User blog comment:Little Miss Nobody/A Little Discussion/@comment-4598697-20160601014052

I do have this problem. I keep forgetting the individual traits of my characters. A lot of my secondary characters (with a few exceptions like Alidor Grenadier) are so bland - they just get pages for the heck of it. I have several characters of the same categories - several medics, several hunters, several gardeners. I guess I've been going with the idea of cliques, which is common in high school settings.

Some of my characters are based on stock characters that are not associated with high school settings. For example, Claudio Piro kinda resonates with the "grouchy old man" type of character, except he is a teenager. Claudio is intended to be conservative, so it works well on him. I balance it out by giving Claudio a youthful, fashionable appearance - he may be conservative in opinions and attitudes, but he's up-to-date fashion-wise. Sometimes writing characters with contradictory traits can help.