Character Profile Template (Updated)

The place to put your character's information.
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Character Profile Template (Updated)

Post: # 3854Post Heart »

Welcome to Character Profiles!

This is the place where you can post detailed biographies about your character in the Toro Region. For those unsure on what to put, there's a basic template below. There is no wrong or right way to fill out a character profile. Eventually these profiles will be looked over by the staff.

Please only use one topic for your character. We don't need one topic for each pixelmon you have.

DO NOT META ANY OF THIS INFORMATION.

You are not allowed to use any characters unless they have been approved! Please try to have patience with us. Wait until at least 48 hours have passed before open a Misc. Staff ticket to ask if there's any updates.

Guidelines
• Please pay attention to the word requisite for the appearance (80+), biography (150+), and personality (150+) section, which we ask for here like we did in the whitelist app. Ideally more! Please put your character's defining backstory moments in your backstory! Stuff like higher education, specialized skills, anything involving crime, anything that may impact the world itself, stuff like that! You don't need to include everything, just stuff we should know. If you do end up wanting to add on more, or want anything funky but not public, please contact a staff and we can work with you!

• Any art used must have credits to the artist. This can be tacked on at the end or right after the piece, but it should be listed somewhere! If it is your art we ask that you include that drew it / credit yourself. If you use toyhou.se, and you've credited the artist on the toyhou.se itself, then that'll work as well as long as you have it linked on your profile! AI generated art should credited as AI Art.

• Everything must be written by yourself- AI Generated Writing is banned! We do not allow profiles written by an AI, and we will be checking profiles for this. We will allow AI as a tool to help people organize thoughts, or get help a little bit with wording and grammar, however it is not acceptable to have it replace yourself as the writer. If you do use it, make sure you rewrite it with your own words in your own writing style.

Example Character Profile below
Feel free to change up the formatting and layout, as long as the necessary info is there ♥

Google Docs can be embedded, as well as Netlify pages. Templates and more information can be found later in the thread if you scroll down.

***To submit it create a new topic in this forum with the character's full name as the title"**

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[b]Minecraft Name: [/b]
[b]Character Name:[/b]
Nicknames:
Age:
Birthday:
Gender:
Status:

[b]Appearance[/b]
Height:
Weight:
Eyes:
Hair:
Skin:
Markings:
Health Issues:
Key Inventory items:
Description: (80 word minimum)

[b]Life Style[/b]
Religion:
Profession(s):
Title(s):

[b]Biography[/b]
Parents:
Siblings:
Children:
Extended Family:
History: (150 word minimum)

[b]Nature[/b]
Personality: (150 word minimum)
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Alignment: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons))
Ambitions:

[b]Pixelmon[/b]
Species:
Nickname:
Gender:
Nature:
History:

[b]Artwork:[/b] (Please include original links)
Have a back-up of your draft or edits before clicking Submit!
We'd recommend writing it or pasting it somewhere else (wordpad, microsoft word, google docs, etc.)! This is because there's been cases of it breaking when posting, and changes not going through or your writing being lost. This can save you the trouble of having to rewrite it again if that happens!
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Re: Character Profiles(Updated)

Post: # 12125Post Rosy »

Some extra notes:
    • If you are rerolling a character, please include if it is a Hard-Reroll, or a Soft-Reroll somewhere!
    Hard-Reroll = We delete your all data. This is best for people who want a fresh start!

    Soft-Reroll = You keep your data, but on the condition your new character will not use any of it / as it belongs to your first character. This is the choice for people who wish to eventually bring back their old character one way or another.

    • Please treat these like a whitelist app!
    As in please do write AT LEAST a quality paragraph for your personality, appearances, and biography. Ideally you should really write more, just fill it right up with details. Can you tell your own life's story with one paragraph? Children characters are not exempt from this rule unless they're actually newborns. Here are some tips:
    You are NOT required to do all of these, they are just helpful suggestions!
    • • Expand upon their childhood & teenage years when applicable. Suggestions for what you can mention is...
      - Specify on where they were born/raised.
      - Social life (Family & Friends)
      - Education (If they haven't had one, expand on that. If they did, mention their school life?)
      - Hobbies or activities they did a lot.
      - If they're a traveler mention what region(s) they've been to and what they did on their travels.

