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These are just tips on how I create characters, it's not particularry right or wrong it's opinion based.although really, get referances when drawring D:
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I know, my mom used to sing that song to me, but why did you write the lyrics? |D
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you said i was your hero XD
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This is really interesting! And gives a lot of helpful hints, this will make things a lot easier for me in the long run. <3
Really good job summing up everything about a character! I don't think I'd have the patience to do all of this.
This should be a DD, it's crazy helpful.
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good, because oh man i wish i knew some of these things when i was like 14...i was so awful D:
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Haha I remember watching you and you would put up so much Sonic yaoi, I only fangirled over the Shadilver, but I think you called it Silvadow.
I don't even like Sonic now <:L Sob, I'm growing up, too. I'm really sad I spent 3 years drawing Sonic instead of people.
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hehe yup XD i to wasted afew years doing sonic...bawwww...but oh well, now it be all better XD
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HNN
GIMME MY GOLD STAR D:
good tips ;3; thanks for doing this!
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hehe your welcome XD
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This'll come in handy, thanks!
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well...its all interesting :U
and i made shade a sue i know
but after i rework him
hell be alot less sueish..i hope...
anyways loooks awesome *takes gold star*
and i hope that people take notice to this awesome thing :U :3
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grand XD i'd mostly rework his...strange backstory XD he could still of went to prison, but one of two of those rapeing times can has as much of an impact on someone than...the whole 20 years thing. it's more belivable, and no matter how many times a person is raped tey'd sact similar, untrusting, scared, unable to go out the house etc.
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and yes im somewhat iffy about shades past,
but that doesent mean i dont want critisisme...
but its still my chars story
so i should decide how long it is .w.
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heck atleast im trying to make it interesting and somewhat realistic .w.
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and sorry for overreacting like a drama llama bout it...
-i spent like 5hours jsut brainstorming, and picking away the dud ideas...
-and then like 2 hours finetuning it all
^all in head...with notes on paper...
-so i kinda feel like i spent a while on it... = <
-so excuse my dramatic reaction ^^'' sorry,
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well whatever x: although if i can't take your character to seriously, i'm not sure who else will~ ama ho for characters and personalities, but yaahh they are your character so you can do as you like.
the only thing i cna really do to your guy is have my characters moan about it durign our RP's...which they do anyway o3o
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well i try to take him seriosly...
but i stillwanna be unserious cause being too serious lacks humor DXXX
yea i spose so...
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yea everyone of ur chars moan...
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and liek no one else gives a shit about my creativity and stuff
so ur liek the only dcent critiq i got,
so im gonna go with ur advice |U
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he grew up in the 1800's
girl shit back then was beyooond strange = |
but if he grew up in the 1800's-born in 1795- had no father...and only heard a little about his biological mother...and he and his siblings have been living for 216 years since then....of course its going to be strange...i mean its like 216 years
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216! as a mercanary...sure in general strange things should be low in detail....but...like shade is a strange character
with a mental issue...before the prison stuff...
so obviosly, he is going to have a strange background
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it makes scence to me DX
beshides...i got a list of major events that seem interesting
1800's- childhood in a medieval like lifestyle
cowboy era-adulthood #1
then between 1930-1950 he settels down and opens a gun smithing store and shit...mostly cause thats my favoret music era <3 xD
1965 he gets assigned to assassinate a president or someone important...next event obscures the memory of this...
1966 gets sent to prison...-rape tale and stuff-
1986 gets out of prison....
1990 recovers from mental shit after living in the woods for 4 years...
1995 gets asked by scientists to be studied/examned
1999 goes to highschool to relearn shit
2003 joins military as a mercanary...does various jobs...and due to being under the oath of his boss unable to hurt allies...thus being forced to endure the bullying and shit...
2006 ...gets his new boss...a handheld rail gun...and a bunch of new people join his gang and shiz
2007 goes to iraq
2008 comes to back to usa takes vacation
2011 gets offerd a contract to do sum shit that im to lazy to come up with lately...
