(08-12-2015, 09:08 AM)Nero Wrote: There are some fairly safe things to use. When introducing your character, don't make overt attempts to make their traits relevant. Give it a sentence or two. Less than a paragraph. And if the traits aren't relevant, then don't crowbar them in or try to draw attention to them. Let your engine do the driving--the character--and if other characters on their own notice the pretty chassis--the unique traits--then great, you can roll with it. And don't get bent out of shape if characters don't immediately acknowledge the pretty chassis you put so much work into.
Let their interest in your character and their unique traits grow naturally.
I've been careful to keep her weaknesses from surfacing early in the RP with others, they only do so when the time is 'right' (As in, it would make sense.) While her weakness is something that has shaped a great part of her personality, I don't want it to be the trait that defines her. Otherwise it feels too forced and attention-seeking.Â
That, and it doesn't make sense for a character to just reveal their weaknesses from the get-go, unless they are horribly insane, naive, and/or stupid.
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