So in one of my two main works-in-progress I've come to a stumbling block: whether or not I should introduce a new character.

Cons: I have plenty of characters already, and at the moment, this character is not necessary for anything. He would really just replace an existing character for some exposition, and I fear it might come across as forced.

Pros: As useless as this character would be now, there is great potential for him to be used as a major plot point later...

because I'm egocentric like that So I think you care.

So I have this character named Bracket. Don't ask me why she's named that, because I don't know. And yes, this is the same Bracket I wrote in a drabble a little while ago (assuming anyone read that XD)

Bracket is an unfortunate character in that, for as much as I love her, I haven't the slightest clue as to what I want to do with her.

I've played around with several ideas including:
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Once again, just getting my thoughts on paper....er....screen

One of my main ways of creating new characters is to use what I call "character molds". In other words, I take a character from my early writing experiences, and either put them in the place of a character I want, or give their attributes to an otherwise cardboard character.

And now because I'm bored, here are my molds and the characters that have come from them.
I've moved away from this...

So lately I've been thinking I should get back into RPing. This isn't anything new really, there have been at least three specific instances when I almost started a new RP on this site in the past schoolyear. But this most recent one is from talking to a friendly aquaintance on another site and how she believes RPing is a good way to develop your characters.

I've never thought about it before, but it's could easily be true. Generally I keep my RP characters and story characters seperate,...

I really am, anything and everything I enjoy movie/book/TV/game wise have a lot of good, varied characters in it! The more characters, the more I love it! The Fire Emblem series always has at least 15 distinct playable characters plus NPCs and villians, and I can't even begin to count how many characters there are in the combined Transformers series. Did you know there's a robot named Bob in one of the comic universes from TF? I just found that out this week XD

And if that weren't...