How do you come up with new RP Characters?

I usually find a picture of a person and think, 'what would they do in *Insert show/rp*?' Then I fill the character sheet out

like I'm really into Supernatural, so I made an angel for the show

Name: Misal
Name of your Vessel: Mika De Corbin
Age of your vessel: 24
Personality: Fun, rule breaker, bunda kicker, rebel, truth seeker
*Do you have a hunter? Maybe
Vessel appearance:
Extra:She scratched a cruz into her angel blade with a car key

And there she is!

For me personally, i tend to use a process that involves three steps.

STEP 1: "Pick A Side"

Basically, i decide whether i want a likable or hated character. For example, my "Likable" character in the White cruz RP would be Aeolus, since he's childish and ditzy and friendly. My "Hated" character, Leon, is an asshole, simply put. He's arrogant, a bully, basically everything you want in a bad guy.

STEP 2: "Pick a Trait"

So, after i pick a side, i look at my own personality. If i pick a likable character i look at traits i have that are likable, and if i pick hated, traits that i or other people dislike about myself that are genuinely bad traits. I do this because i find it easier to write when my character has a part of me in them, and in this way, every character i make is like me in some manner. it's just the fact that said manner is amplified por a lot.

Again using White cruz as an example, when making Aeolus i decided i wanted an immature, childish character because i tend to act a lot younger than i am when i'm with my friends, mainly to piss them off, but it's a part of my personality. I'm just childish at heart. So i took that aspect of my personality, that specific trait, then amplified it to "fill in" the rest of his personality. How does Aeolus respond to heights? He loves them. I don't, but if i fully embraced my childish mindset i would. Basically, i use that base trait to define everything else about them.

STEP 3: "Finalization"

After all that and a bowl of ice cream, i evaluate my character and see if they are a complete entity and not just a walking singular trait, but a complex being based off a base trait. if they are, yay! If not, i add a segundo trait to further build on them. For example with Aeolus, i added his clumsiness so that he felt mais authentically childish, falling over and tripping a lot but brushing it off without a care in the world.

That about summarizes my character creation process! Good pergunta Shadow, i never really thought about exactly how i go about making characters extensively until now! Thank you for giving me the initiative to evaluate my style of doing things in comparison to you guys'.

Of course it depends on the type of genre or theme. Every time I find a fórum I deem to have potential, I simply observe which different archetypes have been already taken or ones I've already done in anterior forums. Then I make the distinction as to which type of character could truly add to the story. Characters need to have development as well, for starters, it's common for me to imagine putting my character into a tough situation where he handles it poorly, then later on compare it to a situation where he/she makes the right decision. One of the biggest pieces of character development in my book is the mistakes made. Everyone is flawed, and that must be true for a roleplay character.

I just think in the deep depths of my mind until something pops in my head, it all starts from there.