On Designing a Character

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This is the template you should use, when developing a character to be used here.

Name: your character's name. If it's unknown, or if you intend to disclose it at a later date for plot-related reasons, simply write Unknown.
Age: your character's age. This can be a simple number in years, or something more generic if we're dealing with an immortal or a long-lived being of some persuasion.
Gender: your character's chosen gender identity. If nonbinary, simply specify it as such, along with their preferred pronouns.
Species: your character's base species.

Appearance: a reasonably-detailed description of your character's physical features, and a description of what might be their most typical wardrobe choice.
Behavior: a description of how your character acts, both alone and when faced with the rest of the world.

Skills: a rundown of your character's most-relevant mundane skills. This excludes supernatural or superhuman abilities. You don't need to specify that they have certain run-of-the-mill abilities (like driving) but can specify a lack of ability in certain areas, if it's relevant.

Powers: anything out of the ordinary that your character can do. This can relate to magical abilities, superhuman endownments, supernatural capabilities, or even to career-specific abilities that aren't widely available.
Weaknesses: any Achilles' Heel that your character has. Note that if you specify a Power, you also have to include a Weakness. Try and have your Weaknesses mirror your Powers, and it'll be easier for you to create balanced characters.

History: a brief summary of your character's origin, and some of its defining moments. Don't be afraid to take your time. Be as detailed as you can be, and you'll give us several plot hooks with which to interact with your character.

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If you'd like to append a text description with a render for your character, you don't need to gouge your wallet for a Midjourney subscription, and you especially don't need to torture your gaming PC's GPU with open-source image weights.

Perchance.ai is what I'd recommend for anyone looking to generate quick visual asides for free. It's not quite as detailed as a Midjourney result, but it vastly outclasses Dall-E, Copilot or Grok's own image-generation capabilities, if what you're focused on is clear and legible humanoid characters that won't sport extra digits too often. phpBB has very limited image-hosting capabilities (mostly your profile avatar, the site's CSS and aesthetics and not much else) so you might have to host your own media on a portal you can readily access. Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and others need no real introduction...

How to Use Perchance AI
Just fill in the text field with what you'd like to see, make it as detailed as possible, press Enter, and you'll get a grid of potential results. You can then vary said results based on an earlier one, or keep re-submitting the same prompt until a variant pops up that's closer to what you had in mind.

Can I just copy-paste a character's description?
Yes, but image generators tend to only focus on the latest tokens in a prompt. If you make your prompt too long, it might be that the bot ignores half of it, or more. Experiment, and find the right descriptors for what you're looking for. Try and condense what's likely to be a few paragraphs in your character's form all the way down to just a few lines.

In this case, writing the following: Street corner scene, late afternoon. A fit and athletic Caucasian man in his late thirties, with auburn hair completely shaved off, slightly glowing blue eyes, subtle cybernetics around his right eye, a graphic tee-shirt, a small tattoo sleeve on his right bicep, stonewashed jeans and sneakers. Small smile.

Gives me this. Meet Three, otherwise known as Aidan Drake, whom you're likely to bump into in the main storylines.