      • For personalities mention parts of their personality that could relate to roleplays / interacting with others- or rather how it might change on circumstances.
      - How do they interact around strangers? How about friends? Do they act different to family members?
      - What things could set them 'over the top'? This doesn't have to be just anger either, what can cause extra excitement or depression?
      - Is there things that can make them uncomfortable enough to make them act different? Something they fear or had bad experiences with?
      - How do they treat or feel about Pixelmon? Do they rely on their Pixelmon more, or they rely on their own strengths?
    • Please no hidden backstories.
    If you wish to bring in a character with amnesia that has a dark backstory, go for it. BUT we require to know about it though, to ensure it does not break any of our rules. If you wish to keep it a secret / off the forums, please let a GM know beforehand, and we will help you with it.
    • A player may only reroll an account once per month.
    To ensure quality in all our characters, please remember our rule, section 2.6, New Character - Replace Existing Character. This not apply if you're using a brand new account.
    • You are allowed to go personalize your profile!
    Come look at some pretty profiles:
    [Kitty's Nalani][KC's Danny][Rosy's Janet][Rosy's Orion]
    You don't need to stick to the form, as long as it presents all information still. Of course the form is still the easiest though.
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Re: Character Profile Template (Updated)

Post: # 13941Post Vernon »

For some extra help, have some questions you can ask yourself while working on a character:

1. Give them fears: What are they afraid of?
  • What past traumas might affect current behavior?
  • What are they irrationally afraid of?
  • What are they secretly afraid of?
  • What are they publicly afraid of?
  • What fears relate to the current problem?
  • What fears are caused by the overall plot problem?
  • What fears draw on Internal conflicts?
2. Give them Prejudices: What makes them angry?
  • What were they taught to dislike or disapprove of as a child?
  • What pushed their buttons?
  • What do they believe that’s wrong?
  • What do they believe that’s not so nice, but accurate?
  • What do they have no tolerance for?
  • What will they fight about?
  • What are they ashamed of?
3. Give them strong traits: What traits do they have that dont always work in their favor?
  • What positive trait could become a flaw in the right situation?
  • What positive trait causes just as many problems as it solves?
  • What trait annoys other characters?
  • What trait might be holding the character back?
  • What trait symbolizes the soul of this character?
4. Things you should know about each of your characters.
  • What would completely break your character?
  • What was the best thing in your character’s life?
  • What was the worst thing in your character’s life?
  • What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?
  • Does your character work so that they can support their hobbies or use their hobbies as a way of filling up the time they aren’t working?
  • What is your character reluctant to tell people?
  • What does your character feel about sex?
  • How many friends does your character have?
  • How many friends does your character want?
  • What would your character make a scene in public about?
  • What would your character give their life for?
  • What are your character’s major flaws?
  • What does your character pretend or try to care about?
  • How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?
  • What is your character afraid of?
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Alternate Character Profile Template

Post: # 14867Post stowaway8888 »

Hello! I figured I'd share this template since it's really nice and expressive. This isn't meant for a replacement for the official template, rather just as an alternative option if you'd like. I've stripped it down so it's easy to add in your own character information from it (credit to Vernon, Chakurano, and Shadex for actually making the template, credit to Azure for the template PFP). Note: Our character profile standards still apply for this template! Five proper sentences per section - like a whitelist app!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iII ... sp=sharing

Along with this, I'm gonna give a few quick tutorials on how to personalize/pretty up your profile. The first thing to teach you is about embedding. Here's a quick tutorial made by Misha on how to do that!
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If you have a certain color you prefer for the document's background, or one that matches your character. For the "largest" background thats outside of EVERYTHING, you click File -> Page Setup. Once at Page Setup, there will be a button for Page Color - that's what you wanna click. For everything INSIDE that outer border, you just click the paint bucket at the top. Note that when you recolor the box behind the character picture, you might need to copy it, delete it, then paste it AFTER the recolor as it can potentially block the format.
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Next, if you want to have a direct link to say a Toyhouse or Imgur gallery for your characters pictures, simply select the link and press Ctrl + K.

