r/CharacterDevelopment • • 4h ago

Other cast development of a 3d animated series

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hey so first time being in this group and wanted to showcasr my own characters that i created for my series and watned to see f anyone can judge and help me make the characters better. these are two character sheets first is the main character while the other sheet is npc characters and side characters designs


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 5h ago

Discussion I wish there was a character analysis for each one of Yellowjackets characters

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I wish there was a character analysis for each girl, Travis and Coach Scott in Yellowjackets. Like personality & traits, physical appearance, mannerism, motivations, arcs, and all kinds of stuff. I think it would be so nice for people who write fanfics, or people who want to know more about their favorite characters.


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 12h ago

Writing: Character Help Im having an issue of thinking my OCS power. Can anyone help and debate with me here what can be a debuff and buff for every character?

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Im having an issue. My pitch is an OC with human strength, and powers like TOAA, Steve, SCP 001. He can die and hes mortal, but also grows with development. Like Denji with the rules reversed. Hes NOT invincible. but hes powerful. Not to be sexist or nun just the word HE is quicker than HE/SHE any gender works! Just wanted to give my idea to the community to tinker with! SCALE ANYONE YOU WANT and find some type of DEBUFF and buff my character has that could even the ropes with a fight.


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 21h ago

Other Finished a lineup of my cast! Curious who stands out to you

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These characters belong to my horror-fantasy screenplay: Seraph & The Sovereign. The narrative takes place on Infra, a planet that harbors its own human species and revives those who died prematurely on Earth as part of its populace. Anwen, for example, is a native Infran—hence the fictional flag.

If my characters pique your interest, I’d love to share more.


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 13h ago

Other [OC Idea / Rewrite] How an original character with minimal screen time and zero gang fights could deepen Takemichi, Kisaki, and the Bonten arc

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I’ve always felt that the biggest mistake most OCs (original characters) in Tokyo Revengers fanfics make is trying to become invincible fighters who steal the spotlight from the Toman captains (basically turning into a "second Senju").

With that in mind, I came up with a concept for Takemichi’s cousin following a strict rule: she doesn't fight in gangs and has very little screen time, yet she acts as an emotional anchor behind the scenes—much like how Shinichiro functions in the canon story.

I wanted to share her structure here to see what you guys think about how she fits into the plot:

  1. Who Takemichi's cousin is & his missing link

• Appearance and background: She is an orphan who lives with the Hanagaki family. Because she has foreign-looking features (pearly vanilla-blonde hair and a "porcelain doll" appearance), she suffered heavy bullying and xenophobia at school back then. Out of sheer survival instinct, she learned how to defend herself ("she hits to knock out"), though her actual personality is witty, sarcastic, and very practical.

• From "hero" to "delinquent" (fixing a canon gap): As a kid, Takemichi dreamed of becoming a hero. The anime and manga never really explain why he suddenly dropped that dream and started thinking delinquents were cool, even though heroes and delinquents are complete opposites. In my version, his cousin is the answer: he bleached his hair blonde and embraced the delinquent label to show her that she wasn't alone and that the prejudice she faced wasn't her fault. He never stopped wanting to be a hero—he just changed how he protected her.

•The repressed trauma: In their final year of middle school in the original timeline, when Kiyomasa goes after Hina (who is her friend), Takemichi’s cousin steps in to defend her and ends up being killed by Kiyomasa with a baseball bat. Takemichi develops such severe PTSD that his brain blocks out all memories of her—which explains why he ran away from town and became such a broken adult who apologizes for everything.

2. Entering the story without forcing the spotlight

• The memory trigger (Moebius Arc): On his first time leap, Takemichi doesn't even remember her. When he returns to the future, Naoto tells him that he can also save his cousin (without giving him time to ask questions, rushing straight into studying the past). When Takemichi runs into her in the past, the mental block shatters and he breaks down crying in front of her—while she just drops a dry joke ("You somehow managed to get even weirder than usual") and hands him a candy to make him stop crying. From that point on, stopping Kiyomasa also becomes a race against the clock to save her.

