(11-03-2013, 12:38 PM)Magellan Wrote: A lot of her personality came from heavy interaction with naturally quiet, or naturally brooding types. I wanted to create a character who would be able to elicit responses from those types, whether it be good or bad. Because two brooding characters in a room often just.... brood together. It's almost like they need the opposite to start drawing them out >_> Just my opinion.
A lot of the most memorable characters in some of our most beloved pieces of fiction wouldn't be all that memorable if thrown in alone in an RP setting. That is because a lot of our favorite stories cast several characters who end up being foils of each other. Foils help make our casts diverse, entertaining, and draw out traits that otherwise would not have come out.
Some of my favorite RPs have been with characters who foil my own.Â
That said, I think being 'unique' comes down to how in depth the character is roleplayed, not the character's backstory, concept, or personality. If the character has lots of things that set him or her apart from other characters and it is easy to describe what this character is like, that, to me, is unique.
