forum Birthdays!

Started September 27, 2019 by @WaffleWizard

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Do you give your characters birthdays? Are any of them coming up? How old are they turning?
Tell me your random stuff. This will be fun!

I have a character who was born on the Fourth of July! Unfortunately he's terrified of fireworks X'D Canonically he's going from eighteen to nineteen by the end of the story….dang, he seemed so old when I first invented him lol

I give all my characters birthdays, sometimes there's significance but mostly there's not.

Ara's birthday is on the 29th. I'm not sure how old he'll be turning because I haven't quite figured out how old he'd realistically be but I've put him somewhere either in his late 20's or early 30s. His birthday actually falls on national coffee day which is fitting for him.

I just assign character birthdays using dice

Daniel's birthday is on Halloween and he is turning 23 years old (but will remain looking that way for a while considering he's an immortal siren)

All my characters have birthdays, some are chosen after family and friends but others are just random.

Zenith doesn't have a birthday. He was spawned in a lab as the first artificial life form and no one ever told him his spawn date. He wasn't considered human. However, he does know that he's approximately 15.

Yeah, I sort of assign them by picking a zodiac sign then just picking whatever date within the range feels right.

My antagonist’s birthday was two days ago, and one of the supporting characters has a birthday coming up October 8th.

My protagonist's birthday was on the 23rd, and she turned four! (Technically she's 15 tho lol)

My main gorl Ember birthday is May 5 and she would be turning 16 as of next May while my main boi Caiman would be turning 15 as of February 2nd

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I give all my characters birthdays, sometimes there's significance but mostly there's not.

Ara's birthday is on the 29th. I'm not sure how old he'll be turning because I haven't quite figured out how old he'd realistically be but I've put him somewhere either in his late 20's or early 30s. His birthday actually falls on national coffee day which is fitting for him.

(okay that's also my birthday and i think it's cool that i share a birthday with your character lol)

Samuel turned 18 on the 21st and Alice's birthday is coming up on December 12th.

I have a character I made up long ago named Piper and her birthday was actually yesterday. I have no idea how old she is. 15 maybe?

Lysander's birthday is tomorrow and he'll be 16.

My birthday is in April.

Mostly when I make my characters birthdays I use the birthdays of my friends and family

One of my character's birthdays i on Halloween.

One of my character's birthdays i on Halloween.

Spooky

yes, but she's also crazy

most of my characters have random birthdays, but I picked their star signs first, so their birthdays fit around those. I have two Scorpios (willow and benjamin), a Pisces (sicily), an Aquarius (gabriel), a Gemini (eli), a Leo (parker), a Taurus (grey), a Virgo (landon), and a Cancer (quincy)

I do give them birthdays/zodiac signs because I feel as an author my characters should have stories and lives as real people do.

One of my children's birthday is today.
October 14th is the day Angel White was born.

I do give them birthdays/zodiac signs because I feel as an author my characters should have stories and lives as real people do.

Same here. Most of the time, my characters birthday's don't even really make it into the story. I think the only exceptions (so far, at least) are Dallas (January 7th) and Matthew (October 28th). For Dallas I needed him to turn 18 so that he would legally be considered and adult and wouldn't need his parent's permission to do a lot of things. With Matthew, I needed an excuse for a big party at the beginning of the story and a birthday was the best thing I could come up with.