What are your trademark character archetypes?

I have types, I make characters outside of them but my favorites always seem to follow one of them XD

• Intelligent, snobby and grumpy but actually a cutie/awkward. Or some mix therein.
• Bookish, well read.
• Strong women. Strong men too but mostly women.
• Red haired women and blue or black haired men.
• Some sort of animal form, theme or otherwise.
• Some sort of elemental theme.
• Well dressed/formal. Usually snobs too.
• Sad, emotionally scarred, angry, bitter or otherwise so their paRTNER CAN FIX THEM/MAKE THEM FEEL BETTER.

As a contrast I struggle to enjoy cute, happy and upbeat characters if they don't have something else going for them. Not saying I like all my characters miserable, but I love making them happy with their stories so often they start out unhappy or grumpy. There's just less fun in it for me if they're already happy. Though I do have some couples that are paired that both halves are happy, they just have a lot of drama around them instead XD

• Cinnanrolls that have been through a whole lot of traumatised stuff
• people who don't know how to emotion
• people who spend way to much time on the internet

• TRAGIC BACKSTORIES
• Emotions? Don't know her
• Edgy™ but not really
• Flirty with too many insecurities
• Main antagonist is emotionally manipulative
• TRAGIC FATES

I probably have like four default personalities:

- Cheerful, upbeat and optimistic

- Smug, mean and a bit manipulative

- Quiet loners, either stoic or shy

- Capable and seemingly perfect, bitter inside

Mixed in with some insecurities and tragic backstories yayyy (also the 'Bi The Way' trope probably applies to most of my OCs, I'm biased XD)

I tend to make...

• girls who have their shit together mostly, but under the surface, have a few issues
• boys who are so mad. they're so mad.
• sad backstories. aaaaaaaall the sad backstories.

Oh uhhh my tropes are probably just characters who are sweet, and so kind hearted but also dumb as hell in an endearing way. I am a total sucker with it.

That and people who pose as egotists who only care about themselves, but really only because they care too much, and can't handle that.

Big scary monsters who are actually really sweet and friendly! 

>Cinnamon Rolls/Sinnamon Rolls

>Trailer trash/ghetto characters that abuse substances

>Dummy stoners

>Flamboyant twinks

Oh man, mine are very obvious when you look at them haha!

♦Either sad/depressed or happy/bubbly

♦Pastel colors, includes green, pink, purple and blue (mostly)

♦Soft and predictable personalities

♦Sensitive

♦"Out of this world"

♦Aesthetic

huh, i totally thought i posted in this thread before! guess not, so here goes

• dictators/rulers/rich assholes/etc with a power imbalance relationship... like every second couple i make is like this
• geniuses in their fields/prodigies 
• power couples that ended up loving each other
• my female characters tend to be badass lesbians 
• REALLY TALL CHARACTERS... the average height in numbers is like seven foot something last time i averaged
• poly couples/groups, with a ton of people (10+)
• "nobody else knows why we're together but we're together bc it works for us"
• very few of my characters have had exes/past relationships
• and of course.... gods/reality warpers, that's like, a good 70% of my ocs

• amoral opportunists that join extremist organizations for personal gain as opposed to political motivation
• resistance fighters who become disillusioned with their own cause
• scientists with an almost child-like fascination for the world
• evil individuals with an underlying inferiority complex 
• pretentious intellectuals

> self hatred

> sleep deprivation

> hurt physically or mentally at some point

> overall morally ambiguous

> some kinda monster thingy

Twins.. definitely twins.

Not the identical hive mind type though. I'm more into the opposite twins type. It's satisfying reflecting them off of eachother. :J

we got 

• good good friendly boys 
• Literally Nothing Good Ever Happens To Them, Ever 
• angry punks who are very soft and sad on the inside 
• professional dillholes 
• ineffectual comedy villains
• The 90s™
• nihilists 
• scalies 
• and of course just about every conceivable remix of the above