I'm developing a character for a storyline with some other people. It's not a main character, more of a side, but I've been trying to decide on their mental state as well as how they handle damage to their body. They have the ability to rapidly regenerate, without scar tissue in its place, but such regeneration would likely make it so their skin cannot toughen from damage over time, right? And if it provides them a type of immortality- not true immortality, just.. Their body is regenerating well enough to keep up with damage, so they've lived a long time. Would severe damage over the years be much of a detriment to the mind if it isn't constant and repeated, just from series of battles through their life, and would their body grow used to such pain and react less stressfully, or because of the kind of regeneration, would it not be capable of adjusting to it and still have issues with shock from severe trauma?

I know this is kind of a case-by-case basis sort of thing, but I'm curious what people think in that regard. Could they shrug off a loss of limb eventually, given their body has went through the loss of a limb quite a few times? I'm more curious on general body reaction to such things over time. I don't know much about bodies in that area.

I'm making a dnd campaign and would like the characters to be pretty classic to the murder mystery genre. I have a basic character list, but feel like I'm missing some characters that should be obvious. But for the life of me I can't figure out who. So I just need some very basic characters that you feel like exist in every murder mystery.

I want a certain athletic female character in a short story I am writing to have a "beige tan" skin color, but am looking for others ways to say it as to not confuse the people who might read my very short story. However I don't know of any other way to put it into words, thus I am requesting assistance in this matter

I'm writing this story but also working on making a comic book of the chapters to improve my art and storytelling and Im stuck between making my anthropomorphic cat characters normal cat sizes inspired by puss in boots and Zootopia or human sizes like lackadaisy.

OG cat heights and weights:

Felix Boshida Birthday: August 24th 2011 Zodiac- virgo

Age- 15

Breed- american shorthair

Weight- 17 pounds (mostly meat and muscle, eats healthy and works out daily)

Height- 10 inches

Fur color- black

Ian Herbert Hughes Birthday: november 22 2011 Zodiac: Sagittarius

Age- 15

Weight- 13 pounds

Height- 9 inches

Breed- Scottish Fold

Fur color- grey

Eye color- brilliant gold

Maxwell "Max" Márinel Oálo Rike Birthday- november 3rd 2009 Zodiac- scorpio

Age- 13

Breed- Norwegian forest cat

Weight- 12 pounds

Height- 9 inches

Fur color- red silver mackerel tabby

Eye color- forest green

Louie James Evans Birthday- April 9th 2009 Zodiac- Aries

Age- 13

Fur color- cream and white

Breed- American Curl

Weight- 10 pounds

Height- 9 inches

Normal cat heights and weights Felix Boshida Birthday: August 24th 2011 Zodiac- virgo

Age- 15

Breed- american shorthair

Weight- 160 pounds

Height- 6'0

Fur color- black

Ian Herbert Hughes Birthday: november 22 2011 Zodiac: Sagittarius

Age- 15

Weight- 145 pounds

Height- 5'9

Breed- Scottish Fold

Fur color- grey

Eye color- brilliant gold

Maxwell "Max" Márinel Oálo Rike Birthday- november 3rd 2009 Zodiac- scorpio

Age- 13

Breed- Norwegian forest cat

Weight- 106 pounds

Height- 5'2

Fur color- red silver mackerel tabby

Eye color- forest green

Louie James Evans Birthday- April 9th 2009 Zodiac- Aries

Age- 13

Fur color- cream and white

Breed- American Curl

Weight- 118 pounds

Height- 5'6

I’ve got no strings, to hold me down, to make me fret, to make me frown.

Whazzup! Whazzup! I thought I’d give a spill about some things that I’ve learned when trying to sharpen my own character's vision of the world. A lot of it lies in introspection, but I wanted to share some of the things that I’ve learned in hopes of helping you all push forward in your personal creation journey. 

Refining you’re character’s mind's eye or worldview shapes a vision that will entice your audience to continue seeking out fragments of your character’s philosophy to either question or align themselves with.

Now, what’s the importance of establishing a character’s worldview? Of course, if your characters stand for nothing, then it stands to reason that they’ll likely fall for anything.

Just think for a moment, how often have you tricked a toddler or some snot-nosed kid into thinking you’ve disappeared?

