I have an... odd method to connect with my character.
He's childish, adventurous, and spirited. A lot of what he does is drawn from, well, my inner child. I look at the situation presented and think back to when I was a little kid and think about how "little me" might approach it. Then I adjust for the differences between Chachan and that, like how he might focus on someone's armor since he's had years of smithing experience that I don't.
But, whenever I want to think about how he'd act when trying to be "heroic," I find it easy to go back to the times where I was riding in the car... looking out the window and imagining this little hero with a laser gun hopping from scenery object to scenery object, lasering aliens and monsters.
Seems to work well enough, but then Chachan's a goof.
He's childish, adventurous, and spirited. A lot of what he does is drawn from, well, my inner child. I look at the situation presented and think back to when I was a little kid and think about how "little me" might approach it. Then I adjust for the differences between Chachan and that, like how he might focus on someone's armor since he's had years of smithing experience that I don't.
But, whenever I want to think about how he'd act when trying to be "heroic," I find it easy to go back to the times where I was riding in the car... looking out the window and imagining this little hero with a laser gun hopping from scenery object to scenery object, lasering aliens and monsters.
Seems to work well enough, but then Chachan's a goof.
