While making a character there are usually a few questions you ask yourself while making them.
For me they are mostly these type of questions:
1. Balancing fear(weakness)/strength(skill or power)
For me it’s important to have balanced character. I like them to have a lot of room to grow so most of my characters either start off weak or they aren’t able to bring out their full potential due to either lack of knowledge how or some other link like fear, etc.
2. The WHY question.
I LOVE to add why questions to get details to my character. most of the time it’s like this:
She’s scared of the dark > why > incident as a kid > Why did it scare her so much? > she almost died > Why did she almost die? > she couldn’t see the safe area.
3. What do I want them to do/ what do I want their role in the rp to be?
This one is more looking at how my character can be used in the plot if my story/the rp. I can start small like: suport / attacker / diplomat / loner / informant / resources / tinker/ etc.
Sometimes I just give them one extra little goal as well. Some examples for these are all from my Westeria characters:
Charlia: Make a Selenium friend. (friend with the enemy)
Bryn: Meet his sister or end up in his hometown. (He went missing, now returns as an enemy)
Avian: To rescue someone from the Seleniums. (going into harms way in enemy territory)
Eulalia: To give a failed experiment boost to one of the cadets (basically be the reason a cadet loses )
The reason I like to add these are so when I don’t know for a bit what to do with my characters, I can always work towards those goals as a little side quest.
@RPers, what kind of questions do you ask & answer while creating your character?