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Like many here my characters tend to have some aspect of myself in them. And lots of different characters over the years of role-playing. My signature character, Mist, had radically changed since her first conception. Originally she had a generic name like Anna Windtail. She was a character in a novel I was writing in my teen years and actually not the lead protagonist of the story despite envisioning her as myself. The lead protagonist was a character based off my ex-boyfriend and the time. I knew I wanted the story to be about redemption through the eyes of his character and a tale of rebirth, but I kept losing the pages I wrote and couldn't find them... so I had to keep rewriting sections over and over as I kept losing papers until I gave up. I am horribly disorganized. Anna started out simplistically, mainly just having the attributes of my loyalty and passionate disposition. Admittedly my character at this stage was more or less your average boring female protagonist who's role was to support the lead protagonist.
As I moved on I enjoyed role playing in other mediums like IMVU and Second Life for good while, altering Anna into Sophitia Conway, a cyborg for a sci-fi roleplay. These special government weapons, these cyborgs, were once people who died and were resurrected through technological marvels. Machine halves were also installed into their consciousness to exert some control over the organic half of the mind while the organic half of the mind offered a realistic personality and logical that a machine could not replicate alone. The Government Project and it's creations became known as Deus Ex Machinas (God from the Machine), a poetic name for the government's intent and hubris of attempting to achieve god like powers and immortality through technology. Some DEMs overcame the machine half of their minds and briefly reprogrammed the others to follow them instead of the others, the now rogue unit of DEMs free from the government's control roaming the solar system according to their own agenda. Again my character played a secondary role, my NEWEST ex-boyfriend at the time was the leader of the DEMs in this role-play. I don't know, I guess I'm just good at playing a supportive lead. Sophitia took on even more of my personality traits; love of the classics, appreciation of fine culture, perhaps a little snobby at times.
Then... later when I finally got around to using her again, Sophita became Victoria Palmacosta, a main character in a friend's upcoming novel series and pen-and-paper system; both called Imagino. Victoria in this incarnation remained mostly the same as as before, like me. But the idea of good was twisted into a near zealot idea of "Justice". On a DnD alignment box, she'd be annoyingly deep in the "True Good" box. Clarification: She was True Good before, now it was just obsessive and her vision became borderline black and white.
Recently I revisited the idea of my own novel, expanding on it again as I intend to pick it back up. I fleshed out the world some more this time, expanded a lot more of the world's culture and religion. The world held 9 elements. The Lower Elements were made of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. The Higher Elements were made from fusions of the Lower Elements; Steam came from fire and water, Dust came from earth and air, Mist came from air and water, and Ash came from fire and earth. The Heavens or the Divine made the ninth element. More characters were added to the Novel: a hero for each of the more common eight elements with the male lead based on my ex re-envisioned as the Hero of Ash. Also, every Hero, chosen by destiny to represent their element took their element as their name. Thus Victoria became Mist.
In the world's lore... Steam came first, purging the void of darkness and it's daemons. Second came Dust, giving form and shaping the land. Mist came third, granting life and beauty upon the world. Lastly came Ash, marking death but also rebirth, a renewing cycle.
The novel is still in progress. Though now I am very interested in FF14. Admittedly I don't know much about Final Fantasy as a whole still, I only played the spin-offs in the past like Crystal Chronicles. As I import Mist's personality into FF14, I'm likely to play her as an amnesic miqo'te, as much as a cop-out as it is. It'll give me a chance to both enjoy role-play while learning about the world in the process. It also makes it easy to take the character name "Mist" without breaking lore; Mist as a nickname. Her 'real' name could be X'sumbla Tahz or whatever a random name generator throws at me. Mist remains mistrusting of strangers but a loyal friend once its earned; a staple of people with blue colored auras. She still has enjoyment of culture, poetry, music, and likely will have a soft spot and weakness for Bard players... And she possess a dualistic personality; inspired by my birth sign, The Gemini.
