I am starting to doubt that this site classes as functional -.-

Yeah, when I make a character, I tend to have a general idea of how I want them to operate, like say in a superhero game I might think of the character as someone who uses their powers and skills to infiltrate organised crime rings, get to a powerful position and coordinate with INTERPOL or whoever to perform an organisation-wide sting trap. I might have the concept of them doing that specifically, and then grow the character out by thinking what else someone who could do that could and would do. This means that I really enjoy making the posts about doing that and writing the parts of the CS about that and about how the character survives, lives and has fun outside of that. But the back story... Ehh, never really liked that, so it probably sounds very dry and cause and effect.