As a writer who’s been writing for a while honestly I needed this despite not making tons of Gacha stuff. The tips are fantastic for everything revolving around storytelling. So this was helpful to me and tons of other people!
i relate to you so much- i made a mini movie about a lab and superpowered kids when i was 11 (The main character was named alex :,) ) and since then, its been 3 years, and ive grown it into a written dystopian supervillain novel with nothing to do with labs because lab storylines are a bit *Problamatic*
I work the opposite. I make a character out of boredom, then over time think of little jokes and Senerios using the OC, and then Lore would pop up suddenly in my head for them. 😅
If you plan on making gacha stories then you do need a « class » for it or to learn about writing at least If you don’t want to learn about it then why make stories when you’re clearly not interested in story creation I’m not speaking to you specifically but I mean in general that’s a rule gachatubers should follow cause most of us know nothing on literature
Okay, this is a legit literature lesson. I absolutely appreciate you explaining this! I'd love more characters that are well-written so thank you for posting this video!
@@BloomingRose438 I honestly agree. The reason why I'm in this community is the amount of creativity that could be achieved using a simple dress-up game. However, I do admit that the stories may be a bit stale and flat. Some personalities seem to be stereotypical or uninteresting - and if some people are implementing fandoms then it's a whole other story. Of course, people do this unintentionally because they don't really write stories and that's alright - but in my opinion it would be nice they gain some knowledge when creating a story. Yes, most people in the community are minors and I'm aware that it's mostly for fun so it's not an obligation to learn some story writing. But it would be cool if they were to understand story writing so they can be more creative.
@@BloomingRose438 I'm part of the small percentage who actually try learning how to make a good series before actually making one, no offence to any other gacha creators.. They do well too.
@@BloomingRose438 honestly all gacha series are good, especially the hybrid mini movies, they just need more round characters than flat, change the design a bit and it's great! Same as the other stereotypical mini movies
Also some tips for naming your characters: If you're making a character from this world (or at least similar to it), write a backstory and them make a design. Look at the design for some time and try to draw them perhaps. And by looking at them, you should think of a name soon. It can be made up or already existing. If it's a character that is from another world, where ✨magic✨ is present, I recommend Latin. For example take the character's trait, who the character is, where they are at (a place, ex. forest) and translate it to Latin. Then mold the translated word to a name like form. Let's say we have a character who is a fairy, lives in the sea and is kind; fairy = mediocris = Mediocria/Mediocrisia, sea = mare = Marer/Maer, kind = benignus = Benignia/Benigina/Benignusia. And voila, you have a fantasy-like name for your character. And the name actually has a "backstory" now. (Feel free to use any of the names I mentioned)
this reminded me of how i named one of my oc's, so basically i named her kito, not thinking anything of it at the time, but then i realized that there are over 7000 languages, and there had to be at least one language that her name means something that describes her, and i found two; danger and eccentric, there are probably more!
@@WoodlouseFairy that is actually pretty interesting, once I named my character 'Nadine', thinking it was made up and making a way how it's pronounced, only to find out that this name already exists and it was it's pronounced an other way
Adding onto Susan, i think her story would be a great way to show that getting your material needs and wants is very different from getting your emotional needs met! Most people (mainly kids from well-off families) wonder why they aren't happy when they've been "given it all", they also probably constantly hate how privilaged and sad they are, because "someone out there has it worse". And hey, Susan may be one of those folks.
Mind if I do an example for myself here? Thanks. Ok, so my character Dr. Randie, as a flat character is a very smart person, stubborn, and strict. But as a round character, he's independent and has a craving for adventure! He is very loving to those he's close to, but he struggles with being stubborn and strict. Because he is so used to rules and order so when it's pulled out of line he gets a bit upset. He's incredibly smart because he has to be, the job he has requires him to look closely at details and be extremely focused. He also deals with loads of stress and worry because of his job and lifestyle.
Cant wait to see it. I’m always willing to help if you need someone to launch ideas off of! I wish you good luck, and don’t be afraid to use common tropes, just because their common doesn’t mean they can’t be executed well!
I didn’t expect so many comments and likes already! Thank you! The series is still being planned, script still being written and the characters are still being animated (it will be fully tweened) but I will try post more information on it! And I will definitely love to have you help out! Thank you again for your kind replies!
Honestly I think I needed this today, I don't think I'm particularly bad at writing characters I know the do's and don'ts but I was struggling with one today so thanks
Though I don't do gacha this was honestly the best advice for me as a writer who is currently making books and stories currently. I honestly love all your work and how knowledgeable you are and thank you for helping my writers block hehe. As I desperately needed motivation to do my own work 😅
…wow. This just taught me more about storytelling than school ever will. Though I’m too lazy to actually write something, this really helped nonetheless!
