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🖋️ Weekly character dev questions [W43]

Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Edited 2 years, 6 months ago) by Caine

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I figured that since the "weekly show me a character" thread has been alive and running for a couple of years now, I could give a shot at doing similar with development questions! I'll post a new prompt each week both on this starter thread and the comment section! Feel free to post answers weekly or combine previous ones into one post - whichever feels the best for you.

Week 43: (Pick a character) How do they feel about big gatherings like parties? Do they enjoy having a lot of people around them or do they prefer less (or none)? How likely are they to approach people they don't know?

Previous weeks 2021

Week 1: (Pick a character) What would you consider to be the most impacting event in their life (that isn't their own birth or death) and why?
Week 2: (Pick a character) What makes them feel the most confident? Is it more internal (being good at something, succeeding in things etc) or more external (being praised, getting their skills acknowledged by others etc?
Week 3: What is your favourite part of character creation and why? Does it depend on character/time/your mood/etc?
Week 4: (Pick a character) How does your character generally react to failures, both their own and the failures of others?
Week 5: Do you have distinct "favourite" characters among your ocs, or does your current favourite change? Or do you consider them all "equals"?
Week 6: (Pick a character) If someone were to attack them out of nowhere, how would they try to defend themselves? Or would they try at all?
Week 7: How do you feel about your characters sharing traits/interests/etc with you? Do you try to avoid similarities or do you embrace them?
Week 8: When you create a new character, how much of their story do you work out on the spot? Do you prefer to get all details done at once or prefer to add more little by little?
Week 9: Which one of your characters would you consider to be the most "unexpected" character from you and why? The reason can be anything from their story to themes and even the design.
Week 10: When you're creating a new character, how much do you think about their family/guardians? Are they usually an active or a distant presence in your characters' lives?
Week 11: What was the first original character you posted online like? Do you still use them?
Week 12: (Pick a character) How do they feel about positive attention? Do they thrive in it or does it make them uncomfortable? Feel free to talk about the nuances of "positive attention" or attention in general if you want!
Week 13: What's the most drastic non-visual change you have made on a character? Why?
Week 14: Pick your oldest and your newest character on TH. Would they get along? What would their chemistry be like?
Week 15: What is your process when it comes to naming characters? Do name meanings matter to you? Do you pick a name with a "purpose" or based on a "feeling"?
Week 16: (Pick a character) What is their love language? Does it depend on people? Have it changed throughout their lives? Is it a combination of several types? (Suggested by PicklePantry)
Week 17: Pick your current most and least favorited characters. What do they have in common? What's different? When were they posted on TH? Do you think they still reflect your current tastes in character design and/or story?
Week 18: Have you ever learned a tip/trick related to character/worldbuilding development that changed the way you view your works? Or do you have some specific tips/tricks that you consider to have been particularly helpful for you?
Week 19: Have you ever had OC related "advice" that has done more harm to you than good? If yes, how did you end up learning out of it?
Week 20: (Pick a character) What's one memory they wish to never forget (and why)?
Week 21: What kind of compliments do you enjoy the most when it comes to your characters? Is it about design? Certain story elements (backstory, personality, trivia etc) or maybe about people finding them easy to understand?
Week 22: What do you find to be the most important aspect when you create or buy character designs for yourself? Is it the colors, clothes, silhouette, simple design to draw fast or something else?
Week 23: Pick two characters you'd consider similar to one another, either in design or story/personality. What would you consider to be their main differences?
Week 24: (Pick a character) How reliable would they consider themselves to be? Would other people agree with them?
Week 25: (Pick a character) What would they consider to be their greatest passion? Alternatively, what is something they find to be "their own special thing" that they delight in doing?
Week 26: When you're reading someone's character profile, where do you start? Is it the overview? Trivia? Backstory? Something else?
Week 27: If you had to name exactly one movie that has had a huge impact on you as a creator, which one would it be and why?
Week 28: How did you discover original character communities/the general concept of them on the internet? If you don't remember, what would you consider the most fun aspect of ocs for you right now?
Week 29: (Pick a character) If they had to pick an animal to describe themself, which one would they pick and why? Would you describe the character with the same animal or would your own pick for them be different?
Week 30: What's the most bizarre/interesting/weird piece of trivia you have learned while doing oc research? Did this trivia find its way into the character or some other character later on?
Week 31: (Pick a character) How do they express their anger? How does it appear to others, and how does the character themself feel about their own anger? Does their society encourage or discourage certain expressions of anger?
Week 32: What's the biggest story and/or personality related change you have made on a character? What made you want to change it?
Week 33: (Pick a character) What do they do on their free time? Do they have hobbies or have they had any in the past? What's something they wish they could put more time into (such as learning a skill, participating in some activity etc)?
Week 34: (Pick a character) What kind of impression does their appearance tend to give to others [in their worldsetting]? Is it an impression they want to give to others? Are they aware of the way people perceive them in the first place?
Week 35: Have you ever created a character but refrained from actually posting about them publicly? If yes, why? And if no, could you ever see yourself in a situation where that could happen?
Week 36: (Pick a character) What is their most treasured item and why? If they don't have any feel free to talk about the reason for it!
Week 37: (Pick a character) Who is their most trusted friend and why? How would the character describe this person? And if they don't have anyone they trust, feel free to talk about the reason for it!
Week 38: (Pick a character) What's their preferred sleeping position? Are they a calm or a restless sleeper, and do they like sleeping next to others or prefer sleeping alone?
Week 39: (Pick a character) What do they typically smell like? And why? Do they use a certain perfume, cologne, or deodorant that makes them smell a certain way? Suggested by soyyemilk
Week 40: (Pick a character) Where did they grow up in? Did they live in the same place/area most of their life or did they move places? How would your character describe the place they consider their childhood home (or the closest thing to it)?
Week 41: Which one of your characters would you consider the hardest to draw? If you're not an artist yourself, what would you imagine being the hardest?
Week 42: (Pick a character) How open are they about their feelings? Do they have anyone to talk to if they're worried? Are they more likely to talk about positive or negative feelings with others?

