Board Thread:OCs and Character Development/@comment-3184885-20140910135101

So we all have OCs with different personalities right? And while it's nice to have characters enjoy the same things you enjoy in real life, we have to make our OC differ from our personalities in some ways or else they will all seem like self inserts. Sometimes this means the character is into something or has a hobby of something that you yourself isn't particularly interested in. And sometimes when this happens, you don't want to go in not know what you talking about. So question, have any of you ever researched or had gotten into something simply because you had an OC.

I know some concepts never sparked my interest until I had and OC about them, for example, cannibalism or lycanthropy. Until I made Murasaki or Garret, those ideas never really excited me, but now they do.

Another example could be hobbies. I have a character who is into baseball (Marc) and a character who really likes fasion and make up (Ibby). Though they are not major point in their personalities, they are still aspect of them that I feel I can't potray accurately unless I do research.

So do you guys ever do this? 