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Best thing to do to start with is to go through and consider what we know about the character. Write down all the facts that you have if that helps. Then look at those facts and figure out things you can infer from them.

For instance, let's say your minor character is a scientist. That already gives some ideas of what their life was like, for instance it would be reasonable to assume they were well-educated and won some science fairs as a kid.

Do research on their profession, keep an eye out on their canon for what things are like where they live and work. Also keep an eye out on their personality and remember that people act like they do for a reason. A weird quirk could be a clue on something in their backstory and help you with some headcanon.

So basically what you want to do is take the facts that you have and extrapolate on why the character would do that stuff or act that way? And keep in mind that their backstory is likely more on the normal and boring side with maybe some accomplishments to make them important enough to be a part of the story as a minor character rather than one of the nameless masses. Use that stuff to flesh them out and make them a person rather than a plot device.

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