The Art of VILLAINY ~ Making Realistic Villains for your Fiction ~
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"People will do far more to Avoid Pain than they will to Seek Pleasure."
-- CIA Profiler Gavin DeBecker on Human Nature
True Predators
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When I craft a villain, I go out of my way to make darned sure that my fictional villains are as realistic as the villains we face in real life. I begin by giving them ordinary human Issues.
Within every villain (fictional and non-fictional) there's a human issue at core that drives them to BE villains in the first place. Even mass murderers have reasons (however twisted) for doing what they do.
NO villain
Character Profile Walkthrough by dark-sheikah, literature
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Character Profile Walkthrough
Please feel free to use this as a guide when applying for a roleplaying chatroom. The guide is written in question-format in order to help generate ideas for your character descriptions. Most of these points are necessary, but not all. Who is your character, and what are they all about? Make it clear to us! We want to have a good visual! This walk-through will assist you in covering all the important points.
This is NOT meant to follow any particular application format! This is just a tool to help generate ideas for your character profile as you complete it. Please use the format the admin originally provided for you as your final hand-out.
Spin the Bottle Meme
RULES::
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1. Please don't look ahead. It will be funnier for all of us if you don't actually READ the questions.
2. Please put a link in the comments section and link back to me or this page.
3. There is no rule #3, I just like the number.
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PICK TEN CHARACTERS::
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1. 3 volunteers to go first. Why?
2. The bottle spins to 4. What is 3's reaction?
3. 8 goes next. Who do they hope the bottle spins to?
4. 5 goes next, and the bottle lands on 7. Does anyone throw a hissy fit?
5. 6 is up next. Who would be most annoyed if the
The second meme of having you OC answer questions! You know what to do?
1. Care to introduce yourself?
2. Job or Occupation?
3. If you had a vacation, what it'll be?
4. If you traveled in time, what history will you change?
5. Look! A mecha that looks kinda like you! *points to the mecha*
6. What are you going to do with it?
7. Fwoosh! *throws the character's favorite food on their face*
8. What's your favorite music genre?
9. What is your favorite mythical creature?
10. What's your favorite musical instrument?
11. What's your favorite weather?
12. Do you believe in... Santa Claus?
13. Look at the person on this mirror! *pulls in
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Character Profile Form- Short
Basic Statistics
Name:
Country:
Species:
Political Party:
Socioeconomic level as a child:
Socioeconomic level as an adult:
Birth date:
Birth place:
Current residence:
Describe their dwelling/house:
Describe their bedroom:
Occupation:
Title/Rank:
Hobbies/Pastimes:
Talents/Skills/Powers:
Birth order:
Family:
Past History
Hometown:
First Memory:
Childhood:
Most important childhood event that still affects him/her:
Why/How?:
Other memories/events that still affects him and why/how:
Past failures he would be embarrassed to have people know about and why:
Favorite parent:
Why?:
Biggest role model:
Why?:
Physical Character
Basic Statistics
Name:
Nickname:
Meaning of name:
Origin of name:
Age:
Sex:
Blood type:
Nationality:
Ethnicity:
Race:
Sexual Orientation:
Current status:
Political Party:
Police/Criminal/Legal record:
Socioeconomic level as a child:
Socioeconomic level as an adult:
Birth date:
Birth place:
Current residence:
Occupation:
Title/Rank:
Hobbies/Pastimes:
Talents/Skills/Powers:
Past History
Hometown:
First Memory:
Most important childhood event that still affects him/her:
Why/How?
Other memories/events that still affects him/her and why/how:
Past failures s/he would be embarrassed to have people know about and why:
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