Character 101--How to make really great characters for role-plays

[ave]

Originally Posted by khwaish

Music is great.
Just wondering, two things on RPs.
I was looking for the 1st year Hogwarts Thread and couldn't find it even on the last page of listed RP threads and are there any elite RPs? I haven't seen any in awhile. Thanks.

No elite roleplays- there probably never will be on WI, only semi and regular.

[dogs_rock]

I need an opinion. I have wolf that I need named. I was thinking of the names:

Faeofyre
Fyresong
Phoenix Fyre

Wich one do you think? Btw it's a female. And this is what she looks like:

http://dogsrock2008.***************/a...wolf-102456014

And yes I did draw that.

[geros9]

I have another tip for character making:
Make your character the way you first imagine them. That will be the way you think of them anyway. If you don't you will have a lot of trouble remembering what they look like.

[emmlag96]

Great tips! I'll post if I come up with something.(Probably not,LOL)

[MissRandom]

Originally Posted by dogs_rock

I need an opinion. I have wolf that I need named. I was thinking of the names:

Faeofyre
Fyresong
Phoenix Fyre

Wich one do you think? Btw it's a female. And this is what she looks like:

http://dogsrock2008.***************/a...wolf-102456014

And yes I did draw that.

I like teh name Fyresong. Fits her fiery pelt but feminine at the same time.

[aquamarine101]

I come up with normal sounding original names. "Aquella" and "Taylina" and "Kaype" are a few of my favorites.

[mink26]

Great thread lark!

I like animal over human Rps because in a animal RP you have to figure out how to survive, how they act, what their habit's are, how they 'smile', about their enviorment, and so on. I like to be different from who I am.

I like creating charries after people I've meet in my life, like maybe I've meet a person who enspires me to write a charrie. Say, I need enspartion for a charrie in a... flying squirel Rp. [Totally random, I know.] I think about that person, think how they might act now if something had been changed in their past, major or minor. Then I think of them looking like a flying squirrel. What color, how tall or small, and how they would act. Would they have a special mark? Yada Yada.

I look at japanese names most of the time now days. I especially love the way they roll of my tounge. Azami, for one, means thistle flower. Yoshi is a short term for many common names for men in japan. I take the name and figure out an appearance I like for that name... or I do it the other way around. I like to make my characters different- even identical twins have something different, like one wears pink an the other wears blue. Or one wears a decorative head scarf and the other wears a normal head band. Attitudes as well.

I like to make up a characters past as I go along, I sometimes think I do it because I don't want others to know my plots.

I've been here before,but,I have more ideas.
Advice on making wolves:
I've seen many perfect wolves.Just plain PERFECT.Don't do that...it's very bad.
Here's a description/personality I made:
A repulsive brute.He is scarred and unpleasantly tempered.He is stockily built,and has dirty,matted white fur.The brute has evil-looking green eyes.He has no joy in his heart,and his appearance reflects his personality.
I like odd names:Such as:Esadias,Vietta,Niatzu,Midnight,Moonlight,Zinala..

[ave]

I've noticed- Although while godmodding and making mary sues + perfect characters can get annoying, you don't have to make your ever character an inhumanly repulsive character. It's like, they can be just average. And making beautiful characters is okay, in my opinion. As long as you don't make it so they're perfect as well.

[CheekySam24]

Don't make your character perfect. No one is perfect, not even people in books.
It'll make your character sound too full of themself if they can do everything.