........you know I definitely have a very distinct "type" when it comes to writing characters - all except one of my characters that I've felt are worth the time to save and re-visit are girls, and to quote my friend, I "makes either really really REALLY soft gorls OR like "imma rip you apart with my bare hands" badasses, there is no inbetween". Of course, there are outliers, but I think the majority of my characters can be classified as one of the two in some way, shape, or form, with a 3rd smaller but steadily growing category of girls who are "super extra/girly & sarcastic & spiteful"

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Oh I just thought of something else: almost all characters I’ve seen are classically handsome/beautiful. It makes me wanna create more unconventional looking characters, even straight up ugly characters.
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Also, I am very much guilty of ^^^^, because I get all my FCs from high fashion models who are usually considered good-looking (or at least [i]interesting[/i]-looking) in some way

I think in general, though, it will depend on a combination of the RP setting and the players themselves. I think some settings might be more pre-disposed to having angsty loners, while others can encourage more variation. Like, if it's a mercenary RP, I wouldn't be surprised to see so many orphan/loner types, but if it's a SOL modern royalty RP, I think the nature of the setting in general lets people expand on character ideas more.

[quote]I'd like to see more ethnic variation[/quote]

I think an interesting concept from another RP site that I'm on is how people make "pre-made characters" and assign FCs, to ensure diversity. The GMs aren't usually against people changing their FCs from the suggested/assigned ones, but they do always make a note that people shouldn't white-wash the RP. I'm not totally on-board with pre-made characters 100% of the time, but I don't mind being assigned an FC while also having the option to change if I want to