The biggest reason I want to try this out is because it's what I like to ask my friends.
Basically, I just want to see what people answer, because I've gotten some quite detailed characters, complete with story, setting, and other characters they interact with.
I guess I'll get around to my actual question: What character would you create, right here and now, for a game, book, movie, animation, cartoon, any sort of media, if you thought about it?
I'd like to add a few guidelines for it, along with my own example, which I thought of today. (You don't really have to go with them if you don't want, but they're usually what I go by, and I find myself thinking of far more interesting ones then usual.)
1) The character can't be all powerful. It's... a little... too easy to think of something like that.
2) The character should just be a little different from what the norm it's based off of (ie. if the character is a mage, make it someone whose spells don't work on tuesdays, or something.)
3) What's the character's personality like? I like to focus on that just a little more than actual looks.
4) What's a little of their past? For me, the character's past is just as important as the character itself.
5) Try to avoid writing about what they're doing in the present. I like to think of the characters themselves, and not what role they play in any sort of story. I guess it makes it easier for me to imagine what they could do, not what they are doing.
6) Please don't make an ideal you. This character should be different from yourself, and from anybody you know. That said, if after you make the character and realize that it does reflect someone you know or yourself in some way, that's perfectly fine
I don't really know about copyright issues, or what might happen if someone uses your character inside of a type of media. If you don't want to share a character because of these reasons, that's fine with me.
You can make the character any way you want... within limits. I don't want to read about someone's inner rapist whose going after my mom, once he's done with my sister... yeah.
Please don't bash on other people's characters, or try to make yours better or more powerful simply because you might have an ego problem.
Try to make up the character now, and not just dust off one you've already made (I know I won't be able to enforce it, but please try anyway.) But it's fine to take a while to think of one first.
My own example of a character is one I just thought of today, since I have nothing better to do than read forums, try to sleep, and feel sick. I'm naming him Lucy. Now, I should probably explain the whole setting he's in first, since that's also a big part of characters. This character lives inside of a fantasy, Matriarichal empire where the women are in charge, and the men are treated as little more than laborers and breeding tools. Because the women are so completely in charge, they switched all gender labels,such as the men being called women, and vice versa (I'm not trying to offend anyone here, I just thought it would be interesting to read about this type of culture) Also, the men are named feminine names, and the women are named masculine names. (Because of this culture, I'll refer to Lucy as "Her" from now on, and any other characters by their respective gender label in this society).
Anyway, Lucy has a strange power. When she looks into the eyes of anything that can look back, her body changes into that of the other creature, while that creature changes into her body. It's kind of hard to explain. It's not body swapping, as she is still inside of her own body, and suffers from no mental swapping. It's more of shape shifting both herself, and what she looks in the eyes. Her power is still present when she's changed, too, so she can cause a chain reaction by looking into a cat's eyes, then a human's. First she'll turn into that cat, and the cat will her own body, and then she'll change into that human, while the human will turn into the cat. This transformation will last until Sunset or Sunrise, depending on if she changed during the night or the day.
Right after she was born by her father (When I said all gender labels, I meant ALL of them) her father looked her in the eyes while he was holding her. Lucy turned into a full adult man, while her father turned into a baby girl. (This part gets a little graphic, sorry, but it's part of her past) Since Lucy was in her father's arms, she turned into a man on top of her father. Since she was still just less than a day old, she didn't know what had happened, and crushed her father beneath her while she was crying. Ever since then, she's been raised by a mother who's constantly reminded her that she's a monster, and if she ever raises her eyes from the floor, she would be beaten severly.
my character is heavily based off of my random thoughts after reading a forum about transgenders. (I don't really want to offend anybody, but that is where I got the idea for this character)
...So, that's the character I thought up, if you would like to constructively criticize, please do so. If you would like to create your own character you don't mind sharing, I would love to read about them.
Basically, I just want to see what people answer, because I've gotten some quite detailed characters, complete with story, setting, and other characters they interact with.
I guess I'll get around to my actual question: What character would you create, right here and now, for a game, book, movie, animation, cartoon, any sort of media, if you thought about it?
I'd like to add a few guidelines for it, along with my own example, which I thought of today. (You don't really have to go with them if you don't want, but they're usually what I go by, and I find myself thinking of far more interesting ones then usual.)
1) The character can't be all powerful. It's... a little... too easy to think of something like that.
2) The character should just be a little different from what the norm it's based off of (ie. if the character is a mage, make it someone whose spells don't work on tuesdays, or something.)
3) What's the character's personality like? I like to focus on that just a little more than actual looks.
4) What's a little of their past? For me, the character's past is just as important as the character itself.
5) Try to avoid writing about what they're doing in the present. I like to think of the characters themselves, and not what role they play in any sort of story. I guess it makes it easier for me to imagine what they could do, not what they are doing.
6) Please don't make an ideal you. This character should be different from yourself, and from anybody you know. That said, if after you make the character and realize that it does reflect someone you know or yourself in some way, that's perfectly fine
I don't really know about copyright issues, or what might happen if someone uses your character inside of a type of media. If you don't want to share a character because of these reasons, that's fine with me.
You can make the character any way you want... within limits. I don't want to read about someone's inner rapist whose going after my mom, once he's done with my sister... yeah.
Please don't bash on other people's characters, or try to make yours better or more powerful simply because you might have an ego problem.
Try to make up the character now, and not just dust off one you've already made (I know I won't be able to enforce it, but please try anyway.) But it's fine to take a while to think of one first.
My own example of a character is one I just thought of today, since I have nothing better to do than read forums, try to sleep, and feel sick. I'm naming him Lucy. Now, I should probably explain the whole setting he's in first, since that's also a big part of characters. This character lives inside of a fantasy, Matriarichal empire where the women are in charge, and the men are treated as little more than laborers and breeding tools. Because the women are so completely in charge, they switched all gender labels,such as the men being called women, and vice versa (I'm not trying to offend anyone here, I just thought it would be interesting to read about this type of culture) Also, the men are named feminine names, and the women are named masculine names. (Because of this culture, I'll refer to Lucy as "Her" from now on, and any other characters by their respective gender label in this society).
Anyway, Lucy has a strange power. When she looks into the eyes of anything that can look back, her body changes into that of the other creature, while that creature changes into her body. It's kind of hard to explain. It's not body swapping, as she is still inside of her own body, and suffers from no mental swapping. It's more of shape shifting both herself, and what she looks in the eyes. Her power is still present when she's changed, too, so she can cause a chain reaction by looking into a cat's eyes, then a human's. First she'll turn into that cat, and the cat will her own body, and then she'll change into that human, while the human will turn into the cat. This transformation will last until Sunset or Sunrise, depending on if she changed during the night or the day.
Right after she was born by her father (When I said all gender labels, I meant ALL of them) her father looked her in the eyes while he was holding her. Lucy turned into a full adult man, while her father turned into a baby girl. (This part gets a little graphic, sorry, but it's part of her past) Since Lucy was in her father's arms, she turned into a man on top of her father. Since she was still just less than a day old, she didn't know what had happened, and crushed her father beneath her while she was crying. Ever since then, she's been raised by a mother who's constantly reminded her that she's a monster, and if she ever raises her eyes from the floor, she would be beaten severly.
my character is heavily based off of my random thoughts after reading a forum about transgenders. (I don't really want to offend anybody, but that is where I got the idea for this character)
...So, that's the character I thought up, if you would like to constructively criticize, please do so. If you would like to create your own character you don't mind sharing, I would love to read about them.