WEIRDLY SPECIFIC BUT HELPFUL CHARACTER BUILDING QUESTIONS
What’s the lie your character says most often?
How loosely or strictly do they use the word ‘friend’?
How often do they show their genuine emotions to others versus just the audience knowing?
What’s a hobby they used to have that they miss?
Can they cry on command? If so, what do they think about to make it happen?
What’s their favorite [insert anything] that they’ve never recommended to anyone before?
What would you (mun) yell in the middle of a crowd to find them? What would their best friend and/or romantic partner yell?
How loose is their use of the phrase ‘I love you’?
Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive?
What fact do they excitedly tell everyone about at every opportunity?
If someone was impersonating them, what would friends / family ask or do to tell the difference?
What’s something that makes them laugh every single time? Be specific!
When do they fake a smile? How often?
How do they put out a candle?
What’s the most obvious difference between their behavior at home, at work, at school, with friends, and when they’re alone?
What kinds of people do they have arguments with in their head?
What do they notice first in the mirror versus what most people first notice looking at them?
Who do they love truly, 100% unconditionally (if anyone)?
What would they do if stuck in a room with the person they’ve been avoiding?
Who do they like as a person but hate their work? Vice versa, whose work do they like but don’t like the person?
What common etiquette do they disagree with? Do they still follow it?
What simple activity that most people do / can do scares your character?
What do they feel guilty for that the other person(s) doesn’t / don’t even remember?
Did they take a cookie from the cookie jar? What kind of cookie was it?
What subject / topic do they know a lot about that’s completely useless to the direct plot?
How would they respond to being fired by a good boss?
What’s the worst gift they ever received? How did they respond?
What do they tell people they want? What do they actually want?
How do they respond when someone doesn’t believe them?
When they make a mistake and feel bad, does the guilt differ when it’s personal versus when it’s professional?
When do they feel the most guilt? How do they respond to it?
If they committed one petty crime / misdemeanor, what would it be? Why?
How do they greet someone they dislike / hate?
How do they greet someone they like / love?
What is the smallest, morally questionable choice they’ve made?
Who do they keep in their life for professional gain? Is it for malicious intent?
What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell?
What hobby are they good at in private, but bad at in front of others? Why?
Would they rather be invited to an event to feel included or be excluded from an event if they were not genuinely wanted there?
How do they respond to a loose handshake? What goes through their head?
What phrases, pronunciations, or mannerisms did they pick up from someone / somewhere else?
If invited to a TED Talk, what topic would they present on? What would the title of their presentation be?
What do they commonly misinterpret because of their own upbringing / environment / biases? How do they respond when realizing the misunderstanding?
What language would be easiest for them to learn? Why?
What’s something unimportant / frivolous that they hate passionately?
Are they a listener or a talker? If they’re a listener, what makes them talk? If they’re a talker, what makes them listen?
Who have they forgotten about that remembers them very well?
Who would they say ‘yes’ to if invited to do something they abhorred / strongly didn’t want to do?
Would they eat something they find gross to be polite?
What belief / moral / personality trait do they stand by that you (mun) personally don’t agree with?
What’s a phrase they say a lot?
Do they act on their immediate emotions, or do they wait for the facts before acting?
Who would / do they believe without question?
What’s their instinct in a fight / flight / freeze / fawn situation?
What’s something they’re expected to enjoy based on their hobbies / profession that they actually dislike / hate?
If they’re scared, who do they want comfort from? Does this answer change depending on the type of fear?
What’s a simple daily activity / motion that they mess up often?
How many hobbies have they attempted to have over their lifetime? Is there a common theme?
Feel free to ask me to do any of these prompts my ask box is open;)
Reblog for others to send emojis to your ask box (or just draw what you want)!
