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When you sit down to develop a character, there's a whole bunch of types you can go through, such as hand archetypes, as a ...

A round character in a book, film, TV show, or play is a fully realized character with complex wants, desires, and motivations. While any type of character (whether protagonist, antagonist, hero, or ...

Chaotic Good characters include those who: take from the rich to give to the poor, are driven by a cause to free their people from rule by an evil ruler, or ignore social etiquettes and pleasantries, ...

Gavan O'Herlihy on Happy Days. But what is it, why’s it a thing, and why have some of us thought about it nonstop since watching a random Nick at Nite commercial more than a quarter-century ago? We ...

Fanfiction is nothing new, but the rise of AI has the potential to take it to a whole new level. The first indication of that has been the popularity of Character.AI, an artificial intelligence ...