User blog comment:Sonicsilva1/RL/Character Update: Day 4/@comment-4546539-20170607031734/@comment-4546539-20170608005901

It's perfectly fine. The first step for every character is defining the character.. How the character acts/feels/thinks around strangers, friends, love interests, when alone, and when they are idle (idle meaning how they are on a standard day when nothing crazy is going on); You also have to know WHY they act that way (is it based of an experience or lack there of, or is it just how always have been?) Do not try to rush this step; when I did this for my characters it took me months to fully define them.

Once that has been determined, whenever you do things like roleplays or write stories about them, you need to keep them in character. This is, in my opinion the biggest issue people can have with characters. If they go out of character, it can cause things like mood whiplash.

Now onto making everyone happy, it's honestly impossible. you can't make everyone happy; there will always be that one person who won't be particularly happy with a character. However, it is very possible to make most people, including yourself, happy. you can do this by usually, as you wanted to do, making an easily understable and well polished character.