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How DO you create a character? Do you start with a face and build a personality from there? Do you start with the name? Do you start with an idea and build your character from there?

For those who are new and want to know, and those who are seasoned and want to share, we explore the development of your character. No one has a right or wrong answer - this is just an opportunity to share and offer suggestions.
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I always find it more fun to have relatives of lesser canon characters. I mean its so easy to use the big ones like Weasely, Granger, Lovegood, Malfoy...but pick a Zabini, Parkinson, Patil, Brown or Boot..I mean that why you have a little bit more to go on and can do whatever you want with the character.

I mean JK gave us 7 books of characters to choose from if that's the route you want to go in.

I always like to have just totally different characters tho. It gives you total freedom
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A Lovegood descendent sounds promising. Who would she marry? How strange would the kids turn out? The kids kids?

Can't wait to see your take on it. Post back here if you have more questions. i
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Luna's father could remarry and they could have like four more kids and her great grandfather could be one of the kids luna's dad and his new wife had.

that way you can still be a lovegood and have a properly lineage

Or you could be be from Xeno's brother's side.

I mean you can make up any family history that would make sense
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Wow, this thread is suddenly all about how to be a Lovegood.

Pardon my disagreement, but I still really feel the most interesting characters are the ones with entirely original lineage, not only that, but it really gives you a chance to start from a simple beginning and grow to something wonderful, which is in my opinion the whole point of the RP.

If you start, having been attached to the name Lovegood, Lestrange, Weasley, Longbottom, or what have you, you're stuck with a certain beginning. Where as if you build your own story from scratch, you can be anyone and go anywhere. you have no precedent, and no preconceived notions of how you have to turn out, no one sees your name and assumes you'll behave in a certain way, nor do they make that assumption when they hear who you're related to.

It's always possible to be the grandchild of a canon character, but why would you want to when there is an entire world of possibility out there?

That's merely how I feel on the subject, anyway.
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Wow, this thread is suddenly all about how to be a Lovegood.

Pardon my disagreement, but I still really feel the most interesting characters are the ones with entirely original lineage, not only that, but it really gives you a chance to start from a simple beginning and grow to something wonderful, which is in my opinion the whole point of the RP.

If you start, having been attached to the name Lovegood, Lestrange, Weasley, Longbottom, or what have you, you're stuck with a certain beginning. Where as if you build your own story from scratch, you can be anyone and go anywhere. you have no precedent, and no preconceived notions of how you have to turn out, no one sees your name and assumes you'll behave in a certain way, nor do they make that assumption when they hear who you're related to.

It's always possible to be the grandchild of a canon character, but why would you want to when there is an entire world of possibility out there?

That's merely how I feel on the subject, anyway.
Oh yeah I totally agree with you. None of my characters have been related to Canon characters

But then on the other hand if you choose a canon last name you don't really have to have a certain beginning you know. I mean if you choose to be a Crouch you can say that your family didn't know you existed bcuz your great grandmother was shipped off to I don't know Iceland after her husband Barty Jr. was sent to Azkaban. And you are just now returning back to England and back to your family's home

I mean some people just aren't creative enough to come up with something totally on their own you know and I think that as long as they are like the children of canon charries its alright to have a canon last name you know
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Totally agreed with druidflower up there. I think being related to a major canon character is something of a cop-out. I've been to other RP sites and it always amuses me when the descendants of Harry Potter meet... other, numerous descendants of Harry Potter. It's even better if the players all have different ideas of who exactly Harry married.

Getting the discussion back on track, however, I think the most important thing about making a character is a sense of humor. An angsty past, emotional problems, not being "lalahappyfunland" etc. are all part of what makes a character multidimensional, but when the RPer takes it all too seriously, it goes from being multidimensional to simply melodramatic.
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Totally agreed with druidflower up there. I think being related to a major canon character is something of a cop-out. I've been to other RP sites and it always amuses me when the descendants of Harry Potter meet... other, numerous descendants of Harry Potter. It's even better if the players all have different ideas of who exactly Harry married.

