Hetalia OC reviews

Hetalia British Isles OCs Critiques

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:14:28 +0200

A blog where Hetalia British Isles OCs will be critiqued (as well as the occasional Hetalia Celtic…

It seems like they are pretty backlogged at the moment but there is some generally information and other reviews on their blog, might be useful for someone here.

Hello, since I'm working on an oc I notice his population is very small. Should an oc's human age refer to population or how developed the society is?

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:08:47 +0200

People’s opinions differ a lot when talking about nation age. Personally I think “real age”, population and development (possibly their expected life length too) should be combined. A nation that develops fast should age faster, Sealand for example could have aged very fast during WWII but almost ceased to age afterwards when the fort was abandoned.

The population shouldn’t matter much after the first ~15 human years , those would be faster with a large, thriving population and slower with a small one.

Though do come up with your own idea of how it works, if you feel like it. Himaruya hasn’t said anything about it yet so we are pretty much allowed to portray it as we see fit.

What would these bad traits be?

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:00:01 +0200

Heaps ‘o nations being in love with an OC for no reason, overly powerful magic, having an extremely tragic past for no reason, having a lot of scars for no reason, having mental or physical disorders for no reason, having no flaws etc.

Just this list in general with a non-existent or nonsensical explanation. There is some leeway because of the whole nation-thing but most of these things still apply to them.

That dress isn’t something she wears a lot, right? Country’s Name: Republic of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:11:40 +0200

That dress isn’t something she wears a lot, right?

Country’s Name: Republic of Ireland
Capital: Dublin (Dublin is also the largest city in the Rep. of Ireland, Belfast being the largest city in all Ireland.)
Government: Unitary, Parliamentary, Constitutional republic
Languages: English, Irish

Human Name: Ailish Lynch (I’ve been considering a name change lately, either Colleen/Coleen, Darcy/D’Arcy, or Aoife for first names and either Lynch, Flynn, Sweeney, or Collins as last names. I don’t know I might just keep Ailish Lynch i’m not sure.)

You should change her first name, it doesn’t appear to be a real name, but you could definitely keep her surname.

Age Appearance: 26
Hair Color: Auburn/orange/red-ish (An Irish stereotype is red hair, but actually Scotland has the highest % of redheads, Ireland however is 2nd with 10% of the population being redheads, more people actually have either brown or blonde hair.)
Eye Color: Turquoise/teal [Blue/green] (Like with the hair, green eyes are an Irish stereotype, but blue eyes are much more common.)

Hetalia characters do have some rather odd eye colours but perhaps you could make her eyes mixed in another manner? Blue with some green in the middle or even green with brown in it perhaps? It can look pretty cool if done the right way, search for e.g. “green blue” eyes on google and look at some pictures to see how it looks IRL.

Height: 159cm (5”3)
Weight: 152lbs. (appears kinda skinny due to the 1800 potatoe famine.)

Personality Traits: Talkitive, natural storyteller, humourous, well-educated, creative, imaginative, resourceful, appreciative, stubborn, loyal, friendly, quick-witted, misjudged, social, bookworm, musical, superstisious, easy-going, prideful, determined, persevering, disorginized, rebellious, defiant, independent, charismatic, two-faced, exaggerating

Creative and imaginative are pretty much the same thing, misjudged isn’t really a personality trait and neither is musical. Lists like this one and the one below it are not the best way to describe a character’s personality or likes, writing sentences is usually much more descriptive and informative.

Like:

“Egoistic, lonely, teasing.”

“She only cares about her own skin and is not a good person the relay on; This and her teasing nature means she does not have a lot of friends and sometimes she feels lonely because of it, though she hides it by being extremely annoying.”

Likes: Debates, jokes, stories, tea, coffee, beer/whiskey, stew, potatoes, books, barmbrack(It’s a type of currant cake, it’s traditionally eaten around Halloween and usually contains a golden ring.), black pudding(a traditional dish that’s made from pigs blood, barley and seasoning.), boxty(Potatoe pancake.), shellfish, poitin(A very strong, and often homemade spirit made from potatoes or barley.), dancing, mythology, football(european football, not to be confused with rugby.), music, poetry, literature

