Gosh, I feel lame reading these and thinking about how I came up with Shoshopu.
Her premise was basically... I wanted a lalafell summoner. Because I was a tarutaru summoner in FFXI, but I didn't RP. I ran her through a character background generator (that's how she got four older brothers) and put a FFXIV lore spin on it, including how she became an arcanist (because she would become a summoner through RP). Then I picked a MBTI type for her and based her personality around that. I picked an extroverted type because my characters are usually introverts.
Awyrbyrt is a funnier story. Arkamas mentioned once in passing that Fyrilsunn, in his youth, probably slept with his fair share of tavern wenches and could possibly have had a bastard or two. So I devised the most embarrassing/tragic son possible as more of a prank and then he became a character. And, as with Shopu, I just picked an MBTI type and ran with it. And like Shopu I picked an E type. Awyrbyrt's also practically my only male RP character I've ever had, and he's kind of a jock sort of guy, so he just ended up being a collection of unexplored territories for me wrapped up into one character.
A lot of friends of mine have character concepts and personalities they carry through them from setting to setting, which they adapt to the lore (or adapt the lore to). I start out with lore concepts I want to play with and build characters around them, so every setting I play are new characters for me, that I don't take with me once I leave.
Her premise was basically... I wanted a lalafell summoner. Because I was a tarutaru summoner in FFXI, but I didn't RP. I ran her through a character background generator (that's how she got four older brothers) and put a FFXIV lore spin on it, including how she became an arcanist (because she would become a summoner through RP). Then I picked a MBTI type for her and based her personality around that. I picked an extroverted type because my characters are usually introverts.
Awyrbyrt is a funnier story. Arkamas mentioned once in passing that Fyrilsunn, in his youth, probably slept with his fair share of tavern wenches and could possibly have had a bastard or two. So I devised the most embarrassing/tragic son possible as more of a prank and then he became a character. And, as with Shopu, I just picked an MBTI type and ran with it. And like Shopu I picked an E type. Awyrbyrt's also practically my only male RP character I've ever had, and he's kind of a jock sort of guy, so he just ended up being a collection of unexplored territories for me wrapped up into one character.
A lot of friends of mine have character concepts and personalities they carry through them from setting to setting, which they adapt to the lore (or adapt the lore to). I start out with lore concepts I want to play with and build characters around them, so every setting I play are new characters for me, that I don't take with me once I leave.
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