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so honestly its not rly strange...in my opinion...cause i like hear stranger...
so to me its more like its...
idk...
A HISTORY BOOK OF MY CHAR!!!! 
hehe...
but i think this should be fine...seeing as its what ive been going with so far
i mean seriosly its not that weird is it?
...and i havent even gone into any details at all...im just liek scraping the first layer of icing off the huge cake .w.
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but nyeh...
idk whats strange...
most my friends say it seems normal....
hmmm...
idk whats ur take on "the history book of shade"'s index? XDDD
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well theres strange (such as going back int he past to teach your own mother) then there....unaccenptable strange...like hvaing no biological father, if your character is having no father, make it a big deal, like never hvaing that father figure in his life, women were treated horribly back in the 1800's there would ahve been no one to support the family asside form him.
This is why i've not said anythign about moo's past, because i don't know what it's like living in the 1800's, 500 A.D or any other 30,000 years int he past, i would assume it would be horrible compare to todays lifestyle.
character, especially main characters should'nt just 'make sence to me' when you want other peple to get to know your character ther personality and backstory has to be easily belivable, even if your universe if different from the real one.
right i'll look at this backstory...i'll state what i feels mary sue-ish.
assasinating a president sounds alittle out there....i mean was he trained by the goverment? why would he be picked? what made him so special? THIS would be your one main event if you had it for our character, but the parts befourhand would have to work up to this.
i would take out this whole bullying thing, you've said he got bullied in the military...where people are like at least 20 and MATURE. you should of put the bullying thing in highschool where bully DOES HAPPEN.
seirosuly no one in the military would bully there allies, because there trying to keep eachother alive not harm eachother
wait wait a hand railgun? my boyfriends just told mw what a railgun is and it's apparnelty mary sueish in itself, being one of the most powerful guns int he world and he just gets it?
if i were you i'd take out most of that backstory to be honest XD think about how he lived in the 1800's and go with that most of all, your character seems to like war and violence, he could work his way up to this president assasination, then the prison thing but TONED DOWN like i mentioned earlier.
you seem to have put alot of effort into the backstory...but i hav'nt heard mushc about his presant story, his interactions with other characters and such, during our rp's he did'nt particulary come off as...well anything, he was trying to eb the nice guy? he never one got angry at any of my characters, took enough intrest in any to have a meaninful conversation and such.
though i don't know. i know when i was around 15 i thought moo was good...i gave her a backstory about marrying a fellow, having a child, but the fellow ranout on the wedding day so she just totally distrusts all men and was quite a depressing character. BUT then scrapped it all, and i'm glad i did~
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well yea i spose your right bout that,
i could make him have a biolopgical father,
but i think he should still be raised by a non biological mother liek figure...
but yea i get wucha sayin bout sexisme in da past
an alright, i see what youve stated...and now i feel like i havent thought this throuhg alot...''
well i dident necicarly mean a prsident, i meant someone important..enough to get him in da slamma
but he was tought to fight by his mother, as she wanted him to be capable of surviving most aspects of the world, there for she tought him and his siblings diffrent aspects of combat...
the aspect were he learned to use firearms came from livin in da west and such. but the assasination was more a stealth mission, witch eliminated the target, but fupped up as he got cuaght and shammed in da slamma an shiz
yea i spose your right,
but i guess i havent really dug into this deep enoguh with details and person behaivior...
well actually,
its a weapon design ive considerd making in real life....
but yea i guess its way over powerd, and ihave considerd scrapping it several times...but if i did...im still gonna save the concept for something later...
and yea that was pretty much the plan...
but like i said i havent sorted out all of the details...
ive merly throught of an overall story line,...not how the things worked and all the details...
but saposedly yah...
yea..
an in presant time?