Friends/Relations/Ect.:
(NOTE:: These are not all the relations, these are only some.)
As of 2008 Ireland maintains diplomatic relations with 173 states, including the republic of Kosovo, the Holy See, and the European Union. However Ireland has not yet established diplomatic relations with: Grenada, Guatemala, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Benin, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia, South Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Bhutan, Marshall Islands, Niue, Tonga, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, states with limited recognition(except Kosovo.)
England/Arthur Kirkland:: Until 1922, Ireland was part part of the United Kingdom. In the past they would often fight, So their relationship was very sour back then, but nowadays their relationship is improving, Ireland being an ally to England.
France/Francis Bonnefoy:: France is one of Ireland’s traditional allies, and they would usually fight against England cooperatively, especially during the 1798 Uprising(however, this was unsuccessful.) together when Ireland was still part of the UK. Throughout history, were very friendly with each other forming a strong friendship. (Also, did you know that 60% of Irish secondary school students study the French language? And that there are approximately 9,749 French linving in Ireland?)
Russia/Ivan Braginski:: in 1918, the Russian SFSR was the first country to recognize Ireland’s independence. Also cooperation between the two have been more active since the end of the Cold War, many bilateral treaties exist between the two as well in various feilds.(Taxation, investment protection, cultural and scientific, aviation, ect.).

She’s not bad and you seem to have started your research but it will take more research and character building before she becomes a well rounded character. Do include some more history and some explanations for her likes and personality, those are her weakest areas at the moments.

Does an OC being married to a canon character automatically make them a Mary Sue?

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:26 +0200

No, not if there is a good reason behind the marriage. A single trait never makes a character a Sue, a combination of several bad traits does that.

Fem! Russia's name would be Braginskaya, not Braginskya. I'm sorry if it was just a spelling mistake :D

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:22:02 +0200

Yes, it’s a spelling mistake. Thank you for catching it!

The Admin has foolishly enough decided to make another OC and will therefore publish the process...

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:19:56 +0200

The Admin has foolishly enough decided to make another OC and will therefore publish the process here to show you have it’s done. This is certainly not the best or the easiest way to do it but it’s a way.

I’m creating a personification for Visby, a former Hansa-city located on Gotland which was very important between the 12th century and the 14th century because of it’s status as a big trading city. It is Swedish today but it has had a large German population before and has been under Danish rule several times.

It also had a sort of independent status on several occasions, mainly because of the Hansa’s influences.

There it is, right in the Baltic sea. So, onto the OC part.

(Another two sketches were drawn but they are ridicules and therefore not included.)

First I did some light research to determine when he could have been “born”, how he should age and how he should look. This showed that he would have born during the 11th century as Visby was first mentioned in a text from 1203 but as a “large city” which indicate that it’s older than that. It also showed that the city grew incredibly fast but the population remained mostly Nordic, though with a large German fraction, so he grew up fast and looked mostly Nordic.

The sketches above are various attempts at giving him a proper face.

Number one looks an awful lot like England. However, it doesn’t look very Nordic so I won’t use it.
Number two is slightly better but it’s a bit too viking-y for him, I believe.
This one is the best one, I will probably make some adjustments but the face shape and the colours are really fitting.

That’s all for today, his personality and such will probably be next up. Or his name.

Feel free to suggest stuff and send in any nifty character templates you have.

I want to submit an OC of mine to you to see if I'm doing okay on creating them. (I have several OCs and I don't want to get too far into them before I know what I do well and if there's anything I need to fix.) But I wanted to know on how often I should explain reasoning for things I give my OC because I have a tendency to over explain things...

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:49:12 +0200

As often as you need to. You don’t need to explain every detail but if it’s something significant you should explain it.

Say that you have two OCs who likes dogs; One because they think dogs are cute and the other because dogs have been very important during this OC’s history. You should explain the second one to point that out but you don’t need to explain the first one because the information isn’t relevant.

On Russian names, I'm slightly confused and was hoping you could help me since you know so much about names. If I were doing a Fem!Russia, if Russia's last name was Braginsky, would her last name be Braginskaya or Braginska? And on the patronymic, if her father's name was Vasly (for example) how would the patronymic be written?

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:43:00 +0200

-skya, I believe.

Patronymics depends on the time but after the 19th century it would almost definitely be -ovna, making it Vaslyovna.

Name: Erik Cesnik Erik is a Nordic name which isn’t terrible common in Slovakia, from what...

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:25:26 +0200

Name: Erik Cesnik

Erik is a Nordic name which isn’t terrible common in Slovakia, from what I can find, and Cesnik is most common in the US apparently. There ought to be some name that are more common in Slovakia which you can use for him.

