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RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - No Longer Exists - 04-08-2015
The Captain is nothing like me, with one exception, we're both capable of being verbose. I wrote him intentionally to be nothing like me, but a way for me to express my aptitude for wordsmithing.Â
Oh, and I suppose we have the same attention span cause once I get bored, He gets bored.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Vysce the Lad - 04-08-2015
I like to think of my four characters being the four different parts of me.
Caen is my joy, Juste is my sorrow, Liam is my anger, and Sugin is my curiousity or intellect.
Usually the changes in their personalities from my own are wishes or improvements I wish I could make in my own life... like how Caen's favorite pastime is running, and I don't like running at all irl, but I wish I did. Sugin remembers most of everything he reads and is able to use his knowledge in the field, and I can barely remember anything from my High School classes. Liam like to take apart magitek and figure out how it goes back together, and I can't even put a computer together without a group of people to help out.
I can't rp when I get depressed because it shows in my interactions with people... which is a little sad. I feel that's not uniquely my problem though.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Parvacake - 04-08-2015
It depends. For the most part my characters and I might share a few traits (moreso by coincidence then purpose) but they all have flaws or outstanding characteristics that would make my nose wrinkle if I noticed myself having them or saw someone with them in reality.
For example, Lili and Xelra (my main and my mainalt) share a trait with me: insecurity. With Xelra having it a LOT worse then Lili does and myself having it way less then both of the characters though its still in the back of my mind.
I tend to purposefully go out of my way to make my characters flawed to varying degrees. Whether it be by a shortcoming, a bad habit, some form of ignorance...usually it's something that's the opposite of what I might be comfortable with or agree with on a personal level but makes it interesting to watch a character with it.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Rosamund - 04-08-2015
I don't think I have much of anything in common with Inarah... In fact, some of her traits are the precise opposite of mine. I've had characters in other MMOs which were a lot more like me but decided to get out of my comfort zone in this game. It's been interesting playing her, to say the least!
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Val - 04-08-2015
I'd like to think that most of our characters have at least some part of us in them, no matter how small. As diverse as my characters are, from the spectrum of Val being only in it for himself to Cyrus wanting to do everything in his power to help people and Melfice wanting to just study them in general, there are small quirks and traits that I've given them that I share with them.
As for history, I try to keep my personal life history out of my roleplay, and there are certainly some decisions that my characters make that I wouldn't have done.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Merri - 04-08-2015
There's a few things that Merri and I share in common. Not the least of which is a love of apples. Definitely just sat down at my desk, apple in hand, and went to browse the RPC only to find this thread.
Merri and I love us some apples.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Askier - 04-08-2015
Huh. My characters are all cats. I do not have a tail or kitty ears irl.
Askier had some similarities at first. Then he went insane and that changed.
Jin'li, the emotionless, undead, genocidale valet, is the furthest from myself and I enjoy rping  him the most because he is so amazingly alien to my own brain that I really have to think before each post. Feel I get the best rp out of him.
Ki Grimsong is a back stabbing, money loving asshole. First two parts do not reflect me. But yes, I, like Ki, am  a lovable asshole. Lol
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Qhora Bajihri - 04-08-2015
Qhora takes a side of myself that I hate and extends it into a place that every reasonable person should hate.
Both of us are shy, reticent, cynical, capable of being vicious, losing friends faster than we make them.
Both of us have someone we rely on but hate that we have to rely on someone.
Neither of us mind being alone and find more solace in solitude than company, to a point. We're both perfectly capable of entertaining ourselves almost indefinitely.
We both love to travel and did a lot of it as children. She actually still can. I can't anymore. That's where I get my wish fulfillment in her.
We share some loss.
She's very, very angry. I'm not. At all.
She has a lot of violence in her past. I have zero.
She has severe mommy issues that make her a raging misogynist. I don't. Mostly. Ha! Aww, I made myself sad. /farnsworth
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - D'aito Kuji - 04-08-2015
Aside from both of us having tan skin and black hair, I tried to make D'aito Kuji the least like-me character so far. Â She is not meant to be this mute, shy, wallflower type person like I am. Â She's a brave adventurer who takes her role seriously. Â She has a more naive sense of right & wrong and struggles to deal with some of the grey areas in the game (the exploitation of the Miqo'te in some places, for example). Â I tend to see and think about the grey areas and sometimes lose track of right and wrong.
She's less tolerant of the other races and prefers to be around other Miqo'te or Highlanders. Â But that has more to do with romantic pursuits. Â I'm way more tolerant of others which is a good thing since there's like not very many east asians where I live. Â Besides, I like being tolerant.
