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.

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oda kipposhi 🔥 fate/

[owarifool]

(splitting these into three top levels so as they don't just blend together)

so imma be real with you, like yeah cool character design was a drawing factor, but i'm not gonna lie and pretend The Gender wasn't an attractive thing about this character, either.

kipposhi is canonly trans-masc (non-binary, uses masculine self-address), and as someone who's had a lot of their own gender struggles, there's something really drawing about a character who handles it the way he does, embracing a sort of... very different masculinity that is at both times enviable and admirable. Kipposhi himself has a lot of interesting facets to him the other Fate Nobunagas lack, and it just further draws me to him.

he's hopelessly earnest despite his big chuuni energy. he is remarkably honest about how rough his life has been, but also tacitly understand and has the need for people to think of him as this great conquerer, because his entire existence formed around it, and being the "young" Nobunaga, you get to see the root of what inspired his ambitions to begin with, what the Fool of Owari really was, or at least could have been.

obviously some challenges come with this; as an irregular anomalous character, he's not going to get the screen time regular Fate Nobunaga gets in their various appearances, and i have to fill in a lot of blanks, but thankfully i'm still kind of a fiend for samurai history and i'll never complain about having to deep dive into the live of Oda Nobunaga.

i think his wild personality throws a lot of other characters off guard, and "off guard" is probably the best state to be in in order to build good CR. love that about him.