Standard Format for Character Profiles

Insert a portrait of the character here. The standard size is 200px to 450px and the alignment is to the right. However, if the image turns too large with this size, you can use a smaller more appropriate size, instead, and the inverse naturally also holds true.

Take note that the image should be stylistically fitting for the page. It should neither be too diminutive to get a clear view of what the character looks like, or so large that it turns intrusive for the text. The appropriate size tends to vary quite a lot depending on the image design. But if the alignment of the image is to the right, please make sure that its size does not exceed 480px, otherwise it disturbs the formatting of the page viewed from a tablet.

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If you wish, you can place a quote from the character below the header image.

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Summary

This is a summary of your character. It should act as a brief explanation of the core aspects that make your character who they are. Try to focus on only the big details that distinguish your character from others in the verse, and in the greater scope of fiction in general.

Things to consider when writing your character's summary:

Your character's name.

Your character's origin/setting. This can be the verse, as well as where in the verse they specifically come from.

Your character's current role in their setting. Are they the protagonist? An antagonist? Hero? Villain? Are they the member of a team? Are they a mentor? Are they a love interest? You should briefly explain the exact place they have in the verse.

Your character's plans, goals, or motivations. The best characters are usually those that are dynamic and changing, just as we as people are in the real world. They should possess goals for the future, whether that be becoming the king of a country, rebelling against a liege of evil-doers, or even as simple as getting a job they want.

What your character hopes to accomplish. Beyond their goals, what exactly is the point behind it? What do they want to achieve by reaching the goals they have? And why?

What your character is known for. This can be their greatest accomplishments, their unique personality, their abilities, or any other defining aspects that separate them from everyone else.

What your character is capable of. What can your character do with what they possess? This can be related to their unique skills, abilities, or influence.

History (Optional)

A section outlining how your character came to be where they are now. A good history section chronologically orders the main influences and events that lead the character down the path that led to where they are now. All without any bloat. Avoid inserting entire story arcs or extremely comprehensive break downs of every detail, as it could end up doing more harm than good when it comes to reader retention. It should act as a summary that gives the general idea.

Things you could consider when writing your character's history:

Where your character comes from. A lot of who we come to be is often determined by where we started. A person who grows up on a farm is probably going to like animals a lot more than the average person. A person who grows up in a religious household is more likely to pursue that religion for themselves. In many cases, one's starting point is essential in explaining how a character came to be who they are.

Information about your character's lineage. Another important factor are the people surrounding your character, such as their family members. In fiction, it's common to have very exotic families with specific and unique traits that lead to members of said family doing certain things or possessing certain ideals. If your character comes from one said family, it may be useful to include some explanations about them, especially if they are important to the development or influence of your character.

Character's childhood/backstory. Potentially the most important thing when discussing how a person came to be who they are is their overall backstory. How were they raised? Where did they go to school? Did they go to school? If not, what did they do?

How the setting of the verse affected their life. Many characters in fiction come from exotic fantasy or sci-fi settings that may be wildly different from our own universe. It can be important to explain how this led their life to differ from the norm.

Big turning points in your character's life. What caused them to want to pursue the goals they have? What are their biggest accomplishments and how did they come to be? Going over these things in chronological order can be a great way to get a reader invested and attached to your character. Or, it can be a great way to get yourself more familiarized with your own creation.

Important people in your character's life. Does your character have any teachers, mentors, friends, or otherwise important figures that influenced them?

Development of your character's motivations.

Personality (Recommended)

A description of your character's personality, outlining their particular traits and quirks that define how they act and think. A good personality section will leave a reader with a clear understanding of how they act and function.

Things you could consider when writing your character's personality:

Your character's most noticeable traits. Do they have any immediately recognizable quirks? Are they charismatic? Honest? Arrogant? Assertive? Goofy? Any particular speech patterns or ways of speaking that differ from a normal person?

