What Draws You To Your Character?

[eightfoldfiend]

Hey, it's a not-meme.

One thing I always find fascinating in this hobby is what draws people to the characters they play so this is me asking you that.

What drew you to your characters? What do you find fun about them? What aspects of them do you find easy or difficult?

For OCs, talk about how you came up with the idea for them and why you wanted to give them a spin in this hobby.

Read, converse, ask questions!

You can answer in list form, prose form, whatever form you're most comfortable with and with as much or as little detail as you want.

Comments

[lastexit]

The two pithy one liners to describe my general lean is "I like broken things" and "Surprisingly well adjusted all things considered." I don't generally lean toward playing characters who actively want to cause harm, but more characters who have gotten so lost in themselves they cause harm by accident.

Someone looking for a way out of their own dark woods. Generally I also like having a better grounding in the characters social desires and establishments than their action/adventure chops. Which is why I play from a lot more mundane dramas than I do action adventure anime/manga/movies.

[eightfoldfiend]

Honestly that sort of internal struggle and drama can be a lot of fun to play with and think about when it comes to how a character interacts with the world and the people in it.

[lastexit]

Gets especially fun when you play through it at various stages of this internal struggle. I've played Maya in the direct aftermath of what 'broke' her, and after she's recovered a bit, and after events broke her all over again.

Having that vivid throughline of what's in their head is really vital to me picking up characters.

[eightfoldfiend]

It can be important to me too!

Less so with uhm. This one.

But the Luminary has a very noticeable emotional journey in his canon despite being silent so working with different points in the timeline can be very interesting.