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~Basic Bio Breakdown~
NAME: You should provide the character’s full name, even if it’s not what they go by. If they go by something else, include it in the same category like so: Joshua “Josh” Nickelson.
AGE: If your character is in a timeline where it’s simple enough just to list one age or a range of ages for them, then by all means, please do so. If you have a long, complicated series or a lot of time that passes in your book, show a birth year for your character instead—something we can measure things to.
APPEARANCE: This should contain everything there is to know about your character visually without describing every single detail of their outfit. Give us a general idea and try to describe their style instead of a specific outfit. Unless they are in, like, the same significant uniform for an entire story. Describe their skin color, hair color, hair style, hair length, eye color, height, weight, body type and build, style choice, and markings if they have any.
PERSONALITY: This is the most important part of the bio and should be the longest. The minimum for a well thought out, fully fleshed out personality would be around 200 words. But one that’s twice that length is ideal to really show who your character is. List some traits, positive, negative and neutral. List how they perceive certain things. Describe how they react to types of people in good and bad ways. Describe work ethic, morals, and how they make decisions. Describe their mental strengths and weaknesses as a person including maybe worries, phobias, disorders, and flaws. Describe whatever is necessary to the character.
LIKES: Describe their skills and hobbies. They might not be good at something and yet still do it. Describe what kind of people they enjoy being around, where they like to go, and what they like to do. Describe their music style and taste as well as other significant interests. Try to keep this category at a minimum of 100 words.
DISLIKES: Describe their pet peeves, the type of people they can’t stand, close to home injustices that anger them, and other such things they perceive and hate.
BACKGROUND: A good backstory is around 200-300 words. Shorter is better. This leaves plenty of room to describe significant past experiences as well as family members and other important relations. If you’re going to put tragedy and bad luck in the backstory, definitely include positivity and happiness in places as well, to show that your character is not a one dimensional cliché.
OPTIONAL categories to include in your bios that may or may not apply, and certainly don’t have to, are SPECIES and POWERS. It should go without saying that if a character has some kind of powers, they aren’t human any more. Even if their species doesn’t have a name, list something other than human for their species to show us that you’re consistent. A “human” with powers is a contradiction if you really think about it. Listing “electric human” for a person with electric powers will do just fine.
NAME: You should provide the character’s full name, even if it’s not what they go by. If they go by something else, include it in the same category like so: Joshua “Josh” Nickelson.
AGE: If your character is in a timeline where it’s simple enough just to list one age or a range of ages for them, then by all means, please do so. If you have a long, complicated series or a lot of time that passes in your book, show a birth year for your character instead—something we can measure things to.
APPEARANCE: This should contain everything there is to know about your character visually without describing every single detail of their outfit. Give us a general idea and try to describe their style instead of a specific outfit. Unless they are in, like, the same significant uniform for an entire story. Describe their skin color, hair color, hair style, hair length, eye color, height, weight, body type and build, style choice, and markings if they have any.
PERSONALITY: This is the most important part of the bio and should be the longest. The minimum for a well thought out, fully fleshed out personality would be around 200 words. But one that’s twice that length is ideal to really show who your character is. List some traits, positive, negative and neutral. List how they perceive certain things. Describe how they react to types of people in good and bad ways. Describe work ethic, morals, and how they make decisions. Describe their mental strengths and weaknesses as a person including maybe worries, phobias, disorders, and flaws. Describe whatever is necessary to the character.
LIKES: Describe their skills and hobbies. They might not be good at something and yet still do it. Describe what kind of people they enjoy being around, where they like to go, and what they like to do. Describe their music style and taste as well as other significant interests. Try to keep this category at a minimum of 100 words.
DISLIKES: Describe their pet peeves, the type of people they can’t stand, close to home injustices that anger them, and other such things they perceive and hate.
BACKGROUND: A good backstory is around 200-300 words. Shorter is better. This leaves plenty of room to describe significant past experiences as well as family members and other important relations. If you’re going to put tragedy and bad luck in the backstory, definitely include positivity and happiness in places as well, to show that your character is not a one dimensional cliché.
OPTIONAL categories to include in your bios that may or may not apply, and certainly don’t have to, are SPECIES and POWERS. It should go without saying that if a character has some kind of powers, they aren’t human any more. Even if their species doesn’t have a name, list something other than human for their species to show us that you’re consistent. A “human” with powers is a contradiction if you really think about it. Listing “electric human” for a person with electric powers will do just fine.