I have ideas for her back story but I don't want to commit to anything yet until I learn more about Final Fantasy in general. I'm looking forward to mingling with other RPers and learning the lore. :]
Like many here my characters tend to have some aspect of myself in them. And lots of different characters over the years of role-playing. My signature character, Mist, had radically changed since her first conception. Originally she had a generic name like Anna Windtail. She was a character in a novel I was writing in my teen years and actually not the lead protagonist of the story despite envisioning her as myself. The lead protagonist was a character based off my ex-boyfriend and the time. I knew I wanted the story to be about redemption through the eyes of his character and a tale of rebirth, but I kept losing the pages I wrote and couldn't find them... so I had to keep rewriting sections over and over as I kept losing papers until I gave up. I am horribly disorganized. Anna started out simplistically, mainly just having the attributes of my loyalty and passionate disposition. Admittedly my character at this stage was more or less your average boring female protagonist who's role was to support the lead protagonist.
As I moved on I enjoyed role playing in other mediums like IMVU and Second Life for good while, altering Anna into Sophitia Conway, a cyborg for a sci-fi roleplay. These special government weapons, these cyborgs, were once people who died and were resurrected through technological marvels. Machine halves were also installed into their consciousness to exert some control over the organic half of the mind while the organic half of the mind offered a realistic personality and logical that a machine could not replicate alone. The Government Project and it's creations became known as Deus Ex Machinas (God from the Machine), a poetic name for the government's intent and hubris of attempting to achieve god like powers and immortality through technology. Some DEMs overcame the machine half of their minds and briefly reprogrammed the others to follow them instead of the others, the now rogue unit of DEMs free from the government's control roaming the solar system according to their own agenda. Again my character played a secondary role, my NEWEST ex-boyfriend at the time was the leader of the DEMs in this role-play. I don't know, I guess I'm just good at playing a supportive lead. Sophitia took on even more of my personality traits; love of the classics, appreciation of fine culture, perhaps a little snobby at times.
Then... later when I finally got around to using her again, Sophita became Victoria Palmacosta, a main character in a friend's upcoming novel series and pen-and-paper system; both called Imagino. Victoria in this incarnation remained mostly the same as as before, like me. But the idea of good was twisted into a near zealot idea of "Justice". On a DnD alignment box, she'd be annoyingly deep in the "True Good" box. Clarification: She was True Good before, now it was just obsessive and her vision became borderline black and white.
Recently I revisited the idea of my own novel, expanding on it again as I intend to pick it back up. I fleshed out the world some more this time, expanded a lot more of the world's culture and religion. The world held 9 elements. The Lower Elements were made of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. The Higher Elements were made from fusions of the Lower Elements; Steam came from fire and water, Dust came from earth and air, Mist came from air and water, and Ash came from fire and earth. The Heavens or the Divine made the ninth element. More characters were added to the Novel: a hero for each of the more common eight elements with the male lead based on my ex re-envisioned as the Hero of Ash. Also, every Hero, chosen by destiny to represent their element took their element as their name. Thus Victoria became Mist.
In the world's lore... Steam came first, purging the void of darkness and it's daemons. Second came Dust, giving form and shaping the land. Mist came third, granting life and beauty upon the world. Lastly came Ash, marking death but also rebirth, a renewing cycle.
The novel is still in progress. Though now I am very interested in FF14. Admittedly I don't know much about Final Fantasy as a whole still, I only played the spin-offs in the past like Crystal Chronicles. As I import Mist's personality into FF14, I'm likely to play her as an amnesic miqo'te, as much as a cop-out as it is. It'll give me a chance to both enjoy role-play while learning about the world in the process. It also makes it easy to take the character name "Mist" without breaking lore; Mist as a nickname. Her 'real' name could be X'sumbla Tahz or whatever a random name generator throws at me. Mist remains mistrusting of strangers but a loyal friend once its earned; a staple of people with blue colored auras. She still has enjoyment of culture, poetry, music, and likely will have a soft spot and weakness for Bard players... And she possess a dualistic personality; inspired by my birth sign, The Gemini.
I have ideas for her back story but I don't want to commit to anything yet until I learn more about Final Fantasy in general. I'm looking forward to mingling with other RPers and learning the lore. :]
