How deep are your stories?

they start out vague... but as time goes by, things get out of hand. <_<
So.. so out of hand.

 

I second purple_monkfish... I started out with a cutesy bookworm and a dorky selkie and ended up with a fully developed alternate universe Earth with several fantasy creatures/cultures and dozens of characters with their own backstories and interwoven storylines. So yeah...really out of hand. Some characters have deeper stories than others, but I try to flesh out everyone as much as possible. Of course, I probably won't have the time or money to get all of these characters in doll form, but I will probably get the most detailed ones first ('cause those are generally my favorites).

 

Like characters for a book. Since a few have come.from stories I'm writing others become stories after I start working on them. I go so far as to do character sheets, and flush out their world. Too much writing, rping and d&d

 

Mine start out pretty vague, but I gradually deepen them. Most of them all exist in the same world, and their lives are basically all intertwined in some way. I started with some basic idea of a bunch of people living in a Post War world where the United States changed almost entirely. It kind of just went from there, where I established a group of diverse characters, then decided where each one was from, their past, then down to their personalities, likes, dislikes, and quirks, and their connections to each other.

Ironically, the two characters in this world that are the most fleshed out, I have yet to shell out in doll form XD

 

Ahahaha same as some others here, mine started out vague like "these two are brothers!" and now it's... completely out of hand and complex and I had to make a timeline that goes back 3000 years to keep the history of my fantasy world straight T_T Watch out! It could happen to you!!! XD

 

It went from "oh hey, this doll is so cute!" to "oh hey, that doll would work if I ever wanted to shell that OC" to "aaaaaaah, no! I don't want to bring *you* home too!" DX In getting different dolls at different times and some surprise dolls, my original story has totally shifted from being a group of friends at college to being a group of friends at college who have rallied around their friend who accidentally became an immortal wizard and might have put the very fabric of this plane of reality in peril.

I'm drawing up outlines for the second novel even now. TnT It's going to be longer. (And let's not forget side stories, back stories, parallel stories...so much story...)

 

Well, it went from The Avengers to somehow several side stories...there are now several characters in my house who I do not even know how they sneaked in...so be aware, they multyply without...multiplying.

 

For Vince and Marigold, they have very defined characters in their separate worlds-- and Marigold has a supporting cast to her story that hasn't been shelled, and a lot of just background information on how she lives-- but no real arc or plot. Vince in particular started out very different and then he kind of became who he is and gathered more depth along the way.

For Pete and Billy, it's... like, I could write a book. Well, I did write several little stories about different adventures... It's DEEP.

But then there is an AU where they all kind of intermingle, so then they've got this added layer of dimension-hopping over to that world, and the varying amounts of depth they have there...

 

A core batch of off topics started off as little fairy people from a story and there were rules about how new dolls had to fit in to the story somewhere. After I got Dad it felt better to have the dolls being actors and the fairy people being the show they met on. They have evolved their personalities like characters in a long series of books would.

I write, and have to struggle not to make dolls of all my characters, but it's easy to go from a simple idea to discover I've created peoples I've fallen in love with. Such as Penny who started as a comment on a photo, needed friends, and now wants to start a side band project with Barbie (not that Barbie) who got her name from a joke about someone else.

 

Mine are mix, some start out super vague then end up detailed. Then some are utter opposites. Though if I favor the character they go through numerous reincarnations throughout their life time, a good example is my gal Nila West, she was originally a ATL;A OC, now she is a Original OC base in a Original Universe and is a Anti Slavery Abolitionist that is working on a coup to upstart the pro Slave system her race uphold. I uh should add she IS a alien.

 

My characters' stories are extremely detailed and "deep". Because the characters pre-existed before I ever got dolls, and really exist separately from the dolls who represent them, they already had really complex stories before the dolls came along.