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Post by Jingzu Lunaria on Jan 8, 2005 5:40:45 GMT -5
What aspect of you does your character represent, or is your character just an extension of you? All of my characters are a part of my core personality in one way or another, often played to extremes. For example, I would not want to commit genocide. Let me think on a few... Jingzu is my passion. I wanted to make a character who was deeply passionate, and I wanted to show how passion could be a terrible thing when it is about the wrong sort of thing. Through all his posts, I hope to stress that he can go wild at any moment, that he is like a bomb waiting to go off, a person filled with extreme emotion and passion. Velius is my cruelty, my desire to hurt any and all others, and so forth taken to extreme levels. He is also what I am not. When I play him, whatever I would not even consider is his first reaction. He has no boundries in his actions. He will do whatever he deems necessary to achieve his ends, crush as many lives as he has to to get there, and even enjoy the pain he causes others. He serves the object of many of my own nightmares, which I gave the name "Lord of the Dark" or "The Dark Master" for purposes of him being considered a God. Veritas is my respect for the truth, and for the knowledge that leads to said truth. He is the one who will listen to all sides and actually think about the higher meaning of things. In a way, you could also call him my faith. Sat is thoughtful action, with a slight tendency for action without thought from time to time. He is the good man that has a terrible past, and has done things that would make others hate and despise him. In a sense, he is my regret. As well as new hope for the future. Hm... this might be easier with a list. I also work better on direct questions... *Attempts to remember a few others to mention* Taur is a lack of self-esteem, something that is rare for me. Like Jing, he is passionate, but he is also twisted. He is my anger at failure, and the drive to continue because there is no other option. Failure is not acceptable. Though, I also threw in how depressed he gets at large failures. Xeno is my kindness, my need to help others that sometimes surfaces and sometimes does not. He is also the outcast, a trait that I know all too well. He is lonely more than not, and he tends to take care of himself because he doesn't really rely on others. He is unused to doing such. Also, more than any other character I have ever made, more than even Jing or Taur, Xeno is my anger. He is like me in that, if pushed too far, he explodes. Violently, and dangerously. He is the anger I suppress. Kes'stresel... he is loss. He is the madness caused by such loss, the eventual end to the long fall of anger and hate. He is danger, and he is fear. He is also, like all of my characters, tragedy. Kes is also my need to be free. He despises cages of any kind, and walks his own path, no matter where that may lead him. I tend to walk my own path as well.
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Post by Elfhame on Jan 8, 2005 5:55:49 GMT -5
What aspect of you does your character represent, or is your character just an extension of you? He's an extension of me in the way that he would react just like me, but much more amplified, in a way. (And the fact that he's supposed to be smart. )
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Oshii
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Post by Oshii on Jan 8, 2005 7:40:44 GMT -5
What aspect of you does your character represent, or is your character just an extension of you?
Oshii is my love of elegance and simple fighting, a honourable and noble character. She is my wish for a better world, and a less complex society rooted in beauty.
Tohya-san is my girlish expression, with a dark goth overtone. She represents conflict without suffering in my life, and is my expression of music.
Lady Gossow is my love of horses, pure and simple. She represents the level I wish to achieve when I retire and devote myself 100% to breeding and raising jumpers.
Angel is my most complex character. She is borne of my life experience, rooted in pain, and identified by my inability to change the world and do away with greed. She is the extremes in my personality, representing my desires to surpass, and also my frustration at the level of incompetence I find daily.
All of my characters can fight, and are strong willed because of my formal training. This is easier for me to play, as the soft servant is not much too my liking. I enjoy playing free, independant characters, and as such, they are subject to harsher loss than the average character. Just a quirk of mine.
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Kage
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Post by Kage on Jan 8, 2005 7:50:28 GMT -5
What aspect of you does your character represent, or is your character just an extension of you? Kage is my desire to piss Oshii off as much as possible. ...and he is ninja. Need I say more?