well hes part of a mercanary group,
which is composed of him, his siblings hope and dianna, his ex molly, marissa, and then his boss mike, yet he doesent participate in most the missions, due to still being unstable, and not wanting violence...and shit
but the reason he is like that in behaivior is mostly due to he likes most kinds of people, and seeing as hes in a new world hes trying not to make enimies yet...
but he hasent gotten angry because none of them have done anything to piss him off...and im not sure what makes him angry yet to be honest DX''
hmmm...
well shade has had atleast 3 pasts...
aswell as hundreds of friggin looks XD
now hes got a awesome look,
and a much better backstory,
im still remaking the bio...
but so far he seems like the least sue main char ive made.... :d
ive scrapped so meny concepts chars and stuff...
i finally made something i find worth not scrapping...
yet it still needs work...
my first char...bronze...was not only a sue...but a recolor too...
scrapped him 4 years ago thnk gawd...
he could do everthing
he couldent die
he had a bazzilion forms :U
i am glad i did xDDD
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then we have shade v1....
wasent much better...
but had only like 15 powers... XDD
was still a recolor thouh...
scrapped him
and made shade v2
had like 6 powers
but a body thats super powerful and shiz...
scrapped...
shade v3
was based off several FFTA classes...
was now a furry dragon..and now a non recolor...
scrapped...
and then we have shade v5
the current shade only with more powers and a bit tougher to kill...
and now shade vangaa...
shade v6
which im still working on xDDD
....but nyeh
i hope i can improve it...
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i think ill work on it today after i finish HW = d
but thanks for your critisisme <333
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well for backstories having less huge events make the events he did go through bigger.
yestarday i watched an interveiw with a vampire. was prety much just a vampire tlakign about his backstory (was made in the 90's so...wa befour vampire lost all coolness...and had fit people in it like victorian clothes...gaahhh |D )
ANYWAY his backstory was literally
wife died givign birth to child, was depressed
got turned into a vampire, he had a choice, he said ok
turns out he hate killing people, feats on rats blood and chickens instead
guy who made him a vampire (call him number 2) did'nt mind killing poeple, he wanted the fella to do it with him
eventually 1 ended up nearly killing a child, ran away
number 2 turned the child into a vampire
all 3 were forever young, never age and such
actually my favourite character was the little girl, all she did was stay as a child, forever longign to be a woman, she drew women, even found out she kept a corpse of one under her many dolls.
that alone made her the best charcetr for me, ONE major event turns into afew quirky creepy traits.
anyway number 1 and child come to hate 2 (because he turned thme into vampires)
they both tried to kill him, ren away to find more of there kind. they did. shit went down because it was only a death sentence to kill your own kind.
child was then killed for doing so (it was her who killed number 2)
and that was pretty much it.
major events: wifes death, turning into a vampire, aquiring little girl, loosing girl.
this spanned over 200 years mind you.
See you don't have to create like tons of events to make a charaetr interesting. liek i said i liked the little girl despite her having the least backstory.
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i know i guess
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and fuck maahn thats heck of a story...
but i have pretty much remade his back ground story...
has like 7 events...around 3 r 4 of witch a major/build ontop of each other-seeing as they all give matieral for the next one i would sapose its one, idk rly :d
most of wich lay onto each other and hardly any are major
aaaaand....
im just gonna post it in this comment at the end-w-
but yea that was quite a facinating story,
aswell as the aspects and character build uΓ»
he was born in 1794, was raised by his father Theo and his mother Miranda along with his siblings until he was 7, then his parents were killed by villagers as shade, and his siblings were out playing. Not to many days later a friend of Mirandaβs, Cassandra, took them under her wing to embrace them for the cruel world. She taught them how to fight and use various guns and knives, as well as how to use their elemental powers.
In 1809 Cassandra died from self-sacrifice, and bestowed upon shade and his siblings extended life, after considering their growth span they determined they would die from muscle rupture when they reached 1000 years old.
