B&A: character creation game, perhaps?

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LONG QUESTION, AHOY. You can skip the first three paragraphs (including this one).

I figure if I start asking questions more, you all will be inspired to branch out of character/writer interview questions and leave them alone for a while (seriously, let them die for a day or two). Frankly, B&A, you’re declining ingenuity is worrying me.

I asked this question about a year and a suspended account ago, but we’ll give ‘er another go again since some seemed to like it (by the way, (Lady) Marian’s albino T-Rex character who touched himself still takes the cake).

SO. Get a pencil (or a fountain pen. I know how much you guys love fountain pens.), a rogue sheet of paper and your finest top hat. Tear the paper into seven pieces. On each piece of paper, label them all 1-7. Lob all seven doodads into the hat and shuffle them around. Set your hat to the side and whip out another sheet of paper. Much like you would on a college ruled sheet, go down the lines and list these words and colons:

Hair color:
Eye color:
Flaw:
Perfection:
Occupation:
Favorite past time:
Charlie Sheen trait:

So your object here is to pull a number for each category and see what you come up with. However, you cannot use the same number twice. Say, if you were to pull a 2 from your hat, you’d write it down next to whatever category you’re on and set it to the side. You do this ‘til all of the pieces of paper in your hat have been fished out. Now, some people got lazy here and used a random number generation, but where’s the fun in that?
Have all your numbers for your categories now, right? See whatcha got and tell me.

RESULTS:
Hair color: 1. Brown, 2. Blond, 3. Purple, 4. Red, 5. Blue, 6. Black, 7.  White
Eye color: 1. Blue, 2. Pink, 3. Green, 4. Brown, 5. Hazel, 6. One green-one brown, 7. Black
Flaw: 1. Egocentric, 2. Traitor, 3. Stupidity, 4. Laziness, 5. Licentious, 6. Sarcastic, 7. Drunkard
Perfection: 1. Perfectly Perfect in Every Way, 2. Well balanced, 3. Incorruptible, 4. Alex Pettyfer, 5. Eloquent, 6. Athletic, 7. Has Japanese name
Occupation: 1. Full-time Nerdfighter, 2. Detective, 3. Accountant, 4. Therapist, 5. Writer, 6. Musician, 7. Director
Favorite past time: 1. Air guitaring, 2. Reading, 3. Watching “homemade films”, 4. Video gaming, 5. Getting manipedis, 6. Sketching, 7. Writing
Charlie Sheen trait: 1. Tiger Blood, 2. Power of Mind, 3. Zeal, Focus and Violent Hatred, 4. Winning, Duh, 5. Warlock, 6. Cancer of Happen, 7. No Option of Defeat

So, B&A-ers, go forth, fingers poised over keyboard, and stop asking character interview questions.

MissFit - I come and go · Accepted Answer

Oh cool!  Another character interv... oh.   O_o  Well, I'm already here, so let's give it a try. ;-)

* Hair color: Purple.  (Oh dear.  It can only go downhill from here.)

* Eye color: One green-one brown.  (Geez, I'm a psychic.)

* Flaw: Drunkard.  (So that explains the hair...)

* Perfection: Well balanced.  (Uh... *scratches head*)

* Occupation: Full-time Nerdfighter. (Oh no!  But nerds are fun!  Why would anyone want to fight them? LOL)

* Favorite past time: Video gaming.  (Uh... *scratches head so hard it draws blood*)

* Charlie Sheen Trait (WTF?!): Warlock.  (*cracks skull open with fingernails*)

***EDIT***
Okay... so now I'm supposed to write a blurb based on this character?  *faints*
*comes back to senses*
Right, the blurb!  Wait, I'll need extra help for this.  
*shouting* "Hey Lola, pass the 'stuff', will ya?"
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Oh yeah...*slurry*  So...

Once upon a time in a faraway blogosphere, there was an awesome Nerdfighter called Grace, who was so good at increasing awesome and decreasing suck, that she went by the monicker Amazing Grace.  One of her eyes was sea-green, and the other coffee-brown, which paired with her bright-purple mane made her a very well balanced creature... at least when it came to the color spectrum.

Unfortunately, all the bloggers on that side of the cyberworld were members of the Extreme Non-Christian-Monochromatic Wing, and considered her nickname and colorful appereance to be seriously subversive to their authority.

So one day, Amazing Grace's enemies decided to get rid of her for good: they invited her to a slumber-party video-gaming tequila-night in the Evil Overlord of the Extreme Non-Christian-Monochromatic Bloggers' mansion.  The plan was to get her drunk, tie her up, and drop her into the most hostile, violent place they could find, where she could be lost between flaming, trolling, and editing wars, such as the WikiProject Talk Page.

... but what her enemies didn't know was that Amazing Grace was secretly a warlock, and could read their evil minds...

