The phrase 'take on character' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe how a person or situation has changed or developed a particular character. For example, "The group took on a competitive character when the game got more difficult."
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices.
As they age, tequilas become more mellow and take on character from the wood.
When he dropped his classical roles to take on character parts, he shocked his fans but rewarded them with his usual immersion in a role.
The health system was designed as a more realistic take on character injury than other games of its genre in that different wounds, including poisoning and bleeding, require different remedies, such as a splint for a broken leg.
The actors, several of whom play Brecht himself at various times, and at others take on characters he created, evince their admiration for the man far more effectively than they bring him to life.
Visitors to a chat room set up with this Microsoft software can take on characters to represent themselves from a menu that includes Barbie dolls, wizards and bulldogs.
If you're really ambitious, you can even host mystery parties where your guests take on characters and solve a crime.
Tilefish, initially innocuous, takes on character when dipped into the bacon broth it comes half-submerged in.
White rémoulade is more French than Creole and a little more like tartar sauce, based on mayonnaise that takes on character with chopped pickles, capers, anchovy paste and maybe a little white vinegar.
It's something that you wear over time and that moulds to your body and takes on character," says Kara Nicholas, from historic denim manufacturer Cone Denim.
But it's a brave, foolhardy – perhaps money-grubbing – author who takes on characters with a huge global following, and tries to craft a sequel to another writer's great work.
