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For OCs, I've found well written setting and background sections to be vital to figuring out their personalities. Though there's not necessarily any one right order to figuring this stuff out. I've started out with an idea of their personality and then used background and setting to flesh that out. I've also started with the setting, then threw major life events at them, and figured out how it might've influenced their personalities.

Having a strong sense of your character's place within their setting and how it's affected them is a huge asset to roleplaying any character. Figure out where they live, what kind of place it is, what kinds of problems they would've had to deal with, what kind of upbringing they would've had, stuff like that. Also, any major events (anything affecting the region(s) they lived in) that might've particularly affected them.

Once you have that, look how they reacted to that stuff. What did they do in response? Why did they do that?

Also, background elements specific to your character, such as family. Family's actually a huge one. How did your character's family treat them? What kinds of childhood experiences did they have? How did they react to all those?

Oh, a huge one: what do they want, and how do they go around trying to get it? Strong desires can really help bring a character to life. For extra fun, you can give them contradicting drives. For example, desires for money, love, and a good reputation. When it comes down to conflicts between the three, which ones tend to win out? And how do they feel about it afterwards?

Addenda: strong desires and personality traits can help you play your character such that they'll make choices that'd be inconvenient for them, just for a chance at attaining that desire. It's fun to have your characters screw up sometimes!

For example, having them, in the heat of the moment, pursue their desire for revenge against someone who wronged them, forgetting that said wrongdoer is important to someone your character loves. In a more cool-headed moment, they might not pursuit that revenge!

Alternatively, a character who's less hotblooded might choose to seek revenge in more subtle ways, so that said love won't notice.

That's another thing. People'll react differently depending on the situation. Do consider that. The other responses have some good advice too.

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