I have had a thought on this recently and wanted other opinions on this matter. Since its such a major thing in rp'ing characters are key. Personally I am very invested in character development and their stories, and even little habits. Not to long ago I began to look into how to deepen my characters development and it help me point out things about characters making them individual. Such as how they talk, body movement, their personality is the biggest thing, how differently they can act around other characters and if they act differently than you would? Even taught me how to fully image and elaborate my character. I have a few reference links just for those purposes:

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So my general question is do you make new characters often? Do you feel they are noticeable characters? And when you do make your character how do you usually get inspired for new characters? Does your characters ever seem too "out of character" or "Stepping out of character" for you to feel connected to them? Or do you have that one main character that you cherish or use often?

Usually I don't like using CS's but I have even found it really helps using an advance CS just soulfully for yourself to help you imagine and understand just how your character works if you plan on trying to plan out all these little details.

Typically what I like to do is put down the basic stuff. Name and bio at the very minimum. I don't like wasting time with all of the little tabs for specific things like likes, dislikes, etc. I like to have those explored and developed during the course of the story rather than simply jotting down "Sammy doesn't like snakes on his plane" in a "fears" category. Same thing with something like "style of speech." You can very well explore that by writing out the dialogue in that fashion and get the same results. Same level of characterization, but it's more subtle and comes over time.

If i were ever to write a proper (by my standarts :D) character, most of the flesh wold go to their backstory. A well-written background in cojunction with a fleshed-out personality and several key goals and beliefs (what do they want from life, what do they count wrong and immoral or praise-worthy and virtuous) may be just enough for about any situation that may occur during the course of an RP.

Though im well known for being an idiot airhead, so this might just be a heap of nonsense or painfuly obvious information.

Whoops, double post.