To help refine your character’s worldview you’ll want to explore where your character’s justice lies. In some form or fashion, there must be some sense of an established order; so determine whether or not your character's justice will breed chaos or reinforce stability. Of course, your character may have an astronomically different claim to “order”. Is their justice absolute? Unclear? Lazy?

Maybe introduce a little chaos? Consider taking whatever course of morality and ethics your character adheres to, perhaps working to rebel against the antagonist, and flip the script. As you all know, a concrete character is thought to be dynamic in nature, and being so, may be made to doubt, question, and at times, even if just for a brief moment in time, abandon their ideals. This presents the opportunity to build character through an internal conflict where they will have to juggle their own constructed prefecture of the world and decide whether or not to free themselves by flinging the pins away or simply endure the chaos running amok.

Consider having your character chase a lie. Having your character chase a lie adds the oomph of building tension toward a plot twist. Moreover, it creates an opportunity for character growth by posing the obstacle of accommodating to the truth.

If you’re interested in my more thorough analysis and breakdown https://youtu.be/rqri2pdnMCM using Ultron, the three admirals from One Piece, Eren Yeager, and Dark Knight’s Joker to explore the role justice, chaos, and ignorance play in shaping a character’s worldview, then feel free to check it out.

I'm writing a book with a VERY STRONG moon and such dynamic to the point of both the protagonist and antagonist are referred to as "The sun" and "The moon." It's something I'm proud of since the sun-moon dynamic is something totally different and unique. Though, I couldn't go on without thinking of the ao3 authors and their fanfics. HELL I COULDN'T EVEN RESIST IT AND WROTE A SHORT FANFIC 😭

They're both guys and I'm all for queen representation but THIS— I want to make their dynamic of "The moon wishes he could become the sun and if he couldn't— He'd extinguish the sun" Very clear. Help.

When I say, a coward— I don't mean the actual kind by the way. The more of the, "I had to run away to protect myself" yet the people viwed the hero. Who's a kid. As a coward because he abondened his duty ( which the emperor/empress was going to take away anyway. )

I want this to be a flaw, but reasonable one. How would he react? How did he feel when the people declared him a coward because he fled? ( in my original book, he's supposed to be enraged )

My book's ( series ) antagonist is Erlano, he's like a terribly horrible guy and I mean it— He's a rapist and a genocidal maniac but at the same time, he's extremely loyal to his dead lover (?) I don't know how to properly depict his actions and thoughts without making it appear offensive. Just to make it clear, all the books in my series ( especially the first two ) include dark topics and analogies for real life issues and I know that the book will be adult material.

I would really appreciate where I should go to learn about behavior of grapists, but I don't see any site nor video such as that. I'm not asking for an in-dept type of information. Just anything to put me on the right track.

I'm currently working on a character based around the trope of a 7th son of a 7th son. But the 7th child is a girl who "Breaks" the streak. Her father refuses to treat her a worthy of him and treats her younger brother as the 7th. To rebel against her father she incorporates the number 7 across her life. I'm looking for ideas as to how can I fit the number 7 into her character better to represent this?

I am writing a story, a science fantasy adventure, and need help with backstories for the villains. i'll tell you their names, powers, and personalities for you to gain better info to help me in the comments. might give you some points in the backstories i want to put in.

lord war.

magzara/sufferain

titansmall

honest demon

king question

terror emperor

headjester

queen square.

flamefather

soundgrave.

Edit: Sorry for any linguistic or grammatical mistakes; English isn't my first language. and sorry if the names sound silly; i came up with them in a hurry.

So I have this concept for alien planet comprised entirely of gas people.

There are the Noble Gases who are at war with the Halogens. The lead would be Argon, think Prince Hal with Falstaff, so a drinker, gambler, scoundrel type of guy with a good heart and eventual ruler. He would be part of a large heist joining the Captain of a ship. My idea is that being Argon gas himself he would wear suit that would contain the gas giving it shape and like the pressure exerted on the cowl mask would change his expression and imprint. He would have a series of aquariums throughout his body that house various creatures which he cares for most notably an electric eel who helps to power his suit and makes him glow bright blue as Argon does. His abilities would be also any pneumatic type weaponry gadgetry and things of that nature as well as his charisma. I’m struggling to find any visual examples in movies or television that could capture how exactly he would walk. There is something in my minds eye but I can’t figure it out. He would talk in a wheezy bellow type fashion that would be pleasant sounding a little like wind passing over reeds or something like that. Appreciate any help. Thanks. I’m

I thought of this idea of this character, who's a guy but he hates men a lot.

