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Dis · **08-17-2015, 07:18 AM**

This is going to be kind of long, so I'm going to put them under cuts, to save space. I have a few characters I play, but the three who are most fleshed out right now as Glioca, Dark, and Liviana. I've played Glio and Livi the most, with Dark just sort of sitting in a corner somewhere until I can get my head all the way around the lore for what she is - a Roe who was possessed by a Voidsent - and make sure I'm 100% in boundaries with her. Glio, I'll always try and stretch the lore with her, because I love her as a concept too much to give her up. Anyway, more on the concepts below.

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GliocaGlioca started out as a character for me a long time ago.Â I originally pulled her concept from another game I played when I was first starting out in MMO's.Â She was a goddess who was defined in the non-player game lore with one sentence about her.Â I loved the idea, but I wanted to give her life and depth and story.Â So I jerked her out of her setting, trashed the world she'd been on (in a literal sense in her AU), and ended up transplanting her into a number of settings since then.Â I've run her in other MMO's, in forum based Final Fantasy RPs, she's been in several D&D campaigns as both a normal player character and very powerful NPC.Â I've had her since roughly late 2000ish, and she's been a blast to develop.Â The last five years or so of play have really shaped her, though.

ICly, she's a little weird, because I have two versions of her I run.Â In private, and with friends who are okay with that kind of thing, she's a very powerful entity who basically got into the world through the Void, and a trip in the Lifestream.Â I originally had this set up as her main idea, but after seeing the walk people reacted negatively to the concept of any kind of world-traveling character, I shelved this back in a corner as something to play only in private, and to keep as character notes to add to her several notebooks long history.

Instead, the Glioca presented to the public is the second one, which I crafted after I'd been playing the game for about six months (most of that spent in PvE content).Â I usually play her as an elven or fae type race, going with human only if the models of the first two races are so bad I can't stand them.Â That gave me the springboard of making her an Elezen.Â Most of what I'd read from Elezen directed me to them being from the Shroud.Â Gridania, Elezen.Â

I wanted her backstory to be sufficiently gloomy (she's always had a rough past, in every incarnation), and the FF world is pretty war-torn, so one part of her backstory, her father's death, was easily explained.Â For her mother, I gave her something that would give her a motivation into Conjury, as she was always a healer: her mother died of a wasting sickness.Â

Once I had these springboards, I filled in tidbits of her history as she developed, leaving some 'several year' gaps so I could fill in things as lore became more known, and as she developed naturally through RP, giving the character a chance to tell me her own story, as opposed to me just writing the story for her. Â I know that sounds a little odd, but that was the general idea of her.

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How did you come up with your character?

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