forum Send me your characters and I'll tell you my favourite thing about them

Started October 31, 2021 by @squiddicus language

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Akumu Hawthorne Akumu

I'm a sucker for purple eyes!!! Peak character design right there. I'm also very intrigued by what the Shadowweavers are! They've got a boss name honestly

Aster Winslow Aster

I love a silent and dependent but kinda blunt character! I mean this guy really sounds like the sort of guy you could go to in a crisis. also all these races have such cool names aaaa

Caspian Caspian

I lied. peak character design is the name Caspian Seagrave. it sounds so dramatic, if that was my name I'd go up to people and announce it.

Oooo cool, deep-sea diving! Obsessed with the whole ocean theme he has going on.

Charon Hawksley Charon

His favourite possessions being his hair gel and eyeline is honestly a mood. love that for you Charon

Florian Holloway Florian

I've only read his Notebook page but I already love him!! just,,,characters that are friendly and kind and want to protect life,,,,AAA I love them. I want to meet him now. can he teach me how to make jewellry??

Heath Golding Heath

creating sinkholes sounds like a really cool and original ability! I don't think I've seen that before! I'd love to see how it's used in the story.

Pyrrhus Madlock Pyrrhus

DRAGONS!!!

also I want to know more about spicy obsidian noodles haha. I love little details like favouite dishes and everything.

Rai Raiden

ohhh his design is so cool - the silver hair, blue eyes, lightning markings…I love how all their appearances tie in to what race they are, you really put a lot of thought into everyone's designs!! they're all so cool honestly, I would definitely read whatever story they're part of!

Soleil Soleil

I want to give him a hug, he sounds so genuine and kind! we need more characters with just like, compassion. jealous of his dancing skills though because I have like three left feet

oooo his background was interesting…I want to know more about this guy! and his fear of public speaking,,,I feel that. He sounds like a really interesting character with a lot of hidden depths!

Zenith Zenith

hell yeah trans characters!! I also love a good pickpocket haha

Invalid Character Here is my troublemaker if you'd like to look at em

Heres Isa, my personal love child who is probably very unfinished.

!!! holy shit it's so good to see you back!!!

do you think you could do Drew or Shea??

I just created these boyos over the weekend, so they're not entirely finished yet, but I'd like to hear what you think!
This is Malcolm

okay but his tattoos are gorgeous, especially the lightbulb with the spider inside! obsessed. and EXCELLENT taste in favourite foods.

I'm really intrigued by his powers as well! sounds like something that would be really fascinating to write and explore!

& this is Marcus. They're twins.

ok but I like their matching aliases even if marcus doesn't haha. and again their powers are cool as hell!! I also LOVE how you thought through the flaws and limitations of it (unlike a good chunk of published authors and film people do lmao), that's one of my favourite things to know about superpowered characters.

sidenote but I absolutely love your character profiles!! the amount of detail you put into the playlists especially fucking blows my mind…I'm insanely jealous of your playlist making skills because I just cannot lol. and I love the incorrect quotes sections as well. <33

Invalid Character Here is my troublemaker if you'd like to look at em

I sure would!!!
love a good cloak-wearing character….
(obsessed with the amount of detail in the mannerisms section oh my god,,,wish I had that motivation :D)
'Will try to talk, flirt, and sometimes dance with their opponent and are offended if they don't respond' - love this haha. just imagining someone trying to dance with me on the field of battle. anyways I love the whole cocky, dramatic, charismatic vibe they have, these are some of my favourite traits in a character and ren sounds like they would be really fun to read about! I absolutely love your drawings of them as well<3

Heres Isa, my personal love child who is probably very unfinished.

don't worry ALL my character pages are horribly unfinished atm!!

woah cool design!! the colours are really cool and unique…the pink hair, pink and green eyes…I can really picture him super vividly!
aw I hope he meets someone he can trust and who can help him open up again…the backstory and personality sections really got me :(. I want to give him a hug rn because I think he needs it!!
a WARLOCK! very cool. all in all I think this is a super cool character who really deserves some warm soup and bread. and it doesn't seem unfinished at all tbh :))

!!! holy shit it's so good to see you back!!!

aw thank you so much!!!! that means a lot :))) it's good to see all you guys and your characters again as well!

