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develop-your-oc · 4 hours
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What can't your OC resist?
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develop-your-oc · 21 hours
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Hi I was wondering if you know of any good websites/apps for OC organization!! I’ve been using the simply plural app for systems for like two years and I feel guilty that I’m using a mental health app for my ocs 😭🙏
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i personally use obsidian with some google docs on the side. you can check out THIS PAGE for those, as well as some other ideas. the page is very ugly, but i updated its contents just for you! 😇
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develop-your-oc · 1 month
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Lovey Dovey OC Development Prompts
Here’s a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ for you all on this corporate holiday! You can fill this out on your own, or you can ask your followers to send you numbers! (Oh, and remember that the real holiday is tomorrow, when all the holiday candy is discounted.) Have fun!
♥ (01) Is your OC in love? If so, with whom, and for how long? ♥ (02) Does another OC love your OC? If so, whom, and does your OC know? ♥ (03) Are there any romantic gestures that your OC loves? ♥ (04) Are there any romantic gestures that your OC hates? ♥ (05) What is the most romantic thing your OC has done for someone else? ♥ (06) What is the most romantic thing that has been done for your OC? ♥ (07) How successful is your OC at flirting with others? ♥ (08) What is your OC’s dream marriage proposal? ♥ (09) What is your OC’s favorite small way to show their love? ♥ (10) What is your OC’s favorite big way to show their love? ♥ (11) What do others love most about your OC? ♥ (12) What do you love most about your OC? ♥ (13) How does your OC show their love to those that are not their partner(s)? ♥ (14) Does your OC have any romantic traditions? ♥ (15) What is your OC’s favorite type of Valentine’s Day candy? ♥ (16) What is your OC’s ideal first date? ♥ (17) Could your OC fall in love with someone they’ve never met in person? ♥ (18) Does your OC have a “type”? ♥ (19) How highly does your OC value love (platonic, romantic, or otherwise)? ♥ (20) How does your OC feel about public displays of affection? ♥ (21) Does your OC believe in love at first sight? ♥ (22) How often does your OC read romantic literature? ♥ (23) What is your OC’s favorite nice thing to do for themselves? ♥ (24) How does your OC determine that they’re attracted to someone? ♥ (25) Does your OC believe in soulmates? ♥ (26) Is your OC ever the first to say “I love you”? ♥ (27) How does your OC typically spend their Valentine’s Day? ♥ (28) What is something unconventional that your OC thinks is romantic? ♥ (29) What is your OC’s favorite love song? ♥ (30) What is your OC’s favorite romantic movie?
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develop-your-oc · 2 months
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HOW TO GIVE PERSONALITY TO A CHARACTER
Giving personality to a character is an essential part of character development in storytelling, whether you're writing a novel, screenplay, or creating a character for a role-playing game. Here are some steps and considerations to help you give personality to your character:
Understand Their Backstory:
Start by creating a detailed backstory for your character. Where were they born? What were their childhood experiences like? What significant events have shaped their life? Understanding their past can help you determine their motivations, fears, and desires.
2. Define Their Goals and Motivations:
Characters often become more interesting when they have clear goals and motivations. What does your character want? It could be something tangible like a job or a romantic relationship, or it could be an abstract desire like happiness or freedom.
3. Determine Their Strengths and Weaknesses:
No one is perfect, and characters should reflect this. Identify your character's strengths and weaknesses. This can include physical abilities, intellectual skills, and personality traits. Flaws can make characters relatable and three-dimensional.
4. Consider Their Personality Traits:
Think about your character's personality traits. Are they introverted or extroverted? Shy or outgoing? Kind or selfish? Create a list of traits that describe their character. You can use personality frameworks like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or the Big Five Personality Traits as a starting point.
5. Give Them Quirks and Habits:
Quirks and habits can make a character memorable. Do they have a specific way of speaking, a unique fashion style, or an unusual hobby? These details can help bring your character to life.
6. Explore Their Relationships:
Characters don't exist in isolation. Consider how your character interacts with others. What are their relationships like with family, friends, and enemies? These relationships can reveal a lot about their personality.
7. Show, Don't Tell:
Instead of explicitly telling the audience about your character's personality, show it through their actions, dialogue, and decisions. Let the reader or viewer infer their traits based on their behavior.
8. Create Internal Conflict:
Characters with internal conflicts are often more engaging. What inner struggles does your character face? These can be related to their goals, values, or past experiences.
9. Use Character Arcs:
Consider how your character will change or grow throughout the story. Character development is often about how a character evolves in response to the events and challenges they face.
10. Seek Inspiration:
Draw inspiration from real people, other fictional characters, or even historical figures. Study how people with similar traits and backgrounds behave to inform your character's actions and reactions.
11. Write Dialogue and Inner Monologues:
Writing dialogue and inner monologues from your character's perspective can help you get inside their head and understand their thought processes and emotions.
12. Consider the Setting:
The setting of your story can influence your character's personality. For example, a character who grows up in a war-torn environment may have a different personality than one raised in a peaceful, affluent society.
