At the moment I am new at story making so I could use some ideas. My story is about the German soldiers in an alternate history world war two and I am out of ideas with the Characters.(i know this will be taken with a grain of salt but if you help thank you in advance)
So you need more characters, right? Or do you have characters who just need more development? Other way, I'd be happy to try to help.
That's an interesting concept for sure, is it an alternate axis won WWII or is something else different? How many core characters do you plan on having about?
Sorry about the waiting and there are Characters in development
I need six core characters
Thank you for helping me
Sure, one thing that might be a good outline for you is the classic "six man band" which is a trope of the archetypes you normally see on a six person team, heres a link to how to do the first five https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand and the sixth would typically be the morally ambiguous character who is a bit more detached and might be a little evil or the guy thats just kinda along for the ride.
Six characters can be a bit hard to balance, personally when I write I like to put the most work into what I call the golden trinity of 'the Leader' 'The Lancer' and 'The Heart' because I think they're the most important characters story wise. For a war story you're probably gonna want something along the lines of a strong leader character, someone who is level headed and moral and then his foil would be more hot headed 'ends justify the means' type of guy (or vise versa or not at all, typically all you wanna make sure of is that these two characters are opposite in someways like methods or ideals) and then my personal favorite is the 'heart character' in a war story he'll probably be younger than the rest and compassionate and more innocent and the audience and probably the leader will just wanna protect the poor kid. Other than that the typical archetypes are, smart guy, big guy and shifty guy.
I think this is a good outline but you by no means have to follow it, but if you do then you get to add the meat to the skeleton and make those archetypes come alive in a unique way, it'll be fun.
does this sound good so far? If not I'd be more than happy to keep helping
Ya it sounds great and about the "heart character" I got him as the medic of the group but to be honest I am thinking about having him killed in the middle of the story to darken the plot but i'm wondering who should kill him