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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?
how topical for ridley! ridley handles money extremely poorly, to put it lightly. they funnel the heaps of money they get as an artist for lune into whaling out in MMOs and gacha games for that momentary serotonin. is it healthy? no! but does ridley succumb to it every time? unfortunately yea :(
luckily since moving in with kibi and generally getting into a space where they feel like they can try and cope it's been better but they're still prone to it
Viktor works as a professional racecar driver (both legal and, far more rarely, illegal races). From my OCs, he has the most money.
He handles it quite OK i think. He owns a house and puts away a part of his wealth - for his kids and incase he gets into a serious accident and has to stop working. Viktor doesn't really donate it though - he once had a nasty encounter with a fairly big charity that tried to scam him out of his money.
Phighto was a mascot similar to Smokey the Bear-- her idol for years. She primarily worked in the PSA production industry, writing and featuring therein. She loathes the concept of using fear to control people, or manipulate them into doing the right thing. She's always been of the opinion that one should be 'good' for it's own sake, not out of fear or bribery. Being that most popular PSA's were the things of nightmares, especially when it was a more thriving industry, she has always had a bit of a chip on her shoulder. Still, she made enough money to get by, featuring as a bright-eyed fox teaching about gun safety, especially in a hunting environment. She loved her job immensely, and the visible joy during filming was 100% sincere. She liked teaching the little ones, and coming up with new ways to effectively spread her message thrilled her. After years in the field, she had a pretty large amount of cash stashed in a savings account, as well as investing in stocks and bonds for the long term. She didn't exactly retire by choice. A filming 'accident' where the prop gun was somehow replaced with a genuine and fully loaded pistol stole her passion, as well as her life. As far as being undead, it's been argued that she's simply become too mean and contrary to die. It doesn't explain surviving the incident in the first place, but she doesn't like to think about it.
Even after the career/life ending incident, she was more or less set for... afterlife, as far as funds. She keeps herself busy with odd jobs that may or may not include assassination services and various acts of 'environmentally inspired destruction'. She's smart with her money, and keeps a steady cash flow in spite of being technically unemployed. She can get excessive with donations to causes she's passionate about, but she never really wants for anything.
Anything besides companionship she doesn't have to pay for, anyway.
Week 36: (Pick a character) How do they handle money? How do they earn it, if at all?
Cyrus' way of handling money is... a little contradictory? On one hand he comes from a poor family so he's very likely to skip outings etc because he doesn't really have the money for it! But on the other hand he occasionally impulse spends all his own spare change on quick serotonin sources instead of saving them. He knows it's not great but at the same time he fears that if he saves his money he'll never be able to buy anything Nice for himself because those savings are bound to go into some emergency or some other sudden and unpleasant thing. This is the kind of behavior a lot of people from low-income families do (including me) so it's fairly easy to talk about it haha.
Cyrus is a student so he doesn't have a regular job yet, but whenever he just can he takes the occasional odd jobs people may offer, like taking care of their pet while they travel or tending their garden or doing deliveries. Cyrus' physical disability does limit his options and tends to make him slower at what he does if it involves moving around, but he's very dutiful and precise with the work he's promised to do!
How do they handle money? How do they earn it, if at all?
Cadus isn't particularly stingy, but he certainly is protective of his gold lmao the man will sleep with his wallet if he can. He was born into wealth, but his fear of not having enough on hand likely came from getting disowned, banished, the whole nine yards and all. Combined with his lack of faith in his future, it's probably why he's always trying to earn more but also spending easily jsodifjasdf Cadus has little morals and will do pretty much anything (as a hired mercenary) for enough gold, so while it isn't exactly ludicrous, he probably gets high paying gigs every now and then.
Week 36: (Pick a character) How do they handle money? How do they earn it, if at all?
Juice has no need for material objects, services, or money, since he can get those all himself. And, honestly, doesn't need to broker information or blackmail, considering he'd normally just mind-read people, but it's way more fun to beat people with sticks until they give you money and/or spill their weaknesses
Sessy magicks up whatever money he needs because he at least tries to participate in mortal economies and whatnot. He'll pay for a business lunch or paychecks, but since he provides shelter/food/water/entertainment/community/etc for his people anyways they aren't really given money. But if they asked he'd give them some
Semi hides as a mortal as part of his game so he actively uses cash, but like Sessy, he just magicks it up. He prefers "bartering" with doing work or services for people in return for a place to stay or food (not that he needs either, but it keeps his profile low if he plays the part of a mortal accurately). He likes buying cars and bikes, though, and kind of can't help but get one when he sees a cool one
People who worship/are "friends" with Affine leave him offerings sometimes, usually dual-colored coins, with a brightly-colored obverse and darkly-colored reverse. He kind of doesn't get why people do that, but Ometeotl told him people are just trying to connect with him in their own ways so he's not bothered. Doesn't know what to do with them, though, lol, so they're mostly sitting in jars & piles
Dave Works in a construction company, and that's how he gets paid. He saves up money quite well, and has a large sum in his back account.
Ellanor Does some commissions here and there, and doesn't save up money well, often spending it a little after they got it.
Pabloa Streams games and is very popular, earning herself a bit of cash. She also takes up small jobs on the side to make a little extra cash. They spend money quickly most often, but if she really wants something she can save up pretty easily.
Rosen Makes money off of future telling, and saves up most of her money just in case.
I like modern. It's just easier to navigate for me because then I don't really need to design brand new worlds entirely. There are still places I need to build, but it's easier on me than designing maps of new lands bc I'm just not that good at it KEKEKEK. But yeah, even with my monarch characters dressed like Medieval characters, they're up in the modern world with us! It's supposed to be a combination of supernatural with natural, like at first humans not being able to see the supernatural and the non-humans but after a big battle the veil's torn and now they live together and try to coexist.
All of my characters look pretty drastically different, but they all belong in the same modern world, believe it or not! Like I said, it's bc it's easier for me LOL