So when they all got together and played video-games to the exhaustion, Amazing Graze pretended to fall asleep in a drunken haze... and when the Evil Overlord of the Extreme Non-Christian-Monochromatic Bloggers leaped on Amazing Graze to shackle her, she jumped to her feet and rubbed her Troll-like purple mane, out of which came a rain of Happy Bear powder that made all the Extreme Non-Christian-Monochromatic Bloggers fall in a daze of frantic hugging and well-wishing.  With that distraction, Amazing Graze walked out of the Evil Overlord of the Extreme Non-Christian-Monochromatic Bloggers' mansion unscathed.

Sometimes, when the tide of Trackbacks is right, and the amount of Google Friends Connect users online matches the number of Facebook Likes given during the day, a dash of purple, brown and green blurs across the blogosphere, rescuing fellow nerds from the clutches of Evil Blog Overlords.

There! =)

Piccalily Pico Potter · Answer

Hair colour: 7: White

Eye colour: 4: Brown 

Flaw: 5: Licentious

Perfection: 3: Incorruptible 

Occupation: 6: Musician
 
Favourite Pasttime: 2: Reading

Charlie Sheen trait: 1: Tiger blood.

Hmm, interesting :P I keep imagining this person as the White Queen from Alice in Wonderland.

ριcкℓє∂ ємєяαℓ∂ · Answer

I think I love you, Pud. This is awesome.

Hair color: 1. Brown 
Eye color: 3. Green
Flaw: 4. Laziness
Perfection: 7. Has Japanese name
Occupation: 2. Detective
Favorite past time: 6. Sketching
Charlie Sheen trait: 5. Warlock

Hmph.
A lazy warlock detective who likes to sketch and has a Japanese name.
Sounds fairly awesome to me.

? · Answer

I solemnly swear I will give the character interviews a rest for now. And back to the question....

Hair Color: White
Eye Color: Blue
Flaw: Stupidity
Perfection: Perfectly perfect in every way
Occupation: Therapist
Favorite Pasttime: Air guitaring 
Charlie Sheen trait: Tiger Blood

Result:
A white-haired, blue-eyed person who is stupid, but perfectly perfect at the same time. They work as a therapist and likes air guitaring. Their Charlie Sheen trait is Tiger Blood. 

Interesting. ^_o

? · Answer

Ooh, I am loving this! I think it's a little bit better than the interviews. :D

Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black
Flaw: Licentious
Perfection: Perfectly Perfect in Every Way
Occupation: Detective
Favorite past time: Watching "homemade films"
Charlie Sheen trait: Winning, duh

So, my character has black hair, black eyes to match. They're perfectly perfect in every way, which makes their job as a detective so wonderful and easy. However, they're licentious and because of the fact they lack moral restraints, sometimes they end up doing things they shouldn't do. But it's all good. Because they're winning, duh. And they also love watching "homemade films", which may or may not be of themselves. After all, if lack moral and sexual restraints, they're bound to do some sort of harm to others. And the detective work helps cover up any problems they may face. So, it's all good.

Dandy Danduh · Answer

Hey~! I like character interviews... [pout] 
... but I have to say, this sounds fun. :)

Hair color: Blonde
Eye color: Blue
Flaw: Laziness
Perfection: Eloquent
Occupation: Accountant
Favorite past time: Writing
Charlie Sheen trait: Cancer of Happen

So... we have here a lazy, yet eloquent, blonde who's both a writer and an accountant... and their Charlie Sheen trait is Cancer of Happen... o_e
Huh... I'm kinda liking the way this character sounds... ^_^

Hazel · Answer

Hair color: Blue
Eye color: Green
Flaw: Egocentric
Perfection: Well Balanced
Occupation: Director
Favorite past time: Sketching
Charlie Sheen trait: No Option of Defeat

Alright, a green haired, blue eyed egocentric who is a well balanced director who sketches in his fre time and has no option of defeat....
Ok don't know what that last one means. XD

? · Answer

Hair color: Blue
Eye color: One green, one brown
Flaw: Sarcastic (I don't find this a flaw, actually.)
Perfection: Has Japanese name.
Occupation: Musician.
Favorite past-time: Air guitaring.
Charlie Sheen trait: No option of defeat.

Wow. Now THAT bad. :D

? · Answer

Hair: Blond
Eyes: Brown
Flaw: Stupidity
Perfection: Athletic
Occupation: Writer
Favorite pass time: Air guitaring
Charlie Sheen trait: No option of defeat

So I came out with your pretty average blond 
joking joking!!
That was a cool idea! I had fun :)

Anonymous · Answer

Saint's Row 2 has the best customization I've seen in a 360 game. Fallout 3, New Vegas, Mass Effect 1 & 2 and Oblivion have good ones too.

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