Thank you so much for this video! I agree, not all characters need to have a depressing/traumatic backstory to be considered a good character. You can still make an equally good characther without depressing backstories. And this advice also helps with just stroywriting in general. When I got into the gacha fandom, it inspired me to be creative and I found my love for making stories. (Even though what inspired my stories were cringy stories and in result I made even cringier stories and thought they were cool- 🥲. Haha, Im not crying inside.) And after I kind left (and kind a trying to get back into it, because I realized gacha was my childhood) I used writing as a way to still make stories, and hopefully not cringy ones. And this video helped me out alot, not only to make every backstory depressing, but how to make a good story and characther. Alot of my characthers, including the protaginist, don't have depressing/tramatic backstories but I still want those characthers to be equally liked, including the antagonists/bad guys. Anyway, I just want to give a ginormous thank you to the creator for speaking about this in a video!!! THANK YOU!!
A good example of a round character has got to be Thanos. He is a villain, but a villain who can feel. I used Thanos as an example on how to write antagonistic characters. Anyhow, amazing tutorial! Definitely Gave me a few tips💖
I recommend you look up the writer Abbie Emmons if you’re into that She has nothing to do with gacha she’s just a writer which is honestly even better help to make stories She made an entire list of character questions It’s a whole questionnaire you can fill out in google docs or something And a whole plan for a story She really explains what’s the point of making a story and how to teach a lesson in it. I also have a playlist of her on my channel you can check out It’s in the right order to understand so I do recommend it and once again Her name is Abbie Emmons
WOWEE thx so much!! I think that what you taught us was very simple yet can make a big difference around storytelling (even if you’re not really into Gacha). Although I feel like sometimes when someone is really into and enjoying the whole creator idea of their story / characters it’s alright to make some silly characters that may cause *Gacha Angstitis* :’D
When I create characters/stories, I always find a way to connect it with my fantasy world, its creatures and lore. But if its an entirely different world, then its either a seperate reality/world or a fictional world in *my fictional world.* OH and I always reference other characters from a different story as either a background character or a side character, from the past, present or future.
My example of flat vs round: My oc, Ydaevar. Flat: Amoral researcher. He has no morals. Round: Amoral researcher. He researches everything and cares about no one, only knowledge. When he joins Balapan on her quest, he simply thought it would be fun watching her fail but since travelling with her, he has seen how knowledge is only valuable when you use it to help others
This is super helpful! I wish someone taught me this when I stared, but these really work! I do this and it makes any random characters that I like the look into a round and well developed character!!
THANK U SM, this helps me sm with my lore and stuff, and i loved the way you explained this! Like you made this entertaining and fun and not just strait out plain and boring, i cant thank you enough for this!
I was thinking about my OCs and their backstories earlier today. Thx for posting this at a great time lol. I'm glad some of my OCs and stories are on the right track. But ofc there are some things I need to work on for my other OCs. This video is a great tool to fight against gacha angstitis lmao.
I put all of this on my favorite OC subconsciously, but now that you actually put it in a tutorial I gave my other OCs an updated backstory, personality, and goals. Still buncha angst though despite me following this tutorial thoroughly-
heard a lot of these tips before, can confirm they work! this video was a really good refresher and it’s definitely going to help other gacha creators with their future mini movies/series! good work bro
I might not interact with the gacha community that much but Im still apart of it! Some of my current drawn ocs actually originated from gacha life and club which can be pretty helpful sometimes.
I honestly was very anxious if I wrote my characters correctly or not. After watching this video I realise that I did everything mentioned here from the very start of making my OCs so I'm not anxious anymore :D
Not gonna lie I've realized a lot of my Oc's are actually pretty rounded- This did help with some creator block that I've been struggling with for a different project though.
I watched this when I got back into gacha, this helped me a lot and got me out of the “I don’t know how to make gacha backstories” phase, and when I had gacha angstitus. 😌
not only does this help for gachatubers, but also helps for writers that are dug in a deep grave going to loss of motivation and idea and no room of improvement hell (me). thank you sm! saved my life 😭
YOU SCARED ME AT THE BEGINNING 😂 I’m so close to finishing my book I’m writing and at the beginning I thought I had gacha angstitis 💀, but as I continued watching the video I was relieved to now I falsely self diagnosed myself 😀
Whenever I name my characters, as long as I have a basic concept for them I start googling, "names that mean [blank]" and look until I find one I like, quickly google that name to make sure that that website gave me its actual meaning and then I have a name for my character! One example was a character I made that cane from a family that values physical strength, so they train a lot in different martial arts and stuff. This character also has a physical disability or disease (I had no idea what it would be but I knew it made things that require physical strength nearly impossible for him) therefore I named him Milo which is German and means soldier. To go even more in depth with naming characters, I decided to try and make Milo's brothers' names originate from Germany as well because that would tie them together a lot better, like their mom deliberately gave them all German names because they come from a German family.
this is amasing, it cured me mostly from my gacha angstitis, yes i still do have multiple ocs with horrible trama but i have improved on their stories at least, and now i also have a non-tramatised oc whos just a little gremlin!!!
A good character has strengths, flaws. If you wanna make a character likeable, make sure your character is facing obstacles throughout their journey or goal.
