Yeah, and you can also get tired of criticizing something you love. You can get completely fed up with it and decide, “You know what? Flaws aside, I love this thing, and I don’t have to waste hours of my life admitting its flaws to strangers on the Internet in order to somehow justify my love of it.” You can get sick of watching others gleefully tear it apart, for no reason other than that it’s popular and they hate that you love it. You can get sick of watching others tearing it apart with good intentions, too.

the king:

Send either a number for a specific ask, or a Skill for all asks under that category!

(or just fill the whole thing out yourself to develop your character on your own!)

Barter

1. How important is making money or acquiring wealth to your character? Do they even need it? 2. Is your character quick to take care of others in need, or do they look out for themselves first and foremost? 3. What is something other than money that could make your character do something they otherwise wouldn’t want to do? What about something they otherwise really, really, really wouldn’t want to do?

Energy Weapons

4. Does your character prefer high-tech or low-tech solutions to problems? 5. What does your character think about pre-war society? 6. Is your character easily exhaustible? Are they normally an energetic person or more lethargic? If the former, what would reduce them to the latter; if the latter, what would excite them into the former?

Explosives

7. How does your character express anger? Do they have a short temper, do they bury their rage until they burst, or can they handle it well? 8. Does your character have any particular pet peeves that irritate them? 9. Is there anything that anyone who knows better should avoid bringing up to your character (i.e., any conversational landmines)?

Guns

10. What is your character’s weapon of choice? Are they good in a fight, whether armed or not? 11. Has your character ever killed anyone purely in cold blood? 12. What are your character’s opinions on war? Is it something necessary or barbaric, or both? Do they believe in noble conflict or the existence of “a good war?”

Lockpick

13. Does your character prefer careful finesse or brute force in most situations? 14. How greedy is your character? Would they scavenge anything and everything they can carry from someplace “just in case”, or only ever take what they know they need? 15. What is your character’s most prized possession, and where do they keep it?

Medicine

16. How does your character tolerate pain? How do they handle stress and trauma? 17. Does your character have any habits? Any tics, fixations, rituals, superstitions, or dependencies? 18. What’s something that always makes your character feel better (physically, emotionally, mentally)?

Melee Weapons

19. What does it take to motivate your character to violence? Do they try to avoid violence as much as possible, are they willing and able to instigate violence, or are they even outright bloodthirsty? 20. How resourceful is your character? How adept are they at improvising with things around them or repurposing random junk into valuables, weapons, or tools? 21. Does your character have any comfort objects that they prefer to keep on their person as much as possible, or frequently hold in their hand just to hold it?

Repair

22. What is your character’s single most handy trait or skill? 23. How concerned is your character with practicality? Are they more down-to-earth, grounded, or focused on necessity, or are they more of a dreamer, indulgent, or reckless? 24. How quick is your character to forgive? Are they able to earn forgiveness from others easily?

Science

25. What kind(s) of intelligence would you say that your character does and does not have? 26. What kinds of things fascinate your character? Do they have any personal interests that aren’t necessarily practical, but that they just like? 27. Does your character appreciate a good puzzle, or any other kind of intellectual or strategic challenge (e.g. Sudoku, chess)?

Sneak

28. How does your character handle being alone in a wide-open space, being one of many in a large crowd, and being stuck with someone else one-on-one? 29. How does your character behave when nobody else is around? How does this differ from how they act around strangers, friends, or lovers? 30. Suppose your character just wants to disappear; where would they want to disappear to?

Speech

31. What does your OC sound like? What is the tone of their voice, their cadence, and their vocabulary; are they particularly profane or eloquent? Are they funny, and if so, what’s their sense of humor? Are they long-winded or do they speak little, and if it’s the latter, is that only because they’re concise or is it because they have genuine trouble speaking? 32. Is your character a good liar, or can they manipulate people well? Are they able to conceal what they mean or what they’re feeling, or are they an open book whether they mean to be or not? 33. What is something that could be said to your character that would be unforgivable, either by someone in general or by someone specific? How would they respond?

Survival

34. How well does your character take care of themselves in the wilderness? Do they feel most at home in the wilderness, small settlements, or densely inhabited areas? Are there any particular reasons why that is? 35. What kind of diet does your character keep? Is it more indiscriminate, or picky or particular? Are they good cooks, whether in a kitchen or by a fire? Do they think of food as simple sustenance, or do they appreciate indulgent dishes and finer flavors? Do they have a favorite food? 36. What keeps your character going? What is the one thing that they have that could motivate them to keep persisting if they lost literally everything else?

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