Food for thought!
2014-May-21, Wednesday 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
[My food for thought today is a Kinder Happy Hippo, hazelnut variety. Eat them head-first. It's the humane way.]
I gotquestions a question-shaped thing that is not actually a question. You got answers?
We all know that characters who aren't the focus in their canon need a lot of fleshing out and filling in to play them, but even characters from really extensive canons have little details about them, likes or dislikes or past experiences, that have never been mentioned--look at your own life, and the things you'd have an opinion on or a story about if the subject came up but it just hasn't yet.
So give me one of those for your character, something that has never come up before because you are making it up for them right here and now. Favorite childhood toy! That cashier they avoid at the grocery store! Why the smell of balsamic vinegar makes them a little queasy! Anything you want.
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We all know that characters who aren't the focus in their canon need a lot of fleshing out and filling in to play them, but even characters from really extensive canons have little details about them, likes or dislikes or past experiences, that have never been mentioned--look at your own life, and the things you'd have an opinion on or a story about if the subject came up but it just hasn't yet.
So give me one of those for your character, something that has never come up before because you are making it up for them right here and now. Favorite childhood toy! That cashier they avoid at the grocery store! Why the smell of balsamic vinegar makes them a little queasy! Anything you want.