#admin:jacks

If you are portraying a general character, you try your best to portray them as realistically as you can. If they are an idol, you try to keep up with their persona, things they have done, group mates, etc. (ex: Jackson doesn’t like spicy food. So if you were portraying him in a general verse, he wouldn’t like spicy food.) 

If you are portraying a semi-au character; maybe you have ¹minor personality tweaks, or maybe you ²changed their background a bit, there’s also things like maybe they have ³another job or hobby that they focus on as well as being an idol. (ex: ¹Jackson doesn’t really show his sensitive side, but the way I portray him he does. ²Jackson is from Hong Kong originally, maybe you changed it up and he moved to Korea sooner than he actually did. ³Jackson is an idol by day, street racer by night.)

If you portray an au verse character; you have the freedom to tweak their personalities and backgrounds. They don’t have to be idols, they could be a gardener, a skater, a choreographer, etc. It depends on what you’d like to do to be honest. Usually the only thing that is the same about their actual face claim, is the basics: their name, weight, height, etc. A good example being Admin Chase.

Lastly, but most certainly not least are original characters. Original characters in my opinion are probably the coolest thing a writer can create, simply because all of the details are up to you. You get to decide their backstory, their personality, small quirks they might have, and to put it simply you have the most freedom being an oc. A good example being Admin Scarlett.