Characters Based on Colors-- What to do?

I'm helping a friend create a story, and she thought of the characters first, all based on colors: Red, Pink (possibly), Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Purple, Black, and White.

Not sure if they should count as gijinkas, or personifications— they are in the college to high school age range, all varying designs and personalities.

Also unsure if this should be a Mundane Fantastic or a High Fantasy, but I vote for the first kind. What we mainly could look for are ideas for a theme, and a goal or struggle for such characters. Your thoughts? Please let me know~

Involved Tropes so far include:

• Color Coded For Your Convinience
• Sentai: A possibility.
• Five-Man Band: Yellow's the heroine, Red's the lancer. The rest is a work in progress.
• Moe Anthropomorphism of colors.
• Anthropomorphic Personification of colors.
• Ambiguous Gender: Purple.
• Mundane Fantastic: A possibility.
• The Libby: Pink.

:< I liek peenk.

AHR And my sister. This is a strange day.

Anyhow, my waning sanity aside, fascinating concept, so are you invoking Chromatic Arrangement as well? Yeay? Neigh?

Interesting choice, a yellow hero, hooray for being unconventional. Red is an interesting lancer choice, mostly becuase I always think red and blue when I think hero and lancer. Perhaps purple would be a good choice for lancer, but to each their own.

Now for these other color coded characters,

• Orange: I'm thinking someone large and hungry and always in yellow or red's way
• Green: either someone who's easily jealous or someone who's sick all the time, or if you want to go weird he could be someone really really healthy and drinks spinach juice
• Blue: Supine
• Indigo: Flamboyant, but not gay.
• Black: Always looking on the bright side of life. Always look on the light side of life. Well it makes sens,e Black is the absorber of all colors.
• White: Shy, quiet, but everywhere, I mean like, everywhere.

edited 12th Jan '11 3:25:09 PM by ACDrawings

Apparently, the zodiac signs have colours associated with them, which gives you a dozen, instant personality archetypes. You could make up your own mythology by associating YMCK with the four humours thereby giving you a custom colour based on the proportion of those 4 personality traits. Or do the same thing with any four colour comic book pallete.

XD I used to play with my crayons like that as a little child.

Red- The Genki Girl heroine. Yellow- Red's (possible) boyfriend; timid Non-Action Guy. Blue- Daredevil cool guy; likes purple. Green- Blue's best friend, like him but more laid-back. Orange - Yellow's little brother. Pink- Red's little sister. Purple- Hangs around Blue and Green; Blue's Love Interest. Black- Morally ambiguous; hardcore. White and Gray- Black's cronies.

I would drag the crayons across paper to mark their paths. XD Path. /. Ah, childhood... . .

It would be interesting if you didn't make their colors an identifier for their personalities. Like, when someone sees Red, they will think "Oh this chick is gonna be energetic/short tempered", but also, don't make it the exact opposite personality, because they will expect that too.

Try to make their personalities subtly reference the color, if ways the reader doesn't expect.