Taken from envythejealous
1. How many characters have you created?
I'm sure I've created hundreds since childhood, but I don't really do a lot with most of them. Heck, I'm sure I've forgotten a lot of them.
2. Have you created characters for a fandom? If so, which one/ones?
I very rarely do that. In fact, the only time I remember doing something like that is with my namesake, Keba. She originated as an Inuyasha fan character. She quickly became something else entirely, though. Keba has gone through so many transformations it's crazy.
3. What is the most important thing, to you, about creating a character?
The most important thing to me is that I have to like the character in some way-- whether it's drawing it, writing about it, or just thinking about developing it.
4. Have you created content featuring your character?
I have a lot of stories and fan art. I just haven't really churned out a lot of it lately.
5. What do you like most about a character you’ve created?
Ooh, boy. That's a tough question. First I have to actually PICK a character to say what I like most about it. I have trouble doing stuff like that, so I'm just going to skip this question. Sorry.
6. Has anyone else created content featuring your character?
Yes, other people have drawn my characters. I LOVE when they do that.
7. What are your characters, to you?
My characters are like my babies. They grow and develop kind of like children grow up.
8. What’s your favorite type of character to create/write for?
I tend to like writing characters being angry and/or sarcastic. Too bad I have so few of those.
9. What’s the first thing you work on when you create your characters?
Usually, it's the design. I have to draw them out first.
10. Have you created a character or type of character that you are now ashamed of?
I wrote a story in my early to mid teens about magical girls. It was called Happiness, after the title character. The main character was kind of a self-insertion, though not a Mary Sue. She was kind of the newbie of the group, and didn't have a lot of confidence in herself. She wasn't perfect by any means. The REAL Mary Sue was the magical girl team's leader. She was the stereotypical "perfect girl" who was both smart and beautiful. Everybody in the story loved her. There was also a really angsty magical girl in there who had no redeeming qualities that I can think of. Plus, a couple of the other girls were kind of racial stereotypes. I didn't outright say what races the were, but they were still stereotypes.
11. What are the major inspirations you draw from for your characters?
I'm not certain what this means. If it's "How do your characters inspire you?" then I don't know-- I guess just by being my characters...?
12. Do you have a type of character you simply cannot or don’t want to create?
I'm really bad at making a likable villain. That's a problem, because conflict is necessary for a good story. Usually, when I make a villain that I like, I want it to be one of the "good guys" instead. I have to get past that, because most of my "bad guys" are very two-dimensional.
13. Do you really like someone else’s character? If so, why?
When you say "someone else", do you mean someone famous or someone you know personally? If it's the latter, I'd have to say that I really like a lot of the characters I see right here on theO. It's mostly the original, non-fan characters that I gravitate to.
14. Do you change your characters based off of your own change in mindset?
I don't know about my own mindset, but a lot of my characters do change over time.
15. What character type do you want to see more of?
Intellectual non-humans. It gets boring when the only species that you can communicate with is your own.
16. What’s an idea for a character you had, that never became more than an idea?
I can't think of many instances of that. I have some ideas for characters, but I do intend to draw and write about them someday.
17. If someone wanted to direct a movie involving your OCs, would you let them?
I'd most likely be breathing down their neck to make sure that they got my characters ABSOLUTELY right. I'd probably be so controlling that the person directing the movie would quit and scrap the project. LOL.