Alexei Stonehoss

Alexei's father was a mess, just combine Andrew Tate with all the worst qualities of a medieval noble and then sprinkle Vladamir Putin all over it. That is Malfious Stonehoss.

He is this racist human trafficker and a horrible human being. Despite slavery in my world being culturally taboo, Malfious kidnaps women and children and sells them into slavery. This was how Alexei came to be.

Malfious was rejected by Alexei's mother, so he kidnapped her, trafficked her, and adopted Alexei. Malfious wanted to make Alexei into "a real man" and by his idea of a real man, it's attacking nonhumans, disrespecting women, doing unspeakable actions, killing who you please, and not respecting authority.

But instead of Alexei going along, he grew rebellious, to the point where his entire worldview was switched.

Alexei is a male misandrist, mostly stemming from how his father treated him and others. He subconsciously loathes pretty much everyone around him but hates men the most. This includes himself, his hatred of men is a projection of his hate for his father which ends up reflecting on himself as he hates himself.

Now, while he hates men, he's not going to violently murder every male he sees, one of the biggest things that's explored is his relationship with women, he has no real romantic interests, and all his female friends are platonic only. He feels safer and more relaxed around women, most likely because he misses his mother.

I was wondering what would be the best way to explore his character and ideals.

I like to imagine a scene where one of his friends was cheated on, so he comforts her by saying "Ugh, men are trash" which she replies "Why would that make me feel better?".

I also would like to think that he's a hypocrite. He says that he hates all men and believes men are lesser than pigs even, but if you include him in that mix, he would react aggressively. He's a "no one is allowed to hate me except me!" type of guy.

I know there is like a stigma surrounding self-insert characters (at least I think there is). What are things to avoid when someone makes a self-insert character in their story? Are they just a bad idea to begin with? Do they ruin the immersion of a story if the audience knows a character (main or side) is the author’s insert?

Are there any cases where a self insert worked well and didn’t bother the audience?

Hello I am a student studying game design, and I have created my own character using Blender and Photoshop. I initially selected two existing characters in games and media to base my character off: King T'Challa (Black Panther), and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars). This character is inspired predominantly by the Sci-Fi aspects portrayed in Star Wars, and I have incorperated elements of African cultures as seen in Black Panther; this is shown by the small fur cape and the animal mask. The mask is supposed to resemble a Gelada Baboon, an animal native to Ethiopia in Africa. My Character is set in the world of Star Wars.

Brief Backstory: My Character, named Jabari Mathumbe, is a powerful soldier called to arms to fight in a war in space. He defends his home world from the forces of an oppressive regime on his planet. It is a branch of the Dark Empire from Star Wars. His first name, Jabari, has Swahili origins and it means 'Almighty', 'Powerful', and 'Brave'. The name 'Mathumbe' originated from a tribe in Congo and it means 'a child born from hardship'. Jabari's goal is to protect his family and loved ones. He lives on a planet resembling Somalia, Africa, specifically in a city ravaged by war.

What do you think of the design and this brief character profile?

Hi! I know this question is strange, but I’m writing a story with various themes, and one of them is a romance between a teacher and a student. I know this topic is complicated, but I want to explore it. I won’t romanticize the situation; I’ll treat it seriously. Even so, I’m unsure. What do you think? Should I continue with this idea or not?

Role Immorality Side villain who working for big bad

Age 301

Physical Age 23

Abilities: Super strength quick reflexes teleportation cause illness cause hallucination

Personality: She has a manipulative and calculating nature, using her critical thinking skills to devise plans to defeat her enemies. She is skilled at recognizing and exploiting people's vulnerabilities, making them easy targets for manipulation. However, her calm facade belies a tendency to panic easily, particularly when things don't go as planned. This panic can cause her to lash out at those around her, creating tension and worry among her teammates. intense need for control often lead to self-destructive behaviors.