• Brief, comedic appearances: She doesn't attend Toman meetings. During the scene where Mikey and Draken fight at Takemichi's house (after Pah-chin gets arrested), she simply comes home from school, sees the trash on his head, asks "Takemichi, why is there a poop on your head?" and walks inside without caring at all about Toman's leaders. She only casually reappears at the festival after the Black Dragons arc, having naturally befriended Emma and Mikey outside of gang life.

3. The big twist: Kisaki’s obsession ("Greenhouse Flower" vs. "Asphalt Flower")

In canon, Kisaki’s motivation feels a bit shallow since it’s just unrequited love for Hina. Here, his real target was Takemichi’s cousin:

• When they were kids and Takemichi saved Hina from bullies, his cousin was there and told him that while he needed to learn how to defend himself before protecting others, he wouldn't be a good man if he hadn't stepped up.

• Kisaki overheard this and started watching her. In his twisted mind, Hina was a "greenhouse flower" (it’s easy to be kind when everyone loves and protects you), whereas Takemichi’s cousin was an "asphalt flower" (she grew through hard concrete, surviving orphanhood and prejudice without losing who she was).

• Because his cousin ends up dying in one of the past timelines—and Naoto, focused solely on his sister, doesn't pass that info along to Takemichi—Kisaki kills Hina in every future because he believes Hina is the "wrong survivor" and blames her for his cousin's death.

4. The Bonten Arc and the "Ivory Tower"

When Hina finds out about the time leaps and warns Mikey and Draken during the Tenjiku arc, Mikey keeps someone watching over Takemichi’s cousin and ends up saving her from a fatal mugging.

• In the Bonten timeline, after losing all his pillars, a corrupted Mikey decides the outside world will take her away from him too. So he locks her away in a luxury penthouse in Tokyo (Aman Residences).

• When former Toman members try to rescue her, she refuses to leave: "If I walk away, the city burns. I chose to stay—don't come looking for me again." She becomes a voluntary hostage to contain the monster Mikey turned into.

• This gives way more weight to Takemichi risking his own wedding to go after Mikey: he isn't just doing it for a friend, he's doing it to free his own blood cousin who sacrificed her freedom for all of them. And on the rooftop, Mikey gives Takemichi the penthouse address right before jumping, trying to set her free through his own death.

5. The Final Timeline

With the past rewritten and the new Toman (Mikey as leader, Takemichi as co-leader, Draken as vice-leader) acting as a natural shield, Takemichi’s cousin grows up free from bullying, Kisaki never develops his savior obsession (since she never needed saving), and her witty, sarcastic humor thrives freely alongside her friends and family.

What do you guys think of this approach to an OC? Do you feel it works well to add more weight to Takemichi’s and Kisaki’s motivations?


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 16h ago

Writing: Character Help Desafio criativo

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[DESAFIO] Dê um nome ao meu OC e crie sua lore!

Olá, pessoal! Quero propor um desafio: observem meu personagem original e tentem imaginar e criar algumas coisas sobre ele!

  1. Nome: Que nome vocês acham que combinaria com ele?

  2. História: Como vocês imaginam que foi o passado dele?

  3. Personalidade: Ele seria gentil, misterioso, arrogante, travesso ou teria outro tipo de personalidade?

  4. Poderes: Que tipo de magia ou habilidades vocês acham que ele possui?

Um pouco sobre ele:

  • Gênero: Masculino.

  • Aparência: Um jovem usando roupas misteriosas.

  • Informações desconhecidas: Seu nome, personalidade, origem e história estão completamente nas mãos da imaginação de vocês!

Sintam-se à vontade para serem tão criativos quanto quiserem. Quero muito conhecer as interpretações de vocês!

Vamos descobrir que histórias vocês conseguem criar para ele!

Que vença o mais votado


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 22h ago

Writing: Character Help Sirius characterisation question for my fic

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So I'm writing a Sirius PoV fic and need to confirm if my characterisation is going correctly. Please gimme your opinions on this scenario:

Sirius has distrusted a woman for months and been openly hostile to her. Then, in a heated moment, he accidentally does something physical he never meant to. How does he act toward her afterward: guilt, defensiveness, avoidance, or a clumsy mix of all three?

Or do you have some other idea?

I'm open to any and all ideas.


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 1d ago

Writing: Character Help Ayuda con mi oc

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This is Dagme. She is an oc recently made. I wouldn like to use her but I want to give her some traits or Quirks.

