please talk to me about original character ideas

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i have a character named fracturedtime (though they go by cronas) and i remember thinking "i want a character who has an absolutely shitty sense of time speaks in third person lmao" and i kind of expanded on that?? before i knew it, i didn't just have a character who was unable to measure time properly, but their entire theme became time. their name, fracturedtime, not only pokes at their inability to understand how time works, but it also could explain why they're so patient as if time doesn't apply to them (because it's fractured. just as you would disregard broken things).
so i got to thinking more and instead of only focusing on time, why not focus on things that occupy time, specifically movements. then i kind of just gravitated towards glitches in videogames and how reality seemed to affect the characters who glitched out in a different way than the character you're playing. cronas never runs anywhere as they always walked. once, they just barely trotted but that was only because someone they knew was hurt. keeping the 'glitching' in mind, i decided to take it a step further and incorporate other things that could happen to malfunctioning characters in a videogame (speaking to someone then suddenly walking away mid-conversation, similar to a cutscreen abruptly glitching and dropping you into the game with half of the backstory and a couple more quirks). they also have the powers invisibility (floating body parts), intangibility (animals getting suck in odd places) and teleportation (following an npc, the game glitches and suddenly they're yards ahead of you) though they have yet to be discovered.
so then! i was like "okay but what kind of cat fuckin,,,, glitches and speaks in third person???" not just any cat. perhaps one that was created, not born. one that lacked being able to socialize from a young age so instead of saying "i" they would say their name. one that lacked a natural birth thus doesn't know the warmth of another and because of this, they don't see the point in any sort of companionship (of course, not having emotions also played a part in this). so i went with that. cronas is the result of government experimentation that got tossed away before they could finish due to being discovered and shut down. and because they were created, they have no soul  (bc hoomans don't have that ability) rendering them an emotionless corpse that just happens to be alive. because they suddenly woke up in this world, they know little to nothing and has a craving for knowledge and an affiliation with food; if they can it it, they will eat it.
a little bit more about their name, 'fracturedtime' is what the corrupt scientist gave them as an official name. however, when speaking about them in the presence of others not in their group, they used 'cronas' (a play on cronus. ya know. the god of time). also, bc cronas is non-binary (though they don't know that yet), 'cronas' has a more masculine touch while it could also be shorted to 'crona' which has a more feminine touch. 'cro' is also an option that sounds masculine, feminine, both and neither.
um,,, soo yeah!! i could go on and on about them but i'mma stop it here lel. thanks for coming to my tedtalk.


i also have a character in the works (cavalrychoir) that's p much a broken sword and shield (one-man-army brute of a dude) looking for a new purpose and possibly a wielder. his previous purpose was to dominate others but he was brought into the light by another, had a revelation, sold his soul and became a demon for an advantage, killed the entirety of his tribe that taught him slaughtering others is alright and is now having an identity crisis. his character is still a p big wip but this is the foundation.