13. Revise and Refine:
Don't be afraid to revise and refine your character as you write and develop your story. Characters can evolve and change as the narrative unfolds.
Remember that well-developed characters are dynamic and multi-faceted. They should feel like real people with strengths, weaknesses, and complexities. As you write and develop your character, put yourself in their shoes and think about how they would react to various situations. This will help you create a compelling and believable personality for your character.
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develop-your-oc · 3 months
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I'm sorry to bother you, but I was just wondering if you have any advice on bringing a character concept into a consistent, compelling character. I have so many character concepts, but I always struggle with giving them unique, consistent identities and voices, and you're so great at that. Thank you so much for creating such wonderful stories!
u r too kind to me. i am no expert, but this is generally my strategy when i'm writing/creating characters:
Remember that characters are more than stereotypes. If I'm making an FFXIV player who loves to shill, I'm not going to make shilling all that he is. That's how you get one-note characters that get a little boring. I try to picture a three dimensional personality that fits around that, even if all parts of it aren't used in text. Like, if I picture all the people who have shilled FFXIV to me over the years, what do they have in common? Quieter IRL, a bit tired of bullies, bad eating habits, etc etc.
Find a way to connect it to something you're familiar with. You write what you know best. If your character is an architecture student, but you know nothing about it, do some research about the field while also connecting that love of architecture he has with a love you might have for something else. You'll be able to write about his love for it more believably if you're tying it to something else you yourself adore.
Life hack: base the character on a person you know in real life. When you base characters off of characters that already exist, I think you run the risk of it not feeling authentic (but that's not always the case). The entire cast of BP was based on a server I was in ages ago -- the characters weren't carbon copies of the people I knew, but those people were good reference points for typing style and initial personality quirks for them all.
Find the fine line between similar characters and emphasize that. Felix already gets a lot of comparisons to Onionthief (deservedly so) but we're making them distinct in the following ways: Felix is colder, Onionthief is less mature, Onionthief is bullied more often in chat than Felix is, Felix is quieter, Felix is less judgmental of mistakes, etc. You find those deeper details that really separate characters and create... well, back to point #1. You create three-dimensional people that could exist in real life.
Edit to add: talk a lot to strangers. You will learn a lot about the variety of people in the world, and the way they interact realistically, if you brave the world and meet new people.
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develop-your-oc · 3 months
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STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND
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develop-your-oc · 4 months
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I need everyone’s best character advice. STAT.
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develop-your-oc · 8 months
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ik this is an oc blog and this is sooo off topic but I Hate the new dashboard layout with a burning passion and have no idea how to articulate that politely in a feedback forum. I want to do my part but I have no idea what to say do you have any suggestions
my suggestion is to a) state what you specifically don't like, b) why you don't like it, and, if applicable, tell them c) why it was better before the update.
for example, a) blogs are hidden in the navigation menu behind an account button that, when clicked, increases the length of the navigation menu 2-3x to show the blogs, and this only gets longer with an open blog tab (the one that displays a blog's stats et al). b) this makes navigating more difficult, when the intention of the update was supposedly meant to make doing so easier. c) the drop down menu that contained the blogs prior to the update was easy to find and use — the update including blogs alongside every other navigation menu is quite the opposite.
i didn't worry too much about the tone of my feedback, as i found that simply pointing out what i didn't like and explaining why i didn't like it was fairly objective. that being said, i did end my feedback with a note explicitly stating that i hated the update. so be honest, clear, and keep in mind that you can be negative about the update without being vitriolic.
ps this is so on topic because you are all on this website with me! 💖
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develop-your-oc · 8 months
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hey @staff what the fresh fuck is this
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develop-your-oc · 11 months
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What's your process for creating characters?
Imagine a weirdo. Give 'em one or more of my character flaws. Figure out how to hurt 'em.
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develop-your-oc · 1 year
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applying reduce reuse recycle to ocs. dipping them carefully into flowing water and seeing what sloughs off and then collecting all the shed material until theres enough for another guy to be made.
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develop-your-oc · 1 year
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Thought this might be a fun poll to put on here. I would say feel free to choose based on how many OCs you actually have/have created over time and not limit yourself with only fully developed OCs or only ones you use regularly. I'm curious to see the results :)
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develop-your-oc · 1 year
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head full… thinking thots…
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develop-your-oc · 1 year
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all wonderful creations
great day to create something buds makes you FEEL GREAT. create a drawing or a poem or a little tune you hum to yourself OR create a walk down the block or a little fun glance or a moment of conversation OR a moment of quiet silence for yourself. these are all wonderful creations
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develop-your-oc · 1 year
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what do y'all do when it comes to naming an oc? specifically, an oc that refuses to be named? you know they have a name, they know they have a name, but it's a secret they're keeping from you, which is completely unfair because *you made them* but they just stick their tongue out at you all annoying-like and then tell you their favorite flower. :/
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develop-your-oc · 1 year
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What if i devolve my oc?
devolve your oc 2023
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develop-your-oc · 1 year
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Template I made for the “My Ship In 5 Minutes” challenge. Feel free to use, but please don’t remove my watermark. <3
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