How do you guys create you're character?

[Derrick Trotter]

As the title says how do you guy's create you're character?

For me I try to picture the guy in my head then try to build up from there, It's normally a case of having a couple of wrestlers built in with the character like when i had Yarmouth Blade it was Jay Lethal and Shad Gaspard but with Del boy this is completely different. He's just Shad Gaspard with a bit of London twist in there always steeling from other members of the roster and trying to sell them on for a bit of extra cash.

So how do you guys create your character?

[J-Dub]

In the past I used ancient characters and I couldn't tell you how I created a character when I was 16. My current character I actually played around with ideas on WWE 2K14 and went from there. Took me about 3 months of ideas and back stories to come up with my final product. I create the personality first, then a move set to fit that personality, a back story, and then a pic base being that is the least important thing to me because I never actually picture what they look like when I write for them.

[The Wretched Nobody]

Carr was a very natural evolution - very much like you'd see an actual televised wrestler's career develop.

As far as my current character... he was based off some hype that surrounded Carr.  Many times in his career he was hailed as being akin to Horror Movie Monster Jason Vorhees as he was designed to be pretty much full frontal assault from the time the bell rang. 

Carr was a very larger than life personality - so I thought to myself "Self..." and for once, I knew it was me because I recognized the voice! I said to myself - that I loved that concept - the horror movie monster come to life... but it wasn't definitive of what Carr was in my mind so I set out to design something closer to that idea.

A few here know, I did a little research... the term "Wretched Nobody" is related to an old name placed upon people who would be in the custody of an insane asylum with no proof or paperwork of their actual identity.

Sadly the reality of it is a lot of times this was more or less a social scam.  Police would drop off people to asylums as it was easier than putting them through the judicial system and involved less paperwork... most of these people eventually, be it from environment or forcible confinement - lost their minds even in the process of attempting to prove their own sanity.  The social scam aspect come from the fact that for decades (And even still depending what part of the world you're talking about) Asylums were given money as per the amount of bodies in their care.  Basically the more beds they had filled - the more money the government gave them.  This led to these asylums basically buying off officers to bring them extra people be they totally sane scholars or flea picking transients totally out of their minds.

Among these, notably was people like Wretch who were alleged to be born in asylums due to unwholesome affairs and instances of abuse.

Carr was easy to write... I had twenty years plus with him.  Wretch has been a constantly evolving experimentation.  Carr has a personality, from my research and subsequent design... Wretch almost doesn't have one at all.  He's lacked the societal nurturing that most "normal" people have.  What I like most about the character though is that he, himself.... isn't actually insane, whereas Carr gladly danced across that line time and again.

[The Rick]

I've been RPing as The Rick for 14 years off and on. When I started out, I used my real full name, and no-pic base at first. A week or so into it, there was a tag match where The Rick was in a team fighting for the managerial services of Stacy Keibler who was the hottest women in wrestling back then IMO. My team won, but the other guy stopped RPing so Stacy became Rick's manager. Obviously using the real character of Stacy, I decided to use Lodi from WCW as my character in order to just find whatever pics I could and cut out Lenny if he was in there. With the Standard & Practices gimmick in WCW, mine was "Strictly Business" for a while and I formed a stable using that name with a few guys in the fed.

A couple of weeks later, after winning the IC title in the fed I was in I decided to change the character a little. The Rock has always been one of my all-time favourites so I simply went from being Richard to The Rick. At the time Chris Jericho was also a big deal in WWE so a lot of Rick was based on Rock/Jericho personality mixed in with my own.

I did switch from pics of Lodi to an actor called Caleb Ross after changing the character name to The Rick, as I was watching a show he was in and thought he'd be a good pic-base for The Rick. It didn't last long, and I switched up to Jeff Hardy who I was a fan of.

The finisher was a pain to figure out. I was using the name The Rick, and everyone would use "I smell what you're cooking" and similar lines against me in RPs despite Rick being similar only in name and finisher. I'd been using the rubbish name of The Rick Bottom for a finisher until I had some inspiration of calling it The Rickfest. With the finisher name change, comparisons to The Rock from opponent's RPs finally ended.

Stacy Keibler was getting more prominent in wrestling, especially with her move to WWE so I changed things up. I wrote it that Rick and Stacy got married, and she became Stacy H. This allowed me to portray her as a different character to Stacy Keibler that appeared on TV. It also helped with character development massively. Over time however, I realised that I'd written Stacy to a point where I wasn't sure what to do with her, especially with so much of a back-story being from Stacy Keibler and the fed allowing someone else in to RP as Stacy Keibler. She and Rick had a baby, and I struggled after that. A fellow e-fedder kidnapped her in a storyline, and following her release I wrote her and Rick breaking up to try and do something else.

