Have you ever thought about it? What are things your character does as a tradition?
Is it family-based, or even country or species based?
Is it something daily, yearly, occasionally or once in their life?
@RPers What are your character’s traditions?
I think the most detailed one I have is that of Charlia and her species; The Costoterras:
Each Costoterra spends its first 80 years learning the history of the land, how to fight and creating a bond with nature and its creatures. After they turn 80 they start studying magic and what it takes to become a guardian. Once the Costoterra is deemed ready, they will travel to the ancient temple of the first guardians where they will perform a ritual to make them official guardians. Usually, the Costoterra is deemed ready around their 100th year.
The guardian ritual is a ceremony that has been unchanged from the beginning and seen as a rite the passage for young Costoterras. It is performed by The Sacred Guardian, The Four Representatives of The First Guardians and the new guardian.
The sacred guardian is a Costoterra chosen to protect the ancient temple of the first guardians, and they lead the ceremony of a new guardian. They are to never leave the temple and will die with the temple if their core is broken; a magical flower called The Midnight Dancer.
The Costoterras that assist in the ceremony and also remain by the Sacred Guardian’s side, are called The Four Representatives of The First Guardians. They are born with the same marking as the original guardians and represent them. The four guardians are seen as the gods for the Costoterras but aren’t always the same gender as their original beings.
The original guardians are believed to be the 4 that first started protecting the creatures and land that wasn’t able to protect themselves. These four are:
GRINE MAGE OF TWILIGHT
Grine was a young man who was often alone, watching over the land while creatures woke up or went to bed. he kept an eye out during twilight and was known for his agility and speed.
AURIS LADY OF DAWN
Auris was a elegant woman. She had a real connection with the animals and just like the fresh morning dawn, she was gentle and calm.
DISAS ADMIRAL OF NIGHT
Disas was the one who guarded the night, when most poachers were active. He kept his guard up and was the best fighter out of all of them. He was the leader and also said to be the very first guardian as he protected his fellow guardians.
LUXINA SAGE OF DAY
Luxina was the youngest out of the four but also the strongest with her magic. She was always cheerful and saw excitement in every day and every place. She had a very good instinct and was the first to notice if something was wrong.
It’s often that there are more guardians than territories to protect. What often happens is that young guardians assist their parents’ territory until they are assigned their own. They will be sent to a senior guardian where they’ll become their apprentice and learn from the senior guardian until it retires, or they are send to an territory with an apprentice guardian of the other sex who is chosen as their mate.
In case two Costoterras fall in love of different territories they must return to the sacred temple and a transition ritual is done, that assigns both Costoterras to the same territory. The other territory is then assigned to a new guardian.
When a guardian dies and a territory is unguarded, all other Costoterras will feel this lost as a warning that a new guardian is needed. This does not happen when a guardian retires or if there’s still another guardian left.
all of my characters are orphans in some way so no family traditions for them 
hera sm0kes everyday tho
if that helps
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What about something she does herself, maybe something she does on her birthday that is the same every year.
Nah I got nothin
Eden Poppins:
Like her mother, Eden tends to move on when the wind changes. As she doesn’t work yet, it tends to be with tasks or hobbies. For example, if she chooses to learn a language, she does so. Learning it to practical perfection, but will stop focusing on it or speaking with it when the wind changes.
Clara Ines Weston-Lucier - Every time she gets a new pair of pointe shoes, she draws a little butterfly on the inside. It’s something she started doing when she was a kid and has continued as she got older.
Is there a reason behind why she does it? Like a Goodluck charm or smth
it started off as a way for her to identify which shoes were hers but has since become a thing she does for luck
That’s cute!
Any reason why it’s a butterfly and not a heart ir star for example
the main reason is just that she likes butterflies but Papillon (French for butterfly) was a childhood nickname of hers
In the story I’ve been working on, the world the characters live in have different holidays. Some of them are similar to the holidays we know normally.
There are 4 major holidays in their world. (I don’t have official names for them)
This is a holiday similar to Christmas, where the main feature is giving gifts.
As the summer solstice is the longest day of the year, the holiday originated as a sign of people making it through the darkness. Gift giving came about as a symbol of celebrating making it through that darkness and hardship.
This holiday is fairly similar to the celebration of Halloween. As people will dress in costumes, just without the idea of trick or treating.
This holiday coincides with an annual Lunar Eclipse.
Because of this, mischief rises and people are encouraged to follow their desires, regardless of what they may be.
This holiday, celebrated with the longest night of the year, is all about the celebration of magic itself.
This is the holiday with the most traditions. It’s most similar to Day of the Dead.
Like how during the autumn equinox, there’s a lunar eclipse, this holiday includes an annual Solar Eclipse.
With the eclipse, its said that the line between life and death blurs, bringing a day of remembrance for those lost.
The holiday is highly associated with flowers. People that have lost someone will leave an offering of flowers to float on water (lake/river/ocean) to honor someone they’ve lost. The flowers chosen often represent the nature of their death, along with any favorite flowers/others to represent their life.
For Phoenix he follows a different tradition. Instead of weaving the flowers together and leaving them to float on the water surface, he scatters loose flower petals in the wind instead. This is a tradition that has been passed down through his people. Its one of the differences between the kingdom families like his were originally from and the kingdom that they live in
As far as more personal traditions, for Phoenix, any time it was only him and his mother (or them along with his closest friends, Asa and Kota, or Kalina) with his stepfather away from the property, they always eat their meals together at a small table looking out the windows at her garden. If his stepfather were around, it would have to be a far more formal meal.
For Kalina, a childhood tradition in her family was that when her father would return home from work at the academy, he would bring some of the garlic rolls served with dinner there home for her.