Previous weeks 2020:

Week 29: Which one of your currently posted characters has gone through the most changes throughout the years?
Week 30: Which part of character creation do you tend to struggle with the most?
Week 31: (Pick a character) What are they afraid of? How do they handle their fears? How do they respond to other people's fears (friends, strangers etc)?
Week 32: (Pick a character) How does your character feel about change? Do they welcome with open arms, or are they afraid of it?
Week 33: How do you go about making a new character? What kind of things do you like to keep in mind when planning their story/personality? Do you consider your other already existing characters when planning new ones (avoiding stuff already done with one character etc)?
Week 34: (Pick a character) What do they consider their greatest achievement? How about their lowest low moment?
Week 35: Do you have story elements or certain character tropes/cliches you love to use in your characters? If yes, what are they? If not, have you ever noticed common elements despite trying not to have them?
Week 36: (Pick a character) How do they handle money? How do they earn it, if at all?
Week 37: What kind of settings do you prefer to use in your works?
Week 38: What kind of villains do you prefer to create? Does your preference differ from what kind of villains you love to see in fiction?
Week 39: (Pick a character) Do they have any goals/dreams/aspirations in life? What are they? If they don't have any, does the lack of them ever bother them?
Week 40: Are there things in fiction you love to consume, but prefer not to create yourself?
Week 41: What do you usually do if you can't connect with a character you have or you can't make them work quite the way you'd like?
Week 42: (Pick a character) What kind of things get them excited? How are they like when excited?
Week 43: What type (human, feral, anthro, monster etc) of characters do you have the most? Have your tastes changed at any point?
Week 44: Do you have any fears or insecurities as a creator? If you do, are these more based on your work itself or the way other people will react to it, or both?
Week 45: Do you tie your interests/hobbies to your character in any way? Why/why not?
Week 46: Do you prefer developing your characters on your own or by interacting with other people (be it RPing or discussing)?
Week 47: What kind of questions do you prefer to be asked when it comes to your characters or setting?
Week 48: What kind of conflict do you like in fiction? Is it a conflict of interests? Morals? Based on lies or miscommunication? Something else entirely?
Week 49: When you get an idea for something you'd like to explore in fiction, are you more likely to make a whole new character for it or use the idea for an already existing character?
Week 50: How do you use your characters? Are they something you collect? Part of a story? For RP?
Week 51: What kind of layout do you use for your character profiles? What makes you like it?
Week 52: What do you do when you feel like you have ran out of ideas or you have hit a creative wall with your work?
Week 53: Do you like to look back at your creative works or do you prefer to just keep on going and paying little attention to what you have made in the past?

