Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160508230102/@comment-25857155-20160518041104

Honestly, most of my OC's are pretty different from myself. Ash has the closest personality in a lot of ways, but he's good at planning, bad at doing things on the fly, and has no discomfort at heights. Half my characters are female. Aurum is entirely too carefree most of the time. Many of my characters had abusive or just plain depressing childhoods. A number of them are somewhat psychotic or sociopathic. Quite a few are outgoing or have a significant amount of social grace.

All of those are things that I lack. XP

Seriously though, if you want to base a character partly off of you, here's my advice. Take a SINGLE aspect of yourself and turn it into a caricature, then develop other traits to go along with it. There's your character.