Your character's general attitude towards people. Do they treat people with respect? Are they kind? Are they rude? And what's their thought process behind it?*Your character's motivations. What gets them up in the morning? Is there anything they seek to achieve? Why do they want to achieve it? How does that tie back in to their mentality and overall persona?

Your character's likes and dislikes. What is it they enjoy doing? What do they hate to do? Is there any particular favorite thing of theirs that's defined a lot of their personality?

How your character reacts to different situations. How are they under pressure? What kind of environment do they flourish in? Do they care about how others act towards them?

Your character's general intelligence or intuitiveness. Is your character witty or otherwise exceptionally smart? What is it they're knowledgeably on? Anything that they know that most people wouldn't? Are they a creator or entrepreneur? If so, how does it play a role in their character?

Appearance (Recommended)

A description of your character's appearance. An effective appearance section should be able to explain your character in a way that makes it easy for a reader to visualize them, even if there is no reference images on the page. An image should never be a replacement for an appearance section, even if you have original or official art of the character.

Things you could consider when writing your character's appearance:

Descriptions of your character's facial features. This could be things that are exceptionally defining. Such as the shape and color of their eyes, or any dimples or freckles they may have on their face.

Descriptions of your character's hairstyle, hair color, hair texture, etc.

Description of your character's body, build, skin tone, and etc.

Descriptions of your character's outfit, clothing preferences, how they present themselves, and etc.*Your character's most striking features. This could be tattoos, piercings, a specific accessory, and etc.

Descriptions of your character's aura, voice, and etc.

Relationships (Optional)

A section outlining connections or relationships your character may have with other characters, settings, constructs, ideas, etc. This is where you can go into more detail on a particular person that may be critical to understanding your character further.

Things you could include in your character's connections:

Your character's friendships, partnerships, romances, and other relationships.

Your character's connections with different guilds, parties, companies, etc.

Your character's connections with different concepts.

Your character's connections with their world or setting.

Powers and Stats

Tier: Current Tier of the character (in bold).

Key: For characters who have transformation stages/power-ups or who become stronger through certain points of the story, insert those transformations/power-ups/timelines here in bold.

Name: The character's true name, and/or common name/epithets

Origin: The name of the fiction which the character is from, with a link to the Verse page

Gender: Male, female or genderless

Age: Character's age

Classification: Character's class/race etc.

Powers and Abilities: A list of the character's general abilities (Please add links to the "Powers and Abilities" pages, if it is possible).

Attack Potency: The character's attack power or destructive capacity (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Speed: It is generally "Combat Speed" (in bold)

Lifting Strength: The weight the character can lift/move, usually expressed in tons. However it is optional since lifting strength generally doesn't matter in most fights (in bold).

Striking Strength: The attack power of the character's physical attacks/blows (in bold).

Durability: The amount of attack power the character can withstand before being overwhelmed (in bold).

Stamina: Self-explanatory

Range: The distance the character's attacks/abilities can cover.

Standard Equipment: Things a character can be expected to have on hand at any given time.

Optional Equipment: Things that the character has owned or made usage of before for an extended period of time, but does not always have available on their person.
Can Create/Summon: Important/relevant things that the character can create or summon.

Intelligence: Self-explanatory

Standard Tactics: The usual behaviour exhibited by a character during battles. For example, which actions a character will first perform when fighting an unknown opponent or which abilities they will use frequently, rarely, or never. This section is optional and should not be added if the character's behaviour is too inconsistent to identify a common pattern.

Weaknesses: Self-explanatory

Feats: List all of the character's amazing feats. Strength feats, speed feats, durability feats, etc. You can judge a person's power by their feats.

Notable Attacks/Techniques: A list of some abilities the character generally uses.

Note: Self-explanatory

Explanations (Optional)

This section can be used to explain the reasons for the assigned power level of a certain character more in-depth, as well as how the powers and nature of the character fundamentally work. This is particularly useful for more high-tiered characters.

