#CHARACTERS

[hongsoonsang]

Legend of Zorro - Zorro expression Character Sheet.

[oritoor]

[artfight]

How much visual detail is generally necessary for OCs to be attackable? Like, is a simple drawing (bust or full-body) okay, or would we need turnaround sheets/more detail so that people can better draw our characters?

You don't need a full reference sheet for others to attack your character! We recommend a colored bust at minimum, though a fullbody might be best, so no one is left guessing if they'd like to draw more of your character.

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Modern Disney Moodboards // Cinderella

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

[dp-references]

Damon Gray

[madcat-world]

From Sketch a Bsinthe

[cute-pictures-of-trevor]

Let the man play with his toys don't disturb him pls <3

[daily-fandragon]

Day 183

Troquantary from OFF by Amordel

[bl-mitchum]

I can’t watch anything without analyzing it like a piece of literature. I watched Megamind for the first time the other day and I’m now a firm believer that it’s a thesis on the principle of nurture vs nature.

[bryan360]

🚨 PLAGIARISM ALERT!! 🚨 ❗️❗️

I just literally just check yesterday that yet another plagiarist using my characters without permission for bizarre reasons. This time it’s from that YT Channel that I don’t bothered of watching through some videos; especially it had my main characters and Sallie Chips like this. 😠

At least now I’d shared through one of these videos so hopefully someone and my closest friends can reported it and needed to be taken down soon. Spread it all out!

Tagged: @murumokirby360 @shadowredfeline @alexander1301 @sammirthebear2k4 @lordromulus90

[heyhoneyfox]

"You can't make all your main characters queer/trans/neurodivergent!!! It's unrealistic!" Listen to me. Very closely. My main friend group consists of two trans men, a trans woman, a non binary person, and a two spirit person, all of whom are queer and neurodivergent. They are all people that no one could predict because we are all soups made without recipes, soups that can never be re-made. You can do whatever the fuck you want with your characters because the point of writing is to have fun.

[monsterblogging]

If you really stop and think about it, Stacker Pentecost's iconic line "you're an egotistical jerk with daddy issues" covers a pretty huge percentage of characters commonly reckoned as complex. (And if it's not daddy issues, it's probably wife/girlfriend issues. And sometimes, it's even mommy issues.)

[the-dragon-hearted]

"Dear god, you can't keep falling in love with weapon-coded characters!"

Me, on the floor, holding my blorbos close: "BUT THEY ATTRIBUTE THEIR WORTH TO THEIR PERFORMANCE -"

"You have to branch out."

Me, sobbing: "They can't form lasting connections because they struggle to swallow love. It's too soft, too kind. They can't see a future where they have it or think they are incapable of returning it -"

"You can't keep doing this."

Puddlefied Me: "They can't be beaten, but they can be destroyed! THEY CAN'T DIE BUT HAVE BEEN SLOWLY DYING -

"I need you to calm down."

What happens when a gun does not want to be a weapon!? What happens when the strongest can't die with their friends, but can't save them either? What happens when the thing you are best at is slowly killing who you are: DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING TO YOU, HOW ARE YOU NORMAL ABOUT THIS -

[rubyleaf]

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

[rae-butter]

Honestly, I love it when characters relapse. When someone who’s gotten over their anger issues falls into a situation so out of their depth they fall back on their old habits. When someone who’s learned to open up becomes a recluse again in order to cope with something outside their control.

There’s just something so horrible, so toxic, about watching a character grow and then slip back into their old selves in order to cope, bc you know they still care, that they’re the same inside, but watching them hurt so hard they don’t know what else to do brings a sense of catharsis.