Country: Slovakia (Slovensko; Slovenská republika)

Language: Slovak, Hungarian, Rusyn, English

Capital: Bratislava

Age: 25

Appearence: Medium length brown hair mainly parted to his left, royal purple eyes, somewhat pale skin tone. He wears a rather light bronze color military uniform, with a black turtleneck shirt underneath it. His military jacket has a belt circling his waist and wears knee-high black military boots. He has a double cross scar across his entire back.

How come? The description of the scar is quite fuzzy, you might want to elaborate it and/or draw a picture of it.

Personality/Quirk: Erik is usually rather cool and is friendly to most. He is normally seen with a rather dominant, intimidating, and cold glare, which he puts on most of the time so that others will avoid messing with him. As a lover of chess, he sometimes uses (and may get carried away with) chess speak, in which he will describe everything as a game of chess. Additionally, he enjoys playing chess with others, as he apparently has the skill to beat everyone but a rare few. Naturally, he is very competitive and hates losing; when he does lose, he doesn’t want to admit it. In simple terms, he has quite the ego - ruin it, you’re on his bad side. Stroke his ego, he’ll like it. And he likes to do what he wants, not exactly what others want. He’s very observant; when a scene plays out, he’ll stand and keep a close eye on it and makes mental notes about it. This gives him the ability to read people’s expressions easily, as well as the ability to pick up idiosyncrasies, habits, and patterns that a person may demonstrate.
He will treat women differently than men. Erik naturally likes girls and women (though is committed to Czech/Milena) and treats them respectfully; men, however, he tends to dislike, and will view most as annoying or idiotic.
He was once married to Czech, Though he can keep his cool, he is easily tempered and can tend to be violent, verbally and physically. Only very specific things can set him off, Hungarian (the language) being one and Hungary (the character) being another as he hates Hungary passionately, due to the hardships he has had with her in the past. He hates being reminded of his history with her. Though he knows and understands Hungarian because of Hungary, he refuses to speak it. Erik received his scar in the past as well. He refuses to talk about it, or let others find out about it. The scar symbolizes the effects and efforts of Magyarization upon him in the past.
On his free time, he likes to think - whether it’s about chess strategies or inventing something new.

He’s quite obsessed with chess, isn’t he?

As for the invention part, why is that? Slovakia doesn’t have a lot of inventors and searching for “Slovakian inventions” has Google asking you if you meant “Slovenian inventions”.

He doesn’t think when it comes to conversations, or does he really think about others. What he says is, essentially, what he is thinking. Erik can only, strangely enough, do that properly while sitting.
Additionally, he likes reading books, though mainly mystery and crime. That genre allows him to predict what will happen next or what has happened to a certain character; his accurate predictions support his belief that he will be better in predicting moves for chess. Sometimes he will be found reading or even writing poetry, prose, or drama.
He enjoys the cold and the snow, as he has adapted to the climate due to living in a mountainous area. Thus, he also enjoys hockey and skiing. Though he is pretty modernized, Erik is still rather traditional and old-fashioned.
He has some skill in dancing. Erik likes eating meat, mainly pork and beef, and drinking wine and beer. Erik also has a tendency to raise an eyebrow. He doesn’t like participating in certain things (e.g. reblogging things on tumblr relating to dropping off words/symbols in the ask box coughs) because he think it’s either stupid or ridiculous. Making Erik repeat himself will tick him off - he likes to say things only once and will lose his patience otherwise.

(I didn’t bother to send his history because it’s clearly just huge mass of text copied from wikipedia. I would like to hear your opinion but to me this OC is just mix of random stuff having nothing to do with Slovakia.)

I will have to agree with you there, sadly. Some of these things, like the mountain part, relate to Slovakia but most are simply there. You might also have written the longest personality section I’ve ever seen.

Try to clean up him a little, keep parts that you can justify with Slovakian culture, history, traditions or (rarely) stereotypes. Play around a little with those traits and see what you can make out of it. And don’t copy your history from Wikipedia, that’s bad.

Syria OC- REDONE

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:26:28 +0200

Country’s Name: Syrian Arab Republic.
Capital: Damascus
Languages: Arabic, French

Human Name: Alma Al-Diri
Age Appearance: 25-27

Real age?

