Types For Writing Characters Differently From Character-To-Character

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Any suggestions?

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Honestly, the best advice I can give it so base each character upon people you either know intimately or are acquaintances with. I usually match the personalities and development of my characters based upon people I know, people who have come and gone in my life, and people I’ve sat next to in lecture. Everyone you come across has a distinct personality and a complex life. You just have to look out for it!

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Make music playlists for your characters or find characters in TV shows/other media that are similar to your character!

The music one I use a lot, it gives me a general vibe of the character and helps me get ideas for scenes.

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Give them different personalities, different appearances, different ethnicities, different clothing styles, different experiences, different conditions, different morals, different humor, different animations (e.g a shy character will do more shy animations than a confident character would and they might even speak less too).

Personality and traits examples:
  • Shy
  • Confident
  • Bubbly and positive
  • Pessimistic
  • Loud
  • Unintelligent
  • Quiet
  • Assertive
  • Anxious and/or Paranoid
  • Dark (as in dark style or dark humor)
  • Needy
  • Independent
  • Intelligent
  • Reserved
  • Bland
  • Hot-headed
  • Jealous
  • Mean, scheming, cunning
Appearance and styles examples:
  • Pretty
  • Neat
  • Disheveled
  • Unattractive
  • Attractive
  • Hot/Sexy
  • Revealing
  • Modest
  • Plain
  • Dark (goth, or dark clothes, or a menacing appearance)
  • Liking to a specific color or color scheme, liking to denim etc.
  • A lot of jewelry
  • No jewelry
  • Only important jewelry
  • Heels or no heels
Ethnicity examples:
  • Ethnic Russian
  • Ethnic German
  • White European
  • Indigenous (this varies so much, Indigenous Australian, Indigenous Alaskan, Indigenous Kiwi, etc)
  • African-American
  • Thai
  • Japanese
  • Chinese
  • Korean
  • Indian
  • Mongolian
  • Sri Lankan
  • Greek
  • Latinx
Conditions examples:
  • Social anxiety
  • Autism
  • Aspergers
  • Schizophrenia
  • ADD
  • ADHD
  • Schizoid Personality Disorder
  • Avoidant Personality Disorder
  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder
  • Depression
  • Allergies
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Asthma
  • Bipolar Disorder
Moral examples:
  • No smoking
  • No drugs
  • No drinking
  • No teen pregnancies
  • No sex until marriage
  • No lying
  • Smoking is fine, but no drugs
  • No smoking, but some drugs are fine
  • Smoking is fine and so is all drugs
  • No drinking alone, social drinking is fine
  • Only soft alcoholic drinks are fine, no hard alcohol
  • All alcohol is fine
  • Sex whenever is okay
  • Only protected sex is okay
  • Only abstinence is okay
  • (controversial) Abortion is okay/not okay
  • White lies are okay, other lies are not
  • All lies are not okay/are okay
  • Respectable work for money is fine, other work isn’t e.g prostitution, selling drugs, killing etc.
  • Any work for money is fine
    There’s a lot more examples but I think you get the picture. You can apply so many different morals and views on each character.
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Wow! I think I’m going to bookmark this :flushed:

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