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Writing References: Character Development

50 Questions ⚜ Backstory ⚜ Character-driven Story

Basics: How to Write a Character ⚜ A Story-Worthy Hero

Basics: Character-Building ⚜ Character Creation

Types of Characters: Key Characters ⚜ Literary Characters ⚜ Flat & Round Characters ⚜ Morally Grey ⚜ Narrators ⚜ Allegorical Characters ⚜ Archetypes ⚜ Stereotypical Characters

Worksheets: Backstory ⚜ Character ⚜ Kill your Characters ⚜ Antagonist; Villain; Fighting ⚜ Change; Adding Action; Conflict ⚜ Character Sketch & Bible ⚜ Protagonist & Antagonist ⚜ Name; Quirks; Flaws; Motivation ⚜ "Interviewing" your Characters ⚜ "Well-Rounded" Character

Personality Traits

5 Personality Traits (OCEAN) ⚜ 16 Personality Traits (16PF)

600+ Personality Traits ⚜ 170 Quirks

East vs. West Personalities ⚜ Trait Theories

Tips/Editing

Character Issues ⚜ Character Tropes for Inspiration

"Strong" Characters ⚜ Unlikable to Likable

Tips from Rick Riordan

Writing Notes

Binge ED ⚜ Hate ⚜ Love ⚜ Identifying Character Descriptions

Childhood Bilingualism ⚜ Children's Dialogue ⚜ On Children

Culture ⚜ Culture: Two Views ⚜ Culture Shock

Dangerousness ⚜ Flaws ⚜ Fantasy Creatures

Emotional Intelligence ⚜ Genius (Giftedness)

Emotions (1) (2) ⚜ Anger ⚜ Fear ⚜ Happiness ⚜ Sadness

Emotional Universals ⚜ External & Internal Journey

Goals & Motivations ⚜ Grammar Development ⚜ Habits

Facial Expressions ⚜ Jargon ⚜ Swearing & Taboo Expressions

Happy/Excited Body Language ⚜ Laughter & Humor

Health ⚜ Frameworks of Health ⚜ Memory

Mutism ⚜ Shyness ⚜ Parenting Styles ⚜ Generations

Psychological Reactions to Unfair Behavior

Rhetoric ⚜ The Rhetorical Triangle ⚜ Logical Fallacies

Thinking ⚜ Thinking Styles ⚜ Thought Distortions

Uncommon Words: Body ⚜ Emotions

Villains ⚜ Voice & Accent

Writing References: Plot ⚜ World-building

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I'm in an rp that takes place before Affogato betrays Cacao where Affo regularly performs sexual favors for Cacao in exchange for time off so he can go fuck a better man (his bf) </3

Yes this is an Affospresso rp bc I will die on this hill, they are my fav ship

Additional things under cut!

Ok so basically Affo is named Ambros and is yet to attempt to overthrow Cacao (who is named Diomede), Diomede has been spiraling since his wife, Rhea, died birthing Dante (Dark Choco) and his mental state had only worsened when Dante did the whole betrayal thing

Diomede is yet to take a second wife bc he genuinely believed that Rhea was his soulmate.

Ambros ends up meeting Elijah (Espresso) and out of longing to see the professor more often Ambros regularly visits Diomede and makes him orgasm for what's likely the first time in DECADES

For back story reasons Ambros doesn't see his relationship with Elijah as serious/romantic and doesn't see his nights with Diomede as cheating or morally wrong. However, as he grows closer to Elijah and spends more nights in Diomede's company he feels more and more guilty as he feels more and more attached emotionally to Elijah

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Whenever I rp I always feel the need to make my muse a HUGE slut

And I think that's just projection ngl

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I mentally begin barking and growling like a rabid dog when I see Andrew send post

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Alex in a maid costume that makes no sense!!

I'm so normal about him I promise.