Getting the discussion back on track, however, I think the most important thing about making a character is a sense of humor. An angsty past, emotional problems, not being "lalahappyfunland" etc. are all part of what makes a character multidimensional, but when the RPer takes it all too seriously, it goes from being multidimensional to simply melodramatic.
Well I mean I personally wouldn't do it

but then again I'm an experinced RPer who has made dozens charries and can pull one out of the air and jump right in with a past you know

But not everyone can do that. They may need to base their first charrie off a canon charrie just to get started

My first charrie was decedent of Zabini but then I evolved and learned how to do character development on my own

But me personally I don't go for all the drama of angsty past...my parents were both murdered, I'm on the run from DEs kinda thing. I think that is a cop out when you have to use drama to give your charrie a past

I mean my currest charrie Paris came from a wealthy two parent home with 6 brothers and sisters...but she just blew up a rubbish bin in Diagon Ally and she used home made cherry bombs...see you don't need a angsty past to make your charrie multidimensional

You just need to be a good RPer and to be good you have to have a starting point and then progress.
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I don't see a problem relating your character to a Rowling creation. It can be used as a cop out, which means you have to make them look good and fit the legacy.

Helios was made from scratch along with a whole Greek wizarding culture loosely based off their ancient mythology. But part of me wants my next character to be a Potter. Just as a challenge to myself. To try and make him live up to the name.

I'm personally surprised we don't see any clever takes on the Malfoy and Potter legacies. Would their grandchildren feud? Or is there a chance of forbidden romance?

I hope at least part of this made sense.

Anyone up for doing a "Adopt a character" thread, where we create characters for newbies to tweak and make their own? I get too many ideas to keep them bottled up.
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I would totally be up for doing that...it sounds so much fun

and i have a ton of charrie ideas and no where to RP them or use them..
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I would love to see clever takes on Malfoy and Potter legacies, but what I'd be afraid of is that these characters - through their canon connections - get more kudos than your average OC schmoozing down the street. Naturally, people would want to be connected and be a Something-Something Malfoy-Potter-Weasley than, to take a complete and random example, Dogberry Dinglesbee.

Actually, I take that back. I'd love to see what complexes a Dogberry Dinglesbee would have to deal with. XD.

I think the point of the AU/in the future SSRP is that people get to play in the world itself, not with the characters that previously populated it, but that's my own personal take so it's definitely not writ in stone. ^^;; I really love when people toss in other cultures though, like your basing your character's wizarding heritage off Greek mythology! I try to do that, but since my background is Chinese/Malaysian, that's what I base mine on.

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but then again I'm an experinced RPer who has made dozens charries and can pull one out of the air and jump right in with a past you know

But not everyone can do that. They may need to base their first charrie off a canon charrie just to get started

My first charrie was decedent of Zabini but then I evolved and learned how to do character development on my own

But me personally I don't go for all the drama of angsty past...my parents were both murdered, I'm on the run from DEs kinda thing. I think that is a cop out when you have to use drama to give your charrie a past

I mean my currest charrie Paris came from a wealthy two parent home with 6 brothers and sisters...but she just blew up a rubbish bin in Diagon Ally and she used home made cherry bombs...see you don't need a angsty past to make your charrie multidimensional

You just need to be a good RPer and to be good you have to have a starting point and then progress.
Sure. I personally have never based a character off a canon character for RPing purposes, but I have developed (fanfic, mostly) characters to play off canon figures. That said, enough bad roleplayers have made me want to run away when there's a Lily Weasley-Potter-Snape flashing her green eyes, red hair and pale skin at me. (They never have knobbly knees, freckles all over or a hooked nose.)

Relating to to the discussion concerning angst, I think I stated my point a few posts above poorly; what I meant was that, everybody has their private hangups from daddy being a DE to having their puppy die when they were five in a horrible car accident related to Pygmy Puffs. But when players take it too seriously and justify and enable their characters to exist purely on the point that they were assaulted by Dementors, that's when it gets dull. Just like being a justified mopey whiner sad doesn't make a rounded character, neither does being a troublemaker or a flirt or any other stereotype.

Actually, I'm not stating that well either, haha. GAH.

Basically, I think a good character boils down to good writing and a sense of humor. You can come up with the best, most thrilling person but if you typ lyk d1s, it's hardly compelling. Likewise, I've seen talented writers turn stereotypes into things of beauty and joys forever. XD
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^totally with you on that one...and about the canon vs. non-canon, or whatever...I think it doesn't truly matter if you choose any lineage or popular name...as long as you have fun building your charrie and role-playing...

