[quote=@OneEyedChurro]
However, recently I've been implementing one or two traits I myself have into my characters
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I always, without fail, end up incorporating a part of my own personality into a character, and I honestly don't know why; I'm guessing it's probably something to do with finding them more relatable, and therefore easier to write, I guess. If it's not a part of me, you'll usually find a piece of someone else I know in a character - although I think that's a habit I invented when I was younger to try and make the characters I write more three dimensional - more like real people with real faults and real difficulties (I was that kid that made the Mary-Sue character every single time without fail... If you wanted a small teenager that [i]totally[/i] wasn't conventionally pretty but actually beautiful, dead quiet but also really good at making friends if only anyone ever spoke to her, but could also kick your ass in two seconds flat due to her years of ninja training she was subjected to after the death of her parents at brain camp [where she also learnt to be so intelligent, she could probably figure out how to bring the dinosaurs if she [i]really[/i] wished to], I was 10000% your girl). 

As of right now, I seem to have a few backbones of characters I just wash and repeat every time. If it's a girl, they tend to be quite vein and self conceited, obsessed with their looks to the point where it's almost problematic - the type of girl you already knew probably woke up at 4am just to make sure she could go for a run in the morning, as well as spend the whole hour on her makeup. Aside from being self-obsessed, they have a tendency to be quite rude because, let's fact it, they know they're awesome, so [i]you[/i] should clearly know they're awesome. They tend to struggle to make friends, and over use words like [i]sweetie[/i] or [i]darling[/i], but only ever to be as absolutely patronizing as possible. 

Any guys I write, on the other hand, tend to be the happy-go-lucky, [i]'I have no idea what's going on but I don't care because I spy free food'[/i], kind of characters. Most of the time, if they can't be the joker, they don't actually know what to do, and often end up coping with most of the rp's stressors by making unfunny jokes and waving their arms around like they're trying to fly away from the sticky situation they're in. I find them easier to play than the females I write, and often more entertaining because I laugh at my own jokes when I write (I know, [i]la-ame[/i]), but there you go. 

I seem to be stuck in these two archetypes though and, as much as I don't mind because it means I can work on them more, it's starting to get problematic...