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RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Temmi - 04-09-2015
My character, Temariah Dawnsong, has a few similarities, and a whole slew of differences. I find that a lot of the similarities are caused by different things though!
Temariah has a hard time getting close to people, because she doesn't want to be close to people.Â
I have a hard time getting close to people because I'm still changing so much year to year due to frequently moving and changing my views.
Temariah likes watermelon and sangria...
I like watermelon and sangria.
Temariah is a cool, distant professional, especially when it comes to tending someone's wounds.
I consider myself to be charismatic, cheerful, and nosy!
Temariah is tall, lithe and blond...
I am... short and brunette.
I'm very much a believer in the concept of your culture and upbringing having the biggest impact on a person, even in fantasy, so it's kind of difficult for me to recognize similarities these characters may have with people in the real world. This was a very interesting thought experiment for me because of that!
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - SicketySix - 04-09-2015
This is all very interesting, almost like getting to know each others characters, and the person behind them at the same time.
I, too, have characters that I've created to be complete opposites of me, but somehow, they all seem to share a fee likenesses to myself.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - ArmachiA - 04-09-2015
I honestly think it's impossible to make a character completely opposite of you. Not because someone couldn't play one but EVENTUALLY a well rounded, three dimensional character is going to end up sharing a similarity somehow. It's inevitable. Just like real life, you stick around someone long enough you'll eventually find something the two of you agree on.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Renata Lynn - 04-13-2015
I like this idea!
Eorla Brynn
IC: Kind, bleeding heart, strong morals
OOC: Pretty much the same
IC: Shy, backwards, awkward, bashful
OOC: I'm sociable enough, but when I've had enough, I just want to be left the hell alone.
IC: Only swears when enraged beyond belief.
OOC: Only swears on days ending in "Y", between the hours of 12am - 11:59pm.
OOC: Pretty much the same
IC: Shy, backwards, awkward, bashful
OOC: I'm sociable enough, but when I've had enough, I just want to be left the hell alone.
IC: Only swears when enraged beyond belief.
OOC: Only swears on days ending in "Y", between the hours of 12am - 11:59pm.
IC: Insecure, quick to blame herself for everything
OOC: Yeah.
Eorla has many of my issues and baggage, but where I will swallow it until it eats me alive, Eorla accepts those flaws as a part of her. I've learned to 'cope' with my baggage, Eorla is learning to live with hers. We are both prone to fits of brooding moodiness, but again, we handle those things much differently.Â
Eorla, in some aspects, is a manifestation of the way I wish I could live my life, or could have lived my life had life not happened as it did. Eorla, at the time of this particular post right meow, was only recently de-virginized by her soulmate. Yeah, the one that split after the disaster of a Haukke run. I don't know what it would have been like to willingly give up my v-card, no matter how much I might say that it doesn't count, truth is, it did count, and it's just something I'll never experience.Â
Eorla's current foray into the darker elements is but a walk along where ocean meets sand, and it is a growth experience for her. She's going to question her morals, her beliefs, and almost everything she stands for, but she'll pull through it and be better for it...and maybe that's why I truly love her so much. She's not me. But she has had a few similar experiences, and we share a lot of common faults...she's not perfect, but she is far stronger than I ever was, and while she's no Mary Sue, I admire the evidence of strength and endurance in her life where there is but failure and sorrow in my own.
OOC: Yeah.
Eorla has many of my issues and baggage, but where I will swallow it until it eats me alive, Eorla accepts those flaws as a part of her. I've learned to 'cope' with my baggage, Eorla is learning to live with hers. We are both prone to fits of brooding moodiness, but again, we handle those things much differently.Â
Eorla, in some aspects, is a manifestation of the way I wish I could live my life, or could have lived my life had life not happened as it did. Eorla, at the time of this particular post right meow, was only recently de-virginized by her soulmate. Yeah, the one that split after the disaster of a Haukke run. I don't know what it would have been like to willingly give up my v-card, no matter how much I might say that it doesn't count, truth is, it did count, and it's just something I'll never experience.Â
Eorla's current foray into the darker elements is but a walk along where ocean meets sand, and it is a growth experience for her. She's going to question her morals, her beliefs, and almost everything she stands for, but she'll pull through it and be better for it...and maybe that's why I truly love her so much. She's not me. But she has had a few similar experiences, and we share a lot of common faults...she's not perfect, but she is far stronger than I ever was, and while she's no Mary Sue, I admire the evidence of strength and endurance in her life where there is but failure and sorrow in my own.
RE: How does your RL reflect into your character? - Zyrusticae - 04-13-2015
Physically, she's a lot like me. Skinny to the point of having higher-than-normal muscle definition (but she's bulkier than me, for very obvious reasons). Same skin tone, hair color, and eye color. Some SEA features, especially her eyes. She is quite a bit shorter than I am, however. Also more feminine (but still genderqueer), though that's more a limitation of the character creator than anything else (yes, that goes for RL too - oh, how I would love to be able to create my own body...)
Mentally, however, she's the opposite in many ways. She's FAR more social, despite being about as introverted as I am. She has considerably more confidence, possesses great martial skill where I have none, has very little shame where my own embarrassment tends to be crippling, and is far more likely to provoke people intentionally, often for the fun of it. To be honest... she's a lot of what I would like to be, though naturally there are some qualities that I would leave given the option.
Oh, she's also a lot less empathetic than I am. I'm a regular bleeding heart. She's more (much more) likely to turn the other cheek than aid someone in need. Part of it is undoubtedly due to exposure - she sees a lot more terrible shit on a regular basis up-close-and-personal than I do, after all, and so much exposure to that sort of thing inevitably produces desensitization unless you have unlimited resources and the ability to fix problems at the root (which she does not).
Qualities we share? Well... our views on sex, and our views on property are pretty much the same. That's probably not a good thing to admit given the kinds of things she gets up to, but that's how it is. There's not much beyond that that I can really think of. Quite a wide gulf between our personalities, I would say.
