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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?
Her pendant. She never takes it off and gets quite hostile if anyone else tries to touch it. It was given to her by Lee. He didn't think anything of it since it was just a cheap carnival trinket, but the gesture meant the world to her.
Whenever she's worried about Lee she'll start fiddling with the pendant without even realizing it
Quills most treasured item is his coat. It's the only thing he could keep from his old home and as long as he pursues his goal to get back, he will wear it (even though in the enviorment he's in now, it kinda makes him stick out). His mother also wore it to sneak out the castle when she was younger. That adds on to the significance of this item quite a lot, since Quill was very close to his mother in his childhood and tried to gain her affection back for the rest of... his life.
It gives him a feeling of home, but home was awful, but he still wants home, so the coat doesn't exactly comfort him, but it definetely motivates him to keep pursuing his goal. (which is bad, because his goal is too overthrow a kingdom)
Sol's most treasured item is a ring his wife used to wear. He does not hold on to many things and is not very sentimental, but it is still nice to have at least one thing that reminds him of her. He does not think of her as a lost love or anything (because he has not lost her, she just died of old age), just as an old friend he has outlived and occasionally likes to remember fondly.
Bella's necklace is very important to her as it contains a swatch of fabric from her very first design. The bottle containing it was given to her by one of her closest friends so it has a special place in her heart.
Annie's most treasured item is her first bass. It's not the best quality and it's a bit more used than when she got it, but for her it represents her dreams, and makes her think about how proud her younger self would be of her.
His most treasured possession is a toss-up between his cane (which besides being a major factor in his ability to stay independent, as an artifact it does have a bit of a mind of its own and it likes him), and a simple cord necklace with a pendant that looks like a wolf tooth with the base wrapped in wire (actually a tooth taken from another Lunar, initially just as a memento after the man was killed and now as way to more easily contact said Lunar's ghost). He's highly protective of both for pretty obvious reasons.
Kenneth absolutely treasures the red scarf he took off his dead father but a major point of his arc is giving it to another member of his family and letting go
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!
Ama's most treasured item is her earring. she was given that by her human (witch) owner before she passed away. she rarely talks about her past owner, mainly out of fear of the pains of the past bubbling back up. after her owner passed away, she fell into a deep depression.
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!
Ooh easy pick for this one! This is Wyatt, he's not necessarily a distrustful person, but he's an information broker who works with some shady people, so he tends to be on guard and has a hard time assuming the best of others. And even beyond that, he's just a very private person. When he was a kid, he was bitter and angry from poor experiences living in the foster care system, which is where his most trusted friend, Blake, comes in! Blake was one of the only people who managed to connect with Wyatt and break down his walls. He's changed dramatically since, mostly because of Blake's influence in his life. Now they're a couple of middle-aged dudes but they're still as close as ever, essentially platonic soulmates. There's a lot of history behind them, but also he's just one of the only people Wyatt can truly feel himself around.
Shouri would be. Despite what most people see from him, she got to see how devoted he could be. She saw him at his worst and his best.
As for describing him, she'd describe him as selfless, putting himself out for others. He was ready to throw his life away for her when they first met and that made a huge impact on her. At first she wondered why he valued his life so little to just give it up for a total stranger. But as she got to know him she'd come to realize that's just who he is.
Silvio's closest friend would have to be Avril (she doesn't have a a profile or even a finished design yet,,,). She's Alain's younger sister and the person Silvio's father wanted him to marry. Avril does have feelings for Silvio, but he has come out to her as gay, so she's just happy to be this close to him.
As prince, Silvio doesn't have many friends or people his age to be with, so Avril has become him emotional support throughout his story. Silvio would describe Avril as kind and caring but incredibly stubborn. Since Silvio tends to not handle his emotions very well, she is very hard on him at times. Silvio also likes how positive and optimistic Avril is, which helps him fell better.
Avril was the first person outside his family that Silvio came out to, so she means a lot to her, especially when he has no one else to rely on.