D'aito Kuji is a lot less likely to reveal potentially useful facts about herself. Â She keeps her past a secret as she's a runaway from her tribe. Â I have a tendency to reveal the most intimate facts about myself to just about anyone. Â Â
D'aito is also...er...dumber than I am. Â If a plan is excessively complicated, she is far more likely to just decide to jump into the middle of a mob and start swinging her ax around. Â She relies on brute force and since I'm tiny, I have to think more strategically.
The hard part is actually making D'aito more social. Â Since she's driven by me, I have to really push myself to live up to my intention.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Ryanti - 04-09-2015
A lot of RP'ers take the approach of making their characters exactly the opposite of themselves, and yet other RP'ers prefer a more closer-to-self approach.
For myself, I tend to view it as a way an actor would view a role. If you do something like... compare everyone who has played James Bond over the years, it's relatively the same character. But each individual actor adds their own flare to the role. That own flare really has to do with the quality of individuality. They add a little bit of themselves into the role.
I tend to view my relationship of Ryanti as Ryanti being the same man he is right now if anyone else RP'd him. But because I specifically am RP'ing him, I add my own.. flare to it. Just like an actor would a role.
That's how I feel about it, if that makes sense.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Kalooeh - 04-09-2015
Since seems to be mainly personality based for this question, probably the closest character to my own personality is Sam, but most my alts tend to be based of a certain aspect of myself and then added to for depth and to give them their own life.
It keeps them from being too similar but same time can relate to them and helps with putting myself in their shoes.
Quite a few people seem to have issues that I admit that I am like all my characters, even if I'm not exactly or even seem to be very different. Usually because they feel the only way to actually rp a character well and maintain the ooc/ic separation is because
But really it's a common enough thing with acting too. If it's someone else's character you find something about them you can relate to and use it as a base for helping understand the character and motives and for pulling yourself in to character, even with aspects of them that arn't similar to yours.
I grew up with theater stuff and earliest I remember doing things in plays/being in a show is 5 years old and been pretty active in it. I wanted to do professional acting like for movies and things but mom never took me to auditions for those because she didn't want to deal with the typical things of stalking and lack of privacy and everything else negative that comes with getting bigger, more public roles.
Kal is outwardly very confident and sensual, as well as loud and mischievous. Quite a bit of her personality is in a base of what I was like when I was a kid. Not exactly, and I was largely still introverted and not very sexual, but I liked to play tricks on people and was like... a friendly bully that would tease people and friends a lot but usually wasn't malicious about it. She's caring but she can also be very violent and physical too, especially when angry. And when I was a kid my temperament was horrible and I got in a lot of fights.
Dheina is anxiety, simple-mindedness, being emotional, and part of me that really hates people getting hurt, and has issues with feeling useless and tries to hard for people's approval or hurts themselves trying to get something done that they most likely can't because of emotional or physical limitations but doesnt want to disappoint people.
Sam is probably closest in temperament and all to how I am now but is pretty much based on identity confusion and really having no clue what to do with themselves or their life and mostly kind of just wandering around aimlessly until something hits them in the face for what to do with themselves.
Armimi is a more serious character with more interest in science and learning how things work than interactions with people.
Cardea is part of my brain that is pretty much in the gutter and goofy, but also based on a kind of idea I think about for being flirty and also probably based less on a personality trait of myself but more off the black widow seductress types you see enough on tv to figure out the characterization.
And Samhain is more or less off the misanthropic part of me that's also has sociopathic tendencies. Based on the part of me that allowed for the interest in torture devices and methods when I was younger. The part of my thoughts that come up when angry or just tired of people and how the world works and saying fuck people I don't give a shit. That thinks "You got a problem with me, that's your problem".
Honestly I see nothing wrong with people taking parts of themselves and using it as a base concept to expand on and experiment with or create characters. Just because a character is based on something of yourself doesn't mean that character is you or that there's an issue with an ooc/ic separation.
The problem is when you take problems the character has personally. Like if someone's character doesnt like yours, you feel it's a personal attack on yourself by the player (This character hates mine so therefore their player hates me!) and you get angry and you use the character as a mouthpiece for your own feelings towards the other character and their player.
This has been an issue I've seen before where someone has made a number of characters that differ slightly but overall have the same way of thinking and speaking that also matched up with how the person acted oocly. One character of theirs had a problem with mine or they oocly had a problem with me and suddenly all characters would hate mine for the exact reason they oocly hated me/my character and they'd use the same insults and language as they did oocly and would throw fits the same way icly as oocly whenever something didn't go their way.
I have a lot of friends with characters that don't like mine, but we're still friends oocly and have a lot of fun and while the characters don't get along and exhibit traits we have, whether commonly or just on occasion, we recognize that it's character stuff and not personal.... though been times of course with ooc apologizing for their character and saying sorry their person doesn't like mine though they may oocly love mine.
