[ OT ] Ask Lexi # 14 - Writing Believable Characters

What're some of your methods when you create your characters? I found that I'm more of a visual character creator: when I see a picture of someone, anyone, real or fiction based, I'll see a trait of a character that I'm creating. When I have what I need, that's when I truly begin working on a character for a story. 
 
 For example, 1 of a select few characters that I've spent quite a few years on, I've searched pretty far and wide and in-between to find suitable characters to help compose the character I was making. For instance, if you took FF7's Zack Fair's hair and changed it just right, and give the character a rectangle face and dark blue eyes and a scar that travels along a part of the characters right eye and runs along his forehead, this character is one of my good guys. His name is Marik Darkaito and I'll share a little bit'bout him. He's tall, roughly about 6'4'', 6'5'' and has a somewhat muscled build, one that's more slimmed down and not bulky. Anyways, he's an introvert by nature and it shows in his face. He's also a bit of a loner, not exactly by choice, rather by circumstance and later on he suffers a lot of things. I ca n't go into specifics as I wish not to spoil it for anyone. Anyways, he becomes an unknown hero in a struggle that began as a feud of race, a race of monstrous proportions. 
 
 I think I'll just leave it at that.