I always add angst to my characters to one, project, and two, have them be relatable. But these are good tips- you for sure don’t wanna ONLY have angst and no positive things or motivations or goals 😭
as somebody who’s been trying to make better ocs: i have a few personal exception with main ocs, the oc that you’ll use when making stuff that includes- well, you a main oc either is a separate character, and in that case made with lore or a main oc is the creator giving themselves a body that doesn’t reveal how they look like the easier of the two is just the new skin one for the creator but the more funnier one is the separate character one anyways, that aside this was very important for me, and it’ll likely help alot, thank you!!!
I’m in a Minecraft fandom and I’m making an AU so most of the main characters already have some depth. I’m just giving them traumatizing backstory’s cause that’s kind of what the fandom enjoys, I’m just having a hard time with like important background characters that ARNT already developed, so this is a big help!
0:12 : yes I do have problems with traumatizing my OCS to the point of depression, mostly my main characters through the others have realistic backstories
This saved me from angstitis and I've just started making ocs, I now realise how flat they are. From this video I got 3 pages of notes that I have in my desk drawer that I will now use whenever making ocs :]
No one asked but I feel like sharing my ocs backstory (along with some other important details to the lore) My ocs name is Ayaka, she’s a guardian of animals. How did she become a gaurdian? Get ready for the angst/j(?) she became one when they died. They don’t remember anything about their life including gender or how they died. Also all guardians are chosen by their kindness, however there are some guardians who have turned, such as yuki the guardian of the night. Yuki is extremely good at manipulating people and has the ability to spy on people with shadows if they shake her hand. She had been around for 1000+years. There’s also many other guardians such as the gaurdian of the day, and guardian of nature, the guardian of nature is hazuki, she died from suicide. She’s also dating Ayaka. So yeah that’s the story so far. Hope you like it (also forgot to mention Ayaka can shapeshift into a fox)
I’m so sorry but I didn’t understand any of that Who died? Are their pronouns she or They cause you said « when they died » but never said who (they) is and then said (they)? Maybe another « they » don’t remember their gender or whatever » but who is they again and if it is the character u just described why did you just call them she/her 😭 Why is a guardian based on being nice isn’t a guardian guarding something cause if they’re too nice wouldn’t they just be less likely to defend it well and most likely to end up letting them through to whatever they’re guarding Pls explain I don’t understand anything
@@BloomingRose438 I’m gonna try to describe it a lil better Pronouns: Ayaka- any pronouns Hazuki- she/her Yuki- she/her Who died? They are all dead. Causes of death: Ayaka- unknown (tho I may reveal it in the future) Hazuki: suicide Yuki: illness Also a guardian is chosen by how pure there heart is because if their heart wasn’t pure then the world would go into chaos. Also the reason Yuki is evil is because even if your a guardian you can still have an unpure heart tho it’s extremely rare. I hope that cleared some things up, sorry if it didnt
@@Kaiyax_ ooookayyyy sooo the guardians are ghosts and they’re dead And like? Are they “guardians” because they protect something or because they control something
That moment when you have to make 60+ round characters and unique designs because you hate the thought of wasting a good design on flat character: 💀 The struggle of being a perfectionist designer AND writer is real. 😔 but this video was very informative and had good points for new writers
Honestly, im going to make a V-tubing model(as in a Gacha version) and I really needed this to help with the story telling part. So pretty Much. Thank you Beo. 11/10 ‘helpful’ video :)
These are good tips! I've been writing fanfics on ao3 for a few years now and while I'm not a part of the gacha community you're entertaining so I watch your videos a lot! these are all very solid good job
even though this was last year I am literally have a notebook and taking notes on how to make good backgrounds and characters because I been having trouble alot with these so thank you Beo :]
This was so perfectly timed, I'm currently crafting a gacha story ocs and lore and for a while was looking around outside the gacha community for writing tips and I almost was gonna look for proff vids when I got ur notif. Ty, u probably have saved me a lot of time.
5:07 it basically one of my side characters, quite literally. His power makes it so he livestreams his entire life to people in the afterlife. As he slowly gains a following, he desires to be in more interesting situations, and BOOM he accidentally throws himself into the storytelling pits of hell for views.
@@Its-a-me_Z Hh, I meant it more so he tries to make himself interesting. For example, the main reason he trains to be a hero is so he can be famous. Yours sounds like an Isakei.
Thank you! I've been writing for much longer than Gacha has existed but every now and again I still need to remind myself of a few things. And now, off to expand some of my character documents before I start scripting for my next projects...
