Meowser

Wow, lots of unexpectedly detailed advice in this thread. I appreciate everyone who has responded - you've given me better perspective about this and plenty to consider. I don't mean to be so brief but it's a lot to digest right now.

So I've been working on my character's background with the intent of (hopefully) trying to establish some sort of small RP community on my seemingly RP-less world. I have the basic idea and framework of the character worked out, an outfit built and my house decorated to complement my character background. But being that I have very little experience in RP in this game, I'm a little bit concerned that once I start actually preparing a written character I'll learn that similar characters are everywhere I've browsed randomly through the character sheets on this site and haven't noticed anything similar, but I thought I'd ask here. Are there any trope background or character histories that should be avoided on the basis that everyone does them?

Guessing from the lack of responses this LS kinda fell apart? Or is it active after all?