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One of you, I would quite like to RP with soon. The rest? Let me know if you would like to write together and what your ideas are. I like to discuss ideas before threading, it makes the creative process more enjoyable :)

Also, please take the time to read the RULES and familiarise yourself with the VERSES

Recommend Castrovalva and Logopolis (albeit in reverse order if you watch both. But imho, Castrovalva is better. Together they’re a great regeneration arc.)

Where do yoh start with your oc's? Mine are beginning to ask for their flaws first and the origin of those flaws second. What do your oc's ask for?

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It’s been a while but I would like to take a run at this.  Let me know if you have any other questions.  I’m honestly not sure how helpful this will be.

First, I read this thing about giving your characters memories a couple of weeks ago and it resonated strongly.  That’s something I do instinctively, and when I sat down and thought about it, it’s really one of the major cornerstones of how I go about character creation.  I learn a character best through their past, through their history and their memories.  So read that and have a think, and maybe consider whether this is something you need to work on, or are already good at.

My process is going to be different from yours.  In case you were worried, there’s nothing wrong with doing trait first, cause second.  Character creation is a dynamic process, there is push and pull, cause will suggest effect will suggest cause, and you can start with either cause or effect.  There’s no right or wrong starting place in character creation.

Why is Teacher X so impatient with people who are slow to learn? Well, maybe she was in a position as a child or young adult where her safety depended on being able to learn and adapt quickly, and she now unconsciously pushes her students relentlessly because she cares about them a lot and wants them to be secure.

But then, there’s the push/pull of “what else might such an upbringing have done to her?”  Maybe she’s aggressively “normal” and performs her expected gender role perfectly to avoid seeming out of place and drawing attention.  Or maybe it’s the opposite, and she uses her hard-won freedom to openly defy expectations.

I usually start out with the kernel of an idea.  “Broody murder librarian.” “Actual cinnamon roll angel.” “The cleanest and most pleasant barbarian ever.” “Sexy nerd vampire.”  And I build on that.  In rough order:

Overall personality traits, usually including flaws.

Character backstory and family history.

How does the character fit into the plot?

Human connections.  Some memories associated with that.

Revisit personality stuff in light of the new information.  What else might suggest itself?

More plot integration, if it’s for actual fiction and not for fun/RP.

Some more key memories.

A shitton of character-building OC ask memes.

Flaws are being revealed throughout, but sometimes they can take time to emerge fully for me.  I’d had Ariel kicking around for a long time before I fully realized some of his flaws.  He just had to be put in a situation where those came to the forefront.

It’s mostly just an unconscious process, though.  And a lot of times, it comes down to “What would be an interesting/unexpected choice here?” and then I go with that.  

All of which is how I wound up with a vampire realtor who plays with toy trains and has a Youtube channel of him doing incredible piano covers of pop songs.  His cat is named Keys and he once sold a perfectly good new car because he couldn’t stop honking the horn with his elbow every time he got out.  He has a chronic problem with keeping people in the dark and not being forthright, but he does it because he is trying to protect people he cares about -- the same impulse to obfuscate, hedge, and even lie that keeps people under his protection out of sight of anyone who might want to hurt them also leads him to withhold information from the people he is trying to protect “for their own good.” He doesn’t think of it as lying, but it really kinda is.  Voila, Sebastian.

Because I did a ton of high-turnover character-intensive one-on-one TTRPG roleplaying with my ex, character creation has become one of the things I am good at and can do very quickly.  It’s the result of practice.

Historically, you’ve gotten through everything life’s thrown at you. And waaaay less brilliant folks have survived this too. I know you’ve got this. I’m sorry about the anxiety, though. <3

it just kinda sucks, yeah. my landlord told me my bedroom smelled like weed, and i’m sitting here like “i’ve never smoked weed even ONCE in this apartment, not EVER” and like, i’m pretty sure people congregate below my bedroom window and smoke on the porch down there, but that’s not my fault!

My favorite little boneheads. I wonder if keeping two of them would be enough or they would need more of a herd to be happy and not immediately territorial. But I like the image of two of them curled up like massive puppies so we'll start there and hope they get along.

Yes absolutely please come see me and my A-named animal friends for an armadillo play date. The archeopteryx will oversee from a wall climb and I will make sure the pachys behave. They wouldn't eat the armadillos but they might try to play ball.

I saw an archeopteryx skeleton recently and they were so tiny. My little prehistoric shoulder lizard chicken...I love you...