forum I have really bad writers block and i need to come up with some characters..... ugh.
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Hello! Okay, so basically there's a huge civilization….. on floating islands. It's kinda steampunk so they have the cool trains and rickety airships but it's kinda fantasy Renaissance era, so yeah. Anyhow, there's a city watch and stuff and my one character moves to the city and becomes part of the watch and has a mentor who is really hardcore and their spouse who is really chill and likes to knit and bake, and my MC lives with those two. But I need to A, actually come up with ideas for who those characters could be and B, come up with characters who are part of the city watch and finally C, come up with other side characters. I already have an general idea for a villain, but it still also needs work. This is a fantasy universe so there are trolls and dwarves and elves and gnomes and vampires and witches/wizards and so on, but in intend that most of my characters don't have special powers. Help!

@CWTurtleOfFreedom

Sounds like you have a pretty good start. Maybe start building up basic characteristics and motivations? Try ‘what made my MC move in the first place?’ You can then start building their character off of that.

Deleted user

What made them move was that they were tired of being cooped up in their vampire tribe and wanted to see the world. (Yes, they are a vampire) So MC had to seek out their fortune and so forth. Blah de blah. More backstory. Blah blah blah.

Deleted user

I have over 200 characters I can pump these out

What are you looking for in side characters?

I don't want to steal your characters as I plan to publish, I would feel bad to wreck your life's work. So I hope you don't plan on using your own characters lmao sorry erk now it's awkward and this is a run on sentence and I really should stop typing now and….. frick.

@CWTurtleOfFreedom

Alrighty. So I guess you could also say, ‘What was so suffocating about the tribe?’ And just out of curiosity: why fortune? Could you develop that into something more complex?
I just realized that I’m really giving you questions lol not answers but I find that answering questions helps me build up characters.

Why do I take so long to type

Why

Deleted user

I wasn't planning on using mine

I'm saying I can come up with some lickity split

Oh, good. I was starting to work up a sweat, literally. Oh wait TMI sorry.

Deleted user

Okay, so I intend to make my MC a strong female character THAT ACTUALLY HAS FLAWS (I'm talking to you, Rey. Stay away from that Kylo Ren boy, I don't trust him.) and stuff, I want her to be good natured but timid and easily frightened as she has never experienced a community with over 50 people. Also, even though she normally follows rules she is headstrong and sometimes bends rules to her own advantage. I want her to not have a tragic backstory. And last of all, I want her to be pretty but still quite plain looking but not ugly no offense?Not every MC has to be a hottie. (Still looking at you Rey.)

@ThatBackgroundSlytherin

Okay so you're looking for

Name: Idk yet
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Looks: Long brown hair usually in loose bun, fair skin, freckles, forest green eyes, 5'8
Personality: INFP (Myers Briggs), Slytherin

I can expand later if you want eh?

Deleted user

Teens isn't exactly ideal, 19 would be as young as I want to go.

Bree

ok hiii I love helping out with this sort of stuff!

are you looking at unique, exotic kind of names like Aaliyah or Luca?
or something a little more traditional?

Deleted user

Slightly exotic, but people are still able to pronounce it. (Patrick Rothfuss, I love your books man, but how the f*ck do you pronounce Kvothe or Skoivan Schiemmelpfenneg? (I don't lie, those are actually character's names.))

Deleted user

Keira maybe? Aspen? Idk does anyone have any ideas?