Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150910235150/@comment-24993958-20150926191329

Well…that’s not vague and unreliable advice at all...

Let’s get the basics out of the way. Find a starting point. Do you have a personality in mind, a weapon, a semblance, a scene you can picture the character doing? Basically something that you want that character to have more than anything else. From there, you can use that as a foundation for everything else you can add to the character.

For example a foundation can be something as simple as a character that hates loud noises. From there, you know you can’t give him a rocket launcher for a weapon, because it conflicts with the foundation, and instead look up silent guns. Or alternatively give the character a silencing semblance and have him use a more conventionally loud weapon, like a shotgun.

