Kittens Character Enhancemnet Topic!
Learn to be a pro at character creation!
Reminder: This guide is not only a helpful tool, but will also provide a suitable table thing to help you create characters, that are acctualy well structured and advanced.
By now you've probably explored some idea's about characters, and made some for your game. The following will examine some different some more characters written by an Australian, hopefully this will aid you as you develop further in your skill of making and understanding characters.
Send Round The Hat, The Bushman
[spoiler=Examine Me!]He was six-foot-three or thereabout. He was loosely built, bony, sandy-complexioned and grey eyed. He wore a goodhumoured grin at most times, as I noticed later on; he was of a type of bushman that I always liked—the sort that seem to get more good-natured the longer they grow, yet are hardknuckled and would accommodate a man who wanted to fight, or thrash a bully in a good-natured way. The sort that like to carry somebody's baby round, and cut wood, carry water and do little things for overworked married bushwomen. He wore a saddle-tweed sac suit two sizes too small for him, and his face, neck, great hands and bony wrists were covered with sunblotches and freckles.[/spoiler]
-Henry Lawson
Henry's character description includes most of the things you will need to think about whilst you develop characters of your own.
Things to think about, whilst making a character!
Appearence
Age: How old the character is.
Height: How high the character is.
Weight: The characters weight.
Head: his head shape, is it shaped oddly, or rounded.
Face: His facial expressions, eyes/mouth/ears/nose etc.
Body: is he muscled or weak etc.
Limbs: Does he have something special eg. a hook or such. If so this is the place to put it.
Clothing: What does he wear, does he have multiple appaearences, pajamas, formal, normal etc.
Actions
Behavior towards others: Is he kind, mean, heartless, etc.
Gestures: eg. movements such as tapping his foot when he is impatient or biting a lip when he is nervous.
Movement: Does he walk, ride a horse run, jog etc.
Opinions
Image: What others think of him.
Self Image: How he thinks of himself.
Idea's, Belifes: religions or political, and any idea's they may have.
Qualities: kindness, cruelty, unselfishness, contentment etc.
Attitues: The characters point-of-veiw on any given subject.
Past Experience
Past: What made him the person he is.
Location
Present Locations: where he lives now.
Past Locations: Where he lived before his current residence.
Traveling: Does the character stay put or move around in housing.
Speech
Word Usage: Does he use certain words eg. slang, formal english etc.
Accent: Does he speak with one, is so what is it.
Voice: Is it deep, high and such.
Well I hope you learnt somthing from this stub of information, I will be updating it. Good luck and such.
-Kitten
Gj. :) Covers lots of things and this'll create depth for the characters. ;D
Awesome tut.
You're always good at making tutorials!
Keep up the awesome work. :P
This is genius. I'm a pro writer. I'll use this instead of the old way that I had. :-)
<3 Luv it.
I shall add this knowledge on my next Update thou >.>:;;
Nicely done ;8 I'll be using this in my new game (Which is actually going to be planned out ! :o )
I'm going to bookmark this when I need, really helpful, i'll use it in my new game, Elfy's Adventure.
Another good tool is the Twighlight Zone. They cram a ton of info into the first 10 minutes about backstory and character, but it is almost like a straight up bio instead of fitting it into the story.