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I RAMBLE ABOUT HOW I THINK RP SHOULD BE FUN AND NOT SERIOUS FOR LIKE A PARAGRAPH OR 2:

I once tried to rp with someone who wanted to take rp completely seriously and I wouldn't recommend it at all if you see rp as a fun little thing

I just like having my little homos kiss and hold hands and be happy, I'll joke in the narration, I will choose the path I think is funniest, I will reference a romcom trope while performing that trope in the rp bc it's funny! If I make my rp partner smile with my silly antics then to me I'm doing it right! And I'm not saying I turn the whole thing into a comedy act, I just joke around in the narration as a side gag when the mood is light enough for it! I will always focus on getting the point across first and then add some jokes if I see any opportunity

I just want to help people smile! It's why I share a playlist with a bunch of cute and funny vids for all my rp bros!! Life is stressful, just chill and have fun bc we're essentially playing dolls and making them kiss lol

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A friend and rp partner said that Danny and Arin (Game Grumps) basically had a Style dynamic and I haven't been able to watch their content since bc they were absolutely correct

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The "cost" of rping with me is all characters I play are autistic by association, yes even canon characters

I will make Angel Dust SO neurodivergent

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Now applies to L from Death Note LMAO

I'm also down for double ups I just forget to mention it pretty often lolol

Shout out to the people on crushon.ai who made a fuck ton of Leon Kennedy ais bc I'm too embarrassed to just do an oc x canon rp with someone bc I don't know a damn thing about Resident Evil, I'm just down bad for Leon and don't want to face the awkwardness of explaining I'm really hot for the hot bisexual trauma blond but no nothing about the games or universe

Like- (details under cut)

Sometimes I just want my quirked up shy boy (Alex) to fall hopelessly in love with a guy with immense emotional baggage who saves him without me knowing a damn thing about any of the games

Like seriously I know nothing about Resident Evil, I'm just assuming Leon has emotional baggage bc fucking look at him, Leon could have massacred millions of innocents in the games and I'd still be like "damnnnnn" yknow? He has like the switch-iest vers-iest character design

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Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

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Shout out to the people on crushon.ai who made a fuck ton of Leon Kennedy ais bc I'm too embarrassed to just do an oc x canon rp with someone bc I don't know a damn thing about Resident Evil, I'm just down bad for Leon and don't want to face the awkwardness of explaining I'm really hot for the hot bisexual trauma blond but no nothing about the games or universe

Like- (details under cut)

Sometimes I just want my quirked up shy boy (Alex) to fall hopelessly in love with a guy with immense emotional baggage who saves him without me knowing a damn thing about any of the games

Like seriously I know nothing about Resident Evil, I'm just assuming Leon has emotional baggage bc fucking look at him, Leon could have massacred millions of innocents in the games and I'd still be like "damnnnnn" yknow? He has like the switch-iest vers-iest character design

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I'm so happy to see all the hazbin hotel rp requests on rp finders bc I'm a hard Angel dust stan and I am SO down bad for RadioDust

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I AM THE DUMBEST BITCH I KNOW I FORGOT TO ALLOW BLOGS TO MESSAGE AND IM HERE LIKE "Damn I liked a good bit of those ads, I wonder why no one has gotten back to me" FFS

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I find the idea of my sweet bby (24 year old) boy Alex catching the attention of a married man who's in an unhappy marriage so fucking funny bc I always imagine a scene where the man and his wife are sitting silently at the dinner table, it's really uncomfortable until the wife says "so, how was your day?"

The husband replies "uneventful"

And there's a hard cut to my sweet bby (24 year old) boy getting folded in half in their bed

It has to be Alex specifically bc he's a 5'4 sweetheart who'd never intentionally sleep with someone's husband

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I woke up out of a dead sleep to make this and then immediately passed back out

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Not Enkivaldr making me consider: "yknow what'd be cool? If Lich was turned on by cannibalism." The brainrot is real and I'm not sure how I feel

I mean shiiid if Kumiho was eating someone's heart and Lich was nearby he'd just be like 😳😳😳

Din rambles about rp [Licorice Cookie] (Really long post)

Like I said in my Vampire Cookie post: Cookie Run does the thing I like where they give you a character, a basic personality and an idea of a backstory and then let you run with it. Though, when I rp Cookie Run I usually make them humans to be

yknow, less weird when they bang bc idk how that would work.