This helped me out sm. I was so bad at doing backstory's and i always tried my hardest to do a good one but it sucks. Thankfully this helped me have ideas. Ty sm. :)
I personally find another way to make interesting characters or stories is instead of making a story about a life or death situation, but making a story about more phycologic/realistic problems. Sometimes I will make memes or mini movies with the characters I have but it's never about problems like being abused or bullied. It's about problems such as dealing with emotions (in a non exaggerated way) or seeing how characters will react in everyday stresses. And half the time in my vids there isn't even a problem, it's just discovering more about their traits and relationships. I have my characters in a school setting, but also explore there life outside of school. But that's just my opinion! Btw I love your vids! ❤️
Thank you, finally a video who explains character building and writing in a digestible way. I was always so confused at how to properly write characters but this video helped me, a lot. :)
Wow! You have grown, I remember seeing one of your old videos years ago! This is very helpful and motivating. That part when you said mentioned bring stuck with a design that you made when you were 13 is something I felt because now my main characters are all stuck with purple traits and I can’t change them now because it’s been TOO LONG
I'm trying to write an actual fantasy story (not gacha like a book) an this is helping me bc I am currently suffering trying not to put anything overly dark in the book so thanks slot XD
Hey, Beo! This was amazing! Maybe you could continue this series by writing backstories for different stereotypes in the community? I think it'd be really fun! :D
This helped me quite a lot,since i have an entire story(Already in chapter 8 at this point-) for most of my characters and i wanted to check out if there were not so..uh..plain?If so,i have come satisfied that mine have mostly almost everything explained so yeah i came in satisfied after watching this video.
You ma'am, yes you beowulf You could be an amazing art teacher! all of the things that you talked about in the video are amazing if you do animatics and animations(like me) you could really just learn and use, see? very simple, children need to learn and understand these things if they wanna work as an animator at a big company or just any company, and I just want to say thank you *(Sorry for my bad grammar, spelling and English)*
Hello, this has saved my story. I had a story idea a few weeks ago though i had flat characters and my main character didn't have a goal. Now i am working on backstory how the war started in the world and why The main character wants to stop it. Thank you:)
Omg watching this saved my little sister from Gacha Angstitis
Greatness.
glad it helped !
Congratulations to your sister
May this hope remain for your sister and many who suffer from Gacha Angstitis
Good! While angst is good for series, not for GCMM’s. Angst can be good for melancholy episodes and whatnot, but it just can’t be overused.
As a writer who’s been writing for a while honestly I needed this despite not making tons of Gacha stuff. The tips are fantastic for everything revolving around storytelling. So this was helpful to me and tons of other people!
same here!!
I'm so glad they post this! I just started writing my own story perfect timing.
i relate to you so much- i made a mini movie about a lab and superpowered kids when i was 11 (The main character was named alex :,) ) and since then, its been 3 years, and ive grown it into a written dystopian supervillain novel with nothing to do with labs because lab storylines are a bit *Problamatic*
I am a writer as well, let’s go fam.
Same as well! To be honest being a writer kind of motivates me and makes me happy :D!
huge tip: make their backstory before making the design
it will help you not get a 'flat susan'
I work the opposite. I make a character out of boredom, then over time think of little jokes and Senerios using the OC, and then Lore would pop up suddenly in my head for them. 😅
@@Glowing_Iris Yeah that's how I do it.
“Flat as paper”
@@Glowing_Iris same
@@Glowing_Iris this is me except idk how to think of a backstory for my characters 😭 😭
This feels like a writing class 😭❤
You haven't even seen the video 💀
Because it's like a art
@@foxxie_lee yeah they didn’t
a writing class i needed and glad i took
If you plan on making gacha stories then you do need a « class » for it or to learn about writing at least
If you don’t want to learn about it then why make stories when you’re clearly not interested in story creation
I’m not speaking to you specifically but I mean in general that’s a rule gachatubers should follow cause most of us know nothing on literature
as a writer, i love to go back and watch old gacha stories whenever im writing characters because it tells me exactly what *not* to do.
that’s smart
realate
omg me too!!!
Exactly
That is smart
Okay, this is a legit literature lesson. I absolutely appreciate you explaining this! I'd love more characters that are well-written so thank you for posting this video!
If only more gacha writers looked up literature lessons
I mean they’re making stories and that’s the reason why most of their stories suck
@@BloomingRose438 I honestly agree. The reason why I'm in this community is the amount of creativity that could be achieved using a simple dress-up game. However, I do admit that the stories may be a bit stale and flat. Some personalities seem to be stereotypical or uninteresting - and if some people are implementing fandoms then it's a whole other story. Of course, people do this unintentionally because they don't really write stories and that's alright - but in my opinion it would be nice they gain some knowledge when creating a story. Yes, most people in the community are minors and I'm aware that it's mostly for fun so it's not an obligation to learn some story writing. But it would be cool if they were to understand story writing so they can be more creative.
@@BloomingRose438 I'm part of the small percentage who actually try learning how to make a good series before actually making one, no offence to any other gacha creators.. They do well too.
@@LeeAndLia Thank you 🙏
@@BloomingRose438 honestly all gacha series are good, especially the hybrid mini movies, they just need more round characters than flat, change the design a bit and it's great! Same as the other stereotypical mini movies
Also some tips for naming your characters:
If you're making a character from this world (or at least similar to it), write a backstory and them make a design. Look at the design for some time and try to draw them perhaps. And by looking at them, you should think of a name soon. It can be made up or already existing.