I arrived more-than-late to the discussion...but...I did take a last name from JK, simply because I loved (and still do) Gilderoy Lockhart, both on the books and the way he was portrayed on the film...NOW...my charrie is not directly descendant of Gilderoy Lockhart himself...BUT...Gilderoy had a brother, and a few generations after...boom!...my charries (both Jack and Kaika)...which have pretty much nothing in common with the amazing character that Rowling created...

I think it depends, though, whatever part of the story you want to follow...but please stick to it...
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There is nothing wrong with being related to a canon character. Not at all It's all in the way you RP it...think about it, if you're going to play a Weasley descendant with red hair, freckles, and is really tall and plays Quidditch and is basically JUST like Ron...yeah, it's not going to work for you. However, I've seen character who are descendants of the lesser known characters as well as the more known characters that have worked because they developed a real storyline to their charrie. You can have the same last name, sure, just be sure you make a character who is original and unique.

Also, this is a HUGE pet peeve of mine...during the school RPG, which takes place in 2067 currently, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all in their 80's, so their kids would NOT be going to Hogwarts...maybe not even grandkids, depending on the age.

You have to play it out realistically. Just because they're wizards doesn't mena they're superhumans or super-angsty either.
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^ I completely agree with Lissy. If you are going to make a character that is related to one of JK's canon characters at LEAST get it to match the SS timeline. An 80 year old Hermion and Ron are NOT going to have a child that is 11-18.

I would suggest making a family tree, it really really helps get everything straight.
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Just make sure the ages match. You don't want to deal with something that isn't believable, that subtracts from everyone's RP experience.
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^ That is AWESOME Ernie That is some intense work right there

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You can make a family tree if your character ISN'T related to a Harry Potter character too. It's actually really useful to have to at least some sort of family background to your character. It gives you more RP opportunities and just makes your charrie more well rounded
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I have to agree. When you bring in another character from another book series and you make then exactly like that character from that other book it is rather annoying. Especially when you pick a vampire from Twilight, and there are already vampires in the HP world who are totally different from the vampires in the HP world.
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^ I agree vampires arn`t likely to be learning magic anyway and if they were they wouldn`t look anything like Edward

Its ok to have a cannon character. I have a canon character but hes not like ron that much. I unfortunatly as a newabie found it easier to pull out a character from the hp serius and put him into the rpg with a different name. I wouldn`t advise doing that. I soon relisied that I didn`t like Barry being like Ron exactly so I had to make changes. All in all making your character like a canon one isn`t going to work out but having the same surename can. There does sometimes come a point when there are lots of other weasleys and potters and you have to know whos desendent you are. It helps. In Barrys first year I used Barry being related to others to make freinds with his cousins .

It doesn`t really matter if you have a canon character, its really your choice. It can have its advantages and disadvantages
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Its ok to have a cannon character. I have a canon character but hes not like ron that much. I unfortunatly as a newabie found it easier to pull out a character from the hp serius and put him into the rpg with a different name. I wouldn`t advise doing that. I soon relisied that I didn`t like Barry being like Ron exactly so I had to make changes. All in all making your character like a canon one isn`t going to work out but having the same surename can. There does sometimes come a point when there are lots of other weasleys and potters and you have to know whos desendent you are. It helps. In Barrys first year I used Barry being related to others to make freinds with his cousins .

It doesn`t really matter if you have a canon character, its really your choice. It can have its advantages and disadvantages
Well I would just like to point out to everyone that JK gave us 7 books worth of characters for anyone to choose from to create other charries from other than the Potters or Weasleys

Thats the thing that really gets. Everyone wants to be a Harry or a Ron.

You can be a Patil, Brown. Boot, a Zabini, a Bones, Fletch or you can be a Dursley, or a Black or a Goyle, Crabbe

I mean there are more people in the books other than Ron, Hermione and Harry.

And if you choose to use a canon charries as your great-great-great whoever don't make them totally like the charrie in the book. That will be boring to you and those you RP with, especially if that is so far off ur own personality.

Its easier to RP what you know. I mean none of my charries are angsty teens bcuz I never was one and I don't know how to portray one.

So make the charrie your own
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I was going to save this for the adoption thread, but that got shot down in short order.

