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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tharian" data-source="post: 6232810" data-attributes="member: 20334">One idea that I have only done on a limited basis but that really intrigues me enough to keep trying it is to pick characters from movies or TV shows that have mannerisms or speech patterns that would help give me a mental image of how I see a particular NPC behaving in front of the NPCs.I've managed to use one (potentially recurring) NPC that had a silent stoicism inspired by the character "Gibbs" from NCIS that even managed to do a head slap to a different NPC that had behaved badly (from the NPC's perpective, that is).Another character was inspired by the Fatal Fury character Jubei as he was portrayed in the motion picture (basically a lecherous old man who would manage to get real serious when the situation called for it).</blockquote>