do you think you could do Drew

please don't make me cry with these good-hearted characters who can't stop the terrible things going on around them. his quiet lil defiance against his father makes me WEEP and so do all his fucking motivations!! he deserves nice things aaaaa
ooo I think we have the same meyers-briggs
YES DREW WE LOVE TO SEE THAT CHARACTER GROWTH
ay we have the same favourite weather as well excellent taste

or Shea??

chaotic bisexual is peak character design 100/10 well done
don't you people on this forum know how I adore violet eyes?? you're gonna break me
I love her whole personality, her impulsiveness, her emotions, her lack of filter…characters like her are so fun to read! bet she's fun to write as well. her curiosity too I love that. what I really like about all her traits is that you grew the flaws out of them! like her flaws are her best traits' downsides rather than just being kinda unrelated.
'Shea just wants to live her life to the fullest and have many good vibes' - I love this sentence a lot haha also totally agree. and besides that I love that her favourite animals are frogs because that is the Correct choice.

IF you have some time I'd love you to check my bestest of boys (and by that I mean "fucked up edgy shit" and "fucked up gamer shit" respectively), I have A LOT more characters that I have to make profiles for so maybe I'll come back with more children for you to check out :]

Also uhm, both of the profiles might be slightly obsolete, but I think I didn't change much in either of them. Also, if you've read Henka's or Simon's profiles before, you can skip this lmao. I truly don't remember if I've ever sent anything in this thread????? Oh well, I'm making Dmitri's profile and I'll send once it's done.

Also, you don't have to read anything if you don't feel like it, I wouldn't blame you, don't force yourself, hun! Also, stay safe!

here are my boyos

sidenote but I absolutely love your character profiles!! the amount of detail you put into the playlists especially fucking blows my mind…I'm insanely jealous of your playlist making skills because I just cannot lol. and I love the incorrect quotes sections as well. <33

dude my guy ily so much, thank you. playlists are my passion. also so are characters with mind control abilities cuz there are so many different ways for it to work, which i why i love these boys <33

Woah, congrats to you for starting college!!
I've been relentlessly thinking about my superhero story for like a year now so I feel like I've gotta throw Joey into the ring

sidenote but I absolutely love your character profiles!! the amount of detail you put into the playlists especially fucking blows my mind…I'm insanely jealous of your playlist making skills because I just cannot lol. and I love the incorrect quotes sections as well. <33

dude my guy ily so much, thank you. playlists are my passion. also so are characters with mind control abilities cuz there are so many different ways for it to work, which i why i love these boys <33

Seconding Squid's point, your profiles are super impressive!

IF you have some time I'd love you to check my bestest of boys (and by that I mean "fucked up edgy shit" and "fucked up gamer shit" respectively), I have A LOT more characters that I have to make profiles for so maybe I'll come back with more children for you to check out :]

Also uhm, both of the profiles might be slightly obsolete, but I think I didn't change much in either of them. Also, if you've read Henka's or Simon's profiles before, you can skip this lmao. I truly don't remember if I've ever sent anything in this thread????? Oh well, I'm making Dmitri's profile and I'll send once it's done.

Also, you don't have to read anything if you don't feel like it, I wouldn't blame you, don't force yourself, hun! Also, stay safe!

i DO have some time…should I be doing chemistry work rn?? maybe…but I'd rather procrastinate on notebook and check out people's cool characters so you know. the chemistry can wait.

I don't think I've looked at these dudes before?? oh well if I have I guess I'll just be looking at them again haha

okay first up henka!! ohoho another chaotic bisexual, better hand out them bonus points.

and I'm a biology student so I gotta appreciate his anatomy knowledge, especially how he applies it to healing… but also harming haha.

his backstory….aaaa no it's too sad :(( (amazed at the amount of time you put into it though kudos to you friend)

also holy shit your art is GORGEOUS!!! wowowowow can I steal your skills

right now we got simon. his full name is silicon?? cool as hell (my little nerd brain is loving all the sciencey stuff!)

