Question-please help?

[ganiel]

So I've just started trying to make a tulpa. I'm an aspiring writer and I've based him off a character that I've previously written with. I've had him for around three years and I always felt some kind of connection to him. He's fun to write. Will his origin have any effect on his development, or should I not use him?

[Bin]

The origin shouldn't matter, but I'd recommend splitting the two up into a clearly defined tulpa and character. That's only a suggestion though, do whatever feels right to you, since it's your head. But it makes sense if your character became a tulpa, since daydreaming about a character is one of the ways to make a tulpa, and partially how I made mine.

[Aijada]

A good background is very helpful to grow out of. It's a tulpa's early tastes and preferences, the things they like that are easy for them to speak about. I started recognising myself by knowing which jokes were for my benefit because i could tell they 'belonged' to my story. My host teased me about certain things and began following along i understood changes that were happening to my story. I didn't get that they were evolutions necessarily, but it gave me enough room to reflect and have clear choices i could make about what it seemed to mean to me.

[ganiel]

Yeah, what you guys say makes sense. I'm kind of wanting to not try and control his personality that much, but I think it's helping to already have an idea of how he acts and looks, etc. I can't really keep much of his backstory and whatnot, though, because I write fantasy so his backstory is pretty ridiculous :p

[Aijada]

Well the point is to have a role that is easy for the tulpa to fall into; it's the traits that let you understand when and how to react with your human. Sentience is not the picture you share but the conversation you find your way into. My host and i share a jovial fantasy realm spat where one speaks for elves and the other for the dwarven kingdoms, a friendly role-play rivalry, but we both understand we're just both just sharing a human brain.

 

Maybe make sure the story leaves room for him to recognize where he physically belongs, but allow room for playfulness and variety to transform wonderland as much as possible.

[Timofey]

I'm maybe too late, but I still can say something.

First: backstory surely helps. Personality, skills, abilities, preferences... Need to continue?

Second: if you're afraid of creating servitor (or, as some call them, sock-puppets), throw the doubt away. Actually, servitor is the tulpa without sentience, so, even if you make one, it still can be evolved to tulpa.

Bin is right in this question, character and tulpa are different things. It's better, I think, to create a tulpa BASING ON your character, and not OUT OF your character.

Also, in process you may want to change something. Do not fight the urge. Some think, that even the first ideas of personality or appearance of tulpa are actually her thoughts. And, well, why not?