[quote=@Lady Amalthea]
>TMW a person has no problem spending forever getting together a characters skills and history and possessions but god forbid they spend more than ten seconds on their characters personality. 

	So, during this life of honing such "remarkable" skills and surviving their "tragic" backstory they never once developed a personality? None of these things affected them in the slightest and they are a completely clean slate for you to develop in RP? Right.... Yeah, not buying it. That's just lazy. Sorry, not sorry. 
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While it may well be an act of laziness, which I couldn't judge without context, you don't need to spend forever to make an equivalent length personality. I build functional personalities for roleplay characters from a selection of words to make the core and from backstory/specific events to determine a character's biases and experience. And that is all I need for a solid character.

Some trigger words, biases that influence decisions, and the character's experiences. All I need.

Also, why am I not surprised that this thread is the most immediately accessible outlet for a prior thing.