If it's a character that is from another world, where ✨magic✨ is present, I recommend Latin. For example take the character's trait, who the character is, where they are at (a place, ex. forest) and translate it to Latin. Then mold the translated word to a name like form. Let's say we have a character who is a fairy, lives in the sea and is kind; fairy = mediocris = Mediocria/Mediocrisia, sea = mare = Marer/Maer, kind = benignus = Benignia/Benigina/Benignusia. And voila, you have a fantasy-like name for your character. And the name actually has a "backstory" now. (Feel free to use any of the names I mentioned)
this reminded me of how i named one of my oc's, so basically i named her kito, not thinking anything of it at the time, but then i realized that there are over 7000 languages, and there had to be at least one language that her name means something that describes her, and i found two; danger and eccentric, there are probably more!
@@WoodlouseFairy that is actually pretty interesting, once I named my character 'Nadine', thinking it was made up and making a way how it's pronounced, only to find out that this name already exists and it was it's pronounced an other way
@@ThreeGachaSisters cool! I thought I made up the name kito, but it's a real name!
@@WoodlouseFairy kito sounds beautiful btw
@@ThreeGachaSisters thanks! Also I can visualy described her if you want
If I had a nickel for every time Beo made a writing tutorial, I'd be a billionaire by now.
Lol true
True
Adding onto Susan, i think her story would be a great way to show that getting your material needs and wants is very different from getting your emotional needs met! Most people (mainly kids from well-off families) wonder why they aren't happy when they've been "given it all", they also probably constantly hate how privilaged and sad they are, because "someone out there has it worse". And hey, Susan may be one of those folks.
Mind if I do an example for myself here? Thanks.
Ok, so my character Dr. Randie, as a flat character is a very smart person, stubborn, and strict.
But as a round character, he's independent and has a craving for adventure! He is very loving to those he's close to, but he struggles with being stubborn and strict. Because he is so used to rules and order so when it's pulled out of line he gets a bit upset. He's incredibly smart because he has to be, the job he has requires him to look closely at details and be extremely focused. He also deals with loads of stress and worry because of his job and lifestyle.
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I believe the character is an ISTJ from the data provided
This video is really helpful for me since I want to create OC's who have good writing, so thank you Beo for blessing us!
AHHH I GOT NOTICED BY THE QUEEN
Thank you! I am planning a voice acted series and I needed this to help plan it out as it will most likely be the spectacle of my channel
I bet the series will be amazing! Cant wait! ✨
I. Need. News.
Cant wait to see it. I’m always willing to help if you need someone to launch ideas off of! I wish you good luck, and don’t be afraid to use common tropes, just because their common doesn’t mean they can’t be executed well!
I'd love to help work on that! :0
I didn’t expect so many comments and likes already! Thank you! The series is still being planned, script still being written and the characters are still being animated (it will be fully tweened) but I will try post more information on it! And I will definitely love to have you help out! Thank you again for your kind replies!
Honestly I think I needed this today, I don't think I'm particularly bad at writing characters I know the do's and don'ts but I was struggling with one today so thanks
these are really good tips! I've been writing for around 8 years, and they're all pretty much accurate, lol
Though I don't do gacha this was honestly the best advice for me as a writer who is currently making books and stories currently. I honestly love all your work and how knowledgeable you are and thank you for helping my writers block hehe. As I desperately needed motivation to do my own work 😅
But not currently as it's almost 12 at night and need the will to sleep 😂
@@Callsign_Terrorizer relatable
Me too. I think it's really helpful to have some pieces of advice while trying to write a 30 page story.
…wow. This just taught me more about storytelling than school ever will. Though I’m too lazy to actually write something, this really helped nonetheless!
As someone who is currently been writing stories a lot I found this video very helpful for people who suffer from gacha I already forget the name
we’ve been blessed with another lesson
The way you turned Susan into an interesting character is very interesting
Thank you so much for this video! I agree, not all characters need to have a depressing/traumatic backstory to be considered a good character. You can still make an equally good characther without depressing backstories. And this advice also helps with just stroywriting in general. When I got into the gacha fandom, it inspired me to be creative and I found my love for making stories. (Even though what inspired my stories were cringy stories and in result I made even cringier stories and thought they were cool- 🥲. Haha, Im not crying inside.) And after I kind left (and kind a trying to get back into it, because I realized gacha was my childhood) I used writing as a way to still make stories, and hopefully not cringy ones. And this video helped me out alot, not only to make every backstory depressing, but how to make a good story and characther. Alot of my characthers, including the protaginist, don't have depressing/tramatic backstories but I still want those characthers to be equally liked, including the antagonists/bad guys. Anyway, I just want to give a ginormous thank you to the creator for speaking about this in a video!!! THANK YOU!!
A good example of a round character has got to be Thanos. He is a villain, but a villain who can feel. I used Thanos as an example on how to write antagonistic characters.