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Basic OC Bio Sheet
Name:
Age:
Height:
Gender:
Nationality:
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Strengths (combative, emotional etc):
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Weakness:
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Personality – Aims and Drives:
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Physical appearance:
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Backstory – Early Life:
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Backstory – Prior to the Story:
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Skills and Traits - Peaceful:
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OC Bio and Profile Template
Original Character Bio/Profile Template
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Species:
Hair color:
Eye color:
Powers/abilities/styles/gifts:
Weapon(s):
Birth town:
Previous towns:
Current town:
Birth allegiance:
Previous allegiances:
Current allegiance:
History:
Personality:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Family:
Partner:
Friends/relationships:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Fears:
Sayings:
Extra:
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Blank OC Reference Sheet
Character Reference Sheet-ness
Basically this reference sheet covers pretty much everything a person would ever need to know about your character.. and then some.
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Let’s face it. If somebody were to just glance over the reference sheet, at least you can feel some reassurance in knowing that they got the bare minimum
Name (Nickname):
Age:
Please if you’re going to give your character some ungodly, few centuries old, age, make sure to include what age they looks like. Otherwise all shall assume they appear to be a rumpled piece of leather, ran over by some sort of moving vehicle, after being regurgitated by a cat. Obvio
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In this guide I did a breakdown of the most basic, concise bio that still contains the common information necessary to understand/develop a character. Hope it helps you. If you need further help, please check out my gallery folder. If you have a specific question which can't be answered in my guides, or that wasn't clear, please ask me and I'll do my best to assist. But I'm not going to create your bio for you, or anything of the like. In the end, its up to you to make the final adjustments to your character and/or story.
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.:Be Original:.WE ALL HAVE A VOICE.
• It’s been done before: Lots of people will tell you that no matter what you write, it’s been done before. But while this is true to some extent, it isn’t what you think. So much creativity gets hindered and discouraged when people basically tell you that no matter how hard you try, you’ll never come up with anything original. And that couldn’t be further from the truth. Whether or not it’s a struggle for you, it’s always worth it to come up with your own unique and original idea not based off anything else. I’m going to show you an example of just why originality is not dead. The following paragraph can be interpreted in a variety of different ways.
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.:Traits Missing From Today's Characters:.~Something’s Missing~
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• Humility: This is the big one that I think a lot of characters are missing. Lots of the mains I see today don't even have a shred of this or if they do it’s forced into them. How about writing a person who’s naturally humble? These people are amazing. They don’t seek to exalt themselves. They give credit to others.
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• WHY: Why are stereotypes bad? They are predictable, boring, annoying, cliché, flat, one-dimensional, need I go on? There’s no advantage to a character stereotype. They water down amazing plots and hinder a mediocre story that could become a great one. I’m not saying at all to avoid predictability so much that your character is all over the place, but, avoid complete stereotyping.
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.:OC Bio Creation Tips:.~Valuable Character Bio Creation Advice And Information~
• NONO: The BIGGEST nono for bios is putting something like “unknown” or “N/A” in a bio category of a character. First of all, why did you even include that category in your bio just to pass it up? It’s an eyeroll for a serious writer to see these things in bios. Even if the character or other characters don't know their name or even their age or parents, it should ALWAYS be listed in the bio. These are things that everyone has (unless they are a robot).
• CATEGORIES: I have included a blank bio form with all the categories I find to be necessary when explaining an in depth well rounded character. It’s okay to maybe get rid of some categories for simplicity’s sake but some are obviously necessary. On the other end of things, don't add too much! Bios with too many categories are just as obnoxious to fill out as they are for other people to read!! You want to have a bio form tha
.:Character Likeability:.Likeability
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• REALISM: Generally speaking, people like realistic things. Even in a fantasy world. To appeal to these people, make sure you have your characters acting and reacting the way that actual people would in their lives. Don't have them do anything unnatural. God forbid do not write the characters so inconsistently that they appear out of character for parts of the story as well. This is kind of a general unspoken rule of writing, but yes, people know the way people are expected to act and react and if your character doesn't follow
.:Character Concept Design Diversity:.PERSONALITY: The absolute most important part to adding diversity to your characters is creating a deep, multifaceted personality description for them that no one else could have come up with. If you want to try and challenge yourself, avoid using tons of one word descriptors and elaborate on how that word applies instead. Show your character’s habits, tendencies, mood shifts, subjective preferences, tastes, distastes, actions, reactions, and all around sense of self. The MINIMUM for describing a decently thought out personality would be 200 words. Anything shorter than that is in danger of sounding like a mish mosh of standard traits. I challenge you to get up to 400 or even 500 words long of personality description if you want quality.
NAME: Choosing a name with a different letter to start with can be your foothold to creating a name that has a different sound than the rest of your group. Avoid making a group of characters with the same first letter or sound if not intentional.
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