1812-1929 much in this time is unknown or long forgotten, but there was a lot of bloodshed, as well as romance, training and fighting.
1930-1950 shade began to settle down slightly, and opened his own gun smith store, were people would commission him for unique arms for sporting, but also combat, this was also the era of his favored music. Notably he had also worked for Naziβs under second the world war, mostly with scientists involving weapon development, but as the war began to end, shade left the Nazis and went back to America to his gun smith.
1954 shade was offered a job to test experimental weapons in the field of battle. Over time the US government learned of his work with the Nazis and planned to get him into a hell hole for this act.
1955 he was commissioned to kill Albert Einstein in a way he saw fit, unknown to him this was a 2 birds with one stone for the Us government, Einstein was German, and shade was a pre Nazi scientist. Both were distrusted. After various searching and searching, shade had located Einsteinβs estate and as he approached Einstein, the old man revealed shade the scheme, but, another assassin had managed to get to Einstein first. The old man was dyeing and shade was being framed, yet shade did not wish to become wanted, so he went in peacefully, photographs were prohibited as this would send government conspiracies on the flipper.
1956 shade was convicted a life time sentenced, and sent to a high security prison, were his mana was restricted to a limit, were he would always be weak and easy to handle.
1957 to 1978 shade was raped and abused in the high security prison by not only his fellow inmates, but the guards as well, usually this accrued in the showers or in his cell. He had suffered for around 20 years, being unable to defend himself due to the restriction weakening him. But one day, a guard who had shown sympathy twords shade removed the restriction, and the mass amount of built up mana released a mass radioactive blast, killing all of the inhabitants on the prison island in a very painful death. Luckily, the radiation origionated from shades mana pool, there for he was immune to the blast. After seeing all of those whom had torchured him die, he felt pleased and left the horrid island.
1979 shade had found a desert in texas were he lived for years getting over his torment, he wasnβt seen or heard from in this time, some say all he did was hibernate, whilst others say he occasionally went to the boarder and killed live stalk.
1990 shade had reunited with his siblings,
1999 shade was tested on by scientistsβ¦and shizβ¦this is were he got the DNA scrambler
2000 went to highschool to reinitiate his knowlage βaka learn shiz-
2005-2009 did some non combat service in military, aswell as a few missions too
2010+ unemployed, up until such said events
-the most major and important events are
The nazi employment
Death of einstien
And prison time
...the rest are just for explaining plot holes and such such things :d
tell me what you think of this rubbish story please? XD -i dn think is rubbish but im not the critiq suited for judging either XD-
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uurrmm, long story. urrhh the only problems i have is i think you'd wanna rename the assasim man...neeevverr use actual real life names in fantasy o.o'' it dos'nt work and it pisses people off. especially if your universe has a lizard man
and still the fact that guards rape to XD to me that's a nono. first of all the guard would ahve to be gay, horny, and VERY desperate in order to rape...and usually drunk or sick. not the kind people guards tend to be.
those would be the only thing's it's be wary of now o3o
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yea good point...
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do u know a good german name?
XDDD
girl
there out on an island
on a high security prison
no life
whatsoever
they gotta get sexual pleasure from somewhere right?
what better victem
then the helpless one that screams liek a bitch?
seriosly thats my perspective
and its my worldi decide how horny the fuppin guards are!! >XD
yea understandable . w.
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look on google for german names XD
but shyah guards get shifts, vacations, guards aint locked away like prisoners, i think they'd quit there job befour wanting to rape o.o''
buuuttt whatever, to me you could of got as much distrusting from shad eif only afew prisoners were to rape. and the guards did nothing about it. making him unable to trust authorities until one guard actually lends a hand
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yea xDD
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well idk how much about how prisons work regarding guards DX
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yea that sounds more realistic...ill go with that owo
but i still want mana radiation
cause that still makes scence to me...and is kinad dramatic xD
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