✂️ Hair Swap - Draw an OC with the hairstyle of another character
📕 Books - Draw an OC reading their favorite book in their favorite spot
🌧 Rainy Day - Draw your OC out in the rain, with or without an umbrella
❤️ Love - Draw your OC with their romantic partner(s)
💔 Heartbreak - Draw your OC experiencing heartbreak
🌈 Pride - Draw any LGBT+ OC celebrating pride of their identity
💧 Tears - Draw your OC crying, either lightly or heavy sobs
🌸 Flower - Draw your OC in a flower crown
⭐️ Divinity - Draw your OC as a deity, in godlike clothing
👑 Royalty - Draw your OC as royalty with a crown that fits their personality
👩👩👧👦 Family - Draw your OC with one or more members of their immediate family
👕 Outfit Swap - Draw your OC in the clothes of another OC
🌙 Bedtime - Draw your OC in their pajamas
🗡 Adventure - Draw your OC as if they were a fantasy adventurer
🔮 Magic - Draw your OC as a magic being/using magic
💊 Medic - Draw your OC having wounds patched up
🌎 Culture - Draw your OC in clothes and/or doing actions that represent their culture
🕷 Spooky - Draw your OC terrified/facing their biggest fear
😡 Rage - Draw your OC the maddest they’ve ever been
✏️ School - Draw your OC in a school uniform, either as when they were a child or as an adult
🎩 Dapper - Draw your OC in fancy dinner party clothes
🏖 Beach Day - Draw your OC in their swimsuit, or whatever they would typically wear to the beach
❄️ Arctic - Draw your OC in heavy winter clothing
🐻 Species Swap - Draw a human OC as an animal, or an animal oc as a human
⚰️ Death - Draw your OC as a ghost
🍭 Candy - Draw your OC in candy clothes
💫 Galaxy - Draw your OC with a space/galaxy aesthetic
🤖 Robot - Draw your OC as a robot (or draw your robot OC as a human)
📜 Old Times - Draw your OC in old-fashioned
🔧 Job Swap - Draw your OC wearing the uniform and doing the job of another OC
🎥 Star - Draw your OC as a moviestar
🛏 Sleep - Draw your OC napping, in their bed or in an inconvenient or strange location
🍎 Food - Draw your OC enjoying their favorite food
- obsessed with making films even as a kid
- has a weird red stain on her jumper that doesn’t seem to ever go away
- has lost her viola about three times in a year
- buys things to impress people (eg. fountain pen, notebook)
- used to experience slight auditory hallucinations
- wrote poems about raspberries being metaphors
- suffers from burnout a lot
- ‘my cutoff date is 28. I either die committing art theft or assassination or I don’t die at all.’
- despises the word soliloquy
- continuously says the word soliloquy
- has an (almost finished) KYD wall
- constantly working on something
- brings board games to whatever house she goes to
- incredibly happy when gifted world maps
- someone once called her dumb and now her life goal is to become better than them in every aspect
- has leverage on anyone about everything
- constantly treats everything as a (subtle) competition
- *draws six lines on leg* “look I’m a guitar”
- constantly comes up with strange pick up lines
- wants to ‘pull a Henry’ every time she slightly fails at something
- has a specific due date for crying and it’s a friend’s birthday
- named all the statues they could find in a small town
- wore a plague doctor mask to a party
- has a real knack for wrapping presents
- her gift for her Valentine was a cheesy heart necklace and a poem based on TSH quotes
- still wanted to be in the rain, so put coats over each other and huddled together
- her entire personality is ‘JAMES IS ALIVE.’
-collects music boxes and line them neatly on the shelf, trying to set them off at the same time.
-used to buy baguettes every Thursday morning and carry them to school
- great at forging things, because their writing can instantly change
- can beatbox surprisingly
- can unhinge their jaw
- can crack their neck
- brings certain things to a get together just because it is aesthetic
- takes lessons for violin yet spends most of their time self teaching themselves piano
- knows seven languages yet has a mental blank for all of them when speaking to someone
- hunches over and makes themselves look shorter than they are, even though they are one of the shortest ones
- good at a shit ton of things yet does not seem to comprehend simple geography, will believe that Spain is in France until told otherwise
- teaching themselves to be ambidextrous
- smartass since day one
-mildly allergic to cats yet owns one
- can’t swim properly
- writes notes in a bunch of different languages mixed together and sits in satisfaction as their friends scramble to translate it.
- has a guilty pleasure of gay fanfic
- has a guilty pleasure of poetry from the romantic era
- one is a slightly hypochondriac
- uses too many commas, semi colons in their writing
- scared of butterflies
- smells like berries
- so many hand gestures and dramatics while talking.
- calls her friends ‘bub’
- whenever she’s bored and wants to read at the same time the only thing she’ll read is Lemony Snicket
- has to pick out their own cutlery otherwise will get annoyed
- checks their bare wrist as if they’re looking for the time
- has a strange obessesion with time
- really likes ink
- gets vertigo a lot
- prefers inanimate objects more than people
-used to have a room filled with paper planes
- always yawns whenever it’s a social gathering
Thought #1: What if someone has the powers to bring people back to life, but they become weaker everytime they do it.
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Would you guys like to know more about Edith..?