Byway Ai mean love in Japanese She is intimately familiar with the depravity of human nature. She understands better than anyone else, certainly better than her son, how savage, and awful human beings are. And because and this cause her to be very overprotective of her son. She keeps her son on a tight leash 24/7. Why she act like this is because she thinks that she is protecting her sunshine by literally isolating him from the world and humanity. She is pretty close with her son. Ai and her son always do everything together. They eat together they go bed together They play together. But even how close she is with her son. Her son can get pretty lonely. will ask his mom about why Can't he not go outside or what are human And Ai will respond by scrolling him for asking questions.Or just use her usual manipulation techniques to make her son feel guilty for even thinking about acting on he own accord. And she will gas lighting her son as well. But she usually will do that when her son. She dose hate it when she have leave her son when got go to work but she made this entity who act as this babysitter for her son". She only wants to instilled in her son head.That everything she does is for his own good.

The story, is set in a once-thriving kingdom Valeria now ruled by the iron fist of the tyrannical Chancellor, who took control fifteen years ago. Using a monstrous machine known as the Cyborg Conversion Engine, he transformed the kingdom’s citizens into obedient cyborgs called Cyber-Valerians, forcing them to work as his enforcers and tools to expand his empire.

The story follows Lucian, a scruffy but determined seal lynx point Ragdoll cat who was friends with the princess when they were kids due to his father being a knight. Now the leader of a resistance group fighting to reclaim Valoria, Lucian uses his speed, agility, and wit to battle the Chancellor's forces. Alongside him is Sophia, a skilled hacker and strategist who was also once the kingdom’s princess. She longs for the return of her father, who was captured during the takeover, and uses her tech skills to help Lucian and the resistance.

They are joined by a diverse team: Gear, an inventive harp seal who builds their gadgets; Cady, a strong and sassy country gal snowshoe hare with robotic limbs after a tragic incident in their youth; and Marious, a clumsy yet conceited Papillon dog who claims to be Sophia’s royal guard. Together, they aim to destroy the Cyborg Conversion Engine, free their people, and take back Valoria from the Chancellor’s oppressive reign.

The story is dark and filled with tension as the resistance struggles against overwhelming odds, but it also has lighthearted moments, showcasing the strong bonds and personalities of the team. It’s a tale of hope, courage, and redemption as Lucian and his friends risk everything to reclaim their home and restore freedom to Valoria.

The characters: Lucian; a 21 year old seal lynx point ragdoll cat who is the scrappy leader of the resistance. He wears a tattered red scarf, brown gloves with a grappling hook on his left glove, brown boots and carries a watches that carries to tools needed for missions. When he was 16 on a mission, the resistance infiltrated one of the facilities to shutdown the cyborg conversion engines, the operation went wrong and they were attacked by the chancellors forces during the fight he fought against an old friend who was turned, he was torned between helping his friend and and defend himself, the hesitation caused the cyber-valerians to lash out with a claw which grazed his left ear and now has a permanent small hole in his left ear. Hes brave and resourceful and a natural leader but he's also reckless and cocky , always jumping in head first relying on his quick thinking but he deeply cares about his friends and do anything to protect them, he hides his insecurities through humor. He was only six when he lost his parents and home, they were caught in the crossfire when the chancellor attacked, his father stayed to fight giving his mother time to hide Lucian in the woods and lured the soldiers away.

Princess Sofia Felina; 22 year old Balinese cat, shes intelligent, composed and strategic, she deeply cares about her people, pragmatic, always thinking three steps ahead but can sometimes overthink or hesitate. She misses her father who disappeared during the attack. She and Lucian are extremely close. She wears a fitted tactical dark blue outfit with light armor plates on her shoulders and boots, on her right wrist is her trust ai that helps her on missions, she also wears a royal pendant from her father.

Gear Sealy; 23 year old harp seal who's an inventor and for all the tech used on missions, he also created all the tech for their home. He's the brains, he's a bit introverted preferring to be in his workshop then on dangerous missions though he does go on them from time to time, he's good natured and kind but tends to get lost in his work forgetting to ear or sleep. He's a chubby gray and white harp seal with big round glasses, flippers always stained with grease or oil, wears a green utility jumpsuit with many pockets and carries a large wrench slug over his shoulder.

Cady Hopp; 21 year old snowshoe hare, she's tough looking hare with white fur with gray dotted on her body, her most distinctive features are her robotic arm and legs from when she was a little girl and almost got turned but Lucian saved her. She's the muscle of the group and also the heart, she's tough, resilient and loyal especially to Sophia and Lucian, especially Lucian but keeps her feelings to herself.

