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WRITING 101 -LESSON ONE - Character Building

Posted March 5, 2023, 10:54 a.m. by Melissa Aragon

Posted by Lieutenant Ang’er To’kar (Chief Engineer) in OOC… WRITING 101- Lesson one -Character creation
WRITING 101 – Character Building

I can be reached on Discord as “LlewelPendragon#7076.... Meli the Mobstress

So you are here!! WOOOHOOOOO!!! Welcome to STF (where everyone is a problem child… and proud of it lol)

Anyway, I am Meli the Mobstress. I am currently the Chief Engineer (CE) on the Academy ship and FCOMM to the Meridian Fleet (I have other characters scattered in the Fleet, but not many right now heheheehe) I am going to be hosting these ‘workshops’ so you can sharpen your writing skills. After every lesson there will be a few days for folks to ask questions or make comments. Please keep it to the topic on hand. I recommend a WORD doc or notepad and pen so you can work through your own characters as we do this. OR… smiles you are welcome to post your work here and ask for help. (I recommend doing it yourself because everyone posting every character sheet here will get long and lost) But please feel free to do whichever suits you.

So… LESSON ONE! CHARACTER BUILDING....

You are on the roster, and been accepted. You have about 5 to 7 days to get your character up and running. Hopefully, since you posted a name and race on your application, you have a general idea of what you are going to be (or rather, who)

We will be working with a human character of mine, Breanna O’Harra. Firey redhead with a bit of a temper to match. To start with, lets do the basics. Character building templates can be found with a simple GOOGLE search, or you are welcome to check out other characters on the ship and see how they built them.

I start with a “CLAIM”. That’s a picture of someone else, usually a public, non-copywrite pic of a celebrity or stock photo. I usually do general searches. For this one I used “Red haired actresses” and this is the one I chose.

https://d26oc3sg82pgk3.cloudfront.net/files/media/edit/image/20363/article_full%403x.jpg

So from this picture I can start my character profile. You can choose any or all or even other descriptives for the beginning.

Name

Race

Hair

Eyes

Weight

Height

Mother

Father

Siblings

Position

Rank

Ship

Here is Breanna’s profile start…

Name: Brianna “Bree” O’Harra
(Character looks like JANE LEVY https://d26oc3sg82pgk3.cloudfront.net/files/media/edit/image/20363/article_full%403x.jpg )
Position: Mining Foreman
Race: Human (Irish)
Age: 45
Height: 5‘9
Weight: ‘195”
Hair: Red with gold streaks
Eyes: Emerald green with flecks of gold
Build: Sturdy from hard work and working out

Family:

Mother: (Raleigh) was stay at home mother
Father: (Killian) Was a miner on Earth

((this character has no siblings))

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Remember, this is a starter character. I don’t recommend augmentations, special surgeries, cybernetics or things like that unless you spoke to the CO of the ship you are joining first. And please be aware of the STF rules when choose species and races. I recommend the core ones, but keep them ‘half’ human unless you are a seasoned role player and have spoken to the CO.

(We aren’t getting into background or anything yet… Just what you look like. )

Human

Half-Klingon

Half-Orion

Half-Betazed

Stay away from …

“Rescued Borg” (Think 7 of 9)

Tal Shiar

Q Continum creatures

And the like…

I’m gonna pause here to give everyone a couple days to create their characters and suss out their pics. Feel free to reach out to me, I’ve included my Discord at the top of the page and my email is available on my profile page.

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