However, it is very important that you make sure that the text has good grammar/sentence structure, and is easy to understand.

Gallery

Put other pictures of the character here.

Click here for an explanation page about gallery settings.

Also, preferably include hideaddbutton="true" in the code (<gallery hideaddbutton="true"> </gallery>) for a cleaner visual layout.

Notable Matchups

Victories:

Put some notable/good matches that result in the character's victory.

Losses:

Put some notable/good matches that result in the character's loss.

Inconclusive Matches:

Put some notable/good matches with the results still unclear.

References (Optional)

This is a section where the source references can be shown. To use them, switch to the source editor in the "Preferred editor" menu, if you haven't done so, and add some text to the profile between the <ref> and </ref> tags. It will appear in this section if the <references /> tag is inserted here at the beginning. Note that references will automatically show up in a list.

If multiple pieces of text should refer to the same source, then the reference's code should be modified to <ref name="name">Reference text</ref> to allow multiple uses. Then the named reference can be used later as just <ref name="name" />. Here is an example of how to properly insert references into pages.

If you use many references within a single page, you can use the code {{reflist|2}} for 2 columns of them, so the layout looks better.

Read this guide if you want an extended knowledge on how to use references.

Additional information

It is encouraged to make blog or sandbox drafts of profiles before actually publishing them. You can access your sandbox by following this link. This way you can clean up and perfect the profiles before their publication.

Don't sacrifice any details for the reading convenience. Try to get the information across in the most efficient manner. If you don't manage to come up with a short explanation, then stick to a longer one.

Kindly utilize source mode editing. You can change this to your default editing mode in the preferences settings.

If the Powers and Abilities section of a profile becomes extremely lengthy due to a massive amount of abilities, you should use tabbers to divide them into categories. In case of a character with multiple keys the abilities must be grouped into tabbers that are named after respective keys.
If the character has a key that directly inherits the previous key's abilities, the list of them should be shortened to phrase "All prior abilities" or "All former abilities".

Don't use overly long explanations in the Powers and Abilities section. Instead, move them into the Notable Attacks/Techniques or Explanations section.

If the list of feats goes way too long to fit into the page, make the list collapsible by transforming its code into this form:

'''[[Feats]]:''' <div class="mw-customtoggle-Feats wikia-menu-button">Hide/Show</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-Feats">
* Insert first feat
* Insert second feat
* Insert third feat
* Insert nth feat
</div>

See how this works in practice:
Feats:
Hide/Show
- Insert first feat
- Insert second feat
- Insert third feat
- Insert nth feat

Put resistances at the end of the Powers and Abilities section, separating the main list of abilities from the resistances by starting a new sentence. The following template is preferred to be used:
Powers and Abilities: List of abilities. Resistance to: list of resistible powers.

When it is possible, organize the Notable Attacks/Techniques section by grouping elements into subsections.

You can overview this blog, or the image at the top of this page, to observe the actual code regarding how to properly write profile pages with this editor.

When images of what a character looks like are available, you can upload them here, and insert them at the top of the related profile page. Take note that it is better to not use generic file names, as regular members cannot replace existing images.

You can also automatically insert much of the structure listed above into a new profile page if you click the "Create a new article" button, and then select "Standard layout".

Previously we used "thumb" as a standard format for images. However, unlike "right", it does not allow them to be resized beyond the resolution of the original.
- Example: If the settings for an image has been set to 400px when the original image is 250px in size, the image will be displayed as its original size of 250px despite how large the image has been adjusted to be.

Important Note

You do not have to follow this exact format.

Various pages on this wiki use many different variations of this format; feel free to use other pages as reference for what you want your page to look like, or go with what you want. Not necessarily everything may be allowed - some things may be just eye searing, non-functional, or otherwise poor quality when combined with grammar issues - but feel free to experiment. Some pages even eschew tiering altogether to focus on personality and backstory more instead. This is fine.

This goes for all page types.