Character Making Guide

# Guide Introduction

**This guide is going to help you develop an OC for you to make! This will start by detailing how you can develop on their personality, develop on their character and how the environment along with stuff they do can affect that! For starters, lets begin with-**

## Personality Based on Location

Your OC/Character will always be based on their area of influence, for example, if your character was born in a life of boxing, they might be a skilled fighter, but besides that they may also be very hardy and straightforward due to their life experience.

To begin, we will start with the various settlements mentioned and as to how they could affect your OC if you choose;

**Boulder**: If your OC is from or used to be used to the environment of Boulder, they might overall be very knowledgeable, but also very strict with their knowledge. Depending on the age of your OC, your character could have been around during peak panic of the faction, have plentiful knowledge of other settlements with how frequent they used to visit in the past, or if your character is rather young and born past that, your OC might be rather unaware of other settlements or even how they operate in comparison to someone in Boulder who had a great extensive history with the old archivist missions. Along with this, your character might also be great with words, along the lines of being great with excuses when the time comes, great with barter, and negotiating.

**Terminal**: If your OC is from or used to the environment of Terminal, they might be great with authority, maybe even well disciplined. Whether they've been out and about in the wasteland, they're naturals, having grown up in a place where both side of society from where they're from are forced to learn strict discipline and code one way or another. Maybe if your character is from the slums and poorer stretches of settlement in boulder, they might be 'street smart' and much more flexible in any situation, physically and mentally, while on the other hand someone who came from great wealth in Terminal while not being more flexible out of need, might be more skilled and or trained in the arts of discipline and skill in comparison to being forced to learn, you might be more strict with your teachings and or feelings, along with this is an all around extensive military history, allowing for great combat experience along the line if they have spent time in Terminal's military.

**Sioux**:If your OC is from or used to the environment of Sioux, they might be more resourceful with their resources and time, while not being the most flexible in combatant situations, they might be more flexible in their skills in talents, likely being so resourceful in certain fields, example medicine, they were able to teach themselves in the arts of medicinal usage and or healing that they're able to learn given the right circumstances without prolonged training, this is because of the quiet and desolate life lived by Sioux, that they don't have too much to deal with, allowing them to spend their time researching and adapting to their knowledge. This allows them to be more mentally hardened than even Odessa archivists, along with this is the excessive barter they partake in, helping them when it comes to dealings in the wastes.

**Odessa**: If your OC is from or used to the environment of Odessa, they might be extremely charismatic and traditional, Odessa is a very laid back settlement, following the traditions of its founding, but as doing so, is very strict in some fields. For everything there is some amount of respect to be had and given, regardless of who you are in society, you have respect to your name as long as you can hold it. Along with this is a somewhat pre-flash society that resides in the culture in Odessa, even allowing privatized businesses and personal freedoms not commonly seen in post-flash. Along with this is a very hands on government which forces interaction with its population, all around constant communication of people of all kinds develops a natural charisma thats been embedded in Odessa from the start. Along with this, your OC might be very intelligent, while Boulder houses some of the best of the best, Odessa instead of focusing on politics and using their smarts primarily on local and foreign politics, Odessa prioritizes the handling of intelligent sources and individuals different, primarily for development and archiving.

**END NOTE:**

Now that you know how you could plausibly use your OC and adapt their personality, how can you use that to advance your personality? For starters, your OC might use their personality to change over-time or possibly improve on their personality. Example: If I was from Boulder, I might improve on my speech skills, or I might just scrap them altogether and chase a different field of expertise, developing other traits in the process of doing so. This can be developmental building of the OC by using your environment as well~! If you're from any settlement and you decide to embrace or disregard your traits, you can possibly develop other traits along the way and even change your OC's personality for better of worse.

Ultimately, you can use this information to choose a future path for your OC and develop on them more, this can help them build a more fruitful personality and possibly explain how they have their current role in the faction!

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