Hey guys, whats up?
A few days ago, I had a talk with a new friend about the creation of OCs, and I was surprised to realise only now, that a lot of people PROBABLY start creating their characters the wrong way.
now this is all mere SPECULATION, and I'm merely basing it on data that I've gathered by myself by random people around here.

When you start a new character, where do you start?
My friend answered me, by the vehicle the character is, or by the body design. This person also commented that despite haivng tried this method before, never really got into making an oc because it was so hard to come up with anything.
To me, thats the complete oposite of how I build my characters. Yes I've done it this way before as well, but for the most of my characters, I did not start with any visual, with the car or the body. I start with the personality.
Just who exactly is your character? What do you want to explore with it? Is it cybertronian? does it belong to one of cybertron colonies off world (velocitron, giganton, animatron, etc...)? From what city? did they live in the war? golden ages? post war? earth time?
Whats their age? whats their gole? female or male? do they live with someone? do they live alone? What do they do for a living?
do they belong o a faction or are they neutral?

To me I swim around these many questions and thoughts, slowly building my character, in my mind its usually just a silhuete, moving through time, and as I define them more and more they begin to form shape, I begin to associate things, atribute physical characteristics to it and all that.
I've introduced this method to my friend and now she's been very excited about her first and new oc who has yet to be given up on.
If anything I look forward to seeing him.

Anyway, it was just a basic random throught that's been plaguing me and I just wanted to share.
It helps making new and creative characters not just in looks but in story as well.
So I hope its good for someone out there.

again, I do not dictate any truths, only my own ponderings.

enjoy : )