I set mine close to my age! So, 17-23. Though I do enjoy/find it easier to write younger, kid characters as well!!
Pretty much what it says on the tin, as always! I was wondering about this since I see that many users seem to have a preferred age range, or sometimes an exclusive age range for their characters! What's yours? (I'm of course talking about physical/mental age here; keep that in mind if you mostly have immortal OCs)
Also, please stay nice in your replies! Having preferences is 100% okay, but don't insult people of a given age range (ie. "elderly people are ugly", "minors are boring"), whether you're referring to real life people or just characters. I want this thread to stay enjoyable to read for everyone, no matter their age or the type of characters they write.
Most of my OCs are around 13-17 because I'm a teenager and I like making teenagers cause I can connect with them more, I do have more OCs under 13 than I have over 17.
I prefer the 13-18 range, mostly because I want my characters to be free from a lot of responsabilities. Also because I don't know how to write jobs oops
Technical age , I'm really big on ancient/old/been alive for a long time types of Ocs so it can go anywhere from 18-500+ lol but lookswise or my ocs who arent some ancient demon w.e i always keep it 19-35 and it does go up as I age. I think as you get older you tend to understand and relate more ,making easier to write and create 40+ Ocs
To be honest most of my characters are either little kids or thousands of years old immortal gods.
Well, more precisely, I have a bunch of OCs who are, like, between 8 and 12: In fact, the story (among others, it's a verse so it has multiple stories in it) has to do with the fact that the main character is a little girl (to do stuff that wouldn't make sense if she was older), and since she needed a bunch of people to interact with, I added one or two kids her age to be her friends and two slightly older girls who are twins to act as antagonists.
In the same verse, you have two minor gods who are respectively a unicorn-centaur who can't do magic and is probably secretly the leader of a sect dedicated to the moon/himself/his mom and a thicc plant lady with a ginormous magic flower bud on her head and magic tears who live in colocation, sooo these are the gods I told you about
I mean, I also had idea for more in between character (A 20/30-something old wolf woman, and an old lady that bakes demon guts-flavored pie are my main exemples for now)
20s and 30s are most common for me! on occasion i'll create some significantly older characters, though ... like 80s-90s appearance-wise.
18-25 is the range for the majority of my characters. i also have a 30 year old, 45 year old and a 46 year old, but two of that three are minor characters.
It's rough - with roleplay I have def shifted to later with early 30's to late 40's as my characters range. I have some outliers who are in their mid 20's and some extreme outliers who are in their early 20's and even teens but tend to get treated as well 'young' intentionally and then others who are 50-70.
It's kinda interesting to me that my age range has changed over time. I've been roleplaying for a good 13 years. Pretty much all my old characters were around 16-23 years old, with some as young as 11. I didn't make a thirty-year old character until I was 15 or so and it was a big deal back then.
Now it seems that as I've moved away from being a child/teen I've become less willing to roleplay as one. So my "comfort zone" has moved to be around...22-32 years, with occasional forays to as young as 16 or as old as 35 (peaking at 42 in that roleplay). I wonder if that'll continue to increase as I keep getting older.