If there's anything you need to know about me, it's that I love lists, charts and statistics. So here I go indulging myself lol. All word clouds were made with WordClouds.com and graphs in Excel.
Feel free to share about your own profile length tendencies, if you like--like what kinds of characters of yours normally end up with long or short profiles. I'm also curious if you think there's a correlation between how long a character's profile is and how fleshed out they feel (be they my OCs or yours or others' in general)?
- The longest ones tend to be of two kinds: 1. Muses whom I'm constantly developing and extending the profiles of, and 2. story-peripheral OCs whom I can talk about in detail because there's no spoilers to censor.
- But Aleigh (i.e. longest profile among my OCs) is neither? His profile was already that long from the time I posted it. I've always thought of him as one of my most complicated characters, so it makes sense?
- The OCs with the shortest profiles are, almost consistently, the quiet, nurturing ones. Perhaps that says something about how I treat characters of those personality types 🤔 or maybe their lives can be expressed in fewer words.
- E&S has the longest profiles. Makes sense since it's a completed novel!
- Poor Noma, her life is full of spoilers.
- On average, my profiles are 709 words long. That's...longer than some of my school essays lol. The profiles featured here have combined 22,000 words, which is almost halfway to a novel. RIP
- O r o b e l l e
- Orobelle's profile is actually one of the shorter ones. So that means she gets mentioned a lot in other OCs' profiles.
- Vesper, on the other hand, is tiny on this cloud despite having one of the longest profiles. Love
- I may talk about parents a little too much. I mean, I can't deny, parent-child relationships are extremely prominent in just about everything I write.
- Parents and names, two extremely common themes among my OCs. Fair.
- A more even distribution, but maybe because there's only four profiles.
- Ruthenia's should be a lot bigger, in terms of character prominence. But Aleigh's profile is just too long.
- I love that the most frequent word isn't even a name, it's just, death. Figures.
- I can't believe Surma is mentioned more often than Kalma. wof wof
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