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A lot of times I've noticed throughout character creation I have a couple things that I like to reuse from character to character. Not like big huge character concepts, but little details. I was wondering if anyone else noticed trends in their character creation?

I tend to favor girls, especially if there's a dearth of females in a RP, and they tend to be of extreme heights- I have characters under five feet tall in some RPS and in one or two I have ladies who are/go over six feet in height. I also tend to create female warriors- a lot of times my female characters don't have any magical or supernatural abilities but they can kick butt like no tomorrow. My male characters tend to be magicians and usually a hard knock to the nose is enough to take them out of a fight. Also, long hair and earrings on my dudes- they tend to be kinda pretty. Of course, none of these are constant rules, but just little things I've noticed!


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Good one. Let me see. My male characters are mostly pit fighters, con artists, or other things like that. I don't know why, but I suck at roleplaying a nice man. I'm not good with men in general, but when I do make one, it's something of the sort.

For women, I usually go to one extreme and let it change while the story progresses. If I have a tough character, she may soften down a little as the story goes. Not a lot, just here and there. And if I have a really sweet and docile character, she will learn that something makes her stand her ground, whatever it is.

I also like to give my characters some background that will provide them with mental conflict at some point. It may be a mental condition, an addiction, or just something in their past that clashes with their present life.


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All my characters are broken in one way or another, either they have a physical problem or they have a mental problem but they are broken someway somehow.
On the odd exception they aren't disabled in some way then they are somewhat reminiscent of myself.
Also, as to date I have only done girl, and I'm not doing that RP from her perspective.

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All my characters are dumb loser gooflords in one way or another. Every single one.

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Cool stuff everyone! That's not a tendency eggs that's just yourself showing through your character


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The pretty-men is definitely a yes for some of my most active male characters.

My females are all either very innocent, kind and warm, or lately strong and motherly. That is, if they are human.

When it comes to anything non-human, I tend to just create something I am inspired about and stick it with a gender stamp that matches its looks. This means that if I make a Demon that is mostly masculine, BAM. It's a male. If I make a Dragon that is somewhat mostly feminine, BAM. It's a female. If I could get away with "It" and "they" more often, I probably would give up on gender in its entirety.

My characters are all inspirations that I have had before inserting them into any universe. An example is my latest from "Divided We Fall" Down in the alpha thread; I had a dream one time of a powerful, thoughtful warrior with a secret about herself and her past that she kept hidden while she traveled the land to grow. Thus I made a character about it to RP my thoughts out into reality.

It's kinda cheezy that most of my characters come from such, a huge number are in fact things I made up while I slept, but my ideas I find are much better when they are brought out from a snoozing, drooling Alecksin surrounded by stuffed animal plushies.

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I absolutely have a tendency to recreate myself. My characters tend to look like me and be a lot like me in other ways, too. I freely admit it's because roleplaying is partially psychotherapy for me, for reasons I won't go into here. But I also like to create characters who have at least one belief or personality trait that is absolutely alien to me and try to get inside the character's head anyway, figure out why she believes that, and make her sympathetic to me.

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I tend towards off the wall character concepts. Like, even if a character is coming along really well and seems like they'll fit in quite nicely, if I notice that I am cleaving too closely to known cliches, I will scrap entire sections of background to remove the offending parts. Characters have gone through what amounts to four or five full facial reconstructive surgeries before because I thought they seemed to generic or too pretty or too extreme.

I also like making characters who have cringe-worthy backgrounds. Ones that make you too horrified to feel sorry for them in one way or another. I don't know why, I just like doing it, I guess. It's either that or the other extreme, where they come from decent happy homes and have absolutely no reason to leave them. So I wrench myself into pretzel knots making them do just that. I dunno. I'm weird.


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Hm... I tend to play men (though I am looking forward to using my first ever female character that I thought up). They also tend to be tall, because, well, I'm tall. And it just feels odd for me to play someone tiny. I'm just used to visualizing a scene where I look at the scalps of people.

I guess the main trend I noticed I tend to make romance subplots impossible by making the characters either asexual or otherwise having some preference that other players won't fit. I don't personally want to write romance so it's fine, works for me, but I still hadn't noticed it was something I was doing until I realized my latest character, a dashing hero, was premade to be in love with a sentient mouse, primarily so I wouldn't have to worry about him caring for any other lady he dashingly charms (by accident).

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I typically play men, but I also tend to make them really average. I hate having any sort of supernatural inclinations or powers or whatnot. Give my character a gun and they could be a good shot, but no overly special endowments.

