Post by LaurelTree on Oct 11, 2015 21:01:30 GMT -5
Character ABC's
When Making Your Character
The Basics
It's always good to include things like age, gender, and rank. Those are three key fundamentals that everyone wants to know about your character. Not knowing them, especially gender, makes it kind of difficult to interact with that character in the roleplay. Of course, one could always ask, and they'd (hopefully) eventually figure it out by reading your roleplay posts, but why not tell them what you know they're looking for?
A physical description is also pretty important. Sometimes, even when describing your character in the roleplay, the reader doesn't see things exactly the way you do. Especially since you're not likely to describe everything about your character's looks at one time. Besides, I seriously doubt you'll want to give a detailed description of your character in every roleplay thread you participate in.
Additional Info
Other things that people often look for in a bio would be a history. And not just the character's past, but their past relationships as well. Knowing what your character has gone through is something readers find very interesting. It isn't necessarily beneficial, but it's proof of a well developed character, and that can tempt others to meet that character in the roleplay.
Creation
Now, when it comes down to the nitty-gritty part of making the character, there are a few things to keep in mind. You already know the few necessary details that you must come up with in order to have a character, but what should those things be?
Make sure that the name reflects the character as it was when born. The mother wouldn't have any knowledge of it's personality, future feats, or even its eye color. Just its pelt color, markings, and a small idea of its basic physical make-up. Its name would also reflect whether or not it was Clan born, born to a loner, or born as a kitty-pet. A loner she-cat isn't going to name her kits things like Princess or Jacob, but a kitty-pet might.
Something else that would be good to be mindful of is how all your characters are related. There's nothing wrong with having a character that is related to other characters of yours, but it should never be directly. That means no parents, siblings, or kits of other characters you have. Nieces, nephews, grand-kits, and so on are perfectly fine however. Also, you may not mate to another of your characters. This would either cause you to have to roleplay with yourself, which would technically be writing a story, or this would lead you to never really roleplaying much out between them at all and, therefore, people not really knowing what's going on.
The Basics
It's always good to include things like age, gender, and rank. Those are three key fundamentals that everyone wants to know about your character. Not knowing them, especially gender, makes it kind of difficult to interact with that character in the roleplay. Of course, one could always ask, and they'd (hopefully) eventually figure it out by reading your roleplay posts, but why not tell them what you know they're looking for?
A physical description is also pretty important. Sometimes, even when describing your character in the roleplay, the reader doesn't see things exactly the way you do. Especially since you're not likely to describe everything about your character's looks at one time. Besides, I seriously doubt you'll want to give a detailed description of your character in every roleplay thread you participate in.
Additional Info
Other things that people often look for in a bio would be a history. And not just the character's past, but their past relationships as well. Knowing what your character has gone through is something readers find very interesting. It isn't necessarily beneficial, but it's proof of a well developed character, and that can tempt others to meet that character in the roleplay.
Creation
Now, when it comes down to the nitty-gritty part of making the character, there are a few things to keep in mind. You already know the few necessary details that you must come up with in order to have a character, but what should those things be?
Make sure that the name reflects the character as it was when born. The mother wouldn't have any knowledge of it's personality, future feats, or even its eye color. Just its pelt color, markings, and a small idea of its basic physical make-up. Its name would also reflect whether or not it was Clan born, born to a loner, or born as a kitty-pet. A loner she-cat isn't going to name her kits things like Princess or Jacob, but a kitty-pet might.
Something else that would be good to be mindful of is how all your characters are related. There's nothing wrong with having a character that is related to other characters of yours, but it should never be directly. That means no parents, siblings, or kits of other characters you have. Nieces, nephews, grand-kits, and so on are perfectly fine however. Also, you may not mate to another of your characters. This would either cause you to have to roleplay with yourself, which would technically be writing a story, or this would lead you to never really roleplaying much out between them at all and, therefore, people not really knowing what's going on.