Board Thread:OCs and Character Development/@comment-1945898-20140831151912/@comment-1344907-20140831212539

Well...um, I guess when I first conceived Barry, my only real idea of his personality was that he'd be sorta like a less hyperactive Samson. His personality got more fleshed out beyond that as I RPed him more. The rest of his family in general also got more developed as time went on, even though they don't appear very often in the actual RP. A while ago, I gave the parents some backstory on the family article, which I hadn't really thought about deeply when I came up with 'em. So, yeah.

There's also Lionel (Sven's cousin, who you can read about on the Stalwart Family article), if he counts. I didn't actually create him to be a background character, or even as a relative of Sven. His character was pretty much born in The Sims 3. Think I told the story of his conception once before, but here it is again. At the time I created him, I just purchased the Ambitions EP, so I wanted to try out all the new careers. Thus, I created Lionel to do just that,. As I played him, I grew attached to him and started developing a lil' backstory for him in my head. As an excuse to write about him somewhere, I made him Sven's cousin and added him and his parents on the Stalwart Family article. I happened to use the same preset eyes for him as I did for Sven's sister, so it made some sense. (Also, kinda unrelated, but I just realized Lionel really looks like Ryan Gosling. That was unintentional. ))