Character Psychology, Archtypes, Sterotypes and mental disorders.

As I dwell more and more upon it, mostly cause my teachers bring it up more and more. I need to start examining the character psychology and behavioral patterns in people to better flesh and bring out my characters. I could always defend myself with the argument that everyone is different and we handle things different to everyone else. But for the most part we are still human and some of us are still going to take things in a specific way depending on upbringing and certain scenarios or events.

To give an idea as to how it may benefit me is my character Mika.

Mika has been blind since she was born as the closest relationship she has had is with her twin sister, her mother and father, the only real friend she has ever made was Bianca and even then it was a spur of events that made that happen. But to put it frank, Mika has always had a wall up, never wiling to try and make friends, but when her Father died the wall became solid and enclosed Mika around the only few people she had left, never wanting to expand on the people she knew.

NOW!, while it obvious in my comic Mika's wall will degrade and she will clearly start to be able to make friends, will she be hesitant to certain people compared to others? How will she react to news of other peoples fathers and would she be one to accept a new father figure into her life?

Nothing is really sure. Other things I'd probably like to explore are stereotypes and archetypes, seeing if there any I can add or subtract from my roaster of character to help build the story up. As I've learned in the past if two characters just aren't working, sometimes it helps to make them the same character or to event characters to serve a particular ideal or thought if none of the current characters would seem right to fill that position.

And finally, psychical and mental disorders and challenges. Many of characters suffer from them, so I need to do my best to portray them correctly and no offensively as I want people to take away from this a healthy idea of issues that plague my characters and never colour someones opinion of a whole group of people.