the process itself is called "characterization".
They use words that you can connect to. And you can visualize it
Showing instead of telling is indirect characterization. You can show by their dialogue, by their actions, or by their thoughts and feelings.
Characters seem real when they are like real people. They should have personalities, traits, mannerisms, and thoughts and feelings that real people should have.
Characterization
Dialogue
The backstory is the story of what happened to the character before the story began -- it fills in the past and makes the character seem more real to the readers (or audience of a play or movie).
The Lovely Bones is based on a real story. The name of the character is not real, but the story is.
A yarn.
A theme that a character makes in a story.
Great characters are those that are totally realistic and believable, that readers can identify with and feel as though they're real people.
In order to be a story character, a person or thing must have things happen to them, and must be essential to the story.
No, he was a character in Homer's story the "Odyssey".
There is no "Tubby" in the Peter Pan story. There is a character (one of the Lost Boys) called "Cubby" in Disney's adaptation of the story, but the character's real name is "Curly".
Characterization
Peter Pan is a fictional character in a story. He doesn’t have a real identity.
It makes the story feel as if it is happening in real time.
Pi Patel is a fictional character created by author Yann Martel for the novel "Life of Pi." The character and his story are not based on a real person.