Anyhow, amazing tutorial! Definitely Gave me a few tips💖
As a student who's taking the HUMSS course, this helped me a lot. Thanks :>
I really needed this video. I rushed to make my Oc's stories and it didn't end up how i wanted. You inspired me to remake it! Now i just need ideas! ✨
I recommend you look up the writer Abbie Emmons if you’re into that
She has nothing to do with gacha she’s just a writer which is honestly even better help to make stories
She made an entire list of character questions
It’s a whole questionnaire you can fill out in google docs or something
And a whole plan for a story
She really explains what’s the point of making a story and how to teach a lesson in it. I also have a playlist of her on my channel you can check out
It’s in the right order to understand so I do recommend it and once again Her name is Abbie Emmons
OMG TWO OF MY IDOLS ARE BOTH HERE
As person who wants to make ocs for a future project this is very helpful TYSM
WOWEE thx so much!! I think that what you taught us was very simple yet can make a big difference around storytelling (even if you’re not really into Gacha). Although I feel like sometimes when someone is really into and enjoying the whole creator idea of their story / characters it’s alright to make some silly characters that may cause *Gacha Angstitis* :’D
I think that this video is very helpful because not many people are creative on stories.
(Sorry for my Eng)
And thank you. I feel that my stories are not good and so typical, maybe it will be change
When I create characters/stories, I always find a way to connect it with my fantasy world, its creatures and lore.
But if its an entirely different world, then its either a seperate reality/world or a fictional world in *my fictional world.*
OH and I always reference other characters from a different story as either a background character or a side character, from the past, present or future.
My example of flat vs round:
My oc, Ydaevar.
Flat: Amoral researcher. He has no morals.
Round: Amoral researcher. He researches everything and cares about no one, only knowledge. When he joins Balapan on her quest, he simply thought it would be fun watching her fail but since travelling with her, he has seen how knowledge is only valuable when you use it to help others
i'm not a gacha creator but this helps a lot! i'll go write summaries of a bunch of my OCs now and then work on (and rework) their stories now! >:D
This is super helpful! I wish someone taught me this when I stared, but these really work! I do this and it makes any random characters that I like the look into a round and well developed character!!
THANK YOU I NEED THIS
even tho i dont use gacha and im not in the community, i still stuggle with backstories and lore
Thanks Beo! As a story writer, this really helped a lot so again thank you!!!
I was about to rewrite and redesign for the hundredth time my main oc. :')
You're my life saver 👍✨️💌
THANK U SM, this helps me sm with my lore and stuff, and i loved the way you explained this! Like you made this entertaining and fun and not just strait out plain and boring, i cant thank you enough for this!
I was thinking about my OCs and their backstories earlier today. Thx for posting this at a great time lol.
I'm glad some of my OCs and stories are on the right track. But ofc there are some things I need to work on for my other OCs.
This video is a great tool to fight against gacha angstitis lmao.
this actually helps a lot ! thank you beowulf, i'm not into gacha anymore but this still helped :] 💖
I put all of this on my favorite OC subconsciously, but now that you actually put it in a tutorial I gave my other OCs an updated backstory, personality, and goals. Still buncha angst though despite me following this tutorial thoroughly-
Once you give even one character angst, you can never go back
I’m not even a gacha user I just found this channel and this video actually will help me
heard a lot of these tips before, can confirm they work! this video was a really good refresher and it’s definitely going to help other gacha creators with their future mini movies/series! good work bro
Hi I love your videos so Much and I bet this is very helpful to many people😆
I might not interact with the gacha community that much but Im still apart of it!
Some of my current drawn ocs actually originated from gacha life and club which can be pretty helpful sometimes.
I honestly was very anxious if I wrote my characters correctly or not. After watching this video I realise that I did everything mentioned here from the very start of making my OCs so I'm not anxious anymore :D
Not gonna lie I've realized a lot of my Oc's are actually pretty rounded- This did help with some creator block that I've been struggling with for a different project though.
I watched this when I got back into gacha, this helped me a lot and got me out of the “I don’t know how to make gacha backstories” phase, and when I had gacha angstitus. 😌
As an writer whose been writing stories for almost 1 year the tips helped even me by a mile, it's amazing.
not only does this help for gachatubers, but also helps for writers that are dug in a deep grave going to loss of motivation and idea and no room of improvement hell (me). thank you sm! saved my life 😭
Most of my characters don't have backstories anyways. But most of my answers are no. Nice to see you again! :)
This is also helpful
YOU SCARED ME AT THE BEGINNING 😂
I’m so close to finishing my book I’m writing and at the beginning I thought I had gacha angstitis 💀, but as I continued watching the video I was relieved to now I falsely self diagnosed myself 😀
Whenever I name my characters, as long as I have a basic concept for them I start googling, "names that mean [blank]" and look until I find one I like, quickly google that name to make sure that that website gave me its actual meaning and then I have a name for my character!
