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WoF character creator!

Close your eyes. Run your hand along your bookshelf, then stop at a random point. Open your eyes. The book your hand is resting on is the one you chose.  (Pick different books for each category below. If you have a repeat, just pick again.)

Inspired by Tealeaf’s song-based OC creator! Check it out, it’s super awesome. 

Book 1: Open your book to a random page and look at the page number. The last number is your character’s tribe. 1=IceWing, 2=SkyWing, 3=NightWing, 4=SandWing, 5=MudWing, 6=SeaWing, 7=RainWing, 8=SilkWing, 9=LeafWing, 0=HiveWing. Bonus: if the number you chose is only 2 digits, your character is a hybrid between those 2 tribes! (For example, if I flipped to page 82, my character would be a Silk-Sky hybrid.)

Book 2: Read the blurb on the back of the book/the inside flap. The first word you come to that is a suitable name for your character’s tribe is your character’s name! (For example, I could use the word Summer, but I wouldn’t use the word Scooping. If you can’t find a good name you can read the book until you find one.)

Books 3-4-5: What are the authors’ names? Create an anagram of each— you don’t need to use all the letters—  and those describe your character’s hobby. (For example, I found the anagrams sled, dear, and role, so Summer might like to play in the snow, write letters, and act.) 

Book 6: Read just far enough for three characters to have been introduced. The third character’s gender is also your character’s gender. (For example, the third character introduced in this book is male, so Summer uses he/him pronouns.)

Book 7: Read the author’s bio, and there’s your character’s family. (If you can’t find it in the author bio, sometimes the acknowledgements will include info about the author’s family.) (For example,  Summer lives with his grandfather, cousin, and older brother. This isn’t all of the author’s family— I assume— but no other information is given so that’s who I’m including.) 

Book 8: The first sentence of your book describes your character’s personality. (For example, the first sentence of this book is “Genie stood a few feet away from Samantha’s shabby old doghouse, scribbling a mess of words in his notebook.” so I’d say Summer tries to be organized but rarely succeeds, and doesn’t care much about his appearance.)

Book 9: This book has to be a book you’ve read, because you need to find the theme. (For those who don’t know what a theme is, it’s a message or a moral of a book.) The theme of your book is your character’s motto. (This was actually hard for me because I’m terrible at finding themes but I’m going to say it’s “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”)

Book 10: Look at the cover. Pick the colors that fit in most with your character’s tribe color scheme, and that’s the color of your character’s scales. (For example, Summer is blue-green with brown accents.)

I hope you enjoyed this! I only actually used one book for the examples (As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds) but I’ll probably do this the real way soon enough