I’m also open for asks about any of the tf2 ocs I have, though many I haven’t shown yet. I need to make pages for them, really, but some are more developed than others…
no particular theme to them, just what i could think of~ feel free to reblog and use for your own oc blogs! sorry if any questions repeat ;;
1. What’s a unique skill they have? Is their any reason why they can do it?
2. What are their favourite possessions? Why? (sentimentality, history, price, etc)
3. Do they get jealous easily? If so, what usually causes it?
4. Are they a good gift-giver? What do they tend to give as gifts?
5. What’s their reputation like? Does this reputation contrast what they’re really like?
6. Do they prefer to have a big social circle, or a few close friends?
7. What’s their “type”? What romantically attracts them to another person?
8. What does their dream house look like?
9. If they could change one part of their appearance, what would it be?
10. What’s a simple thing that brings them joy?
11. What is their dream pet?
12. What’s their position in their friend group? (leader, mom friend, chaos goblin, etc)
13. How forgiving are they? What do they consider unforgivable?
14. Who do they go to in a crisis/emergency? Any particular reason why they choose that person?
15. How good are they at conversation? Are they a small talk master, bad at initiating, etc?
16. What food do they absolutely hate?
17. Do they show a lot of affection, or are they pretty reserved?
18. If you had to represent them with a flower, colour, and animal, what would you choose?
19. What’s their unusual quirk?
20. Are they easy to wake up in the morning, or grouchy and sleepy?
21. What’s their ideal date like?
22. What’s their silliest or most unusual fear/phobia?
23. Is their pain tolerance high or low?
24. Are they a fussy eater?
25. What are their dreams like?
26. Are they technologically savvy?
27. Are they forgetful? What do they tend to forget? (plans, phone, keys, etc)
28. Describe their morning routine.
29. Are they a good cook? If they are, what do they like to make?
30. Do they consider themselves a “hero” or “villain”?
31. What holiday do they like the most? (Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, etc)
32. What are they like at parties? Party animal, or awkwardly sitting in the corner drinking punch and reading?
33. Are they adventurous, or do they prefer to stay in their safe zone?
34. What’s their favourite drink? (Coffee, tea, juice, hot chocolate, soda, etc)
35. Are they good with children?
36. Do they trust easily? What would you have to do to earn their trust?
37. Are they a hopeless romantic, or is that stuff just not for them?
38. Do they get lost easily, or are they good with directions?
39. Are they superstitious?
40. Do they like physical activity, or staying inside?
41. What would they dress up as for Halloween?
42. Do they like fast food, or fancy restaurants?
43. Are they a chaotic bastard, pure angel baby, or tired mom friend?
44. Do they have a good attention span?
45. Are they always late, on time, or early?
46. Do they cry, gasp, laugh, etc, while reading a book, or do they remain relatively stone-faced?
47. Do they keep a diary?
48. How dramatic are they?
49. Do they put a lot of effort into their appearance, or do they just make themselves presentable and go?
50. Why would they be a good partner for a road trip?
51. Why would they be a BAD partner for a road trip?
52. What topic should nobody bring up around them, lest the other person be subject to a massive ramble/rant?
53. Are they clumsy?
54. Are they a law breaker, or stickler for rules?
55. Choose a vine you think perfectly encapsulates their character.
56. Do they like to share?
57. What’s the most chaotic thing they’ve done?
58. Which friend do they immediately become a zero-braincelled idiot around?
59. Do they love or hate surprises?
60. What sappy thing will they cry at? (romance movies, cute cat videos, etc) Would they deny crying about it later on?
61. What’s their favourite and least favourite subject in school?
62. Do they take a lot of photos? If so, what of?
63. Do they wear makeup?
64. Describe what their social media would be like.
65. Do they give people a lot of nicknames?
66. What nicknames do others call them by?
67. What’s an outrageous story about them nobody believes?
68. Are they easy to fluster? What would you have to do to truly fluster them?
69. What’s their dream vacation like?
70. Are they a good liar?
71. What do they want to do in the future?
72. How do they feel about love?
73. Are they more book smarts, or street smarts?
74. What’s their guilty pleasure?
75. Is there anyone they consider their rival?
76. Do they have any notable physical features?
77. What’s their music taste like?
78. What’s something they’re really bad at?
79. Do they have a good sleep schedule?
80. What’s their aesthetic sense like?
81. What’s something they’re really proud of?
82. How would they spend a free day?
83. What are they like as an s/o?
84. What’s one thing they like that they don’t want anyone to know about?
85. Do they have a sweet tooth?
86. How would you describe their fashion sense?
87. Do they like spicy food?
88. Are they lucky? Do they believe in luck?
89. What would they get into a petty argument over?
90. Are they a good artist?
91. Do they prefer hot or cold weather?
92. Can they play an instrument?
93. What type of movies do they like to watch?
94. What does their room look like?
95. How do they feel about bugs? Scared? Fascinated?
96. What’s their sense of humour like? (Dad jokes, morbid humour, basic knock-knock jokes, stand up comedy, etc)
97. What do they keep in their bag?
98. How competitive are they?
99. What would they wear to a formal event? Describe their outfit!
100. If you, the creator, met them, would you two get along?