Characters: old, young, wise, rash, bold, shy, amiable or downright intolerable.
I wondered what everyone's opinions on what their favourite traits are, how they like to keep their characters believable, and what they tend to avoid when fabricating people. Pet peeves? Little details that 'make' a character jump out of the screen saying “Look, I'm a real boy”?
Character interactions. Rivalry? Jealousy? Love? Friendship? Blood ties?
Personally, I have a love of discontent and/or insecure characters. I find that I enjoy using them more than others because they've got so many layers of thought. Imperfections, I'd say, make a character much more than their strengths do.
I also must say that I adore nothing better than a good rivalry or bit of jealousy, just so long as it's done properly.
Subtlety is something I use quite a lot. A choice of phrase in what the character says that either reflects their personality, or refers to something within the RPG itself.
What do you think?
During my time as an RPer, my charries have kind of developed lives of their own, if you know what I mean? =D They start taking over, telling you how they should be. 
I discover their annoying habits, their likes and dislikes, etc. Little things can really build a character up. Like for instance, one of my POTC OCs, Eve, is forever digging her fingernails into the palms of her hands whenever she’s nervous, and Guinevere tends to blush when she’s angry or embarrassed, and her eyes go round when she’s mortified.
By far my favorite OCs are my PotC ones: Joe, Lucette and probably Carmon in particular. What drives me to Joe is that he's not particularly likeable in the common sense. Like, Cole (my other charrie) is pretty likeable, I think. But Joe is kind of rouge-ish. But seeing his past with Lucette you understand why he pushes people away/uses them then dumps them. And Lucette... well, to me, she is an extremely tragic character who brought her misfortunes upon herself. She has no one else to blame so playing all of the pent-up rage and self-loathing which consumes her along with her natural prideful nature is very fun... like conflicting forces dueling inside of her and you never know if she is going to be unspeakably cold or somewhat affectionate. And Carmon I adore 'cause she is most like me... which may make her the most Mary-Sueish, I don't really know. But most of her emotions are a mirror of what my emotions would be were I in that same situation. However, it's fun to play a girl who's so into adventures and when she's actually on them she hates it to death... and it's fun to play her misery and her sweetness. I think with all of the drama and tension and stress all of the other characters go through it's good to have one character who's relatively normal and whose past is relatively normal and who has a big heart.
But all in all, they are my children and Vari is my favorite. But don't tell the others that. 