(03-27-2015, 06:47 AM)Nebbs Wrote: That's great!
I tend to pull from several sources and mash them up. Then finish it off in RP when I get a feel for the char. I find having some characteristic reference points helps.
Sounds like how I do it. Chachan himself is... really a mishmash of all the "dorky good kid" types out there. I only recently realized that he's quite close in character to Kenichi from World's Mightiest Disciple Kenichi (which I then had to watch through again because it was a fun animu), and I've been pulling from some mythology as well.
Judge's referential points are pretty obvious too - the FFTA Judges (obviously), Shikieki from Touhou, and the font-style for passing along his imposing voice is straight lifted from Discworld's Death. He's got a lot more to him than just that, of course, but those are some pretty readily identifiable references to compare him to.
It's a sort of scaffolding to build off of - a basic character concept that you can easily understand and then have them grow in their own ways. There's plenty of characters with traits similar to Chachan out there, I'm sure... but there's none quite like him.
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