User blog comment:Vinnnn/Character Critiques, Tips, and Hints/@comment-26382369-20150528231555/@comment-33209858-20150529070655

Don't worry, dear, you're not asking for too much~ After all, I'm always happy to help!

So for Arabella, what sort of personality were you thinking for her? She seems like a very strong-willed sort of character, from what I can tell from the rest of her profile. Perhaps she's also a bit sensitive, as shown by her "Oh Curses" Moments where she gets weak when going in for the kill. That right there gives me the impression that she's kindhearted and loving - But even though she's kindhearted and loving doesn't mean that she won't hesitate to kick some booty~ She is a future Musketeer after all~

Some personality ideas for her are: Chivalrous, caring, strong-willed, optimistic, humanitarian, dependable

I think those traits are a good balance between being a hero, while still being a teenager who is growing into a hero.

As for writing her personality down, I like to start with listing the positive traits of a character first. For example, "[Character Name] is loyal, warm and always ready to lend a helping hand." and then I counter with more negative traits, "But because of this, [Character Name] is often times taken advantage of, and is sometimes referred to as a "doormat" since [Character Name] is too nice to stand up for themselves." I find that by doing that, it makes it so much easier to not only write more about your character, but balance them out evenly with good traits as well as flaws.

As for Arabella's appearance, I think that's really up to you. I picture a Musketeer as having perhaps brown hair perhaps even blonde or red. Lighter colors, mostly. And since Ever After High is a fantasy world, it's perfectly fine to add crazy colors for streaks and highlights. So, perhaps Arabella could have light brown hair with spring green streaks and pink - I say this because I think it's a very nice aesthetic and it's something that you could tie in with her outfit.

As for designs, since it's Ever After High I would normally say a dress. However, pants aren't a bad thing either, especially since y'know they're Musketeers and will probably be fighting and dresses + fighting might not work well. Then again, it's Ever After High and so basically anything is possible, even dress swordfighting~

For her design, I'd say light but bold colors (especially since her character seems to be more on the bold side). Perhaps sword motifs? Or even cross motifs would work too because those show up a lot in musketeer uniforms. And speaking of uniforms... Perhaps you could base her design off of that? Perhaps give her a little musketeer hat, a cape and some boots~ And if you do plan on giving her a dress, then feel free to look up dresses online to get an idea of what her overall look should be.

What I normally do when designing characters is find a dress that I really like. Then, I choose a color scheme. And I think of motifs and themes to go along with my character. And then I sort of smash them all together~ Then again, I'm not much of a designer so perhaps my advice isn't the best ^^"

Okay, moving onto Blanchard Knight (who I'm really looking forward to seeing btw~)

I noticed that in the Wonderland roleplay, you mentioned that he sort of wants to be more "normal". If you want to keep that characteristic about him, then you could always expand on that! Why does he want to be "normal" and is he even a little mad, since he is from Wonderland? Perhaps he felt a little embarrassed and even ashamed when he first moved to Ever After after fleeing from Wonderland and getting all these weird and strange stares because he was mad. Maybe that's why he wants to be more "normal" and tries to fit in the best he can with the fairytales of Ever After. Hex, you could even dig deeper into his character and pull out all sorts of angst - He wants to be accepeted by fairytales from Ever After, but at the same time feels like a traitor to all of his Wonderlandian friends and family. Maybe he isn't sure who he is, or what he should act like. Lots of teens feel that way now, so it might be interesting to make a character who could relate to all those people who do feel lost and want to fit it but don't feel quite right in doing so

Ooooor, you could give him a completely different personality. He could be proud of being from Wonderland and isn't afraid to show it. Maybe he actually makes a really, really good Knight because he's able to think "outside the box" and come up with all these mad and yet wondrous ideas that make him even better at slaying beasts and rescusing damsels than even Daring Charming. Or, since I believe the original White Knight in the story was clumsy, perhaps you could make him a bit clumsy as well? Maybe this makes him a pretty bad Knight, but he has this jovial and Wonderlandish personality so that he just doesn't take it to heart and laughs it off.

As for his appearance and design, my first thoughts were armor and white. Perhaps he could pull off like a Snow White and have "skin as white as snow and hair as dark as ebony" (I add the dark hair because you wouldn't want his appearance to be too redundant with white). Or, even better, he could have dark skin because who's to say the White Knight can't be black~ If you were to give him black skin, I'd say give him white/silver hair and possibly blue-grey eyes

As for his outfit, I'm not really good at designing outfits for males, but like I said: armor and white. For a color scheme, I'd say white, silver, perhaps a bit of grey/dark grey, and for a splash of color I'd say pale blue. Perhaps he could have a sort of "casual" attire and have like a hoodie that has armor mesh print on it. Or like a blazer with armor padded shoulders. Like I said, I am pretty new at designing males, as I rarely ever make them. But I hope I helped, even if it was in a tiny way!