Some of my friend's characters I absolutely adore oocly but they just don't get along with certain characters of mine.
I don't know this may be confusing for what I'm trying to point out here. But basically to me rp is like Improve acting and you can really get in to character and the character could even be near exact to you, and you can really get in to it, but at the end of the day you can recognize that it's not you.
Even if someone decides the best way to do this is to play a character opposite from them, it's still not a guarantee there wont be an ooc/ic issue. It can still affect a person emotionally ooc, and examples of this is like with what happened to Heath Ledger (Even if Heath wasn't actually like the Joker) and more or less the Joker killing him, but that's also a different situation than with rp in an mmo because the computer can help somewhat with separation too as you're not physically putting yourself in character, which actually does affect the level of connection between actor/player and character
And I ended up ranting a bit Sorry D; I'm just kind of passionate about acting and rp
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Melodia - 04-09-2015
Oh for both Ruru and Melodia they share a trait only magnified to become the dominant or leading characteristic.
For example, Ruru's insecurity and loneliness reflect this in my irl persona, though I am nowhere near how Ruru is. I tend to see that trait in Ruru is magnified by circumstances and how he deals with it by growing more insular and dark toward others is not how I am. If Ruru's way of dealing with his loenliness was like me, he'd just be sad and pout. LOL.
Melodia's...uhmm...physical needs... lol....are taken from my own but I play it up for her to almost cartoonish levels and use other elements of her (rash temper, bit of flightiness) to sort of flesh out what in reality is a highly insecure char....damn I made two of them didn't I?
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Meishali - 04-09-2015
We share a birthday and an unhealthy passion for charismatic people, outer beauty and handsome faces in general. Otherwise, minus the highly individualist part, I'm hardly like her, and she's part of the few characters I really can't see myself getting in touch with/enjoying spending time with.
I'm too much of a workaholic. And she's very lazy!
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Clover - 04-09-2015
My characters are always different people, none of them is based on myself. However, like it happens with any stranger I might meet irl, we might have some things in common.
-Clover: We're both dreamy, weird, and antisocial, albeit we're different kinds of antisocial. Out of all the characters I've played in my different roleplays, Clover is the only one who happens to share my asexuality, albeit she also seems to be aromantic while I'm not. She's quite independent and capable of living on her own while I'm the opposite; she loves reading books while I hate them. I love cute Japanese fashion while she dresses normally, and she wears the kind of colours I'd never wear myself (brown!).
-K'mih: We both have positive minds, we both display shy attitudes, and I guess we both like pink *laughs*. Other than that, and despite her occasional shyness, she's a very social and open person while I'm not. She trusts people way easier than I do, she doesn't seem to have personal insecurities while I have tons of them, and she basically belongs to a whole different culture which views I don't share at all.
-K'rahto: We both can be obsessive and jealous, albeit we don't display our emotions the same way. He's also antisocial, but while I still try to be friendly, he doesn't try at all. He likes girls while I like boys *sweatdrops*. Overall, he's really unrelated to me, hahaha.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - K'nahli - 04-09-2015
K'nahli -Â
K'nahli is like me in that she's not overly social. While not shy, she prefers not spend her time around too many people and limits unnecessary interaction with others to an extent. She likes boys while I like girls, but we can both agree that we each like K'rahto. It could also be said that she very heavily relies on the people she shares the strongest relationships with, not unlike myself.
Ah, also we share the really, horrible trait of overanalyzing and obsessing over certain things.
Andre -Â
Andre was raised with good mannerisms and as a result does his best to get along with and be friendly to people. I think I share that in part since, even if I have no interest in talking with or engaging with a stranger at the time, I will anyways - instead of letting them down or making them feel bad(however the circumstances seem to be). Also I can be a bit of a peacekeeper when it comes to conflicts, particularly ones not directly involving myself.
Also, I suppose you could say that we have a similar interest in girls as far as aesthetics go.
Alex -
Alex is always rather stoic and inexpressive and I don't think that there's much that I share with him. I will say that he would be very level-headed even during conflict or when challenged and that tends to be how I react to situations too, with only a few specific type of situations garnering a more emotional response from both of us.
I imagine that were he to find something to put it in, then Alex would also be quite loyal to whatever relationship(platonically speaking) it was that he deemed worthy. I suppose I could say the same for myself(?)
Lulani -
Lulani is more or less an outlet for my own stupidity, so alongside us both being stupid, I'd say that I also share some of his shyness. Aside from that, I could probably say that we can both, at times, fail hard at trying to make a situation better and instead only make it worse when it comes to personal disputes.
Also fixation.
K'tyanu -
I don't know about this character. He's confident and a bit arrogant while I am neither of those things.
All of my characters love or at least like animals. I think that's the one trait that will carry into every single one of my characters.