One example was a character I made that cane from a family that values physical strength, so they train a lot in different martial arts and stuff. This character also has a physical disability or disease (I had no idea what it would be but I knew it made things that require physical strength nearly impossible for him) therefore I named him Milo which is German and means soldier.
To go even more in depth with naming characters, I decided to try and make Milo's brothers' names originate from Germany as well because that would tie them together a lot better, like their mom deliberately gave them all German names because they come from a German family.
this is amasing, it cured me mostly from my gacha angstitis, yes i still do have multiple ocs with horrible trama but i have improved on their stories at least, and now i also have a non-tramatised oc whos just a little gremlin!!!
A good character has strengths, flaws. If you wanna make a character likeable, make sure your character is facing obstacles throughout their journey or goal.
I always add angst to my characters to one, project, and two, have them be relatable. But these are good tips- you for sure don’t wanna ONLY have angst and no positive things or motivations or goals 😭
As someone creating a series this helps A LOT!! Thank you so much :D 🌈🦄💖
as somebody who’s been trying to make better ocs:
i have a few personal exception
with main ocs, the oc that you’ll use when making stuff that includes- well, you
a main oc either is a separate character, and in that case made with lore
or a main oc is the creator giving themselves a body that doesn’t reveal how they look like
the easier of the two is just the new skin one for the creator
but the more funnier one is the separate character one
anyways, that aside
this was very important for me, and it’ll likely help alot, thank you!!!
Thanks, Beo! This video really helped me a lot ^^
Do you like scaramouche? It's your profile pic ( he's from genshin)
@@Sbg_lover_ok Yeah, I've been saving up for him
I’m in a Minecraft fandom and I’m making an AU so most of the main characters already have some depth. I’m just giving them traumatizing backstory’s cause that’s kind of what the fandom enjoys, I’m just having a hard time with like important background characters that ARNT already developed, so this is a big help!
0:12 : yes I do have problems with traumatizing my OCS to the point of depression, mostly my main characters through the others have realistic backstories
This saved me from angstitis and I've just started making ocs, I now realise how flat they are. From this video I got 3 pages of notes that I have in my desk drawer that I will now use whenever making ocs :]
No one asked but I feel like sharing my ocs backstory (along with some other important details to the lore)
My ocs name is Ayaka, she’s a guardian of animals. How did she become a gaurdian? Get ready for the angst/j(?) she became one when they died. They don’t remember anything about their life including gender or how they died. Also all guardians are chosen by their kindness, however there are some guardians who have turned, such as yuki the guardian of the night. Yuki is extremely good at manipulating people and has the ability to spy on people with shadows if they shake her hand. She had been around for 1000+years. There’s also many other guardians such as the gaurdian of the day, and guardian of nature, the guardian of nature is hazuki, she died from suicide. She’s also dating Ayaka.
So yeah that’s the story so far. Hope you like it (also forgot to mention Ayaka can shapeshift into a fox)
cough cough genshin impact ayaka noises
@@Gamer1lol1 what server do you play on?
I’m so sorry but I didn’t understand any of that
Who died? Are their pronouns she or They cause you said « when they died » but never said who (they) is and then said (they)? Maybe another « they » don’t remember their gender or whatever » but who is they again and if it is the character u just described why did you just call them she/her 😭
Why is a guardian based on being nice isn’t a guardian guarding something cause if they’re too nice wouldn’t they just be less likely to defend it well and most likely to end up letting them through to whatever they’re guarding
Pls explain I don’t understand anything
@@BloomingRose438 I’m gonna try to describe it a lil better
Pronouns:
Ayaka- any pronouns
Hazuki- she/her
Yuki- she/her
Who died? They are all dead.
Causes of death:
Ayaka- unknown (tho I may reveal it in the future)
Hazuki: suicide
Yuki: illness
Also a guardian is chosen by how pure there heart is because if their heart wasn’t pure then the world would go into chaos. Also the reason Yuki is evil is because even if your a guardian you can still have an unpure heart tho it’s extremely rare.
I hope that cleared some things up, sorry if it didnt
@@Kaiyax_ ooookayyyy sooo the guardians are ghosts and they’re dead
And like? Are they “guardians” because they protect something or because they control something
That moment when you have to make 60+ round characters and unique designs because you hate the thought of wasting a good design on flat character: 💀
The struggle of being a perfectionist designer AND writer is real. 😔
but this video was very informative and had good points for new writers
Honestly, im going to make a V-tubing model(as in a Gacha version) and I really needed this to help with the story telling part. So pretty Much. Thank you Beo. 11/10 ‘helpful’ video :)
You saved my brother from Gacha Angstitis. Thank you. No doctors could sadly fix him.
Susan really just took "Little miss perfect" To a whole new level 😅😂
Wait until she starts liking girls
These are good tips! I've been writing fanfics on ao3 for a few years now and while I'm not a part of the gacha community you're entertaining so I watch your videos a lot! these are all very solid good job
this is probably gonna be soooo helpful!!
