#character guide

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patientno7:

the suffering never ends

This is the real process

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

• Character creation masterpost
• Character Alignment Chart
• More character alignment descriptions
• Muslim Character questions
  
• Characters with magical powers
• Building a new character advice
• How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)
• Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page
• Basic character profile
• OC masterpost
• Random character generators - (1),(2),(3),(4)
• D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

• How clothing affects a character’s personality
  
• Character Design Inspiration blog
• Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by
• Character design references and inspiration
• Sources for POC character design ideas and models
• Create your own character model using HeroForge
• For horned characters
• Body and hair types guide
• Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

• Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources
• General advice on avoiding naming appropriation
• Hispanic Surnames
  
• Gothic Victorian names
• Huge master list for character things in general
• Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more
• Another name masterlist
• How to pick a character name guide
• Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

• Character Sheet/Development Sheet
  
• Another character development list
• In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet
• 320 talents and passions for characters
• On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous
• Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary
• Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes
• Random backstory generator
• Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

• Comparing character height/height references
  
• Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science
  
• Describing what different voices sound like
• Describing skin tones
• Writing friendship interactions that are platonic
• Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea
• Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing
• Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)
• How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters
• How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero
• On platonic OC and canon character relationships
• How to avoid Godmodding in RPs
• When it’s cheap to kill off a character
• Writing dialogue
• Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters
• Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs
• Slang resources
• Dialogue tips
• Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!