StormyStarlight

oooo this is a good thread!!

writing it all down/explaining it is definitely the hardest part for me... if that counts. i can have the story/personality/etc. of a character figured out very in-depth but i have such a hard time conveying it through writing/words! only like four of my characters have "complete" profiles here for this reason... whoops
finding the right balance between simplicity and needed complexity/consistency in my world. i.e. i don't really want to design and draw full sets of armor on the dragons in my story—their designs are already complex enough as-is—but they're fighting a war... i think they need them LOL
reusing the same traits in my designs... over and over again......... what, this is only my 16th character with curved ram horns in the same story, why do you ask?
i'm not the worst with names in general, but naming my characters after things that don't exist in their world and getting way too attached to those names is going to come back to bite me in the butt eventually.

Caine

Week 30: Which part of character creation do you tend to struggle with the most?

Drawing finished references......... It's so easy to doodle but very hard for me to focus on making clean references, which is why most of my characters nowadays only have a sketch ref for their fullbodies etc. I have more OCs than I'm physically (and mentally) capable of producing finished art for so I have had to make some compromises

salida

I always put off drawing more art of a new character, so their profiles have one or two doodles or bust shots or whatever but no full bodies. Or all i have for them is the one fullbody ref but no other drawings. I really like making characters but im unfortunately too lazy to draw em sometimes... TT__TT

MissMemorielle

Week 30: Which part of character creation do you tend to struggle with the most?

all ..of it except the visual design. or i have a tendency to have a lot of thoughts and ideas for a character, but i never take the time to just write it down so they end up having blank profiles for the longest time until i hit a stride and then i make them super elaborate lol. also names.

Caine

Week 31: (Pick a character) What are they afraid of? How do they handle their fears?
How do they respond to other people's fears (friends, strangers etc)?

Violette Goatbert VincentVanGoat

Her fear is regaining her mortality. She doesn't know what that'd do to her, heart wise as that is what killed her, and that if she did come back, she'd just die and not have her spirit bound this time. But also because she's already banked on her now eternal time around. Losing that would devastate her.

Depends on the fear, if it's ghosts she just doesn't really grasp that, but a lot of common ones she does her best to be mindful and to help out if she can! Has no real sort of any type of deal when it comes to varying people, she kinda has the same mindset for everyone's fears that she knows. But hey being a ghost it has to be tough to be told you are scary and you wanna show that not all ghosts are.

Hopper Greene PicklePantry

Have you ever had irrational fears? Like, "that ceiling fan is moving way too fast" or "what if the floor breaks under me"? I have a lot of those, and I funnel them all into Hopper KEKEKEK. He's a paranoid guy who's constantly afraid that the smallest thing will have a butterfly effect that leads to the worst case scenarios. The problem with him is that he doesn't really handle these fears, he runs away and hides until he's comfortable again, often running to his guards of his dad to feel safe.
The person he loves gave him the red mask he's always seen with, and whenever he puts it on he feels like an entirely new person. It's like when you're writing your character and get to see through their eyes for a bit, but for him it's amplified. He becomes his complete opposite: loud, proud, and, most importantly, courageous. But that's only with his mask on. Otherwise he's his normal terrified self.
When other people are scared around him it gets contagious, and his own fears roll off theirs until he's completely overwhelmed. When he has his mask on, he laughs off their fears and assures them it's all right.

