Once upon a time, I was a part of an rp group on DeviantART called Milizia. It was the first rp group I ever joined, and for a while, it became my everything. My character was named Oliver, and while he started out as a pretty average, typical nerd (with half-moon glasses for some reason), he ended up becoming so much more.
He also ended up accumulating one trauma after the other, because every time I saw other members revealing something tragic or sad about their characters backstory, I went "I WANT THE SAD TOO", like fomo, but for character creation. By the time I left the group, he had dead parents, had lost a leg, discovered a sibling he didn't know he had and a ton of other weird shit HAHA.
If I were to create him now, I would remove all of that and just make him a kind nerd again, who joins the military as a medic because he once had the chance to save someone, but failed. His best friend in Milizia was Richard, a character created by another member of the group whom I still remember fondly <3
