Anonymous asked: What personality and character traits do you feel are the most important to know about your character before putting them into a situation?

Good question, finding your character is a process and once you find out who the character is then you will generally have their mood figured out.  Ask yourself “what do they (your character) believe in?” “Whats there moral code, or do they even have one?” Generally you can tell what their outlook on life(or situations) is just by their demeanor, this is definitely true about how people act in real life. 

Lets say you have your character all figured out and they are performing a certain task…lets say they are washing the dishes.  Now what  if they so happen to see a bug in their dish water.  Here’s were the fun begins because then you can think about the character and how they might react.  For one, take under consideration how that character might go about cleaning the dishes.  Do they enjoy what there doing? Do they hate it? Are they thinking about a special someone? Are they multi tasking? Do they even care about what there doing? Are they self conscious? Is it a proud individual or a lazy one? etc.  Now just imagine any of the scenario’s I mentioned above and try and think how they might react to seeing a bug in the dishwater.  Will the person scream in horror? Will they try to kill it(even though it might be dead already)? Will they try to save it from drowning? Will they stop what they are doing and try and associate with the bug and talk about life issues? All of this should be taken under consideration. One thing you might not want to do is do something out of character, unless their crazy or unpredictable.

That’s my little two cents, hope it helped. :)