describe an unusual and eccentric character
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Yes, that’s a method. I mean, taking something you wouldn’t normally associate with a character. Look around the room, and find something…oh, look, here’s the shaving brush I use to brush the eraser dust off a drawing. Obvious, but Mr. “Only Appearing in This One Scene” can have a glorious full beard and a healthy full head of hair, both carefully groomed.
And I have…harm, what about this drawing compass. Let me introduce you to Sheila, who is sarcastic and prickly with a sharp tongue and has a temper that can snap like a spring.
But really, it usually works the other way. As you are going through life, you run into a wheezing but game old bus, a dependable but boring hammer, taxis that only seem to travel in herds, scattering from certain neighborhoods at any sign of trouble. Objects often have personalities, and of course often remind us of faces or even people:
And then there are real people. I’ve got a character in a scene coming up who is based on a grocery clerk near me. She has a habit which is endearing…and also gives me a hook for my protagonist to do some Deep Thoughts about their own personality and habits.
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I don’t know if this helps, since I’m not adding charactaristics.
The first thing that came to mind is that I would advise you to make this caracter perceive itsélf as normal.
I say this because when you say eccentric, it hints at how the other characters or the reader would perceive him (her/it).
In stories where a character has by example superpowers in a world like ours, the caracter sees hímself as odd/different/special, while his surroundings see him as normal, maybe even dull (think Bruce Wayne).
So make the caracter see itself as normal, and contrast his behaviour/idiosyncrasies, train of thought, emotions, view of the world etcetera with the world around him.
Examples: every caracter from Winnie the Pooh ( Roo and Christopher Robin excluded), Pippi Longstocking, Seymour from a perfect day for bananafish.
I hope this will help you!