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John Spiegel · **02-27-2014, 10:06 PM**

John Spiegel is an adaptation and reimaging of the FFXI character I RP'd. He's a highlander whose birthname is Jnsyn Silversheath but he goes by John Spiegel (as well as other names really). The character was my first attempt at RP, back in XI I was fresh-faced with anime and took attributes from Spike from Cowboy Bebop (namely the name and his playful nature) and mannerisms from Vash from Trigun. It's a little blurry back then but suffice to say it was a rocky road the first months as I was rough around the edges.

Through the years back in XI, JJ grew to be a rather complicated character. But still a goofy son of a bitch. The character grew as I went through my lovely teenage years. I came to find out how I RP JJ's fighting nature to be similar to that of Guts from Berserker.

In XIV, now that I'm older and matured, I took what JJ was at the core and adapted it XIV. He's an outwardly goofy bastard that talks a lot (about nothing, really) and keeps a lot of things close to the vest... things he doesn't even tell his children or even his now deceased wife. He's in his 50s and has been fighting his whole life, his body shows this with scars. His vitality is near infinite, he's always on go and full of life. In XI, JJ was a Musketeer/adventurer/madman. In XIV he holds no national alliances and distrusts government to do things.. he frequently probably breaks laws to achieve justice. JJ don't care. JJ don't give a #*%@. He seeks no reward or glory. JJ just does.

Alex and Grace are the adult versions of the babies JJ fathered back in XI. In XI, their mother was a monk. I adapted that to XIV as her being a Fist of Rhaglr and her father heading a sect within it. Alex takes after his dad in his dad's youth, meek and mild-mannered while Grace takes JJ's playful nature but her mother's quick-acting temper. They really have no inspirations past that, though.

Got a little off track buuut... weee!

Erik Mynhier · **02-27-2014, 11:58 PM**

(02-25-2014, 07:08 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote:

We are now friends for life Nat because Bob Ross is one of my heroes.

UltraFennec · **02-28-2014, 01:18 AM**

I...made up a name. And thought a bit about how much I liked the Dancer in FF11. That was the only time I played the game for an actual stretch. Something like 8 months before other things and university/life finally made me pull the plug.Â

So I tried to create a background that would 'prep' her for becoming a dancer type should they ever release that as a Job, and made her a Pugilist until then because I like martial arts and I figured I could fake the Dancer by cross-classing some of the basic buffing and healing abilities from Conjurer or Arcanist or something.

That's...pretty much the only thing that's been consistent with her honestly. My first character in every game I play is a jumbled mess of influences and things and I *usually* end up deleting them and going with someone more focused and considered...

But I really like her appearance, and I've put in enough time that I'm gonna keep her...probably as an alt until I can get her story straight and/or something Dancer-like comes along...

Mijisaa Qisaa · **02-28-2014, 01:16 PM**

I think Miji just kind of happened. I'd never RP'd before so I drew a lot on my theatre experience to bring her to life. But she totally morphed on me. She started out sweet, innocent, kind but now she's the head of a mob family. I found myself searching for something new and I never got to play a lawful evil character. Â Miji is perfect for it. Â She's the last Lala you could expect for that sort of life and she's cultivated a mob family that seems to keep growing. Playing a lawful evil can be challenging because I have to always check my RP to make sure it's what she would actually think/do.

I came in with a completely different story for her but now I let her happen. I write stories about her for my FC which helps me develop her way of thinking and her perspective on life, which allows my RP sessions to flow better. Smile

Â It's been a great experience!

Entity · **03-01-2014, 02:02 PM**

Lets see...I've been drawing since I was 8, and writing stories since I was in...4th-5th grade? Though back then it was all about Sonic fanfics, because I had such an obsession with Sonic backÂ then. But then a good friend of mine showed me anime and that's when things changed for me almost entirely, and I wound making more original stories since anime had more room for creativity as a pose to using both a style and setting that was already implemented.

Eventually I got more interested in making characters after I spent enough timeÂ playing the FF series along with other RPG franchises. Of course, this doesn't mean I disposed of the characters I make before then. I simply rehashed them (if that's the term to use for this description) and turned them into something more original rather than being based off of a style and world that already exists, and just went from there. I grabbed all the ideas I came up with in my fanfics and recycled them into something I could use and create on my own. Took a lot of work, but I'm glad I did it.

As I got older I found it a little hard to connect with these characters in a real genuine way, and that's when the genre of melodrama, conflict, and struggle gave me an idea. Not only did I see it fitting to provide them with ample challenges that would always keep them on their own feet, but also I felt it even more enterprising to give them their own faults and difficulties (this is when I started to hate characters like Superman), so as to make them more believable as a character you can bond or connect with.

The final step in my means to creating my characters didn't come until college, when I learned more about my favorite anime's creators and how they created THEIR characters. What I found is that in many of them, they often put a piece of themselves into the character they made, making it easier for them to create the character as well as their entire being and develop upon it as they went through the world and story they were placed in. Since discovering that, almost all of my characters, both ones that already had existed as well as ones I make, all have some small or large part of myself that allows me to have more fun with my character and really generate them down to the very core of their being. Yes, creating a character CAN get pretty complex, depending on how much work you want to put into it. However, like I said in another post, you also can't love what you create too much, because at that point one tends to go outside the limitations and rules one set for their own character, which to me just sounds so bad. Don't be afraid to kill off your characters, IÂ think if it is done right, and done gracefully, people won'tÂ forget your character so easily, whether they're a hero, villain, or vagrant/vagabond, etc.

AsÂ far as RPÂ goes, I have not done it as long as some people here,Â butÂ it was an easy thing for me toÂ get intoÂ because I would always act out my characters (when no one was looking, lol.) to getÂ a feel for who they are. It was because ofÂ a friend I met in Aion who got me to come out of the closet and try out RP that I started to see storywritingÂ and character development in a new light. RP makes you realize pretty quickly that, if you really want to go somewhere with what you make, RP is oneÂ such example of the kind of environment you may wind up in when working with a company or a group of people on creating a story, or world. It teaches you about interaction, compromise, and sacrifice. I say sacrifice for the same reason why it's okay to kill off characters. Learning about interaction allows you the luxury of personalizing your character, and really getting to know and figure out how your character responds to influences and contact with other people. Learning about compromise is being able to agree upon a certain outcome or turn of events, and preparing oneself to adapt to theÂ changes that can occur with not just your character, but the world your character is in as well as the interactions you make. Finally, learning sacrifice,Â it allows you to be able to move on with a storyÂ without having to constantly depend on theÂ characters you've had for a long time, or "become obsessed" with your character and story. It's being able to end a character's journey or life andÂ pave the way for a new plethora, world, and future, of characters to come, be they yours, theirs,Â orÂ characters created together.Â This is but a small breadth of whatÂ RP communities have taught me about character creation and story development.

Gosh, I always have a penchant for writing a lot in my posts. But to put it simply? A good character to me is one that tellsÂ a little bit about the creator, is faced with challenges, and can come face to face with sacrifice and compromise, or something that can potentially change and even end their life, which is the ultimate challenge of making a character, in my opinion.Â Also, to add to that, a character that is capable of having a lasting effect on an audience, be it good or bad, even in death. That is what my routine of characters are like. I'm not sure if I answered your question, but I hope you found this response helpful, lol.

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