She is a sequitor of a parody of budism. You know, to left your posesión and embrace the spiritualism. Well in her point of view , having organs ,muscles , and flesh entera on the list of things to left. And she tries to expand her religión by using his exploding gaster (Who has acid inside9 and melt your guts. She is not going to do that no consensual(or yes thats up what You want). I want to give her a personality, some Quirks or weird things You can make or even if You have an oc that You think It would fit her or something. It would be funny to see what You came with.


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 1d ago

Writing: Character Help Presenting character as funny in a depressing scene

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r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Other how many redesigns has your oc(s) gone through?

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I have this one INCREDIBLY difficult OC to design purely because he's supposed to be overly theatrical and I can never seem to get his outfit perfect, he's been through five redesigns so far in the course of months. Because this annoys me, I wanted to ask other people about their difficult-to-design OCs and how long it's taking/took.

Edit: Y'all, he's physically incapable of changing clothes, IK IT SOUNDS WEIRD, BUT HIS CLOTHES ARE A LITERAL PART OF HIM


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 1d ago

Writing: Character Help Alias name suggestions

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Hi! I’m looking for an alias name for my OC. His real name is Matthias Morvain and he works for the tyrannical regime that is the MAF in my comic. He infiltrates the black market to monopolize the trade of a substance called Voltanite in order to root out the rebellion.

I’ve been calling his black market alias The Bloodletter so far, but I’m not sure I’m liking it. Any alias suggestions for a fantasy crime lord? The setting is steampunk/fantasy with a blend of magic and technology.


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Writing: Character Help I need opinions about how to handle this situation and character as a barely experienced writer

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Hey,

so I have recently started working on a Story again. I tecnicly have it all figured out but something has been bothering me from the beginning on, or well at ever since I picked this project up again.

So the mother of my protagonist is Native, but, the way the story works currently she dies. Because she is killed, because of her cultural identity. And since i am not part of her culture, I feel like this is defenetly a problem. I have not fleshed out her character more so far because when I initially created her I did do some research but had not ”finished” her as a person yet. And now I think it is smarter to first decide who she even is going to be, before I flesh her out more, I suppose.

I have asked people in real life about this little dilemma of mine, because I dont know how exactly to make the story work otherwise. So does anyone have ideas or tips? I can defenetly provide more details if that would help,but I thought for now I’d leave it a little broader.

I do feel like I should mention that I am not white, but mixed and have roots in Chiles indigenous culture as well. Which still is quite obviously way off from the Vancouver region. I mention this because one of the people I talked to about this said that because of that, with a decent amount of research it would be good,but I am not so sure, and I really do not want to appropriate anything or be harmful in any kind of way and defenetly want to be respectful.


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Other Need character name

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r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Writing: Character Help How do I make a character design interesting given their powers?

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I have a serial killer villain for a superhero story I've been working on, and I'm having trouble.

She basically has heightened regeneration, but instead of it working like how Wolverine or Deadpool regenerate, with them just regrowing lost cells, her body just wants to stay in one piece. If she chops off her hand and tosses it, it'll fly back to her arm and seal itself back up as if it never happened. If her bones get broken, they'll snap back in place.

I use this for some cool choreography where she uses broken or dismembered bodyparts as projectiles and weapons, but it means that she can end up with clothes being torn apart or shot to ragged threads via gunfire.

I don't want her to end up nude after a long fight, mainly because I want the gruesomeness to take priority and I don't want it to feel any close to fanservice. Unfortunately, my story has the average technological level as modern day real life and my character doesn't have access to any due to her being a serial killer that no one wants to work with, so I can't do something like My Hero Academia where she has clothes that function along with her DNA.