My problem was Rick didn't really have anyone to bounce off then in RPs. Eddy Johnson was actually a character someone else used in roleplays that I took on to become Rick's friend and mentor but I didn't want to use him all the time as he wasn't my character originally. I stick with the original creator's pic base of Tommy Dreamer if he's ever to be shown in picture form.

My first big RP after a hiatus was getting Rick to train a girl from Eddy's school called Lacey Rain. She's named after two female wrestlers - Lacey & Rain from Shimmer

With Lacey, I could construct a completely different dynamic to Stacy. She truly is Rick's soulmate. I'd love to say I based her on a girlfriend or something but I'm single so I guess no I can only think that some of the traits I'd like to think my perfect woman would have are reflected in Lacey. Her pic-base is Avril Lavigne because I was a big fan of her back in the day - the girl, come on she's hot and her early music I like too. She's Canadian just like the real Avril too, only Lacey is from Toronto.

Although I don't use Lacey as an active wrestler any more, her finisher name came to me a lot easier than Rick's. It's called the Canadian Stampede and is Elijah Burke's "Elijah Express" from his time in WWE. In a lot of ways I'm still trying to figure out her character but I think I've got a good balance going on with Rick and Lacey at the moment.

Sorry that my reply is a bit of an essay. But it's helped me remember a lot of the backstory of my character in doing so!

[Nick Sadistic]

The way I did it even though I am still new to this. I started with a pic base. Tho I knew I wanted to do a monster type character.  What the Rick and Carr and J-Dub say is always helpful. That's why I love this place. I've always felt like it was home.

[Trine Larsen]

I use music a lot for character inspiration. So a lot of the time I'll hear a song on the radio or my iTunes and I'll instantly get a sort of brain baby for a character. Trine came from a day where I binged on music by the band "Say Anything."

Then for writing stories I usually just put the thing on shuffle and wait for inspiration. I like to be really detailed mostly because I think we are shaped by our environments and the people in our lives- so I tend to give everyone a story- like her roommates Gilbert and Lenox. Everyone you meet is important in their own way.

It tends to work against me a lot though, haha! Sometimes I'll get inspiration for something in Gilbert's life, or Lenox , and i end up with nada for Tine. (So I just sort of sit in a corner and write little rps of them in shame that i never post. lol)

Music works against me too. A song will come on and i'll instantly get a scenario in my head that I'm like: "Oh yeah! That's a great idea!" but it would involve rp-ing with someone else and their character. And I've got an observer personality- so I basically just hang back and encourage people. So, I never run ideas by anyone in order to ask haha! Thus....I get stuck with an idea I can't use, but can't think around- so I end up at a stale-mate with my brain!

[Mr1984]

My character came from the idea of being the most ridiculous I could be.

[The Wretched Nobody]

And you sir bit that mark Beautifully!

[Derrick Trotter]

Wow thanks guys, Great response, i put this on the other fed I'm in and the OOC section is dead there it only had one response. sounds like all of you have different ways of finding you're character and how to develop them into superstars i can only hope that i can get Del Boy to the high standards you guys have set.

Thanks again for responding. gives a thumbs up.

[Dave]

I've struggled with identity issues for a long time, I still do, which is probably why I have so many characters that are all so different yet experiencing the same  thing.

[J-Dub]

I for one am guilty of failed characters. I had several characters that I didn't do much with:
Eddie V
Max Atfield
Tiger G

Jakob Hystaria I've used off and on since the 90's and Christopher McKissick wasn't supposed to do much just an addition for people to rp against but people kept voting him to be a winner, so idk what happened there.

The Ascension started as one character and the other two where just part of the game. Once I decided to use all three as a group I thought I heard the name before and when I realized it was from NXT, as Dave pointed out, I made it easy on myself because I just took that tag team from NXT and plugged in the "front man" who was originally my main focus. To my surprise people's feedback requested more from the other two. I guess you can say, as a community, everyone helped to evolve into what I have to work with now.

[Jack Pummels]

I was away from WWG when I was thinking of a character. I thought jn my mind his name has to be a easy first name and something to do with hitting someone as the last name just like Matt Striker. Thats where i got the name Jack Pummels. Jack Pummels evolved from his first time he debuted. I was thinking of a character of a fresh young guy out of the indies looking to make it big in the big leagues. My first pic base was Skeet Ulrich from Jericho because that was my favorite show at the time. Jack evolved Into a cocky face who would joke around and have fun. I then decided hey i need a wrestlers pic base. At the time, Seth Rollins was the NXT champion. I decided to go with Seth because he was pretty good wrestler.I Left the fed and cameback and decided to make Jack Pummels a heel. with a vicious and aggressive heel jack pummels and Its been fun playing him.