Exploring different magic cultures is another option. Helios comes from a world where Greek mythology is alive.

Other ideas were for an American stage magician who attends Hogwarts to hone his craft. Top hat and all.

Or how about a culture where people carved from living wood are used in lieu of house elves? What if one of these creations became self aware, and wanted to be normal?

Or if you don't like Pinnochio, how about Peter Pan? What if he gave up eternal childhood to grow up at Hogwarts?

I know this goes against the discussion of using other books characters in a HP setting, but with some skillful tweaking you can make it your own.

Or I could just be lazy. What do you think?

Personally I like the idea of Alice in Hogwarts.
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Exploring different magic cultures is another option. Helios comes from a world where Greek mythology is alive.

Other ideas were for an American stage magician who attends Hogwarts to hone his craft. Top hat and all.

Or how about a culture where people carved from living wood are used in lieu of house elves? What if one of these creations became self aware, and wanted to be normal?

Or if you don't like Pinnochio, how about Peter Pan? What if he gave up eternal childhood to grow up at Hogwarts?

I know this goes against the discussion of using other books characters in a HP setting, but with some skillful tweaking you can make it your own.

Or I could just be lazy. What do you think?

Personally I like the idea of Alice in Hogwarts.
To elaborate: Keep it more of a wink and a nod. Let the refrence be implied. Nobody likes an obvious refrence.

And it's just lazy.
I agree with you Helios totally

And to elaborate on what I said earlier you can choose to be a vampire from Twilight, but to have a voice like wind chimes and glide around like a ballerina is just..over the top you know. Helios said let it be implied, not just slap in your face literal

There are Twilight RP sites where you can do this and have it make sense. Like if you went to a LOTR rp site and had a vampire...it just wouldn't make sense in that world.

Now to use Greek mythology is perfect bcuz its not mentioned in the books and you can run with it make tweek it to make sense you know. Like your charrie can be the daughter of a greek god and human. Or you can use Norsh mythology and your father can be the loveable prankster Loki and your mother be a human. Or you can take a page from Eragon and you charrie can be a dragon rider, since there are dragons in the HP work you can have a charrie that is a dragon rider and one of the reasons for the outlaws on dragons is what the riders did to the magical world...hmmm might have to use that idea myself

So you in spice up the HP world with charries from other books, but have it make sense in the world of HP you know what I mean.

Pull from other cultures you know. Like my charrie is from Africa and there they get their wands at the age of 6 so she is more magically advanced them her peers. So she can do non-verbals spells because she had her wand almost 5 years longer than her counter parts

Have a black charrie, a Indian one, a Chinese one, a Native American, a Maori one (shnuggles mah Conner like whoa) I mean not all the charries have to be white Brits, or Irish or Scottish.

I mean you guys there is a whole wide world, in the RL human world for you to choose a charrie from. Then you have a whole HP world that can be infused with charrie from other worlds (that make sense for them to be in the HP world) to choose from.
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Well if it is your first role-playing character i found it was easy to have your character based mostly on yourself. Yes i know you do want to have fun so you can change some things, but my character was mostly based on myself. After you have fun with that character you can see how others have portrayed theirs and then you can come up with other ideas for later rping.

Um another idea which i think was stated before, was to take attributes from people you know,friends, family and etc. and put them all together to make the perfect character for you. I hope this advice helps! I can't wait to see you all in this term's rp!
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Well if it is your first role-playing character i found it was easy to have your character based mostly on yourself. Yes i know you do want to have fun so you can change some things, but my character was mostly based on myself. After you have fun with that character you can see how others have portrayed theirs and then you can come up with other ideas for later rping.

Um another idea which i think was stated before, was to take attributes from people you know,friends, family and etc. and put them all together to make the perfect character for you. I hope this advice helps! I can't wait to see you all in this term's rp!
I would have to agree with some of what Chris said. My first RP character 'Freya' was largely based on me; though of course some life history was switched and morphed to suit the Wizarding world. Living and working alongside horses transformed into Freya having to work with animals that were considered dangerous in the wizarding world, (werewolves).
Physical characteristics were pretty dead-on with her though, as far as comparing her to myself.