Any ideas would be wonderful :]


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Writing: Character Help Vampire Character

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So I've got this vampire character idea and I can't decide how to take it. I love vampires and immortality so I've been really wanting to make a vampire character for a while so I did. His name is Viktor and he has amnesia. I can't decide if he should remember if he's a vampire or not. I also wanted him to have the Dead Ringer ability which is basically anything he kills he can take a piece of them to then use as a sort of talisman to gain some power or partial form from it. For example if he kills a goblin he'd be able to cut off its ear or something and then use the abilities from it like finding gold or general riches more easily. My reason for giving him this power is that usually vampires are kinda detached from humans and life so he doesn't mind taking from the dead. It does have to be things he's killed though and he can't drink from them before taking the piece. I really like the idea of him having the power because I think it fits but vampires already have a bunch of powers so I thought this might be too much or too powerful. This is kinda why I added the amnesia part. I was thinking he has a dark past where his loved violence and killing and was basically just a mass murderer. He doesn't remember any of that, do to something I haven't figured out yet lol. So I thought maybe he doesn't remember he's a vampire so he only uses his dead ringer power. Or maybe the amnesia makes him not use some of his vamp powers as a way of only kinda nerfing him. I also think it might be interesting to present him as human, like since he doesn't know he's a vampire all his vamp abilities just get turned off subconsciously, but then I feel like the dead ringer ability doesn't fit quite as well. Also he will eventually remember everything but that will come through the story in bits and pieces. Maybe he's just a young vampire and can't use full power yet or maybe he realized his a vampire shortly after the amnesia and vowed to never drink blood so he can't use his full powers. Any ideas would be helpful.


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Discussion What kind of personality does your main character have? Or you like/hate?

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r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Discussion "Bad Girls" Motif

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r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Discussion "Bad Girls" Motif

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r/CharacterDevelopment • • 2d ago

Writing: Character Help who would be the biggest betrayal and reveal?

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r/CharacterDevelopment • • 3d ago

Writing: Character Help I kind of need help with a character of mine I'm making

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So I've got a superhero type book that I'm writing, but right now I'm struggling with the mechanics of one character in particular. With this book I want to base all the powers I'm creating in actual science, as realistic as possible and if not at the very least I've tried my best.

Here's my character, his name is Julian, and he's got a mutation that's given him wings. And not just your typical avian character with two feathered meter long wings stuck on their back with prayers and glue. But I've thought everything out from the bones and joints needed, to the size and the number of wings needed for the aerodynamics I want him to be able to achieve. Such as lifting off from the ground unassisted, soaring, diving, hovering. Anything you could want for epic visuals.

I gave him 4 wings, two on his upper shoulder area with ball and socket joints (like your shoulder) and two on his lower back with the same joints. The ratio of Vertical Height: Top Set: Bottom set is 1cm : 4cm : 3cm. So per every cm of vertical height, is 4cm of his top total wingspan and 3 cm of his lower set. And as an adult (or at full height) he's about 180cm (I just made it an even number for the sake of the ratio) so his total top wingspan is 640cm, and bottom is 560. About 3,2m per wing on top, and 2,8m per wing on bottom. And now, here comes my problem:

I had a specific thing in mind that I wanted these wings to be fireproof. And while I could make the excuse that it's "superpower magic" or just never explain it. I do want an actual, scientific based way that his wings could biologically be fireproof. The two idea's I've come up with so far is that he produces a large amount of sweat, specifically in his wings (especially when near extreme heat cos duh more heat = more sweat) and that suffocates the fire out before it can singe his wings. OR number two, the fibres that make up his feathers act more similarly to wool than they do to keratin, being denser, consisting of certain oils and more water built into it, which makes it fire retardant.

That's kind of what I've got, I'd love input, feedback and any other ideas you guys might have


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 3d ago

Writing: Character Help writing a irredeemable villain

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My character is a political figure that gets elected . people immediately regret their vote as my character

starts killing people indiscriminately. My character does not not single out any oppressed group as they kill everyone even his own supporters the elites that helped him get the election start to see him as a liability and try to plot to kill him. the people of land start to hate and loathe him but they cant really do anything because the soldiers would kill them . In the end he is assassinated but his impact still effects the land to this day.

I am thinking of making him and all characters animals not half human half animal like 70% animal 30 percent human

what do you think?


r/CharacterDevelopment • • 4d ago

Discussion Guys, what are some characters that inspired your main character?

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r/CharacterDevelopment • • 3d ago

Writing: Question Can I write a black character as a white dude

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r/CharacterDevelopment • • 4d ago

Discussion Kim Possible being one of the characters that require a second look and a second opinion despite her deeds. They mistaken Heroism for Vigilantism.

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