Roll a six sided dice twice. Add six to the result.
Do this eight times keeping each result separate.
There are eight characteristics:
STRENGTH
CONSITUTION
SIZE
INTELLIGENCE
POWER
DEXTERITY
CHARISMA
EDUCATION
Now you must place each of the eight dice results against one of the characteristics.
The higher the number the better. The things your character has the highest stat in they will be best at.
You are by the nature of being the main characters in the story, more skilled than most people at some things, the average score for a characteristic would be 9.
From here we can either go into detail of building the character sheets in a session that might take an hour or so or you can provide me with a back story, characters, age, name and gender and I can fill in the game mechanics of the sheet for you. I don't mind which you want to do.
You can invent things for your backstory - eg if you ran with a criminal gang you can make them up etc and they will then be part of the world.
You don't have to be a criminal but for story purposes at the start of the game I want your character to be indebted to a local gangster. That's how the story starts and how your characters are brought together at the start.