THIS FACE! DEMANDS YOUR ATTENTION!
Aaaaand will relinquish it because hey not everyone wants to tl;dr about rp like I do (read: not as much as a nerd as I am) S-So while working on stuff for Seth it was brought quite sharply to my attention that I am a srs bznz nerd about plotting and researching on things for my characters. Even for stuff that I eventually never use, I uh actually enjoy reading up on. So it also got my wondering what sort of research/resources people do and have for their characters! And I'm not talking just for accurate information but also in part to draw conclusions/inspiration about their characterization from? Like that old Johnny Depp story about basing Jack Sparrow on a gay Keith Richards (if I even remember it correctly)! So!
What do you do to get into the mindset/mood to write your character? What do you need to look into to write them? (aside from their source material obviously) Listening to a certain sort of music, reading up on similar characters etc? haku is so much better at posts like this but I'm really curious!
(Your answers will not be used for any nefarious purposes s-such as building the perfect RP bot. ♥ Be as specific or as vague as you want. I'll edit this post with my stuff for all my characters [active and dropped]. Off to sleep!)
ETA: If you're the sort of person who can just click in and out of a character voice then I hate you and want to steal your abilities.