Keep it simple, stupid.

Name, age or whatever necessary "middle thing", backstory.

This may be a byproduct of Nation Roleplaying though, but even often times brief dabbing in more single-character based RPs I've found a lot of details asked for to be unnecessary. Why should I explicitly describe sexual orientation? Body weight? Clothes? At a certain point specifics should be abandoned in favor of details being picked up and developed as a character moves along. And other details are just best left to be slowly worked out through the narrative of the RP itself. Though I can understand that for some cases there's cause to worry when someone sweeps in with something left intentionally vague so as to build up over time a character they can claim to be exponentially stronger and out of scale or proportion with everyone else.


Per face-claim shit: drop it in the garbage. Actually write the physical description and not go on a prowl for Anime Headshot #30,501,678.