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Having spent many years of my life in combat boots, I cannot unlearn how to be a soldier. I must incorporate some aspect of veteran status on my characters. But it does have to be situationally dependent. It is what I know and I prefer to write about what I know.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 8:12 pm 

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Doodleniks wrote:
Cool stuff everyone! That's not a tendency eggs that's just yourself showing through your character



Roflmao Eggs, you got owned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've always had a thing for war veteran characters, probably because it's something I wished I've experienced myself in real life lol. Then my characters must have many flaws, physically, psychologically or emotionally. They must have many imperfections, and the more flaws they have, the perfect they become in my eyes. When I create a character, I plan to torment them. It's part of character creation so their background history is very important. If it's not something I write in the character sheet then it's definitely something I will be divulging to the public as I write them. I like to use my characters for the benefit and longevity of a story, so usually a lot of sacrifice would come into play and that is both a pleasure and agony.

I don't have any tendencies for female characters since I don't write them, nor do I plan to, same with children or teenager characters.

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Well, Wild already knows that. My obsession with THE perfect image for my character. Nothing actually happens until I have it. It has to be the way I imagined it, and I take a long, long time obsessing over it. Once I have it, all is well in the world again and I can happily start gluing together the ideas that were all over the place.

Oh, and scribbling - pencil and paper - when I'm creating the character. I make a shopping list of stuff I want/need to include or research before I sit to actually write the important bits about them.

Also not good at all at roleplaying the opposite gender, but I'm working on this elsewhere.


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I'm not sure I've got tendencies as my characters span across the board, at least...not in terms of steady standbys. My tendencies (if you can call them such) are only differentiated by my mood at the time of creation.

For the sake of this, I will say that (at present) I've lost the drive to write male characters. Due to some bad experiences with partners that I just didn't mesh with down the line, I've been unable to recapture the will to write them. Too many people tried to "ship them" with characters that they wouldn't mesh with. Too many tried to turn my straight characters gay because they were all about yaoi and, despite how many times I told them to quit it, they didn't. That resulted in many a thread being left hanging and things unfinished, so I've since...stopped. I'll write them as side characters in a thread, but it's been a while since I've written one for a prolonged period.

That's not to say I haven't created them since. In fact, I've got two waiting in the wings for my inspiration to come back more, but it's far and in between.

Now that that's out of the way, my characters for both genders span the spectrum. I've played single fathers who were trying to be the perfect mother and father for their children, who worked as data entry specialists and "had an aversion" to fun. I've played "cleaner" women who dropped out of school and grew up in a gang in the slums. Men who are ladies men, considering themselves god's gift to the world, and men who haven't touched anyone else. Tall, short, muscular, lanky, overweight, hairy. Women who are as innocent to all things outside their own bubble they may as well live alone on an island, to women who have done and seen seemingly everything. Short, tall, thin, curvy, unremarkable in every way and a knock out.

I don't think I play any type more than others as it really is plot-dependent and based on my inspiration at the time.

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ALL of my characters have some power or fighting ability of some kind, because RP is like video games for me, its supposed to be different than real life, so the normal life type RPs i just don't like.

Another thing i have is of the 80+ characters i have, literally one is male, only one (two counting a wip), i don't know what it is tbh i just prefer playing as girls in rp, its weird, its the dead opposite when i play video games, i usually go for guy characters

morality is an issue i have too, while i'm capable of being the bad guy (and i like it too), i have very few actual evil type characters, its not that i don't like them its just that in RPs they wouldn't get as much use so i don't make many

lastly, while i try to keep characters history detailed but not too much so there's versatility, there are some characters i've made that actually have rather little potential use because i went kinda overboard and made extremely long detailed histories


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I've realized that my women are often mythological creatures, geniuses, and outstandng in their field - while my men are often decidedly unmagical in any and all ways. Not sure why. Maybe I'm fed up on male protagonists, and it shows subconciously.

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My characters all either carry a severe, critical flaw or 2, or they will have something horrific happen to them. I can write women with reasonable effectiveness, I think, but most of them are male.

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I've never admitted it but I'm good at making males and young adults but role-playing them? Thats another story. XD i usually make my characters bland with little to no traits and no hobbies they enjoy at first. Then I put in little hidden depths when I start roleplaying in a topic (Oh she can't sing! She knows how to cook souffles! She gets easily irritated!) All of the characters I roleplay are female, shorter than 5'7 and have short or medium length hair.

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I really enjoy making characters who are super tough on the outside, but have some softer layers deep down inside that may never be uncovered. Not all of them are like this, I also have some who wear their frailties on their sleeve.


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