character development

this tumblr is dedicated to helping you develop your characters - especially roleplay characters. you'll find tools, information, tests, and various other information that i have used and implemented for my own characters for almost a decade now.

updates f.a.q. jung's theory the enneagram moral alignment personality disorders sins and virtues psychological disorders schemata templates various tests personal tumblr

penandpoison sent: Hi! My name is Pen and I run another blog dedicated to character development. I really love what you got here so far! :D

Thanks! (: I’m just randomly posting everything I know/use about psychology and personality theory, and then some… Hopefully it’ll make for more developed characters in the future of roleplaying. =P

shannahmcgill sent: Hello! I'm Shannah, one of the co-admin on Pen's blog, and I also like your blog. Keep up with the good work!

Thanks! I love these messages, lol.

Anonymous sent: Could you please put lengthy posts under a Read More?

In the future. If I remember.

11 months ago
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kimmieufool sent: I would be interested in reading about playing a psychosis properly :)

Awesome. I’ll take the time to write about my personal experiences mixed with psychological research.

owakura sent: Now that you are talking about using personal experiences as 'investigation', MAYBE we can do something like that. We can share experiences about topics suggested by other followers. You know: psychosis, sexuality, and stuff. Not as a way of 'playing psychologist' or something similar, just as investigation. I am a psychiatric patient, and maybe my experience could be useful for the post about psychosis as well.

Well, I mainly made this tumblr due to my own laziness - to have a place to store all my crap regarding character development, in an easy-to-find manner, and helping others is more or less a.. bonus, rather than a goal.

The only manner I am going to use my personal experiences is by means of situational information, as I explain psychosis - in a strictly clinical way. I’d love to hear about your experiences with psychosis, and if there is situational information you can provide me with that I don’t already have, then you are more than welcome to tell me, I will give credit where credit is due..

But I prefer to keep this tumblr an information source versus a community. What I have done is, I made a special link that leads to an on-tumblr chatbox in the navigation, so that people can use that to chat to each other in real time, maybe share RP links with each other, showcase characters, what have you.

➜ THE CHAT BOX

Anonymous sent: May I request an article on PTSD next?

Certainly. I happen to have a character with PTSD, so I’ll just copy paste that.

kangaclubs sent: +1 keep doing what you're doing, much like a McDonald's ad I'M LOVIN' IT

Cheers, love. I’ll do as I’m told on this occasion.

redvelvet-nightmare sent: What about covering personality theories like the five temperaments, blood types, and character archetypes?

I don’t know what you mean about the first two, but I suppose with character archetypes, you mean Jung’s archetypes? Because that could actually be a really good idea, that I hadn’t even thought about myself…

jadedvega sent: The temperaments are based on the four humors and dictates behavior based on a concentration of a certain body fluid (blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and sometimes tears). Blood types as a way to determine personalities is popular especially in Japan (where people may ask your blood type, instead of your sign) and are usually used for matchmaking and pop culture (many anime, manga, and video game characters often have an 'appropriate' blood type listed in their bio).

Hm. I know what you mean with temperaments, there are just a  lot of different ones, so I thought you meant a certain one. Maybe I’ll add the classic Greek temperaments as well (fire, earth, air, and water), as well as any other that I may find will add to the blog, rather than being redundant.

As for the blood type, it’s an interesting concept. I’ll do some additional research, see if I can find sources I find sufficient, and I’ll probably add it here.

Thanks!

tropesarenotbad sent: There are a few dozen ways of classifying personalities. Blood type is one, and the five temperaments is an expansion of ancient medical theory of the four temperaments (explaining it is probably too long for an ask!)

I’ll do the research myself, wouldn’t be fair to ask you to do it for me. (;

Thank you!