WAIT OH MY GOD ARE THERE CHARACTERS FOR ALL THE ELEMENTS?? holy crap I NEED to read this immediately

ohhhh my god I'm obsessed with the amount of thought and detail that's gone into his abilities and personality based on his element!! like the coding and control of electricity is so so cool and I love how it all links back to silicon! also you've got to stop making me sad with these backstories aaaaaa

thanks so much for sending these, I had a blast reading them!! I love simon especially and the amount of work you've put into these is truly impressive!

here are my boyos

ohhh I love a pacifist character! I mean her whole personality section is just wow (you must have spent a while on that haha) and she seems like a really well-fleshed out character. I especially love her bluntness and honesty, and the way her personality changes through the course of the story is really compelling - how the Void damaged her pysche was very interesting to read about…does she ever heal from that experience??

cool abilities too by the way. magnetism is epic and it's cool when it's utilised into a superpower!

this whole doll concept is freaky as hell but it's so cool
the way he's so scared of becoming a desensitized monster and refuses to consume human souls???? and that he hides his kindness and still tries to save everyone? aaaa I love it. he must be so lonely but also so strong oh my god

I love his relationship with rin,,, it's so sweet and he deserves it honestly
wow his backstory jeez…he sure been through a lot to say the least! but seriously this story sounds so compelling and thought out, I would 1000% read this!

Woah, congrats to you for starting college!!

why thank you!! it's been a wild ride haha but I'm feeling a bit more stable now

I've been relentlessly thinking about my superhero story for like a year now so I feel like I've gotta throw Joey into the ring

I know the feeling…
'the sole survivor' jeez that sounds ominous and I'm VERY intrigued
I mean this isn't strictly my favourite thing about him but I like that his injuries and their effect on him are actually listed! I swear if I read one more book/watch one more film where the protag gets injured badly and it's never again mentioned after treatment I'll-
wow I love the amount of detail in his personality! his character arc is super compelling to read, the struggle of breaking out of a mould others have put him into…you find yourself rooting for him so much reading that!! and I love that him being trans is like. integrated into the plot and his search for who his is outside of what others see him as,,, it really seamlessly fits and I like that it's important to his character arc (rather than say, being a background fact that's never mentioned again or it just being a simple coming-out story. I love seeing other queer characters in different genres and settings!!)

sorry that was a long ramble I just really liked that aspect haha
on a more superficial level I'm jealous that he can play the saxophone that's such a cool instrument. and I love charmspeak powers!!! I love reading about powers that aren't out and out FIGHTING and BEATING STUFF UP, mind control especially is so interesting to explore
haha we have the same star sign

Aww thank you so much!! He's one of my favorites <3

no problem! I love reading your character pages, they're always so well-developed!

:D

I loved your comments on my characters, I really appreciate it!
Would you mind looking at my MCs for my other story, Akira(Akira ) and Poppy(Poppy Solace)

here are my boyos

Did you draw them? Because I love your art style sm

Perhaps… Buck? :)

I loved your comments on my characters, I really appreciate it!

no problem!! I'm no good at critiquing characters so I thought I'd make a character appreciation thread instead (because I sure love exclamation marks)

Would you mind looking at my MCs for my other story, Akira(Akira ) and Poppy(Poppy Solace)

i would love to!!
akira: I love that he has such a range of hobbies and talents! it's so cool to see characters who can use sign language - I really wish I could and I definitely want to learn some day haha. I also love characters who can dance because I feel like that's such a cool skill but maybe not used so much outside of stories about dancing?? idk but yeah I love that about him! and he loves birdwatching that's so cool, he seems like such a versatile and multifaceted character - not like a lot of film/book characters who have like ONE hobby and that's their whole personality bahaha

poppy: aaaa I love her surname!! solace is one of my favourite words lmao :)))
love characters with brightly coloured hair, pink hair is such a cool aesthetic honestly,,,, at this point I should just cave and dye mine pink as well. oooo science corps I totally want to know more about that!! as a total science nerd I get unnaturally excited whenever I see like sciencey characters, especially women! what do the science corps do I need to know EVERYTHING

Perhaps… Buck? :)

yess here we go
'straight, unlike him.' I'm cackling at this statement because that's a mood. same with my hair and yes I've make the exact same joke probably too many times
I love that he's got the good jokes but he's not the stereotypical jokey character!! just imagining him catching everyone off guard with a witty comment and everyone else being like 'wait what just happened, do I laugh?'
wow I'm in awe of the amount of work you put into the mannerisms section dude! I feel like I know him so well as a character just off reading that…wish I had the motivation but right now I am DROWNING in biology (send help)
aaaa stop I love him so much!! the kindhearted warm person hiding behind his tough-guy shell?? I just want to give him a hug, especially with the internalised homophobia on top of everything :((

Annabeth please? :>