-Depressed/nihilistic attitudes masked as laziness. I think only my animal OCs aren't the only ones without some form of hopelessness.
-very bad at expressing themselves, but using a creative medium as outlet.
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
• dudes who are complete messes of themselves who act like man children when mad sometimes.
• people who don't put up with people's crazy antics [hint: Mr Bear, Quinn, Roxanne]
• narcissists who have beef with everyone who supposedly wrong them and talk about killing people sometimes [I'm looking at you Kong-Rey]
• almost everyone in this house has a good childhood and great relationships with their parents.
• characters who die in the most gruesome ways that sound like something you would see in a horror movie
• both strong and smart men and women [because you can both have a strong male character and a female character, why have just one gender strong than the other]
- Characters that participate in an active kind of roleplay fantasy as a costumed archetype that eventually are forced to confront the reality, become disillusioned with themselves but then grow stronger to become true heroes
- Characters that wear masks
twinks.
Ok jokes aside (it IS true though)
- less so characters and moreso my stories/worlds as a whole, but all three of my stories/worlds have some sort of apocalypse theming somewhere, guess my name on here is fitting
- I like writing vengeful characters
- there’s…a lot of characters with cat traits
- GODS. I LOVE THOSE.
it's usually two ends of a line and some are just somewhere inbetween lmao, we got:
• complete menaces, too confident for their own good and annoying everyone around them with it
• strange and off-putting, bad at expressing emotions other than negative/neutral ones
-Buff/muscular guys
-Masked/faceless guys
-Characters with black and white + the primary colors in their color palettes
-Buff/muscular guys that wear masks/faceless 🫡
-Shirtless men
-Achromatic/black and white color schemes
- My sonas are pretty much all shapeshifters.
- One of my friends summarized my character style as this:
- She works best when it's a morally grey character who can STILL be justified to cooperate/be considered part of the "good guys" or protagonists, but with that same "morally grey" also opening doors to edgy stuff
- She works best when it's a morally grey character who can STILL be justified to cooperate/be considered part of the "good guys" or protagonists, but with that same "morally grey" also opening doors to edgy stuff
the only one I can think of right now is "unapproachable, stoic, sort of mean character turns out to be heavily traumatized and yearns for human connection" lol
- traumatized grandpas who are surprisingly still alive after everything
- divorced dads
- military men serving the CUNTry
-women beating the shit out of their ex's
- gym bros (or just muscles everywhere)
-horror/grey tones
Literally all my OCs (especially the guy linked in IC) are just lil fellas. They're just little guys and they're there to chill. They're just a little bit evil and even a bit more morally grey but we love that for them!
If being a morally grey/neutral, reserved lil guy was an actual archetype then all my OCs would fit in there 🤣
- endlessly optimistic shonen protag... but female
- women that just have... something a Bit wrong with them.
- absolute gremlin