User blog:Nikolai the Second/Character creating: The Basics

A lot of people are creating characters. The eruption of subplots in the past 5 months has lead for an explosion of characters. This makes the entire series more complicate and slow but it can be a good thing. Nonetheless I would like to outline the basics of creating a character.

Realism
Characters need to be realistic. Everything about them has to be realistic. There age, there personality, there story or bio, and there characterization must be believable. Then again this is THDF so most anything goes.

Purpose
The vast majority of our characters have an ideology. The believe in something larger than themselves. We need to know why you are fighting. If you have created a perfect character but we don't even know why they do the things they do then some would say you have wasted your time.

I am very guilty of this. I have little to no purpose behind Stonewall, Sut'Ra, and Kesk. They are honestly extras with no purpose other than to create dialogue or try to tell an intresting story which is why I quickly grew tired of them and only sporadically rp as them.

(more to come.)