I made a paper top hat. Then I covered it in poetry (mostly William Shakespeare). I added some paint for personality, ribbon, buttons, and a bow.

I have fount it beneficial in my writing to analyze my characters, really see how they think. I have used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to help define my understanding. Maybe it will help you too. (Note: I am a terribly geeky psychology major as you can see. Heh.) [Disclaimer: MBTI designations are to distinguish cognitive functions. The letters are not necessarily dichotomies.]

The Personality Types:

You can take a test. There are many online. This is one I found.

It is 72 yes or no questions.

I myself am a PROUD INTJ. ;)

Here are some of my characters:

Want to see where your character's personality falls into prevalence?

In the US:

So, I didn't win Best Supporting Actress. But I took the walk with some phenomenal actresses, so no shame!

So, I'm pretty excited. I was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at my university in the 2010-2011 year for my role in The Fantasticks! That means pic time. (And I'll probably have to post more when I get all fancy and go to the Ember Awards.)

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• About 20 minutes to shower.  
• About 15 to blow dry my hair and get dressed. 
• About 20 minutes to do makeup. 
• About 10 minutes to style hair. 

So, this is a great holiday. And no, I'm not Irish. :P 
But I have green hair today. ;)  
(These pictures were taken while SOBER.) 

I was pondering the other day about how ridiculous it is that I have two characters that speak French. I don't speak French. This made me wonder, should a character's abilities deviate much from a person's own abilities? Granted, things like super strength and energy projection are pretty convertible to the fictional world, but what about things like intelligence? 
 
I've noticed several profiles where people listed their character as having genius level intelligence. I wondered if this mean their character is literally a genius or if people just don't like having small numbers on their power grid. (Hey, I'm guilty. I sure want to be omnipotent!) But it seems that fictional intelligence has to be somewhat reflective of personal intelligence. You can have a genius character and not be a genius, but you have to be smart enough to make it believable. I'm sort of a grammar nazi, but I do try to keep my mouth shut. It just strikes me as rather ironic that a character who has a level 6 intellect is written with poor spelling and almost nonexistent grammar. I realize that even I make mistakes, but when I see posts like that... I have to facepalm. 
 
I'd say one solution to this is training. I know little to nothing about fighting, combat, cars, and weapons. So, I try to stay away from that (to an extent) sometimes. Maybe if I was taught a bit, I could learn. So, what I'm saying here is, there are some powers that are not people's fortes, maybe that should be taken into consideration when formulating characters, and help could be sought to create better writing and character development. 
 
And the roleplaying stories are why we're here, isn't it? :) 
 
(Please no one take serious offense. These are just some observations.) 
 

It was a strange coincidence of red, white, and black. Wearing my Harley Quinn gloves and card belt. Crazy makeup. Just another day, really...
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Hope you all had/have an enjoyable day. I'm sure I won't want to know the details, so please, spare me. ;) 
 
A rather odd thing happened to me. I was sick all the night before. I woke up, and my suite mate got me a heart-shaped balloon. Alright. Not too strange, nice, but not too out of the ordinary. 
 
This random lady from the admissions office stopped me in the cafeteria to introduce herself. She told me how much she admired me and always wanted to talk to me. She also held up a bag. She got me a gift! A lady I had never met before gave me a gift. Hm. And then she took my picture in front of the ice sculpture.  
 

(What the lady gave me: a black skirt as seen at the bottom.)

 INFORMATION

Faction: Neutral

Super Name: Miss. Anne Thrope 

Real Name: Jay August

Base of Operations: My lair

Gender: Female

Hair Color: Blonde

Weight: 96 lbs.

Age: 21

Eye Color: Brown

Height: 5'3''

Super Power Origin: Divine providence

Powers/Mutation: She  can manipulate her own reality by writing in a notebook she always carries with her. This notebook has a shattered mirror on the cover symbolizing her current reality and the writing inside becomes her new reality. At a certain time of the month she becomes empowered by the moon goddess and her strength increases. It is very unwise to anger her during such a time.  

She also possesses the talents of art, music, acting, writing, and thinking. She is very intelligent and creative. Because of her small size, she can fit into places that other human beings could not. She has an arsenal of humour including: puns, sarcasm, and morbid humour.   

 Occupation(s): Artist/Writer/Student

Education: In college

Place of Birth: Earth

Known Aliases: Miss. Anne Thrope, Anne, August Anachronism, Miss. Bones, Corpse Bride

Mini Biography: Jay August was born August 13th 1989 weighing two pounds and one ounce. She survived miraculously and grew into a person resembling a normal human being.

Grid Points:  Agility – 1, Durability – 1, Energy Projection – 1, Fighting Ability – 1, Intelligence – 7, Mental Power – 3, Speed – 1, Stamina – 1, Strength – 1