I'm going to use one of my OCs to demonstrate how I make a character prompt. You can choose to do things differently and cut some things out, or add more stuff.
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#. Character#17023
Name : Lucas.
Gender : Male.
Age : 25-27 years old.
Species : artificially-altered human.
Role in story : The IT guy for the school.
Appearance : Black silky hair, blue eyes.
Description : Tired nerdy-looking.
Signature : round glasses, dark eyebags.
Personality : Blunt, slightly strict, groans 24/7.
Good behaviors : Rounds up students grades.
Bad behaviors : falls asleep when teaching.
Ideology : Nihilistic with potential to improve.
Alive relatives : Elder brother - Liam.
Bloodline : S-24.
Backstory : Used to be a college student with an IT Major before he fell for a scandal when trying to apply for a job. The company wasn't anything remotely close to what he thought it'd be, and instead of publicizing his technological research, he was infused and artificially-altered with it to benefit the company in certain ways.
Hobbies : Games, Isolation, modifying himself.
Fears : Losing his memories of anything.
Interests : Developing his own games.
Flaws : Insensitive, Blunt, Uncaring about outcomes, terrible to people because they don't matter to him. Contrastingly, he has attachment issues and can't let go or move on from certain things.
Character development : He will learn to care one day when he experiences the consequences of his actions. The damage had already been done, but he moves on without clinging onto it like he's used to, instead, he just keeps it as a memory to look back to. Even if the mistake left him hurt, the mistake was the reason why he improved as well, so he feels conflicted, but it's all fine. He's not a pessimist anymore.
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Adding a music playlist and/or a pinterest board is optional, but I think I've already added a lot to this character.
However, if you think this prompt has too much information, especially when you've got other characters to make, you can simplify it.
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My simplification: I made terms only I am familiar with.
#. Character#17023
Base : Lucas, Male, 25-27, AI/Human.
Sub-base : IT guy, black/H blue/E, Tired nerdy, glasses & eyebags.
Pers : Blunt + UGGHHHH. Good because up the grade, bad because zzzz when teach. Sad but can happy.
Phys : S-24, alive big bro Liam. College student apply for job with AI idea, company evil, company fuse him with his work and profit off of him.
Traits : Introvert gamer wants to make game. Scared of amnesia. Blunt, no care, but can't move on from stuff?
Char Dev : Mistake = learn lesson. Learns to move on. Not negative anymore.
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I know the simplified version is a bit silly but to me, it summarizes things perfectly.
BUT, if it's still too much information, you can just add some photos and music as long as you get the gist of the character from just that.
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Even more simplified: I don't know anymore.
#. C17023
(Insert picture of black haired, blue eyed, Tired nerdy-looking guy around his 20s looking like he doesn't want to live anymore and is irritated with any humans existence. He's also typing on a laptop.)
(Insert playlist that goes 'I don't care, but I do', 'I don't want to forget', and 'I miss my body')
Add extra info like: S-24, IT, big bro Liam, round up score, sleep when teach, :( can :).
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