print a pyramid pattern using 5 loops (myself)

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
    char f, a = '+', b = '+', c = '+', d = '+' ;
    int i;
    printf ("Please enter a character\n");
    scanf (" %c", &f);/*Put a space before %c when in a for statement so that the for statement can 
    be executed a second time, otherwise it would just take the empty space of the new line as the 
    next character. By leaving a space you tell it to ignore the empty space left in the buffer and 
    the next single character written. This problem is not applicable to integers as they don't 
    read empty spaces as integers.*/
    for (i=0; i<5; i++){
        printf("%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c\n",a,b,c,d,f,d,c,b,a);
        for (i=1; i<2; i++){
            d = f;
            printf("%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c\n",a,b,c,d,f,d,c,b,a);
        }
        for (i=2; i<3; i++) {
            c=f;
            printf("%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c\n",a,b,c,d,f,d,c,b,a);
        }
        for (i=3; i<4; i++) {
            b=f;
            printf("%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c\n",a,b,c,d,f,d,c,b,a);
        }
        for (i=4; i<5; i++){
            a=f;
        }
        printf("%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c%c\n",a,b,c,d,f,d,c,b,a);
    }
  return 0;
}