What Ethnicty Are Your Characters?

  • the shield.

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    All my characters are Filipino, lol. Well, I have one or two where the main character is Caucasian, but I try to stick to my own ethnicity because it's what I know. I really don't wanna screw up someone's ethnicity or their culture or their beliefs.
    October 22nd, 2010 at 05:56am
  • Famous Friend.

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    They're usually mixed with Caucasian and Mexican because well I'm Mexican, but at the same time I wasn't raised with a Mexican cultural background, or any traditions so it's pretty low key.
    October 22nd, 2010 at 06:59am
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    Most of them are Caucasian, but in my newest one the OFC is Chinese.
    I also wrote a Narnian story for a contest where the OFC was Vietnamese.

    So apparently mine are either Caucasian or Asian XD
    October 23rd, 2010 at 07:12pm
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    I really want to write a Travis McCoy/Ryan Ross, but I'm totally afraid I'll say the wrong thing and end up offending people and sounding like an ignorant asshole.
    January 23rd, 2011 at 05:09am
  • Ayana Sioux

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    To tell you the truth, although most of my characters are black, I have written some characters that are white and it wasn't that bad, actually. I mean, there was a genius white kid and an asshole, and a slut (that was just one story). Another there's a country girl, who's really nice. That's all I got though. Look I'M TRYING! I don't want to come off stereotypical either.
    January 23rd, 2011 at 05:35am
  • bellamy blake

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    The majority of my characters are white, mainly just because I'm ridiculously white XD

    I've written a couple Carlos Pena oneshots, so I'm guessing I can tuck Latino under my belt. I also write a lot of James Maslow stuff, and he's Jewish (I think that counts as an ethnicity...Shifty)

    I don't know, I don't really think about race or ethnicity when it comes to characters; they usually just pop in my head as individuals. I don't really sort through my stories and think "wow, there's way too many white people in this fic, so I have to throw in a black character to even it out." It just is what it is.
    January 23rd, 2011 at 03:34pm
  • Carden.

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    For the first time ever, I'm writing about characters that are a completely different ethnicity than I'm used to. It's a fanfiction based on a French film, so the characters are French. Well, actually, one is Polish. And they're still white, but it's different. And I'm terrified that I'm going to mess something up.
    January 23rd, 2011 at 05:48pm
  • herzschmerz

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    Mine have, so far, all been caucasian, or at least, that's what I imagine them to be, but their ethnicity had never been particularly relevant to the story.
    January 23rd, 2011 at 06:11pm
  • folie a dru.

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    I write fic so I kind of get fucked over in that department. I never mentioned Monroe's ethnicity in Can I Keep You In My Sights because I just... didn't flesh her very well, but I actually sort of imagined her to be this half-Asian girl with a lot of eye make-up.
    January 23rd, 2011 at 06:55pm
  • southpaw

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    The majority of my characters are white, but, as others have said, that's because it's what I already know. I have three characters, though - David, Joey, and Brendan Veins - who are half-Italian on their mom's side. And in the same story series, there's a roadie with some Irish blood in him.

    One of the lead characters in The Mighty Mosh, Riley, is half-black and half-white. I was wary at first with him, since he...doesn't, um...really like being half-black, and that I'd offend people, but it's who he is.

    I'm also in the process of sorta-kinda outlining a story centered around a family with black and Spanish blood in them.
    January 23rd, 2011 at 07:51pm
  • the redhead's cho

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    My original characters tend to be white for a reason that I couldn't tell you. That's just the way that I write though I've trying to branch out lately and add more ethnicities. Like one of my favorite characters Kellan is black
    April 4th, 2011 at 02:26am
  • AHLICE

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    99% white, aside from some black kids in my interracial story, Slur.
    April 4th, 2011 at 12:57pm
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    Most of my characters are white, probably because I am, but I also have a lot of Mexican, or Hispanic in general, characters, and I have some black characters.

    The only ethnicity I've never written is Asian.
    April 4th, 2011 at 01:22pm
  • Kawaii Emotions;

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    I usually write about white people because although I'm black I never really knew how to act it, does that make sense? Recently I've been breaking from that shell and have been being more diverse.
    April 4th, 2011 at 08:27pm
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    Most of my characters are white, but that's most likely because I am. However, my newest series requires the characters to be from pretty much all over Europe, so if you look at it, I have characters who are English, Irish, German, Czech, Lithuanian, Italian, Dutch, one is half Swedish (although that doesn't really come into it) and then there is another section where there are three Americans and one Mexican.
    May 8th, 2011 at 07:11pm
  • Ayana Sioux

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    I usually write about white people because although I'm black I never really knew how to act it, does that make sense? Recently I've been breaking from that shell and have been being more diverse.
    What do you consider acting black?

    Most people on here tend to write about the same race. It's kind of cliche to me to see most of the people on here writing about white people, including the ones who aren't white.
    May 9th, 2011 at 02:11am
  • Your Mom

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    I've noticed that in my more recent works (as in, stuff I was writing back in the summer that I'm too lazy to work on now Mr. Green ), there's always an either major or minor Middle Eastern character. I think that's based off of my Middle Eastern descent and the fact that I can create family/friend characters from personal experience, if you want to call it that.

    If it's a major character in question, then they're more likely to have a similar attitude to me--born to immigrant parents, raised in a totally different society. I guess it's because I find it easier to write stories as spin-offs to my own life or feelings I have. If that makes any sense.. Facepalm Think
    May 11th, 2011 at 02:53am
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    What do you consider acting black?

    Most people on here tend to write about the same race. It's kind of cliche to me to see most of the people on here writing about white people, including the ones who aren't white.
    I think she was referring to the stereotypical black person.

    And that's true, even though I probably do that too. Shifty
    May 11th, 2011 at 02:55am
  • bashful

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    I've never actually specified what ethnicity my characters are - I like to leave whoever reads the story to decide what they want the person to look like themselves.
    May 23rd, 2011 at 09:44pm
  • the redhead's cho

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    I'm kind of excited since one of my new stories, Treasure will have two main characters who are black. Two out of three for me is really good! Considering I pretty much always do white characters for some odd reason >.<
    May 24th, 2011 at 09:46pm