It's important to have a history for your character, as well as a set personality. It made RPing a LOT easier for me, and since I was a newcomer, it was very helpful to set immediate boundries/weaknesses/dislikes/favorites/experiences for my character. If everyone made things up as they went along, half of us would have no clue of what was going on. Random outbursts and cheerfulness is common with my character, since she is unpredictable and somewhat unstable. (In my opinion it makes dealing with her somewhat difficult.) I also had her birth name create an impact on what she likes, her emotions, possessions, etc. (Since Freyja is a Norse goddess.)

As your character meets new people and deals with different things, their personality (might) change as well. That's how I make things work anyway. So over time a character might act strangely or become an entirely different individual, much like a person who has had something impact them severely enough to change their life. Such as having a character who was shy and stubborn, but eventually warmed up to others and later on would be more compliant.

Yes, some people that my character actually knows/knew, were also based on people I am familiar with in real life. (Even animals/pets.)

I wouldn't go overboard with a character and make them good at everything. Everyone has weaknesses and preferences. Some of my other characters are completely fascinated with muggles, while others couldn't care less. And some know a lot about one topic and another has no clue as to what they are doing. Freya can't draw, loves the cold, and can't swim very well; while Leticia is an avid fisherman/woman and can sketch things fairly well, and likes playing in the warm sun.

All I have left to say is to have fun with it, and make things interesting.

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Excelsior Black was the very first charrie I have ever RPed. Before that, I had no experience whatsoever and was really concerned that I would do a terrible job of it. This was the only time I chose a name common to many HP charries for his last name, and I admit that was a big mistake. Try to be original in your surnames, unless you want to find half the school claiming to be related to you (well, some people might want that, I don't know!) Excelsior ended up acquiring a sister and many, many cousins during the three terms I RPed him. It's so much better to be original and start on your own.

Be sure and build flaws into your charries, it's very important. No one wants to RP with someone who is perfect in every detail, and it just isn't realistic or much fun. How many people have you met in your life that were perfect in every single way? Don't be a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu! Give your charrie some eccentric little habits if you can, it makes them interesting.

Okay, I hope this helps! Have fun!
I had to make a few comments to this reply, even though it was posted after my own.

I'm so glad that I didn't even think of using an actual HP surname. RPing for the first time in DA was a great relief when I realized I had made the right choice to use all original names. I viewed like, 2 Potters, 2 Weasleys and several Malfoys, even a few Riddles.

Yes, yes, yes! Flaws, flaws, flaws! Don't be afraid to give your characters as many flaws as you want. I came across one character (they aren't active anymore) who was good at everything, knew everything and was just no fun to RP with after a while. It's much more interesting to have a character who can fly off the handle with the slightest notice, or who vanishes every so often doing goodness knows what. My very first character Freya was/is very well rounded to adapt to her work, but once RPs continue, others realize how many flaws she has. I like to make things interesting and not immediately give every imperfection away in the first few greeting posts, where's the fun in that? It's better to play things along, and when the opportunity arises, then certain fears, dislikes, and other personalities can come to light.

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And Aschere's dad is some sort of a cousin of Ted Tonks, but her mom's Indian, and she's not a metamorphomagus and she doesn't insist on being called by her last name.. safely non-typical, perhaps

Anyway, for me - picking a canon name and heritage was sort of a tribute to two of my favourite characters (although, yes, there were those few encounters with other Blackses and Tonkses which made classrooms feel like family reuinions...) but I have fun playing Aschere based on myself - with a touch less inhibition. I think it makes her fun.
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You can make a family tree if your character ISN'T related to a Harry Potter character too. It's actually really useful to have to at least some sort of family background to your character. It gives you more RP opportunities and just makes your charrie more well rounded
I did that. Rhiannon had a fairly extensive family tree, although it didn't go much past her grandparents because I didn't feel like coming up with names for them. (I even found models for most of her family).

And then I decided to play Elizabeth, who is Rhiannon's cousin, in the school RP. And Brenna's a cousin by marriage, indirectly. She's the cousin of Rhiannon's cousin's wife, aka Elizabeth's sister-in-law. (Complex, I know.) And then Khat decided to play Asteira for a while, which we made another cousin of Brenna's, and therefore a distant cousin to Elizabeth.

But sometimes it's fun to branch out (no pun intended) and play people that are in no way related to previous charries. Like my next charrie's going to be (and the one after that. I can't seem to resist coming up with charrie ideas )
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