Trouble coming up with a character backstory

[Maltese_Falcon91]

It really depends on the type of story you're writing, but in my case, I like to use backstories to flesh out and develop the settings. So, if were writing a story where a particularly nasty bioweapon were to ravage North America sometime in the near future, I would write in a character who had been a victim of that virus or whatever and was being kept alive in a support vat. It can be a useful way of keeping otherwise minor background details in the plot.

[Cephas Zytharros]

When I've got trouble writing a back story, I write the first five lines that come to mind, disjointed or not, and pick my favourite, or go and watch a metric planetload of anime and cartoons and pick bits from different characters.

[scoobydoo753]

Personalities begin in childhood so maybe you could think of writing enough about what her childhood was like and what happened to her that made her who she is now.