Lucas lycanvvolf

Lucas is terrified of large bodies of water. i think it's called thalassophobia, he began having the fear when he was nearly drowned by another eklon that despised him a lot. even then he had always had weird things against pools, ponds, etc., even before that incident.
Lucas doesn't like to share his fears, as he's one of those types who would want to seem like they're tough and all even though they are scared of a few things, if that makes sense.

he handles his fear by simply not approaching water, except if he needs it to shower, drink, etc. for right now, no one really knows about his fear and he doesn't really know any way to help cope with it. i don't even know if Lucas knows how to swim, either.

Lucas believes that having fears is like weakness, and tries to encourage people that it's "Not that big of a deal, just go with it." like for example, another character of mine, Axel, has a fear of heights. when he would have to try and help pry Lucas out of a situation that involves Axel having to climb up a pole, Lucas tries to calm him into not being scared as he would promise to catch him if he did fall.

Jonathan Linden Caine

Week 31: (Pick a character) What are they afraid of? How do they handle their fears?

Jonathan is afraid of strange dogs, in particular those that aren't on a leash! He tends to freeze when he sees strange dogs and often tends to try to hide behind someone (which is hilarious considering many of his friends are much shorter than he is), or alternatively just grabs a friend by their shoulder to just... feel more grounded I guess?

He usually relies on his friends a lot & making sure he's not making any sudden moves. He's slowly but surely getting himself more comfortable with strange dogs because he loves animals but it's still a long road to complete immunity to that fear.

How do they respond to other people's fears (friends, strangers etc)?

He always wants to do his best at making others feel comfortable, so he often asks if there is anything he can do to help. Especially with friends he's super eager and invested in helping, often dropping whatever he's currently doing to help a friend in need. With strangers he tends to be a little wary mainly due to the whole stranger danger thing, but generally he can't just watch and do nothing if he sees someone in need. Since he's pretty good at dealing with his own emotions it also helps him to respond to the feelings of other without letting someone else's fear consume him, at least most of the time.

But yeah he's emotionally intelligent enough to respond to other peoples' fears by helping instead of covering or avoiding them

Sigmund Vernon Kirbygal

Sigmund says he has a fear of romance but it's more of a fear or getting too close to someone emotionally. He's had a rough experience with a relationship once in his past and he never wanted to experience something like that again so he's closed himself off to the thought or being in a relationship. It extends to casual relationships too ;; The way he handles it is to just keep everyone at an arms length. He does tend to adapt to situations pretty well and can talk casually with a lot of different people, but no one truly knows him, and he prefers it that way. ;; Not even his client, who's the closest person to him since they work together everyday for many hours at a time and are friends since they've been with each other a long time.

How he'd respond to others fears, I guess he could try to comfort the other person, but he wouldn't try too hard to make everything better. He does tend to give pretty good advice, even if it's something he didn't experience personally but might have seen secondhand experience from something else (this ironically extends to some relationship advice lol)

Caine

Week 32: (Pick a character) How does your character feel about change?
Do they welcome with open arms, or are they afraid of it?

Kattenkvvaad

did it for two of my characters because why not :3c

Taro - for them it really depends on the kind of change, especially since they are of an element that isn't quite welcomed with open arms. They are probably somewhat afraid of change, espeically if the change isn't what it seems at first, but at the same time they're working hard to make a change that will affect their entire world.

Autumn - Autumn is somewhat of an ever-changing being themself, and they often welcome any kind of change (both good and bad) with open arms. It's fascinating and it's refreshing to see what something new or different can do.

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