User blog:SolariusFlare/Guide to making characters

Hello, Solar 'ere, I've been seeing how some characters were great, but some...not so great. So here's my guide to making Characters.

Video:Solar's Character Rant (Video coming soon)

THIS IS A MAJOR WARNING, THIS CAN COUNT AS A RANT, CURSING MAY OCCUR, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

=Step One; Species and Background= A common issue for some characters on this site (No offense), is that some lacked Background, and also (Again, no offense), a vast majority of the characters are Hedgehogs, I may have created ONE Hedgehog character, but he was scrapped and turned to a Wolf. In a more, complex, longer, yet semi-understandable phrasing.

Hedgehogs are OverUsed, No, not the Pokemon tier, just, OverUsed in general, I could say that perhaps the majority holding of Fan Hedgehogs on this wikia, is well over seventy percent (70%), now, before you off saying BUT THERE'S ARMIES and WHAT ABOUT RYUSHU? It is a solid fact that Ryushu has a s***load of fan characters, but I'm talking like, MAIN characters, characters that are better known than others, I'm talking about wondrous pieces of art with a great background, and species diversity. Though Ryushu may have a lot of characters, about most part of the Elemental Clans have little to no background (No offense Ryu).

=Step Two; Originality= (Sigh), this is probably a MAJOR concern on the wikia, Unoriginality is the BIGGEST culprit on here (Crossovers not included in this), I'm talking about Recolors, characters with copied background, or background similar to Sonic's. Also, I've noticed some people also had unoriginal attacks (Basically saying, attacks that already exist). Even related to canon characters like "Brother or Sister"

Look at Shahooter and Statyx for example, both have great backgrounds, not recolors, and mostly original attacks, THAT is an original character. P. S. I know Statyx may be semi-related to Shadow, but at least he's a half-brother other than a full brother.

=Step Three; Appearance= This may tie in with Originality (Recolors)...

BUT GOD DAMMIT (Sorry..), put in a UNIQUE appearance, this includes attire as well.

=Step Four; Powers= I may have some OverPowered characters, but I give them a glaring or obvious weakness, for example, Solar may be very strong, but he's VERY weak to ground moves, he can avoid them, yes, just, smack him back down like a fly with you being the swatter, Shahooter also can't stand INTENSE heat, he was naturally raised in a cold area.

OverPowered/Godlike characters are another bad culprit on this wikia, and most people, don't even LIMIT their power, say that I make a character called Fulgore who is a master of magic, with no weaknesses what so ever, would that sound fair for you to fight an enemy who has VERY powerful attacks with no weakness? I'm sure you'd answer NO.

=Epilogue= In the end, most of the wikia's users (No offense) has had characters that doesn't qualify for at least one of these steps. WHOOPS DID I JUST SAY THAT OUT LOUD?

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Look, I hope you see where I'm coming from so I don't have to keep wasting my time explaining it.

What's the difference between A, a well developed character that is original and thought out, and B, a poorly made character that is unoriginal, and a recolor?

Answer; Four Weeks.

Yes, that's right, I spent Four Weeks on developing Hoots, it takes time to create a very great character.

It's like Belgian Chocolate, would you just snarf things down like a pig and get it over with, or would you savor it?

Basically saying; do you feel like you've accomplished something by creating something unoriginal, not well thought-out, overused? Or would you feel like you accomplished something by creating an original, very well designed, unique character?

If I were you, I would savor that Chocolate....

Or, you can just be a pig and scarf it all.