Where does your character get his/her/its personality from?

[MylCreates]

Some would say my characters reflect those who I've met and even my own personality, because those are the personalities I understand/ experienced most. Sketaldaz from Hacheeachkee is a reflection of the person I was in middleschool and highschool: shy, restrained, caring, and curious. Where do your characters get their personalities from?

[AdorkableGirls]

My nameless character in It's Not Like I CARE NOW!! gets her personality from the deepest recesses of myself. She's outwardly docile and apathetic, showing little care for herself, but inside she's a tornado of misery and pseudo hatred for everyone around her.

[Raven_C]

Well, you know what they say -- we put a little of bit of ourselves in the things we create and that's true for me. Sometimes, a character's personality is based on aspects of myself, of other people, or sometimes they display qualities that I would like to have.

In my comic Morsel, there are 3 main characters. First one is Milo, he's confident and a straight-shooter, which sometimes I wish I was. Huey is a bit more reserved, but generally easy to get along with and is a bit sensitive -- I think he's the closest one to my personality. And Eloise is playful and "girly," which I am not outwardly but I appreciate these qualities anyway.

[Spitfire]

Here's a link to my comic http://www.tapastic.com/series/Sandboxdrama and I must WARN FOR SPOILERS

in the text if you haven't read the comic yet. You might give it a spin first it's only 79 pages long so far and I don't like long dialogue so it shouldn't take that long!

Well, I think my main character Leaf is somewhat bland except when she loses her cool, I don't know where she gets the blandness but the loosing cool is definitely me

Teddy doesn't show his emotions that visible, but he is very emotional and caring.

Blob is carefree nature child, with deeper wisdom hidden somewhere in there....or he might just want a cookie...

Unicorn is angry, basically at everything and that sets a flame to his every action, he has no patience and is ready to crush anyone who he can crush. His anger though switches to melancholy and self pity if he can't oppress someone.

Toby aka Bunny is scaredy cat, he is loyal but he battles with his inner fears of almost everything. He has been through a lot which has made him such. He falls in love fairly easy.

Paper grunts, the big guy has his own story which I can't reveal, because I'm going to make short tories of the backgrounds of the characters, but he is basically brain washed. The two small paper grunts are the dominant and the obedient. The obedient might be slightly towards the rainbow and the dominant has a metaphorical stick up his...paper hole.

Shaman, is slightly crazy or just enjoying the absurdness of life. She has survived a great deal and it has made her the person she is. She is very powerful, but still she is scared deep inside of herself...desperation has gotten her far.

Angel, has regrets and it has made her bitter. She believes that everyone should make her life better and nobody has the right to stand in her way. She sees herself more deserving than anyone else for anything good or great. She can't seem to get happy and that drives her to be mean.

Divil, he is a good boy. He doesn't dare to rebel against his cruel owner, and he really can't. So he is just hopeless and he has surrendered to his destiny.

[Preney]

My characters awesome personality is based off of mine IRL.
In definition, a nerdy, college, gamer who is also hilarious!
Here's the link, just did a tapacivity comic too

tapastic.com/series/The-Preney-life

(Sorry, I'm have linking problems on the forums XP)

[MylCreates]

Wow, sounds like you gave me the whole cast
I'll check out the comic sometime!

[MylCreates]

I think you said you've had that issue before. Tapastic workers haven't been able to solve it yet?

[Spitfire]

@MylCreates I did, but noees! Did you read the text before the comic? noees now you know everything!

[MylCreates]

I read your comic, I really like it, it's so unique

[Preney]

They never replied to my forum (tapastic staff)
Two other tapastic forumers tried to help but it didn't solve the problem.

[MylCreates]

dang, I'm sorry about that

[Requiem]

As my cousin has stated to me time and time again, "You write what you know."

All my characters are derived from some aspect of my own character no matter how silly or psychotic they may be.

http://tapastic.com/series/No-Time-For-Color - character based on myself but has extreme tendencies

http://tapastic.com/series/Boy-With-The-Demon-Mask - various characters based on myself but each with a different personality

[LittleEndian]

Same as all author, I get inspiration from my own personnalities, and from people I meet.
Recently, I met an authority mother who was sometimes unfair... In my story, I try to take her point of view, and make my readers understand the dark side of some people... It's a challenge for me

[codesurfer23]

If the main character of BWTDM is based on you then I'm scared for you.

[Requiem]

Good! Haha.

BWTDM's anger is all my rage as a youth manifested into one character for example. When I have completed the series I'll gladly go into details on the characters. Doing so now would be spoilers O:

[Zoggian]

The hero of DEAD PARENTS AVENGER (the Dead Parents Avenger) is based on my best friend who is the most generous, kindest, funniest, and empathetic guy I know. So naturally, I made the DPA the opposite of that.

I think of a situation to put the DPA in and I think "what would my friend do and how do I write the exact opposite of that?".

I used that thinking heavily as a crutch when starting out, but as the comic evolved, I started to incorporate my neuroses, fears, and faults to the mix. But in the end, the Dead Parents Avenger will always be an asshole version of my best friend.