#me when i DIE

[nemkero]

where we go, after the war

[doqt33th]

How do you exactly research a character’s personality? I have trouble with that, any advice can help! Thank you ❤️

Hi there!! Thanks for asking and sorry it took me so long to get to this! I check tumblr very infrequently 😞 My best advice is to kind of let your brain pickle in the character’s VOICE first and foremost. It’s much easier for talkative characters (like Mirage haha) because you can build a sense of their personality based on what they say about a given situation in their story, but the rule applies for just about any character regardless of how much/how little they speak.

Try writing practice dialogue between your character of choice and another one, and really focus on what your chosen character is saying. What I find to be super helpful especially if I’m stuck is to rip some direct quotes from the source material and stick them into any applicable situation and then build dialogue around them! Plus it makes for some fun easter eggs for your readers.

Getting a character’s personality right is very very important to me, so I spend a lot of time on dialogue heavy scenes usually with the source material on one side of my screen and my doc on the other, and I will write dialogue as I scrub through the media! Watching clips of your character’s voice actor in interviews can even be helpful too.

I would say another big part of nailing a character’s personality is not just the content of their dialogue (the specific words they say) but also their CADENCE and DELIVERY. For example, I write Optimus and Mirage very differently. Mirage speaks quickly, casually, and usually too much. There are lots of apostrophes, extra words, vocal tidbits (“y’know”, “c’mon”, etc.). Optimus is very stately and collected, and usually says exactly what he means to say and speaks with few contractions. Again, a lot of this is picked up from multiple rewatches (or the equivalent) of whatever source material you’re using.

Body language is also good to note. Again (using Mirage as like my only example LMAO), Mirage is very bouncy and animated and uses his whole body to talk. He’s always moving, so I try to acknowledge that frequently in my writing to give the reader a physical sense of how animated he is.

These are very loose guidelines and should be taken with a grain of salt! But I hope they are helpful :-) Thank you so much for asking, best of luck with your writing endeavors!!! Feel free to ask if anything here needs clarification or expansion.

[anuyoet]

oh god i just realized

its the same pose

[kavehpilled]

someone give me something to draw i wanna make something but im fresh outta ideas

[cosmiclion]

Watched the Barbie movie and it was okay I guess, tbh I don't thik it was as groundbreaking as all the fuss on here made it sound, but gotta admit Barbie just lying face down wallowing in her misery killed me.

Me when I face the smallest inonvenience:

[myffithealienn]

A song to you

[sky-forest-inn]

Another day another violent gag every time im reminded of being a curse user

[exileorexodus]

There’s mirrors every 5 feet here and it’s fucking me up I want OUT LET ME OUT LET ME OU

[exponentially-fxckedup]

DAY 3 - POST #11

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[sweaterrat]

pov im starting a business

[4xiaojun]

Nobody saw a thing….

[sttoru]

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UUUUUP LOOK AT THEM

[aphroditesswan]

REQUESTING AGAIN CAUSE I LOVE HOW YOU WROTE MY REQUEST <3 (thank u for actually doing it)

So this time a headcanon about an accidental confession with honkai star rail: blade, Dan heng! (Any other character u wish to add!)

Like where the character(s) wrote a whole essay through message about how much they like the reader. (Ik it's ooc maybe) but they were ganna delete everything the wrote but accidentally clicked send, and the reader sees it ✨️. Fluffy pls 🙏

I FORGOT TO RESPOND TO THIS BUT UR REQ IS UPPPP I HOPE U LIKE IT ALSO SORRY I KEEP TAKING TO LONG TO GET TO REQ I PROMISE I SEE THEM SOMETIMES TUMBLR BE EATING THEM UP THO 🙏

[novemberdevils]

f1 au update miami race is 19k words and not yet finished we might be cooked

[eastgaysian]

[catmask]

my mom loves to lie and like she always swears she was NEVER homophobic or anything to me as a child “i even have a gay work friend” but a really funny memory resurfaced recently where i asked if i could use birthday money i had to buy a rainbow flag when i was like ??? 7?? because i LOVED rainbows. and she said no that means something Evil and god will hate you . so what did i do. but ask my grandmom for a rainbow sweater for christmas and proceed to only wear that sweater for three years when it got cold because i didnt like the idea that god hated colors and i wanted to challenge him