comic creator gives idea on creating charaters

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Re: how do you create charaters
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From:
Zachary Braun <zack@nofna.com>
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Hi Lovetta,

The primary feature of human character is its adaptability. Characters
will live up to what they can, but they will also change if necessary.

The ability of a character to change his or her carriage to even the
most minor stimuli is what makes us human. Your single character will
be multiple characters to different people or situations. It is
important to reflect this in your work, or your characters will appear
one-dimensional. However, this doesn't mean you should force it. That
is why it is important to come up with a story that can support
versatile characters without giving them the chance to appear
one-dimensional. The story and the character complement each other.

One way to go about it is incorporating Freud's id, ego, and superego
into each character. In case you aren't familiar with these concepts,
a short description follows:

Id: The character's desires. These form powerful compulsions that
spurn a character to act. It is an animal nature.

Superego: This is the character's self-awareness in a social space.
The id may drive a character to take another character's belongings,
but the superego will destroy the ability to act on that compulsion
(because it would mean bad things for the character). In other words,
the superego is a survival tool for the character in a complex social
setting.

Ego: The median between the id and the superego. The ego is what the
character accepts of him or herself after an id-superego transaction.
This is the character's baseline for existing after many, many
id-superego transactions. It is a demarcation of all of the
character's victories and defeats that the character will use as a
guide to allow the id to achieve satisfaction in the face of the
superego.

A character will have depth when these three concepts are incorporated
into his or her carriage. What the character desires, the
ramifications of actions resulting of that desire, and the record of
all of the struggles between those two forces.

This was longer than I expected. I hope this helps you out.

Sincerely,
Zack