How do you plan your fanbased charries' tastes?

[+Lady Miki+]

When it comes to giving the canon characters tastes in fanfiction,I am someone who prefers to go with what I can see the charries liking or disliking.In other words,figuring out what goes with their personality.Sometimes I give the characters a certain taste because I think it'll be funny.I do not believe in giving the canon characters random tastes,because it may not match the characters' personality.And besides,I don't think it's necessary to do,when the information is in front of my face.

What about you guys?

[Princess Silver]

i think you are right on that point of view, i have my own made up caracter that is silvereyesrose she is very funny and i am still developing some of her clothes and back ground history but aswell as wat she like wat she dont like,

[tanzanite]

For Sub-Culture (which took about 10 years of planning before I actually wrote anything) the personality thing was anything but simple:

I'll take Zoycite for an example.

When I first saw the series, Zoycite appeared to me as an older girl (round her 20's) envolved in a "men's job". Being the only female general and showing some tough attitudes, yet acting incredibly feminine sometimes and in an awesome relationship with Malachite. I liked her taking control of the 'Tuxedo Mask' situation even if Queen Beryl told her not to...

That gave me a tough feminine character, willing to fight for what she wanted and yet devoted to the person she loved.

Then I found out she was a man and all that construction crashed cause all I was left with was a girlie boy, who looked like a lady, acted like a lady and was in love with another guy...

Then I read the manga and found a character who, deep inside, cared about his comrades, yet didn't show it quite often, it was also a character who could act undercover (disguised as a woman... hmmmmmmm) and who showed signs of curiosity.

Then I had this curious girlie boy, who looked like a Lady, acted like a lady, dressed like a lady, was in love with another guy, deep down respected his comrades but wouldn't show it
to save his life... Oh, and had dated Sailor Mercury in his past life...

Then, there was this wonderful game called: "Sailor Moon: Another Story" where you could see Zoisite (it's still a boy up to this point, even if I couldn't stop thinking about a girl) talking with little hearts. Then there's a character who Sailor Mercury meets and is kind of a reference to Zoisite, and he is taking care of his old mother and needs Ami to go find a medicine... Then we see Zoisite again in the Silver Millenium, worried about Endymion going to meet the princess and leaving them on earth...

What I got was a caring, curios, girlie boy, who looks like a lady, dresses like a lady, acts like a lady, talks with little hearts, is in love with another guy, and sometimes shows that he cares for people.

And how can we forgett the fics:
A termperamental Zoisite, in love with Malachite, sometimes un happy with their relationship, always up to something, ever so often with artistic tendancies, crossdressind and most of the time acting completely girlie; also it was a character strong enough to face all kinds of awful fates (I remember this fic with Zoicite infected with AIDS) or willing to change his fate ('Love at second glance' by calicocat, 'Tales of the Dark Kingdom' by Stayka, "The New shinma" and "Birth" by Hiyami)

So I got this temperamental yet strong, curious and caring, girlie boy, who looks like a lady, acts like a lady, dresses like a lady, talks with little hearts, loves another guy but isn't quite happy with their relationship, cares about his comrades evn if they sometimes fight, and is a talented artist.

Then... a conclusion was made:

girlie boy, who looks like a lady, dresses like a lady, acts like a lady, talks with little hearts, is in love with another guy... Might as well be a woman!!!

So we got back to the begining:

tough feminine character, willing to fight for what she wanted and yet devoted to the person she loved.

with all the information gathered before we had a:

Woman in her middle 20's, caring and somehow artistic, yet she knows she is inmersed in a men's world and has gone trough a lot of changes herself so she has to be tough and strong. Is sarcastic and temperamental, takes matters in her own hands, is not affraid to confront her supperiors, is sneaky and knows how to use her feminine charms to manipulate situations.

In turn she's in love with a man, who has his own personality issues (won't analize Malachite right now) and even if their relationship is not perfect she stays with him.

Then for the logistic part:

In the manga is mentioned as the Prince of the European heaven:

Born in Europe.

In "Canadian vacation..." (i can't remember the complete title, but it's written by Lord Azurite) there's a gag involving some croisants....

Born in Erurope... let's make it France...

(I olimpically skipped the Swedish reference from Sailor Moon: Another story, but that's because I prefere French than Swedish for a female Zoycite)

Then we had this French woman, now we need a name:

Taken from "The Venusian Masquerade" by Crescent Star, where Zoycite was called Marianna... That in FRnch gives us Marianne...

Then a last name...

Taken from Camille Claudel, another woman in love with her Menthor...


Voilá
we got:

Marianne Zoycite Claudel
from Dijon (Paris is quite a cliché) France