- Violent and/or lustful demons.
- The occasional innocent and wholesome bean.
- LGBTQ+ characters galore!
- F U R R I E S.. kinda?
This was a conversation my friends and I were having earlier about our characters: everyone has certain character archetypes they're a sucker for-- or maybe ones that they can't help but keep making. What's your poison?
You can interpret this generally: maybe archetypes like "jerks with a heart of gold", personality traits like "smug", storylines like "friends who fall in love", whatever types of characters you love to see or create!
My characters:
a) idiots but they try
b) feelings are hard let's never talk about them
c) conflict resolution is hard let's never talk about it
- AW little guy !!! → OH hes a little bit fucked up actually
- almost everybody could do with some therapy. certainly this says nothing about me not at all
- either on the younger side or several hundreds of years old, no in between
- soft and muted colours. I think?
- any romance is less romance and more strong bonds that might (or might not) include traditionally romantic aspects
- questionable morality/grey morals
- attachment issues of some sort
- near everyone has some sort of experience with being othered/alienation/feeling alienated
- no concept of gender (whether that means "my gender is no, do not involve me in that" or "well I'm comfortable being treated as [agab] so shrug")
- "imperfect" trauma victims (imperfect is absolutely a stupid way to describe this, but like. characters who don't fit into the expected victim narrative and behaviour)
- emphasis on culture of origin, even if it's not necessarily super important to the character- self projection onto everybody and anybody
theres three types of characters in the world
-whore who doesn't care but actually does way too much
-mean sadist emo
-little sweet autistic kid (just like me fr)
- alternative scenes, mostly goth and punk. But they do listen to those genres not just their appearance present it
- anarchists
- sometimes they are related to current fixations
- usually working in an academic or artistic fields.
- long haired men!
- music references, or a lot of references of the things i like
- obvious jojo inspiration
- edgy oc
no backstory
no worldbuilding
idk their age
bright-ish colors
i don't even know their name
goofy and happy or just afraid and sad (one or the other)
there's too many to keep track of help
- "father I crave violence,"
- mentally unstable women/girls <3
- characters who are inhuman in their behavior
- re: inhuman, characters who are just slightly off, enough to be uncanny
- big strong muscular fem character who is dating a short masc character (any gender combo)
- characters who are mostly gender neutral
- lovable goof who has Trauma (tm) but is trying their damn best
- stupid bitch representation <3 not exclusively or even mainly himbos/bimbos, but those are included
- ball of adhd energy
- people who are annoying as fuck
- guy (who is probably purple) who try to act sauve/charming but is blatently full of utter shit, just an awful person all around and he is probably also loud and annoying. Very full of himself and cocky
- gnc icons
- they are. So tired. Let them rest
- literally just dumbasses. all of my ocs are dumbasses and I say this affectionately
- “I have no emotional intelligence and take social cues terribly”
- will fall apart if you breathe negatively in their vague direction but they’re doing their best
- “shut the fuck up” mom friend
- an actual ball of sunshine and would never hurt a fly
I need more variety in my character writing
1. short, angry, and absolutely unhinged
2. tired grandpa energy
3. powerful god has zero clue how the modern world works
4. my career and/or society is corrupt and i'm going to play vigilante (whether that means being an actual vigilante or not)
5. some flavour of aromantic
6. rich kid trauma
7. personifications of death/the grim reaper
8. high intelligence, low wisdom
(there's definitely more, but eight'll do for now)
usually my ocs end up being big gruff bisexual men with daddy issues and/or are dads with issues- all super stupid, all stupidly sweet
that or they're super curvy ladies with fluffy hair and the magical ability to steal everyone's girlfriend, also with shitty parents
basically all my characters are me but hot (unless they're an animal ofc, then they're just me but cute)
Oh this is easy
1. Scary Women
2. Nerds
3. Aloof, stoic characters
4. Guy that looks like a normal guy but turns out to be a monster or something (werewolf, hulk-adjacent, stuff like that)
5. Too pathetic to live, too smart to die
1. Neurotic repressed gays
2. "Evil" hillbillies that are just kinda stupid
3. Cranky old men
and at least 2 of my characters are all of the above
red oni blue oni dynamics, villains who are either tragic or adorable and really bad at villaining, antihero angstlords, gender is fake, angst piled on to more angst