What are your trademark character archetypes?

Posted 6 years, 3 months ago (Edited 5 years, 6 months ago) by hedgemaze

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


All my forum games and threads

Pikuseru

Introvert and extrovert but platonically.

embep
  • high femme bimbo lesbians 
  • femboys
  • "idiot" who're just pretending to be stupid
  • murderers. at least one person. often multiple.
  • soul-crushing (positive or negative) sapphic relationships
  • general fighting types who r only sweet for their s/o
Remilion

- 1 braincell that bounces around their head like a screensaver.

- Bastard.

- Addicts.

-Comic relief with tragic backstory.

- Retro motifs in general.

- All of the above.

So in conclusion, Evil Dead has ruined my taste in characters. 

Also feminine men.

Tsokatani
  • chill, tired person who just wants hot chip and a nap
  • edgy person with heavy emotional baggage
  • extroverts who scare me because theyre extroverted even though i made them that way
  • innocent looking one who acts feral
  • feral looking one who is innocent
  • pretty women
  • pretty men (mostly feminine because i struggle to draw masculine men ;; help)
  • barely ever drawn ( •᷄ὤ•᷅) oops
tarrtaglia

mine uhhh

  • cold hearted 
  • or kiddos with very laid back personality / some people called em "free spirits" chillies
  • feminine looking male chars
  • in dreams
  • liars
  • gay. gay. gay. GAY..
  • kalm introverted kids that are secretly being extroverted
ennn

- identity issues 

- anxiety arsonist 

- fucked around (and dare I say, found out) 

- no clipped a little too far out of reality 

I can assure that majority of my docs fit one of these types and if they don't then no clue how they were able to do that lmao. 

WizardOfNeet

Neurodivergent characters are my #1 thing, but here's some bonus things:

-Tall-ish scruffy dudes that indulge in whatever their partner's into, even if the tall-ish scruffy dude is with another tall-ish scruffy dude.

-The short dudes that are into the thing (usually these are the traumatized ones somehow).

-Or eldritch horror.

Pretty_Boy

•Evil.

•Witches!!

•Vampires

•General aloofness

SugarGuuva

-queer gay ass mfs
-gentle gaint
-gremlin to some sort of extent
-angri
-ray of sunshine
-ball of nerves
-everyone being traumatized as all hell/hj 

Ignotus MaliciousScorpio

Crazy demons with a thirst for blood and destruction or flirty immortals.

eanx

- gay
- FAKE PEOPLE!!! THEY SNAKES!!!! (they smile but backstab) +trauma
- feminine, even the male characters
- just women in general

pandaAWAKE

If I have not written it before

~ From friends to lovers/Enemies to lovers

~ Hot long haired men, who never get the FL as she has a girlfriend

~ Slice of life

Drawkill_Dragon

...it's not particularly well displayed on my profile yet but it is DEFINITELY sparkly twinks. I make. So many.