in character vs typical

in character

adj
  • Consistent with one's personality, or the typical behavior one is known for. 

prep
  • Acting as the character, not as oneself. 

typical

adj
  • Capturing the overall sense of a thing. 

  • Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type. 

  • Normal, average; to be expected. 

  • Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon. 

noun
  • Anything that is typical, normal, or standard. 

How often have the words in character and typical occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )