Ooh, ooh, ohh! A topic about one of my favorite things to do ever! XD

I think I've probably got one of the oddest thought processes when it comes to character creation ever, partially because my inspiration can come from anywhere at any given time. I get inspiration from art, stories, games, songs...just about everything.

On occasion I'll doodle random people and they'll become characters because I like how they look. Other times, I may have a nameable player character in a game, and they become OCs in their own right because I get a certain feel for how they would react in situations (for instance, my Pokemon trainers Riika and Anya. Riika was the name I gave to my PC in Pokemon FireRed, and she became my first big OC when I started RPing. Anya developed from my somewhat hilarious reactions to N while playing Pokemon Black.). Sometimes I use certain attributes I want to show through, or I pull things from characters I like...for those who know my character Luna Valentine, she was initially created because I wanted a character with a ridiculously large sword like Blackrose from the .Hack// series.

And then other times I'm known for taking characters people know and may or may not love and making my own versions of them. For instance, I have a Pokemon character based heavily off of Hamlet's Ophelia, and I'm currently taking a kind of dystopian Alice in Wonderland idea and running with it. Character creation in this snese can be really fun simply because it's like "How far can I take this character and bend them without making them someone completely new?"

As for personalities and flaws...I tend to go a bit extremist, and people who have RPed with me know this very well. I make god-mod worthy characters and find all sorts of ways to break them. This can lie in morals, in powers, in drawback to powers, in how they react to certain situations, as well as a long list of other things...and as I think someone else has said before, their flaws become another way you love them...or hate them sometimes, and depending on how broken down you've made them, part of the fun in writing for them may just be finding a way to put them back together.