Subject: I don't think...
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Posted on: 2009-04-11 02:14:00 UTC

That there's any real formula to a fleshed out character profile, though usually when I do write one it tends to depend on how much I need to keep for reference while I continue the story.

I think it's more important for an Original Character rather than a canon for the fact that in most cases people who know the fandom know the character like the back of their hand. And you would figure that it should be more likely for someone making up their own character, but the originality and the familiarity one may have with a new character may go through different stages, just like someone would go through multiple edits on a story.

I don't know if you'd find it overkill, but I would start with a biography for her, describing some times in her past, little things that may give you something to draw from or to derive how she would act in a given situation. A quick sheet of the effects of nature and nurture that everyone should have to make a person who they are.

Things like her age, which could help you figure out how her dialogue should go.

Then keep it on hand when you do write your story, and keep the Watchmen volume with you as well. I would also suggest jumping into a little bit of V for Vendetta to get Alan Moore's dialogue style for both characters: they're both very set in a particular moral base but you can almost compare the two and be able to figure that they're not going to sound alike. While both are vigilantes, V does not look at particular people under a microscope, unlike Rorschach.

Sorry, kind of droned on there, I hope you got what I was going for in there.

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