View Full Version : Character Creation Workshop (Part 2 Supporting Characters)


Raven
12-15-2007, 11:09 AM
Ok this is something to help everyone with developing characters for stories’ or even if you like comics.
I have decided to do a series so you can create a character of a certain theme. And hopefully adapt that character.

Your task here is to develop a Supporting Character.

The character could be from present day or the future the past/Fantasy.

You need to describe his name.
appearance
attitude
specialty
age
hair colour if any
male/female
height

Then you need a description about him/her.
Is this character a partner a best friend a fellow warrior or of something else.

you will need a biography of your character
and obviously you'll need a time line of character lives in.

what are his/her goals.


what does he/she wear usually and does he use weapons if so why does he use those weapons. Or is he/she from a romantic novel childrens novel you decide

and the character's characteristics.

Edward
12-17-2007, 07:24 PM
W00t, how many more of these are there going to be?

Hmmm... which support character should I do... Maybe I'll do Embla later

Elwynne Samara, (37) born in Rosalin, Vanahiem. Her hair flaxen, she stood tall at 5'11" and was a tough woman, often compared to an Oak tree. Elwynne grew up during the war, and when she was sixteen she ran off and joined the army, lying about her age. She became a brilliant soldier and tactician. She fell in love with her commander, Banwic Arthur, and the two had an affair. She became pregnant, and ran away, unable to convince Banwic to come with her. She went from town to town throughout Vanaheim, shunned for being an unwed mother. She stopped in Citron when she was unable to travel, and gave birth to her son, Aiden Samara. After the next town, Elwynne started to tell people that Aiden was her younger brother, and that the two of them had lost their parents in the war. She became content to live the lie, and never told Aiden she was his mother, or about his father. She settled down in the town of Pomme, and even fell in love with a local blacksmith's apprentice, Wedge Vicks. At the time of the story she's become frail and weak due to sickness. When a young woman in an ejection pod falls from the sky and into the forest, Elwynne and Aiden take care of her, nursing her to health. After nearly a month of caring for the memoryless girl a man named Ash comes to take her back. When Elwynne refuses to give her up, she manages to injure him enough to send him back, but it's a Pyrrhic victory and she dies of her injuries. Her last words are for Aiden to take care for the girl.

While she may die early in the story, she's the main reason for what Aiden does. After her death Aiden takes Embla and leaves town, despite seeing her as partially responsible for his sister's death. He looked up to her, and even though he thought she was his sister, he still felt a maternal connection to her that he just thought was because he was so close to her until finally meeting his father and learning the truth. It's because of Elwynne that Aiden falls in love with Embla. Aiden also carries with him Elwynne's sword and shield: Righen and Halter


as last time, sorry for the length, I'm horrible at abbreviating these things.

darklordbob
04-30-2008, 10:26 AM
Matt Gerdra, known as the Black Wolf, has dark brown hair that hangs in clumps from his years living on the streets, no home or family. His eyes are yellow and never fully open, making him look tired all the time. All his teeth are razor sharp, though you wouldn't know it because he never smiles. His skin is covered in a thin layer of dirt, though beneath it is pale because, living in mankind's underground haven, he rarely sees the sun, and never for too long. He has the front portion of a wolf's skull grafted to his face, and he wears a jacket made from the skin of a silver wolf. Unlike most people born after humanity fled underground, Matt has an extensive and bizarre amount of trivia about life before the Apocalypse stored in his memory. As such, when he tries to be humorous, he'll often end up referencing things nobody knows about, leaving him looking like an idiot. Matt doesn't try to be funny often.

Aside from the skull and jacket, Matt wears a pair of faded jeans and a red t-shirt with the sleeves ripped off. His weapon's are two curved blades on chains. The chains twist up around his arms and are literally embedded in his shoulders, by his own doing.

Matt was genetically engineered before birth to have wolf traits, and also has nanomachines put into his bloodstream to slowly convert him into a cyborg as he grew older, though none of his cyborg features are visible externally. His father was a devout religious person who eventually became convinced that Matt wasn't his son, but a demon. He left Matt alone in the woods to starve to death. A pack of wolves found Matt, and due to the bit of wolf DNA inside him, accepted him as their own.

Matt spent many years being raised by the wolves, but as time went by, food grew scarce, and Matt's pack began to die off until he was the only one. A man by the name of Lloyd Gerdra found Matt and took him in, taught him, and treated him as a son. Matt loved Lloyd as a father, but felt he could never fit in with humans and left. As Matt saw the human world, he grew angry at the evil in it. Murderers and rapists ran free and nothing was done to punish them. Matt decided he would make things right, grafted the skull onto his face and embedded the chains in his shoulders and eventually became known as the Black Wolf.

So... yeah... Think Jungle Book but if Mowgli turned into a vigilante...

Mousie
05-21-2008, 07:40 PM
Lemme see...I guess Blanche would be considered a supporting character. Um...

Well, her name is Blanche Tocci, and she's 15 years old. I'd say she's about 5' 3", but appears shorter because she's always slouched over. Brown hair in a short bob and brown eyes - she's a little on the ugly side, a bit thick around the middle with a small chest and bad acne, crooked teeth lined with braces and long, broken fingernails. She's really timid and awkward, and has this weird kinda phobia of people her own age. She keeps to herself a lot, but is terrified of "disappearing" - that is, being forgotten by everyone.

Blanche enters the story when the main character, Eriol, finds her crying at the park and decides to be her friend (long story. It's not a romance, just so ya know). Blanche is sorta like him - she's both boring and bored, only she's more polite and wants to love everybody, even if they don't love her back. After meeting Eriol, though, she learns to be a lot more selfish. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, honestly...

Blanche likes to wear brightly colored dresses and shoes with wooden soles, partly because she likes the way it looks and partly because it's "loud", and lets people know she's there. She doesn't really make a lot of sense, but oh well.

Firefly
06-24-2008, 10:30 AM
It's 2147 A.D. The character is Tim Cole and he is 35. Like his younger brother Adrian, he is an astronaut. He is quite tall at 6'3", only one inch shorter than his brother. He has shaggy brown hair, as if it hadn't been cut it a while, and bright green eyes. He wears a blue jumpsuit uniform every day, being stationed on the space-lab Laika.

He is the leader of their mission. Their rather murky mission. With a war just beginning to break out on Earth, Tim, Adrian and their fellow astronauts have orders to create psychological weapons that would end the war with little fighting from either side, which sparks debate among the few who know about it.

He is the commander type, always ready to take over if somebody needs a leader. If a job needs doing, he'll usually do it himself rather than bother any of his colleagues.