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Anteaterking posted...

I guess maybe it's just because there's not a specific example here, but I'm not sure how you even have "a character" if you don't have a personality for them? If you get what I'm saying.

It's like grocery shopping when you're hungry.

I have a base personality for the character, but everything I see sounds good. I see Top Gun and I feel the character should be cocky and competitive. I see Lady and the Tramp and I feel the character should be laid back and carefree. I look back to Spider-Man or Evangelion without so much as a rewatch and I think the character should have Spidey's quick wit or Shinji's crippling self-doubt. If I read a book, I spend the first half thinking of how much my protagonist is like one of the characters in the novel that I'm reading before I think, "Nah, that's not him."

This is probably a case where an impulse decision is the right choice to make. Because an impulse decision represents my subconscious hopes and desires for the character.