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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 1321093" data-attributes="member: 1455">Excellent advice here.&nbsp; While I have never done this formally, I run through a similar mental process when creating characters.All my characters are reflections of me, but distorted ones.&nbsp; I take aspects of myself that I'm interested in playing or exploring, and exaggerate them, while downplaying other aspects or removing them entirely.&nbsp; I have tried to create characters that were different from myself in fundemental ways, but it was too uncomfortable to play.For example, almost all my characters are basically 'good' people; I have found it very difficult to play despicable characters.&nbsp; However, they way they were 'good' came out in very different ways.&nbsp; Some were noble and honorable, others were bitter and detached (similar to Wesley in Angel season 3-4), and others would do anything to protect that which they loved, including torture and sacrificing innocents.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Tree, post: 1321093, member: 1455"] Excellent advice here. While I have never done this formally, I run through a similar mental process when creating characters. All my characters are reflections of me, but distorted ones. I take aspects of myself that I'm interested in playing or exploring, and exaggerate them, while downplaying other aspects or removing them entirely. I have tried to create characters that were different from myself in fundemental ways, but it was too uncomfortable to play. For example, almost all my characters are basically 'good' people; I have found it very difficult to play despicable characters. However, they way they were 'good' came out in very different ways. Some were noble and honorable, others were bitter and detached (similar to Wesley in Angel season 3-4), and others would do [i]anything[/i] to protect that which they loved, including torture and sacrificing innocents. [/QUOTE]

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