Collective development

concepts

pre-planning

personality traits to carry over from oneself

1. calm and friendly
2. ambitious but fussy
3. intelligent and patient
4. cheerful but mysterious
5. sleepy but clever 

content genre 

• video essays about art, especially films and tv shows
• videos about character and fashion design
• videos about character and story writing

i could also do top 10 lists/tier lists, speedpaints, music theory, fundamentals, y2k throwbacks, etc. i want to have variety

audience

determining this is harder than i thought.

i think in terms of age i'm going to aim for mid-gen z and older, though my demographic for my real ghostbusters videos usually leaned to late-gen x and older millennials, since rgb aired in the late 80s for a tv-y7 audience. a third of my audience is 35-44, and only 15% is 18-24. it wasn't exclusively them, of course, but it is the biggest age demographic. my vtuber era will likely skew to a millennial and gen z audience, since i'm expanding my range.

my gender demographic is currently around 3/5 male and 2/5 female, but again, depending on how this will go, it could change to a different ratio.

my country demographic is mostly north america and the uk, as well as the philippines. the us in particular is 43% of my demographic, because, again it's a ghostbusters channel.

how much do you want to act? do you want to be completely yourself, play a character, or somewhat inbetween?

something inbetween. something that makes me feel fake but not too fake. the rest of the characters will probably just be characters.

• for playing a character straight up (selected for 2, 3, 4, and 5), look into unique concepts and anime character tropes
• for something inbetween (selected for 1), look into unique concepts and contrasting concepts
• for being completely yourself (not selected), look into complementary concepts and contrasting concepts

formula

(trait) + profession/aesthetic + species

• only add a trait if you're playing a character or adding a quirk to your persona
• if your species is human, you can leave it out of the formula
• you may change your final line if it doesn't gramatically make sense

examples: (nerdy) magical girl cactus, (energetic) cowboy rabbit, (seductive) marine biologist, hydrangea explorer peacock

lay your concepts out

using the formula above, lay out three to five concepts for your characters

1. first character
1. (elegant) flight attendant robot
2. second character
1. (ambitious) artist human/cyborg/robot
2. wandering robot
3. third character
1. (intelligent) gyaru fairy 
4. fourth character
1. idol desktop buddy
2. astrologist
5. fifth character
1. (ethereal) sleeping beauty cuttlefish
2. (ethereal) dimension goddess

all of them are ageless/vague ages that can be changed to anything, besides (ambitious) artist human/cyborg, who is 19-22, and (ethereal) dimension goddess, who is thousands of years old. the rest of the character concepts’ ages rely on their story

lay your top 3 concepts and list the pros and cons of each concept

1: (elegant) flight attendant robot

pros: shows efficiency, precision, organization, and elegance. robot jokes galore. lore is already laid out for her, which i think is quite immersive.

cons: breaks in immersion can be major. the lore i have for her is that she's a robot stranded on an alien planet whose only past was manufactured by a space travel company. i do not want people to be upset.

2: (ambitious) artist human/cyborg/robot

pros: i can be more of myself, especially since she doesn't have lore yet. she's more of a show don't tell character. i also have a design for her and i love it.

cons: the character herself has flaws that could be seen as annoying. particularly, she's bad at taking and giving critiques. her lack of lore is also a huge flaw.

wanderer robot 

pros: i don't have to change the design i have for her as much. it also opens opportunities for lore. 

cons: she could be a copy of the first character and might have to be merged with her.

3: (intelligent) gyaru fairy

pros: i can experiment with new appearances and outfits. she is also experienced enough to know what she's talking about.

cons: i don't have the ethos of anything of substance to back her character up. also when i think of her i think of shin sato and elle woods instead of myself.

4: idol desktop buddy

pros: my original concept for the character was desktop buddy. i can go for a y2k/frutiger aero look for this character, too!

cons: she's way more extroverted and mean than me so i don't think i can write properly for her long term.

4: astrologist

pros: connected to character 1's story.

cons: revolved around character 1's story. i could just make her nyx.

5: (ethereal) sleeping beauty cuttlefish

pros: strong concept. strong anime trope personality that i can easily fit in.

cons: easy hornybait. i feel like i need a certain energy that i currently lack to portray her correctly. also, i don't know if i can make her being a vtuber work.

5: (ethereal) dimension goddess

pros: her overpowered abilities make her easily fit in with other vtubers. her dimension theme fits the kangaroos wiki as well.

cons: i have less ideas for lore for her than the first concept. also she can just be francis, but i'm using francis in the bloody choice game.

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