Hair Color: Dark brown/black
Eye Color: Green
Height: around 5’4
Weight:
Body Parts/Etc. Representing Part of Country? If so, List Them:
Her glasses, representing Damascus.

Personality: Although she has a serious, calm and collected exterior, inside she’s as fun-loving as anyone else. She is prone to hold grudges against people who’ve hurt her in the past. She seems to be always slightly gloomy due to the problems if her country, but at least tries to put on a brave face when she’s hurting. She has a strange little pet hamster called Mohammed, which always follows her. She ALWAYS carries around a small knife, in fear of attackers.
Likes: Strong coffee, hamsters, fluffy things in general.
Dislikes: greasy foods, coca-cola, loud noises
Fears: being attacked. A really huge fear of this.

Family: Turkey, (brother) Egypt (husband, divorced.) Lebanon (brother)
Friends: Russia, China, England (somewhat) Lebanon, France
Potential Love Interest: Russia, as she blushes when they are alone. Though, she is a tsundere type..

That’s not a very good reason for being in love with him. You need to justify these relationships, one way or another.

Pets:
Mohammed (hamster) that always is with her.

Yeah, you told us that in the Personality section, where it does not belong.

Past Caretakers:
France. She still has a good enough relationship with him, and had learned French from him. Turkey. She still is on edgy terms with Sadiq, and doesn’t like him all that much.

It’s better but you still need to write about her history and you should also describe her looks and interests better. Actually, you need a longer and more detailed profile in general.

13 ways to create compelling characters | Justine Musk

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:01:15 +0200

13 ways to create compelling characters | Justine Musk

5 Step Guide on Writing a Character with X Disorder or X Disease

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:01:15 +0200

referenceforwriters:

youneedacat:

referenceforwriters:

Rebloggable per request.

I’ve been thinking about this and came to the conclusion of like… fuck it, it’s time to write a 5 Step Guide on Writing a Character with X Disorder or X disease.

Step one. Create a character. Don’t look for a certain disorder then write the character. Have your character written first, and by that I mean everything that doesn’t have to do with the disorder/disease. Of course this or that disease will have an effect on your character’s personality but your character’s disease isn’t their personality. Don’t use a certain disorder just to add it to your character because you think it’s cool, people in real life have it, it’s a real issue. Respect it.

Step two. Research like a motherfucker.

Step three. Be creative. Ask yourself how you’d be if you had it, know that you have a better image of what it is, causes, symptons, diagnosis and treatment.

Step four. Don’t focus entirely on the disease, or the disorder, or the disability. Then it stops being about the character and starts being about what it shouldn’t be.

Step five. Yay you’ve done your research and have a character and this character happens to have this disease but they have a personality.

Step six (actually an extra from step two): find people with the disease (another good idea is to search for experiences from people with it) or that have knowledge in it and ask because it’s okay not to know and even better when you’re willing to learn.

Now go and write awesome characters.

-Alex

I would add to this:

Never make the character’s experience of the condition exactly like the textbook says it is.

Because:

1. Nobody is exactly like the textbook. Ever. Even the people closest to the textbook aren’t exactly like it. Anyone who says they are is either mistaken, confusing themselves, or lying. (Lying isn’t necessarily a terrible thing to do in a world where often to get help you have to seem textbook. But it’s a thing to be aware of.)

2. Textbook-type descriptions are almost always written by people who don’t experience the condition. People who don’t experience the condition always get a lot of stuff wrong when it comes to what the actual experience is like. Often this is even true — sometimes especially true — of world-renowned experts in the field.

Example #1:

I once had a doctor tell me that most people with gastroparesis don’t experience nausea. We just supposedly experience our stomach feeling full and we stop eating. I have never encountered a person with gastroparesis, let alone severe gastroparesis like I have, who doesn’t feel nausea as one of their main complaints if not absolutely the main complaint. But that doctor succeeded in making me feel weird for throwing up during my gastric emptying study.

The reason the doctor believed this was that his understanding of GP was mechanical rather than experiential. He understood GP is caused by partial paralysis of the stomach leading to slow emptying leading to loss of appetite. He didn’t grasp that loss of appetite is usually actually nausea — even that we often feel very hungry yet too nauseated to eat at all. That’s something you can only get from the people who experience it.

Example #2:

Most people who read modern literature on the subject think autism is a condition caused mostly by a lack of social awareness.

