ngl a lot of my characterization points are out of spite? Like, the entire reason I started playing Thor was because I was sick and tired of all the 'he's just a big dumb jock who eats pop tarts all the time' that was going around. Then I found out that I actually really like playing him so, there you go.
but if there's a popular fandom/fanon take that I feel runs counter to the character as presented in canon? I do the hard opposite, sometimes to a ridiculous extreme before finally settling back a bit.
like for example: i don't think rey can write because writing is rare as hell and she is self educated on an imperial computer display where there was probably no penmanship lessons
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hahaha i feel that one too. i personally also try to veer away from stereotypical impressions of a character i play while trying to keep things IC the best i can? but then there's always AUs hahaha
My other big one is mode of speech? Like, there are things I would say a certain way that they definitely wouldn't, and I have to figure out wht their phrasing of it would be
for me, it's getting the dialogue/manner of speaking/literal voice right. pmuch everything else can be integrated through more play of the character but if i can't get the voice right, none of the rest will feel right, either. i could get all the canon knowledge right and all the little actions and behaviors but it won't be right if the voice isn't
man i would love to be good at mode of speech but that's one thing i struggle with. i do try to think "did they actually say that" or "does that term even exist for them" but i need to keep looking things up and referencing. like clips or book snippets. i'm not too concerned with jane, but i would definitely love to be better at that with jon
it's very much in the dialogue to me, if I can't hear a character's manner of speaking in my head I can't play them. the rest of it I kind of find as I go, honestly. I start with the broad strokes canon gives us and fill in based on the situation and just find things out the more the character is faced with stuff outside canon.
i try to be IC as much as i can, but i... choose events or people or scenarios that idk "define" my characters? i guess they could be taken as headcanon in some instances or just liberties in interpretation hahaha which probably also explains why i love AUs? bc i'd love to explore how my character would react to something given their "base characterization"
I'm definitely not perfectly ic all the time bc fun is more important than perfection and even the people who write official canon stuff do things that make ppl go wtf, so I don't worry hugely; I just try to be true to the character as I'm writing them across a game or a particular psl or scenario bc I can always make adjustments overall
so yeah, for me it's voice and... can I justify the character making x choice? ok but in a different scenario she made y choice, how might that work and why?
yeah i've long since stopped trying for perfection. i just go for what i feel is good for the character/writing. tho my own standards are always higher for myself because i've always been that way
my personal characterization nitpicks are mostly because i just find them fun to do and not because i want to be perfect or better than others. but like
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i also place high standards on myself so lol that's how it is hahaha
yeah that's one thing i was trying to get at with this! like... i love seeing all of you reys and kylo bens (well most of you in my timeline are them hahaha) and you're all so different but the same and i love that and i'm curious how???
yeah it is amazing how creative people can be a part of me will always be intimidated by the other people who also play my character, but a part of me is also chinhands at them for their interpretation hahaha
i think i try to approach things from solely their perspective as much as possible? which i guess is normal, but i try not to be afraid of a character making assumptions or doing things that i definitely know are Bad News for them because i want them to be as true to themselves as possible...
and i also try to highlight the parts of their personality that are perhaps more subtle or not drawn upon too much, even if it's just in the meta, because it helps me flesh them out and make them seem more real than just a character made up of words... speech patterns and word choices for dialogue are also important for me too, yeah
i guess i also think that like... someone can have a very intense detailed knowledge of the canon but that doesn't mean anything if you can't get the personality or voice right
also i’ve said this before but i love your highlighting of the subtle bits of their personality and all the little details you put into your tags
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yeah i tend to zoom in on what i interpret as the really Formative events/moments in the character's life that i feel influences their decision-making and kind of build characterization from there
Then I found out that I actually really like playing him so, there you go.
Hux would not end a sentence with 'anyways', not unless he was mocking someone. Forever salty about that player for no reasonFUN > PERFECTION, Y'ALL