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Post by Catriona on Jan 9, 2005 4:14:49 GMT -5
Heh, looks like the thread is semi-popular again. I already answered that question for Trink and Rum, but lessee who else have we got... Elanor... Elanor makes trouble. I'm not as extravert as she is, and not half as daring, but she is having fun without restrictions and limitations and consideration for basically anyone. She's not terribly kind to people she doesn't know, and neither am I really. The difference is I always stay nice and polite while she just openly does whatever it is she feels like doing without caring for what anyone thinks. I wish I was more like that. Eskel is duty. He is the complete opposite of Elanor in many ways. He does his duty to the extreme, and won't back out of his word even if doing what he perceives as his duty means death and damnation. He must do the right thing for his girlfriend and for his siblings- he must keep his word to Jingzu. Wheneven small doubts creep up on him, he feels ashamed for even considering it. I am a very dutiful person, I feel guilty for not doing something I was told to do by parents or teachers, even if I never promised to, don't see the point of it, have a thousand things I'd rather do or have to do, and or completely forgot. It's a pain sometimes. Isolan is the need for freedom, the hated feelings of restriction that I sometimes feel, but she is most of all love, and she is a feeling of loss and missing and not quite being myself, which is probably not too surprising considering I made the first draft of her (at which point I didn't know she was going to be Kes' lover yet) on a two-week internet-less vacation when I was really really missing Jing. Sebrintai is just nasty. She's the kind of evil that does evil for the purposes of doing evil, without any other rhyme or reason. She doesn't plan far ahead, she hardly remembers her past deeds. She isn't so much me as my exercise in evil and a balance to Rumerin. She's his wife and the bane of his existence, though he is much more powerful than she is and in the end is the nastier by far. I suppose that she represents a suppressed urge to do some harm every now and then, when I am feeling two much goody-goody, and yet she is also in a way my stop to evil behaviour- if you ever meet Rumerin, you had better hope Sebrintai is around. Between their bickering, you might get away. Rûn is my pattern of thought. She has very blunt, very sarcastic, very destructive, evil, nasty thoughts, and those are very much mine. Though there is no room for kind thoughts in her head, and believe it or not I do have those sometimes she uses the way I oftentimes comment on people and things and events in my head. And she is a kick ass duel wielding none-too-subtle Yuan-Ti fighter chick who allied herself with the most successful looking powerhouse around and earned herself a toyboy and a shitload of power for it. So I guess she also represents my ambition, in a way. As a sidenote, she possesses six of the seven deadly sins (not sloth). Gotta love her. Charith is the complete opposite. I have neither her straight-forward strength nor her completely and utterly and terribly good heart. Charith cares about anyone but herself. She is a very uncertain person, and very shy, where it concerns herself- that's what I share with her. She is rather clumsy- I share that with her too. But both insecurity and clumsiness disappear when she has a purpose- when she is righting an injustice or standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, the poor, the sick, the young and the old and anyone who needs her, basically. She is by far my best and kindest character and I aspire to be more like her. Phaere, the Eladrin, is in theory as good or more so than Charith, and she was one day, but no longer. Phaere can be a right bitch until you really really need her, when she growls and does anything that's needed and then goes back to being antisocial. She is the experience of loss and she is the aftermath of youthful hubris, which is something I am not well acquinted with, as I am too young for that, really. She is my sort of kindness, I suppose, though I am generally more cheerful in between. She also has my sort of brooding over greater matters, such as life and death and the importance of one's actions and existence, and the gloomy realisation that everything is fleeting. Tirith is who I was as a young child, plain and simple, just the male winged pyromaniac version of it. He, as I, delights in stories, he's greedy and rather kind and always living some story or the other. He has a big mouth until something threatens him, at which point he runs for his mother because he's not all that brave. He can spend hours upon hours playing and never really needs or misses his mother until the shadows in the dark corners of his room scare him in the night. He can't wait till he grows up and is planning great adventures for when it gets to that point.
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Kheris
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Post by Kheris on Dec 10, 2006 0:22:05 GMT -5
What aspect of you does your character represent, or is your character just an extension of you?
Kaitan was an extension of myself for a long time. A little while before he died, I changed very much. He represents what I stupidly fancied myself to be: tortured, mysterious, powerful, tragic, wrathful. He wasn't happy, and he could make the whole world feel it. He never held hope for the future-- the one time he tried to turn everything around, he was cast down. He represents my fear and pathetic self-pity, as well as my strength and loyalty. Though self-absorbed, he is never selfish-- the exact opposite of Maerus.
Devis, early on, took over where Kaitan let off. Perhaps he represented my realization that I cannot be like Kaitan-- he wished to be something that he could not, and wishes to be remembered at any cost. He also represented my rather short-lived and embarrassing musical/lyrical endeavors. Now, he's more balanced and is an rather good, if extreme, barometer of my own mood. He's also a fair bit more interesting to play than many of my characters-- if nothing is going on in Eluria, I can make something happen inside Devis. He represents my emotional weakness-- naive romanticism and theatricality-- as well as my vain attempts at absolute intellectual integrity, stemming from my reading of Nietzsche, though he has been less successful than myself at avoiding self-pity and other deceptions.
Kheris represents some of what I once would have called my better impulses-- honesty, charity, modesty, duty, faith, and compassion. I no longer put quite as much stock into some of these ideas, but they have proven difficult to eradicate or refine. He appears honorable and good, and he is.
Maerus is the product of hours upon hours reading Nietzsche. He is the embodiment of the (my) Will to Power. He represents my selfishness, but he is not overly arrogant; he knows that he is superior to many, but holds no illusions about the rest. When it comes to the bitter end, he will save himself every time. Like me, perhaps.. He represents the emotions that lie beneath my thoughts-- he is, at heart, an passionate being. His rational mind can keep his anger, lust, humor, and joy hidden and under control most of the time, but not always. Therefore, despite his calculating mind, he is never predictable. I love Maerus-- he is a constant battle between the emotional and carnal drives and the intellect.
Toris, like Kheris, appears simple and good, if a bit silly. He, however, runs deeper than Kheris in many ways-- that is, he is not what he appears, while Kheris generally is. He represents my love of beauty.
Jakobim is a good man. He is humble and compassionate, if flighty. He has a surprising lack of respect for life, including his own, perhaps because taking it too seriously would destroy him. He may represent my inability to connect with most people.
Eliana... well, I suppose that we will have to wait and see.
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