Next up are special characters! This is easy - just click Insert on the top bar, then click Special Characters. This is if you wanna change the default squares/arrows around the headers to something more personalized for your character. You have a LOT of options!

The final tutorial will be for replacing images - this is if you don't wanna manually resize any pictures or Pokemon sprites that the default template provides. Simply right-click the image (whether its the PFP or a Pokemon Sprite), then hover over Replace Image. The easiest way to do it is then by clicking Upload from Computer and using a picture saved to your PC, but any of the options should work.

And that's it! Feel free to use this template however you'd like - it's your character profile, too, so don't feel obligated to stick EXACTLY to how it's laid out. You could add a gallery, change one of the sections - whatever you like! If you need any help building your profile, please feel free to ask for assistance in our Tech Support Channel in the Discord! Good luck!
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Re: Alternate Character Profile Template

Post: # 14913Post Rosy »

tl;dr:
file->publish to web-> embed
copy the id:
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and on the forums put it between
[gdoc]IDHERE[/gdoc]
post the thread- and then go back and edit it to add:
[fullwidth=ID][/fullwidth]
right after. but with the ID of the forum post. which you get here:
https://i.imgur.com/mxhdOf8.png

Then all and all it should look like
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Re: Alternate Character Profile Template

Post: # 15299Post Misha »

Hey guys, if you are using the [gdoc] code to embed your doc and [fullwidth] then I recommend adjusting it to use B4 for the paper size otherwise it'll look awkwardly be off to the side! You can do this by clicking File -> Page setup

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If you think there is a bit of blank space on the top you can also adjust the Top Margin to be less and it might help.
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Embedded HTML Profiles

Post: # 16573Post Misha »

Embedding Webpages (Netlify)

You can embed your own custom webpage with all your own custom HTML, CSS, and JS. This can only be done through static pages hosted on Netlify, a static site host!
https://netlify.app/

You'll need your own page coded in pure HTML/CSS/JS. If you made fancy profiles on toyhou.se, you should be okay. With adjustments, the codes you already use for toyhou.se might even work! Of course, this isn't guaranteed regular HTML / CSS is fine.

Rules
- Everything must follow the usual rules. Do not put anything NSFW / overly gory / etc.
- You still need all the relevant character info in order for it to be approved! Biography, Appearance, Personality, etc. If you need a refresher you can find what's needed on the usual Character Profile Template just above
- Important information must be easily accessible for approval! A spoiler on the thread works just fine. Otherwise we ask that the text is easy to read and on the first page, or that the link to it is clear at the very least.
- DO NOT DO LOTS OF BRIGHT AND/OR FLASHING IMAGES! We have epileptic members so BE MINDFUL!
- Autoplay is NOT allowed! Even for chill or quiet music! It's fine if you have music included that's played with a click, but don't have it play on the start.
- If you're using other people's codes, keep credits! Stealing stuff ain't cool.
- Do not abuse this feature or try to get around the rules. Doing so will result in your stuff being removed, or you being banned if it's bad enough.

Embed Code
If you already have an idea on how to use Netlify and have the code- here's the code on how to get it on the forums. I'll also include the code for it to takes up entire post, giving it a bit more room to work with

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[netlify=height][/netlify]
[fullwidth=postnumber][/fullwidth]
• height is how much px tall it should be, should be a plain number like in the example.
• Full Width will hide the sidebar to give your profile more room. To get the postnumber you'll need to make your post first, and then you can see it at the top.
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Example
If your url is https://example-site-98a5w8.netlify.app/, the post number is 3854, and you want it to be 850px tall then you would embed it like this.

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[netlify=850]example-site-98a5w8[/netlify]
[fullwidth=3854][/fullwidth]
How to upload & edit your site
You can refer to the following guides!

Upload
YT Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZ9HSUoTPU

Edit
YT Guide: https://youtu.be/ku6dd8zRvD8?t=72


Free HTML Templates
Here is a list of HTML templates and such! These are specifically intended for static pages, and thus should hopefully work much easier than toyhou.se with less chance of stuff breaking, so I would recommend looking to see if any of these may work first.

