Making a nude character, need help
Hi, so I'm trying to create a character that is either fully to partially nude and I'm trying to think of a logical reason for them to stay that way, but not one that makes it a preference, recommendation, or lifestyle. I want to make it so they're like that, like it or not (although I'll make it so they don't mind), but I think of any reasons. Anyone able to help?
Take a look at the Paul Morrissey film "Trash" from 1970, and the rest of Joe Dalessandro's ouevre. (What a grand word for it :) He's naked nearly all the time, but, as you say, without being a nudist.
Nudists will sometimes go out of our way to be naked; you need to find times / occasions when it's actually more sensible to do without clothes than to wear them. You might scan the "things to do naked" posts for ideas. What's needed is a character that's rather indifferent to nudity, and doesn't reflexively dress just to be dressed.
Some ideas:
It's common to sleep naked, and to be naked around the house late evening / early morning. It's almost universal to be naked for bathing, drying off, etc - so you can frame much of your at-home scenes around those activities. It's common to be naked around water, wherever - hot tubs, pools, beaches, either because it's locally customary or because it's spontaneous, and you can't swim in your clothes or you don't want to get your clothes wet. (Which also applies to heavy rain.) Doing laundry, if you don't have a lot of clothes. And of course locker rooms, camping-out situations, sunbathing. Art modeling. Yoga. Religious asceticism. Working in mud, or in other circumstances where clothing will bog you down. Squeezing through tight holes or being in tight spaces (which is why one is naked in an igloo.)
Be aware, as you develop your character, that people move differently with and without clothes, and that those differences are individual and revealing. The most obvious thing of course is that people may be self-conscious and concerned (in either direction) about any sexual implications of the nudity. But there's lots of subtler stuff. Our body language changes, or is understood differently, in and out of clothes (or for that matter when we change from a tux to overalls.) Stride and posture will change. Levels of touch and eye contact will change.
Just as an example, I know that my stride, naked, is a bit more bent-kneed and fluid; in pants I have more of mental model that my legs are two sticks, and my footsteps are heavier. I stand a little taller with my shirt off. I make more eye contact naked. I touch much less, although I've been consciously working on that one, because I consider it a failing. I seldom sit spread-eagled, although I'm comfortable doing that in pants. And every one of those differences, as the forum's psychologists will note, tells you something.
Hi, so I'm trying to create a character that is eitherfully to partially nude and I'm trying to think of a logical reasonfor them to stay that way, but not one that makes it a preference,recommendation, or lifestyle. I want to make it so they're likethat, like it or not (although I'll make it so they don't mind),but I think of any reasons. Anyone able to help?
May I ask what this character is for?
There are dozens ofcartoon characters without pants.
Is the character a human
being?
Is the character male or female?
I do not understand what
you need!
I remember a lady adventurer sailor from the 80s / 90s who used to do those long solo journeys, she was being interviewed on the Tv (plugging her book) she said she often sailed nude especially in stormy weather as it's easier to dry skin than clothes.
Her book also contained pictures of her on her trips... The nudity, I'm sure helped sales.
Hi, so I'm trying to create a character that is eitherfully to partially nude and I'm trying to think of a logical reasonfor them to stay that way, but not one that makes it a preference,recommendation, or lifestyle. I want to make it so they're likethat, like it or not (although I'll make it so they don't mind),but I think of any reasons. Anyone able to help?
May I ask what this character is for?
There are dozens ofcartoon characters without pants.
Is the character a human
being?
Is the character male or female?
I do not understand what
you need!
Oh, right, that would probably help. My bad. Well, at first I wanted it to be for a roleplay (rp) chat, but I decided to just use it for a comic instead. I'm thinking of making the comic one of the things. A superhero story with a hidden message about acceptance and not giving up, a fantasy story about a mage and his magic cat, or a simple comic adaptation of a playthrough of a pokemon game.
If you are going the superhero route you could draw inspiration from Dr. Manhattan of the Watchman, who is nude much of the time. Also Mystique from the X-men is basically nude unless she transforms into someone with clothes. So you could make that person actually suffer pain from being transformed so that being nude would be the desired state.
You could also go with the more basic character from another world where clothing does not exist so much, like the residents of Mars in Edgar Rice Burroughs novels of Mars.
You could give someone a rare skin condition where anything that touches their skin for any length of time causes them great discomfort.
Lots of options
Y'know, that's not a bad point. I mean, the whole transforming rips off the clothes thing and too long causes pain stuff is a little overdone, but it makes a lot of sense. But I think I'm actually liking the Manhattan way of doing it, being some energized human. I could make it so they absorb light around them and, if they happen to be covered up, can't absorb as much if any light and will grow immensely tired and weak over time.
Also gave me another idea with the shapeshifting point. There was a movie idea I always wanted to turn into reality. It's about a boy who lives on a military base in a forest and, one day, some soldiers are hunting a horse sized wolf and lose sight of it. A few days later, they make the boy go to a little bunker in the forest to put new supplies in there and clean it even though its never used, on his way he encounters an unconscious naked man with bullet wounds. The idea was over time he would befriend this man and help him and eventually discover he's the wolf but the soldiers are actually the bad guys. Anyway, the idea was that I could use this movie idea and turn it into a comic, maybe even give the kid a red hoodie to make him Red Riding Hood, and when the guy transforms, everything tears due to the immense size change.
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