Just one week has passed since i started thinking and developping my new story's idea. Someone may think that it's too soon to expect from myself a full built plot with very realistic characters and strong dynamics (i'm not even that good at it, i mean haha.) but something is standing in my creative process of the story.
First thing i want to say is that this idea has already gone through many changes, which are very important too (everybody knows that this is how story generates themselves, by re-adaptations and editing) but i still have some problem feeling everything "real" enough.
Simply the fact that this story idea is going on from a week and half now, it probably means that it's a decent one that can be saved (usually only 3 days are necessary for me to completely trash something that i don't like, so yeah, small improvement here!).
One thing i learned from creating stories and characters is the importance of liking what you're doing, this is why to build up my oc's i basically inspired most of their looks and personalities to already existing characters of Tv shows and music! Also took inspiration from other artists designs, and this method really worked, helping me get through the first spark i had for the whole project and evolve it.
BUT
It doesn't go well for every character.
I almost naturally created this girl who has a cheerful, touchy and a bit clumsy personality. Her name is Sol (from "Sun" in spanish) and her looks are pretty hippy-like, with fancy and bizzare clothes (she has a thing for weird socks with any kind of exotic pattern and design). She's also addicted so some drugs, but she's generally positive and friendly with everyone.
Before i could eve realize it, i ended up giving her a second personality!
This other girl name is Luna ("moon" in Latin, duh!) and her appearance are much like Sabrina Spellman (from "Chilling adventures of Sabrina) but with greenish hair instead of blond-white. She's, on the contrary, very posed, cold, a bit subtle and loves taking risks for fun. She's like the dark side, basically.
So in the end i found myself liking the second personality (Luna's) more than the main one (Sol's) and now this character kinda lost her "realistic" feeling for me.
Now, i know how much is necessary for creators to feel their Oc's as much as close to real people to develop them even further, you need to "feel" your characters or it's gonna be hard for you to stick with them and visualize their image aaand this is my problem at the moment ^^"
This girl i just talked about it's not really convincing overall, but i already re-wrote her character a lot, and still i don't like the happy-go-lucky personality (if you don't like something it means that it doesn't belong to you) but i can't find something that might fit with Luna.
I still like funny characters, not childish ones though, but i can't remember a positive character that i used to love from other works...this makes finding a good reference fod her really hard.