Honestly I love drawing and making characters but I always struggle with making round characters this genuinely helped me!
Man i feel like this is a class were people who were gacha kids in 2018 go to to make better characters
i still am a gacha kid, but im no longer obsessed with making that my channel XD
even though this was last year I am literally have a notebook and taking notes on how to make good backgrounds and characters because I been having trouble alot with these so thank you Beo :]
Thanks for teaching me your ways!
Thank you so much!! I'm not a really good writer,nor am I very interested in writing, but I still want my characters to be well written
Thank you for the help! I’ve been trying to make a better backstory for my characters!
This was so perfectly timed, I'm currently crafting a gacha story ocs and lore and for a while was looking around outside the gacha community for writing tips and I almost was gonna look for proff vids when I got ur notif. Ty, u probably have saved me a lot of time.
5:07 it basically one of my side characters, quite literally. His power makes it so he livestreams his entire life to people in the afterlife. As he slowly gains a following, he desires to be in more interesting situations, and BOOM he accidentally throws himself into the storytelling pits of hell for views.
Yeah that's my main character, he was killed and thrown into fantasy land where everyone there is based off of someone from the real world
@@Its-a-me_Z Hh, I meant it more so he tries to make himself interesting. For example, the main reason he trains to be a hero is so he can be famous. Yours sounds like an Isakei.
@@KingSaysHello I mean in the video, not specifically the same as yours, sorry
thank you so much! my cousin got infected with gacha angstitis and I showed her this video in hospital and it literally saved her!
Get your notepads out friends we gotta take notes
ill take notes in the morning- gn
@@Klaire430_ Did you take the notes
@@Blaze-vm8ty its been a year daddy
mommy said you went out to buy milk
Thank you! I've been writing for much longer than Gacha has existed but every now and again I still need to remind myself of a few things. And now, off to expand some of my character documents before I start scripting for my next projects...
You gave me reassurance that my characters aren’t flat. Thank you. 😅🙏
this was helpful af-
I wanna make good gcmm's, but I didn't really know how to drive the plot-
I planning to make either a gacha series or a book series so this is actually really helpful
Can't wait for next year for gacha designer😍
This helped me out sm. I was so bad at doing backstory's and i always tried my hardest to do a good one but it sucks. Thankfully this helped me have ideas. Ty sm. :)
Love how ppl didn’t finish 8 MINS of the the video and said it was helpful 😭😭😭
I personally find another way to make interesting characters or stories is instead of making a story about a life or death situation, but making a story about more phycologic/realistic problems. Sometimes I will make memes or mini movies with the characters I have but it's never about problems like being abused or bullied. It's about problems such as dealing with emotions (in a non exaggerated way) or seeing how characters will react in everyday stresses. And half the time in my vids there isn't even a problem, it's just discovering more about their traits and relationships. I have my characters in a school setting, but also explore there life outside of school.
But that's just my opinion! Btw I love your vids! ❤️
This is more helpful than any English class I've ever had 🤠
Thank you, finally a video who explains character building and writing in a digestible way. I was always so confused at how to properly write characters but this video helped me, a lot. :)
I would love to have you as my teacher 😭💓
Wow! You have grown, I remember seeing one of your old videos years ago! This is very helpful and motivating.
That part when you said mentioned bring stuck with a design that you made when you were 13 is something I felt because now my main characters are all stuck with purple traits and I can’t change them now because it’s been TOO LONG
I have a hard time to create backstories without killing at least their parents or loved ones so I thank you!!
I'm trying to write an actual fantasy story (not gacha like a book) an this is helping me bc I am currently suffering trying not to put anything overly dark in the book so thanks slot XD
omg thank you beo this helped so much
Your usage of those extra elements is coherent, which is more than can be said of the examples provided and some of the designs I've witnessed.
Hey, Beo! This was amazing! Maybe you could continue this series by writing backstories for different stereotypes in the community? I think it'd be really fun! :D
This helped me quite a lot,since i have an entire story(Already in chapter 8 at this point-) for most of my characters and i wanted to check out if there were not so..uh..plain?If so,i have come satisfied that mine have mostly almost everything explained so yeah i came in satisfied after watching this video.
Wow that’s an awesome tutorial! Thank you so much
I think Beowolf is the gacha version of Koleen
Beowolf really said: "How to not make a mary sue-"
THIS SAVED ME TYSM BEO! 💖
You ma'am, yes you beowulf
You could be an amazing art teacher! all of the things that you talked about in the video are amazing if you do animatics and animations(like me) you could really just learn and use, see? very simple, children need to learn and understand these things if they wanna work as an animator at a big company or just any company, and I just want to say thank you
*(Sorry for my bad grammar, spelling and English)*
Hello, this has saved my story. I had a story idea a few weeks ago though i had flat characters and my main character didn't have a goal. Now i am working on backstory how the war started in the world and why The main character wants to stop it. Thank you:)
Thanks for telling me that I can't make my characters backstories because they are too complex lol
you’re welcome