#idk i just can't wrap my head around to a trope approach to character creation in terms of character traits | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

saberdramon · 7 months ago

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baffled at the way people approach character creation. wdym you can take a trope like smug demonguy or muscle mommy and flesh that out into a character you care about without having to mangle 5 already existing characters into it and also throw out the entire concept when you find out something wholly different works infinitely better

#soda.txt #one of my OCs was intended to be butch lesbian werebear #she's still a lesbian but everything else about that concept was thrown out after i gave it actual thought #not because it was bad but because she could not have worked like that in the context of the narrative #she went from a confident loner who didn't give a shit to someone who gives way too many shits and worries way too much #and it works better now in the larger context #my antagonist placeholder trope was tumblr sexyman bait and now they're everything but that #idk i just can't wrap my head around to a trope approach to character creation in terms of character traits #rather than tropes in the sort of roles they're supposed to fill which gives me so much more room to work with

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