Marious Jean- Pierre de le Roche; a 22 year old papillon dog, he's prim and proper with a flair for the dramatic and known for neatness and self importance, he has a crush on Sofia and declares himself as Sofias knight and protector though he can be a coward and is more talk and no bite, he gets jealous of Lucian as he sees how close he and Sofia are though Lucian doesn't see Sofia that way and not someone thinking about love. He tends to scheme to be the hero to Sofia and get Lucian in dangerous situations. Despite that he is quite skilled in sword fighting but it doesn't always look like that due to his cowardness and can be unreliable. He dresses in fine aristocratic clothing he made himself in the color of the kingdom, he takes pride in his appearance and his sword that was passed down to him by his father he named éclair.

Hi, all! I’m roleplaying a character for a sequel tabletop campaign, that, since the original campaign, has risen above themselves in status. How would a rough and tumbling urchin act in specific situations, after almost a decade on their ancestral throne? How would one write the effect that sudden responsibility would have on what is essentially a young teenager, burdened by a crown they are suddenly made to wear?

I’m gonna make an anime girl character that is part of a mafia gang but is also my main characters love interest/enemy that will later get a redemption story, I need clothing ideas because I don’t want something too basic or too complicated

So far the only details I have are red hair,fit body and brown eyes. clothes and other stuff I have no ideas though

Are you strongest because you’re the Strongest? Or are you Satoru Gojo because you're Satoru Gojo? Or whatever it was that he said.

Many of us wonder how to tackle the idea of creating extremely powerful characters, and as you all know, with great power comes great responsibility.

The responsibility, however, isn't just reserved for the character, but it falls upon the shoulders of the writers' themselves to give great care toward fleshing out the story of an OVERPOWERED character and balancing both their strengths and weaknesses.

Generally speaking, since we're dealing with overpowered characters, your character needs to have an overbearing sense of power relative to what's considered the “norm” within the world you’re creating.

This is extremely critical, as the way with which their power element presents will decide how others will react when faced with its presence, and if they’ll cower with fear, be charged with the obligation to overthrow the forces that be, or become a worthy ally.

The journey that THE STRONGEST embarks on, and how they perceive their own power is so critical in crafting a well-rounded character. It forks a path of perspective and spindles out the web of ethics and morals upon which they base their actions, and by consequence, allows the other characters to feed off the energy by giving them a fighting chance to react in kind.

The importance of giving overpowered character obstacles or stomping the brakes on their strength CANNOT be stressed enough as it can prevent you from writing yourself into a corner, such as with....(Gojo), and placing you in situations where progressively increasing the character's power is the only way out (sacrificing development in turn.)

If you're interested in learning about some of the mistakes I made when creating my own original "broken characters' and some mistakes I want to help others avoid, here is a more thorough analysis of my breakdown, involving some of my favorite characters (Jin Sakai, Kratos, All might, Madara, and Gojo (<---except him), https://youtu.be/5VQPzJ7KIW4

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For example: Yishu was voted by fans to go full time with her painting career in 2023. This year I've let the community decide if she reconciles with her verbally abusive mother and starts dating her cafe coworker's brother, Vinny. Now they've broken up, and I'll eventually let the fans decide if they get back together or now.

I'm writing a comic/graphic novel. My antagonist is a product of cloning. Like dozens. What are your opinions on falling in love with yourself? Would writing romance with characters who are physically and genetically identical be considered incestuous. I just ask for others opinion.

So, I’m renaming some of my old OCs to match their race since I want to develop their story more. The main character is half Korean, so I gave him the name Gwon Daeyang. But I’m struggling to figure out what the Asian parent’s name would be? In the sense that I’ve done some research and I know that one part of the given name is derived from past family members I think. I’ve been doing this for a while and my brain is honestly full, so I just wanted some help figuring out where the blank would be in the other parent’s name for me to give them their unique hanja. I THINK I know where it is but I want to make sure.

I could also be completely overthinking it hence why I’m here. I’d like to do this correctly and not just throw random names at them. This would be easier to understand if the hanja was separated by a dash, but it isn’t so I’m just struggling to wrap my brain around it.

Also, if there’s anything wrong about the name I have let me know! If having a fully korean name when he’s mixed doesn’t sound right I can change his surname.