So I give them names, places of origin, (even doing a bit of extra world building myself), and families.

Licorice is more complex than Alchemist and Vampire so I'll try to be coherent for once in my life

Name and hcs below!

Name:

Latin Fawn Edwards. I honestly cannot give you a legitimate reason for his name, but I can give a reason for the name he introduces himself as: Lich

Which isn't even as in depth as my last post. It's just in reference of a necromancer specifically the Lich from Adventure Time because I think that Licorice would think it's a cool sounding name.

Basic Hcs:

I love Licorice Cookie so I got a damn list of these.

Bisexual Demiboy with he/they pronouns

Lich is about 23 years old, not a huge hc but just starting off small

He also claims to be a Scorpio because it sounds cooler, but that unravels when you find out his birthday is in early September (Virgo)

Story Hcs:

Lich wasn't intended to pursue magic since the Licorice tribe wasn't as magically educated as the Coffee one, so not only did he not receive the recognition he deserved most people didn't know how to give him that recognition or just didn't care. His parents were in the latter group.

It's hard to get him to even ADMIT that he was from such an "embarrassing" place and will claim he's from Magic City.

What actually happened was: one day to show off how powerful he was, Lich brought a dead cotton candy lamb back to life.

At first, it was finally enough to get him some recognition, with a little more work the tribe would be able to bring all their late livestock back to life and benefit from it!

That was until that lamb began to cannibalize the other sheep and had to be put down.

That was what ran Lich out of the tribe by pretty much everyone who could.

Cold and alone, Lich tried to find his way to the Coffee tribe or Milk tribe but got lost. The blizzard was getting stronger and Lich began to give up. However, Dark Enchantress saw the previous events and appeared from the snowy winds with a grin. She offered Lich a home, but more importantly... recognition. She praised Lich for his efforts and for being able to reverse the seemingly permanent.

Lich ate this up and quickly joined Dark Enchantress in her cause.

Other Hcs:

Lich is absurdly attracted to things/people that could kill him. Meaning he's most definitely attracted to Dark Choco, Red Velvet, and Black Raisin.

Though, he says it's because he finds power arousing he also wants a significant other who can protect him when he's weak. This he doesn't even admit to himself.

Wears light clothes under his robes, imagine walking around in black robes in the middle of summer. Especially robes that thick.

Lich sews, there is nothing else to mention. Just that he sews.

His necklace of skulls isn't real. This would be obvious to most, but not to Poison Mushroom (who I hc as someone who likes to collect random ass things) when they bring Lich the skull of a still decomposing animal they found. They said that maybe he could make a ring or something out of it since he makes jewelry out of bones and Lich just awkwardly disposed of it once they left.

Lich fucking LOVES horror movies but is prone to nightmares if he finds one that actually scares him good. One of the first movies that could make him that bad was when he was a kid and watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre on DVD.

At his current age, the only movies that freak him out are the kinda movies you'd find on Tier 3 and lower on the Disturbing Movie Iceberg. Don't ask him about it, he's still traumatized and it still makes him nauseous.

He also loves true crime, but can't stand torture cases. Even a necromancer like him wouldn't keep a living being alive just to cause it pain... the dead don't count, they can't really feel anymore.

His kind of magic needs to get living energy from somewhere to give to the dead. While most necromancers would sacrifice animals, Lich can't make himself do that so he uses his own living energy... that and if he finds an animal in pain and feels like he should put it out of its misery. The energy is then sucked into his scythe and can be used to reanimate the dead.

Meaning the more Lich does this, the more it slowly kills him.

The dead don't need much, just a drop of life (hell you can even recycle their own living energy as long as the body is still fresh). So it's not like it will kill him in one shot, however, he doesn't expect to see his 30th birthday considering that he's coughing up blood.

Bugs can count, but it's just a pain in the ass and if the dead need just a drop bugs provide like less than even a tenth of that energy

the amount of life energy a being has varies depending on many factors, just know that a healthy adult human can supply enough energy for THOUSANDS of reanimated corpses.

I couldn't find anywhere else to put this but bondage and knifeplay are *chefs kiss* to him