While some autistic people will describe themselves that way (note that back when it was given psychoanslytic origins we often described ourselves that way too, self-description changes with the times), many autistic people describe our actual experiences as a complex combination of differences in sensory and perceptual processing, motor planning, and cognition. With social stuff on the periphery if it’s considered a major part of our experience at all.

Also note that while professionals say we lack empathy, many of us experience ourselves as having so much empathy as to be overloading.

That’s what happens when you mainly describe a condition on outside appearances and make up your own theories, then make up tests that will always prove your theories right, ignoring the extreme flaws in your tests. (I’m lookin at you, Simon Baron-Cohen.) Seriously, autism is a field where all you have to do to get published is sound vaguely convincing. That’s why it attracts so much bad science. For a lot of descriptions of bad science in autism go to the website of Morton Gernsbacher. It’s rampant.

Always see what people describe their own experiences as. And don’t stop at the biggest names, not those who automatically echo the experiences considered the most valid. Seek out people who describe their experiences in unique and unusual ways that all differ slightly, sometimes hugely, from each other. You will start to find a huge variety. From that variety you will begin to understand how things really work.

Also:

3. Don’t combine every possible experience or stereotype you have ever heard into one person. Each person’s experience is going to be different. They can’t all fit into one person. That’s the mistake made by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. He combined every possible autistic experience and ended up making an unrealistic character because he didn’t understand how each experience fitted together. I’m not talking about combining traits of so called LFA and HFA, which does really happen. I am talking about cobbling together every surface trait he had ever heard of with no clue what lies under the surface or why they cannot fit together in the pattern he put them in.

4. That same author made another mistake. Which is really covered in some of the instructions anyway. He made his character basically a robot running on his autistic traits instead of any other thing. As in, if you program in any situation, you know exactly what he would do. That’s not how real disabled people work, autistic or not. We don’t run on programming caused by our condition. Even when, like autism, our condition touches every part of our being in one way or another. If you write a robot or automaton where you can predict their every move based on their condition, you’re not writing a real person. Just because a condition affects the brain doesn’t mean you can predict our every move or that we don’t have a personality.

Reblogging again for the awesome commentary. I agree with all of this. And yes, I forgot to add this: everyone’s experience is different with it. For example, while talking about asthma, I find out a person’s attacks have rarely coughing in them; on the other hand, I meet a person whose attacks are mainly coughing.

Your point 4 is what I describe it as making it about the disease rather than the character.

But this person explains it way better.

For the Writers out there: Common Injuries And How To Treat Them

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:01:29 +0200

jellicleoverlord:

In my experience, RPers and Writers alike enjoy one thing: Making characters suffer. This little guide is supposed to help you with keeping injuries and the First Aid - in case you want to patch your character back together - realistic.
I am no medical professional, but I dare say I picked up a thing or two during my First Aid school-medic training ;)

Under read more for length! Also, trigger warnings for blood, I suppose?

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Limyaael's Rants - Curiosity Quills Press

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:01:15 +0200

Limyaael's Rants - Curiosity Quills Press:

This is an unofficial mirror of the famous Limyaael/Lightning on the Wave/Arin i Asolde literary rants on a multitude of writing topics.

About the Brazil OC, I have a fried that's Brazilian, she only has one surname.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:29:00 +0200

Well then.

A List of Character Traits

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:01:02 +0200

A List of Character Traits:

This list of words used to define and describe people will help you design characters for novels and other stories.

My Oc-Syria

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:37:28 +0200

Name: Alma Adnan

From what I can gather this would mean that she is the daughter of Turkey, if that’s the name you use for him. The relationship between Syria and Turkey seem to be quite tense and it has been very tense throughout history, it’s unlikely that Syria would keep his surname.

Most Syrians also have a middle name, usually the name of their father which might be problematic in this case.

Age: 27

What is her nation age? Because this is really old, only France and Greece are confirmed to be this old in canon and they’ve both been around for thousand of years.

Country- Syria
Favourites-
Food: Halva (a Syrian praline-type sweet food.)

It’s not exclusively Syrian, a group of exchange students from Istanbul brought “Halva” with them to the exchange program I was in and Wikipedia claims that it’s eaten in a lot of countries.

Relationships-
((Sort of)) Crush: Russia, since he protects her ((sometimes.))
Friends: China, Egypt.
Family: Turkey ((brother)) Lebanon ((little sister)) Egypt ((Husband, but divorced, Husband because of the unification of Egypt and Syria))
Appearance;
Alma has long, black hair and green eyes. She has tanned skin. She wears a lot of, shall we say, prim and proper clothes. ((As in, not revealing.)) She usually wears her military uniform which consists of a green jacket and long green trousers.

