Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20130812030652

Character creation is amassively complex, and yet ridiculously simple process. It's a minefeild of tropes, cliche's and social perceptions, psychology and reactive responses. It's a feild I've studied since I was very small, self taught until I was in my early twenties and found classes and lectures from the likes of Pixar and VanArts. There on I discovered my self teaching had almost been complete.

There are a million tiny triggers that make someone want to create a character. Fandoms in general, but especially fandoms like Ever After High have the benifit of NOT having to world build to give your character a landscape to play in and giving your a pre exisiting foundation in your Parent Character, setting up a series of tick boxes in regards to personality, outfitting, looks, attitudes etc rather than having to create all of these things from thin air.

But the existance of a trigger is always there.

What was it? What made you think "I really have to make a character for this Ever After High!" and why did you choose the character/characters you did? Was it love of the story? Were you looking for the most obscure tale you could? 