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Sheeply β Character Creation Guide Pt 1
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This guide is an original copyrighted work. Do not reproduce or redistribute this guide. Do not alter this guide. Do not create works derived from this guide.Hope you find this helpful! Oh, and my apologies for the ginormous size and fugly quality ^^'. I did it up in openoffice, the converted it to a pdf, then to a png from the pdf. Yikes!
Oh, and also- I'm sure there are plenty of fangirls and fanboys out there who will disagree with my classification of their favorite character. Of course, no character is ever 100% consistent, and opinions will vary, so please don't flame me ranting about how House is dominant-realistic not dominant-hedonistic, etc.
Sheeply's Guide to Character Creation
Part 1: Personality
Part 2: Appearance
Part 3: Background
Other Sheeply Tutorials
Text Roleplaying for Beginners
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Comments: 63
This is very well written, would you mind if we referred people to this? There is always something in need of this when roleplaying.
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Yeah, absolutely feel free to refer people to this ^^. Just link them to this page, don't repost or redistribute it anywhere.
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Dominate-Hedonist, 2nd row, right of Ron Weasley, who is that? D: From what movie/series?
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Extremely useful!
One question, though: Why is Hedwig pictured under submissive-hedonistic? D:
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The sugar daddy montage? No, mostly because she's a bit debauched, but was willing to give up pretty much anything to be with her husband at the beginning.
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This is absolutely brilliant. I have a history in character design and development, and these are essentially all the basic principals I was taught, combined, of course, with the other two parts.
Because I have a history in character development, people often inquire as to how to create a compelling, realistic (if the situation calls for it), exciting, visually appealing(and fitting for the personality) character, and I've often stumbled over my words trying to describe the process, as well as the psychology, pathology and personality that needs to be applied. I'm going to link them here, from now on. Great work! You mention just about everything that is necessary, in a way that is both understandable and useful for both amateurs and advanced writers and artists alike.
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Wow! I have... no training whatsoever, so I think that's the best compliment I've ever had!
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This tutorial seems interesting, so I'm gonna fave it and read it better later.
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Is it possible to make this downloadable please? Deviantart is being dumb so when I expand to full size it just disappears.
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I wish I could figure out what causes that! It should be downloadable... is it not showing for you?
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I really don't know. When I make meme's it does the same thing. I thnk its the length of it. Nope the download link doesn't show.
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This is very helpful! I've been creating role play characters for a while, but its really helpful to see all this information spelled out. ^_^
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Oi, this will be very helpful for me, as I have many characters and only couple are complete.
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ok srsly. in the "dramatic-realistic" section, who is the third guy in the top row of pictures. i see him everywhere and don't know who he is!!
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The third guy in dominant-realistic is Johnny the Homicidal Maniac from the comic by Jhonen Vasquez. Jhonen later went on to create Invader Zim
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yeaaaaah that's who he was....I KNEW he looked super familiar. thanks!
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This is incredibly useful! You give good examples and it is obvious you put alot of time and thought into this. I'll put this to good use!
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Personally, I woould categorize Dr. House as Dominant Realistic, but all the same this is many light-years beyond brilliant, and I shalt definitely be using it for reference.
I did, as a matter of fact, come across the second problem, but already I can see several possibilities while still going off of my own personality.
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Well, I did mention that people tend to shift modes in different situations - being able to do so is an important coping strategy. For Dr. House, whether you consider him dominant hedonistic or realistic depends on why you think he tortures Cuddy and his team - because he enjoys it, or because he's experimenting to find out how they'll react? I tend to favor House's childish and impulsive side, but realistic fits him equally well, especially when he goes into tennis ball tossing mode ^^
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I'm always looking for advice on creating characters, so this is like a treasure trove for me! Thanks so much for uploading it
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I have trouble getting this to full view. Is there any chance you will make this available for download so those of us who have trouble with full viewing such large images may view it?
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all of your tutorials on this is very helpful 
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theres' a LOT to read, but I'll get through it eventualy. 
yay, Chii!! she and I are both [Submissive-Moralistic]. 
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I would very much like to read all of your deviantions, but I can't 
is there anyway for me to see these anywhere else?
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These guides are very well thought out. I haven't text roleplayed in years, and I was fairly good at it, but I am actually planning on applying these guides to when I create characters for my pen and paper roleplaying games.
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I re-read them when I make my own characters XD. Sometimes it helps to have a process to flesh things out and acid test your ideas. It also helps to get the ball rolling on new characters ^^.
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Thank you for making this. 
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Oh, my lord. This is AMAZING. I've had trouble defining the differences between my characters, and this has helped so much already in the last two minutes. THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU.
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it is SO good! I can definitly use this. I like writing, but I'm not good at it(though some say I can write nicely)and the things I have on DA are translated from Dutch, so the quality gets even worse. But I need feedback to get better and here are such good writers...Dammit XD
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this is awesome and i even recognize my friends in those archetypes... apparently i'm dominant-hedonistic/realistic
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...um...I can't thank you enough for this. Wow...
This is like a huge smack-in-the-face for me. I've had so many story ideas that lack characters who can play their role, and characters whom I think are well-developed but there's something wrong that I couldn't figure out. Thanks for the wake-up call. I'm checking out part two...
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OwO glad to be of help! I'm posting part 3 today.
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Sweetness! I'm gonna go check it out!
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I don't comment here much but I have to say that this is by FAR the best character tutorial I have ever read... No joke.
I love reading about writing and character creation because I love learning about personalities, psychology, writing out a good plots and just got an incredible thirst to learn new things and concepts! This definitely fed me that and more. This showed me the basics and beyond in a way that will surely effect my writing for the better and gave me a new way to think about my characters and myself! Itβs funny because I saw myself in a few of the archetypes and it was quite fun and informative!
I think that the best part is not just the information but the way you presented it in an easy way. Any one can pick this up quickly and the character examples were right on! To think you wrote this in eight hours youβre truly amazing! Iβve written little tutorials even a personality one and it takes time patience. Iβm glad Iβve found this tutorial and this deserves to be in every artistβs favorites!
Oh yeah, Iβm dying to see the second part. I know that I wonβt be disappointed! :3
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Definitely looking forward to the rest of this. It's very helpful.
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This was really informative. I was just poking around and found your tutorial. It was a great read and I hope It will help me.
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Wow, this is really, really nice. I see now why it is such a huge file. It must have taken a very long time to put this all together. XD
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XD about eight hours. Although I didn't get up from the keyboard for eight hours!
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Oh wow! That's pretty impressive. But very doable. Congrats on the eye strain! JK. XD
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This is very handy <3 I expect quite a few people will benefit from this. x]
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Oh, that's Hanasaki Sono from Sensitive P. Heh :3
Anyway, this is actually a very psychologically deep guide, really gets into the very detailed area of character-creation.
It's a shame there's no rating system in deviantart, this would have been a straight A+!
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^//^ Thanks! I'm almost done the second part, which covers physical appearance
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I'll favourite that part aswell!
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Very nice. Good explanation of how to use archetypes without resulting in a generic character. Thanks for making this :]
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