It’s unlikely that they would let a woman participate in war, even if she was their nation.

You need to do a lot of research. History, culture, religion, relationships, you need to research just about everything. Actually, this is just an ordinary OC where all the names have been replaced with countries. Please be responsible, do your research and make this into a good OC.

This is my OC Brazil, I was debating whether or not to give her...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:23 +0200

This is my OC Brazil, I was debating whether or not to give her a brother to represent the tribal areas of Brazil, but I thought it would be simpler with just one.

I didn’t make her too whitewashed or too tanned because 47.73% of Brazil is white and 43.13% is brown/tanned (according to Wikipedia) so I decided to sort of make it half-half. Although I decided to give her a bit of a tan due to Brazil’s warm climate

Country Name: Brazil

Human Name: Mariana Oliveira (the most common first name and last name in Brazil)

Do Brazilians generally follow Portuguese naming traditions? If that is the case then they should apparently have two surnames (though that might vary too as I know Portuguese people who only have one).

Brazil was claimed by her fatherly figure Portugal in 1500, though the first settlement was founded in 1532, colonization effectively begun in 1534. Although Brazil in her youth was hostile to Portugal at first as he assimilated the native tribes while others where enslaved or exterminated in long wars or by European diseases to which they had no immunity.

By the mid 16th century Brazil kept growing by the hight export of sugar, in which African slaves where shipped over to keep up with the high demand (Mostly to England due to his high sugar intake; as back then the British enjoyed ‘tea’ breaks and often had a range of sweets with tea.) Although the slave population started to decline after Brazil’s independence in 1823.

Brazil is a friendly young woman who enjoys nature and being outdoors, I gave her these traits as Brazil (Of which is largely made up of the Amazon Rainforest) is recognised as having the greatest biodiversity in the world the rich wildlife of Brazil reflects the variety of natural habitats. Scientists estimate that the total number of plant and animal species in Brazil could approach 4 million.

Brazil is not an official member of the Allies but was the only country in South/Latin America who sent troops over to France to aid the Allies. She had no real enemies, and always puts on a friendly attitude towards other countries (although some relationships may be strained).

Her favourite pastime is Playing football as it is the most common and Favorited sport in Brazil, as well being known for playing football expertly, winning the world cup five times (and in no doubt irritating Enland~)

The relationship between Brazil and America is a close one as America was the first country to recognise the independence of Brazil, doing so in 1808, not far from his own independence in 1783. America has regarded Brazil as a significant power especial in her role as a stabilising force and skillful (sp?) interlocutor in Latin America.

Brazil’s relation with England was nothing more than trading business (sp?) but of recent their relationship is building and getting stronger, along with the benefits of Brazil’s trading.

Prior to the 1820s Brazil and Canada were both colonies of European powers, and had no direct contacts. Brazil’s independence was much earlier than Canada’s, and British control of Canada’s relations with foreign governments lasted well into the early 20th century. So Brazil and Canada do converse with each other but mostly with trading and disputes (usually over trading…) but their relationship is decent, although she has a stronger relationship with America and Portugal.

Relations between Brazil and Portugal were shaped by Brazil’s much greater size and more powerful economy. For this reason, Brazilian investment in Portugal in the 1970s and 1780s was considerably greater than Portuguese investment in Brazil, but Portugal had lobbied for Brazil to become a permanent member of the United Nation Security Council. The two countries regularly hold summit meetings to discuss bilateral multilateral agreements and other topics.

Sorry it was so long ^^’

I wanted it to be as accurate as possible, please tell me if there is anything I can do to make this OC better. I would really appreciate feedback. Thank you for your time~

This format is nice, it’s short and includes just what you need to know about the character. You could add some more facts about her appearance and personality though, you only mention that she is friendly which really isn’t much of a personality and while the picture is good you might want to mention her height etc.

There are also a few relationships, and “unions” like the BRIC, which you could include in her profile. You could also create a slightly longer, in depth history section if you feel like it, it doesn’t need to be included in this profile but it could come in handy.

How to Make a Boring Character Interesting

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:01:17 +0200

How to Make a Boring Character Interesting:

Here are some possibilities for making boring characters interesting–feel free to mix and match.