[While not all of them might make sense for a character profile, there are some that might, plus it could be good for learning some coding stuff or inspiration anyway!]

5493’s Themes
Almost Sweet’s Layouts
Cepheus’ Layouts
Cinni’s Layouts
Codesharing Layout & Code Directory
CreateBlog’s Website Templates
Eggramen’s Layouts
Fool Lovers Layouts (Use a translator!)
France’s Layouts
HTML5 Templates
Janisites Layouts
Kalechips Layouts
Owl’s F2U Website Templates
Repth’s Layouts
Palemomos
Sadgrl Premade Templates
Templaterr’s Layouts
Teppy’s Layouts
Tess is a Mess
Wasp’s website templates
Wish Glows’ Anime Graphics & Layouts
Xandra’s Layouts

More TBA if I find any!



Using Toyhou.se Codes on Netlify
I quickly put together this little quick resource to give you a template to input your toyhou.se codes! It includes some of the code libraries and style sheets that's used in toyhou.se.

1. Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1srgDOJ ... sp=sharing
2. Go to toyhou.se and get the code you want. Paste it into the index.html where it specifies it in the sheet. It should be between <main> and </main>
- Turn off WYSIWYG if it is on so you actually get the HTML code.
3. Copy and paste any css code into the style.css file.
4. After that you can open the index.html and see how it looks! Adjust if needed.
5. Upload to Netlify.

CODES MAY NOT WORK PROPERLY. Toyhou.se handles stuff differently so things could break! While this is intended as a quick plug-and-play thing, but it isn't applicable for all uses, and some codes will unfortunately just act up more than others.

One of the biggest offenders is font awesome icons. In the HTML codes keep an eye out for the following as they may be broken.
• Codes that look like <i class="far fa-paperclip"> or something similar. If these are broken first try replaying far/fal with fa-solid. If that still does not work you can find alternatives that should hopefully work here: https://fontawesome.com/search?o=r&m=fr ... &f=classic
• If the code does not have </i> afterwards you will want to add that, or it will be open and break all the coding after that.

I'll be adding more tutorials & resources + fixing this post up later!
Will probably split this off onto its own thread when it's written a bit better. Just wanted to get a basic thing out.
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Re: Character Profile Template (Updated)

Post: # 17129Post Misha »

Embedding Caards
You can embed sites made with Caard easily, as long as you publish to the caard.co domain!
https://carrd.co/

Rules
- Everything must follow the usual rules. Do not put anything NSFW / overly gory / etc.
- You still need all the relevant character info in order for it to be approved! Biography, Appearance, Personality, etc. If you need a refresher you can find what's needed on the usual Character Profile Template just above
- Important information must be easily accessible for approval! A spoiler on the thread works just fine. Otherwise we ask that the text is easy to read and on the first page, or that the link to it is clear at the very least.
- DO NOT DO LOTS OF BRIGHT AND/OR FLASHING IMAGES! We have epileptic members so BE MINDFUL!
- Autoplay is NOT allowed! Even for chill or quiet music! It's fine if you have music included that's played with a click, but don't have it play on the start.
- If you're using other people's codes, keep credits! Stealing stuff ain't cool.
- Do not abuse this feature or try to get around the rules. Doing so will result in your stuff being removed, or you being banned if it's bad enough.

Embed Code
If you already have an idea on how to use Netlify and have the code- here's the code on how to get it on the forums. I'll also include the code for it to takes up entire post, giving it a bit more room to work with

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[caard=height][/caard]
[fullwidth=postnumber][/fullwidth]
• height is how much px tall it should be, should be a plain number like in the example.
• Full Width will hide the sidebar to give your profile more room. To get the postnumber you'll need to make your post first, and then you can see it at the top.
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Example
If your url is https://example-4885345.carrd.co/, the post number is 3854, and you want it to be 850px tall then you would embed it like this.

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[caard=850]example-4885345[/caard]
[fullwidth=3854][/fullwidth]
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