drakensis Wrote:So for example, I need a naval officer to command a battle. I thinly base him off Benjamin Sisko from Deep Space 9.
But then how do you know how Ben Sisko would react in a given situation, except that it literally shows up in an episode of DS9. How do you figure out the question "what would Sisko do?"
LilFluff Wrote:You might try looking at established sets of characters and ask what would happen if you put them in different situations. Not necessarily writing an actual fanfic, just asking, "Okay, each of the characters in Stargate SG1 wakes up finding a dead body in their room. What do they do? Why?What do they do that's the same as each other, what's different? What's something each character would notice that's different from the others?"
Apparently I'm not being clear enough. I don't know how to answer those questions. What I'm asking is how you do so. Like "Jack O'Neill wakes up with a dead body in his room; what does he do?" How do I go about figuring out the answer to that question? How do I figure out "what would Jack O'Neill do?"
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