User blog:Ospreypaw/Osprey's Guide to Making Good Characters

Introduction
Alright, since most people are complaining about sues, I'm just going to start this little guide on what I think makes a great character. Oh and if anyone has suggestions to put up here, I'll put them up.

First Step: A somewhat realistic appreance
A really great guide to some basic ideas of some cool pelt designs and eyes colors. When making a cat with mutations, this a great guide also, it's a bit wordy, but it's very information on mutations found in cats. I also find these two references found in the Tumblr, Warriors OC Help, are found here, this also gives a some great advice of creating Warrior Characters, and they also made  this and this . Now that you have an idea on appreance, when creating a wiki page, short and sweet appreances are usually great, but if you want words go ahead, if you want to black tabby, go right head, I'm going providing some advice on what I think is great character.

Second Step: Personality
What makes makes most cats sue is usually thier personality, which usually consist of : 'sweet, caring, loyal, and everyone loves him/her'. Now what is wrong with these traits is that they don't have any flaws, what makes a great character is that they have good traits and flaws, for a list of flaws, it wouldn't to search on google under 'character flaws' or something like that along the lines.

Third Step: Avoid Powers in the Regular Clans....
In the regular clans, I don't think they need powers, but if you're making a Wind Chaser Cat, don't go overboard with the powers, it's alright for the character to have the power of flight, but don't give a lot more things, like space-time travel, able break to sound barrier, and can bring to dead to life, that's a bit too much.