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| SkipperMccoy | Dec 28 2006, 10:35 PM Post #136 |
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hmmm, I need to think of a way to start, I know! I have two ideas one is an android appears and starts causing chaos or a floating robot with one big eye hacks into a big city screen (if their is one) and shows Dr.S.Bane and he says something, wich one should I do? |
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| Dark Phazon | Dec 28 2006, 11:00 PM Post #137 |
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Click the link in my sig. And I guess what I'm looking for is: How do you ("you" pertaining to whichever OC makers who read this and would like to comment) come up with interesting backstories for your OCs? I don't really want someone else to come up with the backstory (as then it'd be just as if I hired someone to entirely create a character for me to use, which I wouldn't mind, but then it isn't my OC); I want to do that myself, I just think it would help me a lot if I knew how others came up with their own backstories for their own OCs. Kinda like the way GS's first post of help/advice was, with what it was discussing. And sorry that I kinda sound like a n00b with this, but well, I pretty much am, when it comes to this sort of stuff. I'd only really been in 2 RPs before coming to this board (that combined were shorter than this one thread ), and the only three OCs I ever make were over-complicated characters with no real structure behind them, that were not fun at all to play as. So I am really quite new to this, hence my search for advice so I don't end up with another failed OC character.
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| GoldenSama | Dec 28 2006, 11:17 PM Post #138 |
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Interesting Backstory: What do most great character have in common? Inuyasha was pinned to a tree for fifty years by his lover with an arrow..... Harry Potter had his parents murdered and was shut off from his culture for eleven years..... The Elric brothers lost their mother, never saw their father much, and lost a lot of body parts in a horrible mistake..... Tidus hated his father for not being there..... Van had his love murdered by a wayward Shinigami and then his father prevented him from trying to bring her back..... What I'm saying is that most great characters have some angst in them. True, not all of them do! There's a lot of good characters who don't have tragic pasts... but Naruto, Vash, Cloud..... a lot of them do. You need to think of the worst possible thing that could have happened to your character, and make it have happened. :3 OR, have them trying to reach a goal that seems impossible. |
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| BR | Dec 28 2006, 11:20 PM Post #139 |
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SM, choose whichever, or both! Good luck!DP, your concern, patience, and time are well spent. If you can make an OC you really enjoy, you're set! ![]() As for the backstory, I understand what you're trying to say. I'm afraid GS will have to write a post like that, but I can tell you how I think of my backstories! Often they're tied to the character: Hitomi is a Hyuuga with no Byakugan, so how did she get to how she is today? Well, she worked hard, rejected her family, and tried to become a ninja all her own. Her big fight with her best friend was the thing that pushed her over the edge. (Admittedly, I stole that from Lee and/or Sakura a bit. So, bad example.)Faust is an alchemist with a spirit chained to his back, I said, so now I need a backstory to go with it. This would be the perfect example to use, except that I can't tell you the backstory because it hasn't been revealed yet! ^^; Suffice it to say that I work backwards: decide who the character is and then work out a scenario that describes how who they are today evolved. So, who is your character? What are their powers, motivations, dreams? Then, how did they come to be this way? Was there some kind of trauma or tragedy in their past? At least, that's just how I do it. ^^; Hope that helps. ^^; I clicked on it! I'll check it out now.EDIT: Looks like Wonder Sama already posted! Heh, wow, a lot of sad heroes... maybe they need hugs...
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| SkipperMccoy | Dec 28 2006, 11:23 PM Post #140 |
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cool, I got my own nick name :3 Jking, ok I already paosted... |
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| GoldenSama | Dec 28 2006, 11:27 PM Post #141 |
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SM that wasn't directed towards you, it was just to inform EVERYONE. I replied to you via PM, and make sure you read the message, ok? |
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| SkipperMccoy | Dec 28 2006, 11:31 PM Post #142 |
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ok! sorry bout that, I just thaught it ment I couldn't RP in this RP. |
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| GoldenSama | Dec 28 2006, 11:34 PM Post #143 |
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you can TOTALLY RP in this RP. I hope you do.I just can't have anyone who isn't supposed to be in Central in Central. Just that location. It's for the story, only the people who have characters who are supposed to be in Central can be there. I want you in the RP. Sorry for the misunderstanding! |
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| SkipperMccoy | Dec 29 2006, 12:18 AM Post #144 |
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Name: Shade Age: 1 month Appearance: Shade is a human android, he wears a black T-shirt and blue jeans. he has a line that starts from the bottom of his eye and ends on the bottom of his chin. Shades left arm looks like Auto Mail (robotic body parts with no skin over it to make it look like a real arm) he has black spikey hair. Powers: Very fast, flies, shoots bullets like a gun from his fingers on his left arm, his left arm can change into a plasma canon and a sword. Background: Shade was made for the soul perpous of destruction, he has a mind of his own, will he live up to what he was made for? heres Shade, Dr.Banes greatest creation! |
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| Tux | Dec 29 2006, 01:48 AM Post #145 |
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Same here, actually... ![]() But either one would fit. However, it's Tencho. Ten meaning Sky and Cho meaning City. |
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| R0UGE | Dec 29 2006, 01:47 PM Post #146 |
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IM JUST STATING THAT I AM TOTALLY AGE APPROPRIATE FOR MAES MUSTANG. j/k.
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| Dark Phazon | Dec 29 2006, 04:25 PM Post #147 |
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Thank you very very very very very much, GS and BR, for all your help in getting me on the right track for making this OC! I think I have something good, possibly, so hopefully I won't just come to hate this guy like I did all my previous OCs. That'd also be good, as well, as I'd be able to reuse this guy with slight modification, if an FMA RP ever shows up here (so would not just be stuck with only Hughes as a character)...: Name: Kajiwara Kazuya (JP style) Age: 22 Gender: Male Appearance: Black hair, green eyes, small round green sunglasses (kinda similar in design to Vash the Stampede's sunglasses, I guess) that he wears most of the time on top of his head instead of in front of his eyes; The rest coming soon, I think/hope? Powers: alchemy, Background: TBA, but on his travels through Amestris(?), he has picked up some alchemic knowledge/abilities Random Info: This guy's a governmental representative of some place that isn't quite local, I'd guess (gotta find the name soon); He also has the ability to see stuff like shinigami or similar, for reasons to be revealed at a future date. Also also, one of his personal reasons for traveling to Amestris(?) is to learn some more about alchemy... ... Good? OK? Horrible? Indifferent? ... Oh yeah, when I bring him in, it would be nice to bring him in around where some other alchemists are, please. ... ... And I bet you didn't expect that... |
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| GoldenSama | Dec 29 2006, 06:11 PM Post #148 |
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Sounds good to me! Awesome DP!Where the Alchemist are? Mushroom Castle! But I have a feeling they'll move soon. |
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| BR | Dec 29 2006, 06:16 PM Post #149 |
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Kazuya, huh? As for locations... I have a lot of FMA knowledge at my disposal, especially since I got a couple of guidebooks for Christmas, so if you need a town of origin for him, I can probably find one... or a country of origin, if he's not intended to be from Amestris... Mushroom Castle is probably good, or you could meet them on their way out!
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| AGodofIrony | Dec 29 2006, 07:07 PM Post #150 |
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Another Golden Sun fan? Good. Means I won't try and get more characters...I'm not using all of mine as it is! Joha randomly posting? Also good? And internet...very good... |
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), and the only three OCs I ever make were over-complicated characters with no real structure behind them, that were not fun at all to play as. So I am really quite new to this, hence my search for advice so I don't end up with another failed OC character.





Good luck!
So, bad example.)




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