What kind of stories has your character gotten into?
He started off with mostly free company stuff. Then girls happened. Damn girls! But they're so pretty, and that way they move, them legs, and they smell so good... Where was I? And there were Garleans. Out of nowhere. Along with his Syndicate hitman, drug dealer, spree murderer, general agent of destruction lifestyle in the background.
How has your character changed since the game re-launch?
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That's all I have to say about that.
I kid. He was designed to be a bad guy. The introduction of bad guys to the bad guys kind of threw him into a hero role on occasion, which proceeded to make his head explodey. Then girls. Considering his head is explodey by design, things got a bit messy.
He tried leaving the free company to help himself get back on the uncomplicated easy track of life he'd been on, which has been a miserable failure. He does feel better being able to make his own decisions, but he still hasn't figured out what he's supposed to do about anything much at all.
He's had a couple important people die on him (NPCs), which for someone with only a short-term memory is unpleasant. Those things threw him for loops. (I actually had both those deaths of pre-established characters in his life happen when someone I knew IRL died to help give myself an excuse for my own instability bleeding into him, but he deals with it better than I do, which isn't saying much.)
He was a fairly unstable person who flopped between knowing exactly who he is and believing himself to be the broken ghost of another man. Now he's an extremely unstable person who flops between being okay with himself as an unforgiveable cold-hearted killer who protects himself with a spiky wall of snark and being determined to destroy the identity he built for himself so he can rebuild it as something that's a lot more helpful to the few people who matter to him, before they go and die on him, like they keep doing.
Despite having lived through the war, he hasn't really lived through a war, so losing people who matter keeps hitting him hard. That and people haven't really mattered to him in general until recently. Living as a hitman is a lot easier to do when you don't give a damn about anybody.
I'm still not sure where all these chips are going to fall. Or maybe they'll just stay in the air forever and he'll end up one of those mental cases in desperate need of a straightjacket so he stops hurting himself.
What has been your favorite RP moment so far?
I don't want to pick just one. I liked when Darien got his face punched for being a horndog. I liked when Armi tried to help him and he watched Armi sleep (completely unhorndog) so she would feel safe before any of the subsequent craziness even happened.
What was the most shocking RP moment this year?
Armi/Darien happening at all. She was ridiculously genuine and showed a subtle genius when he first met her and she was talking to a lamppost (yep), and that hooked him right out of the gate. He got protective of her pretty quickly, so she never really got to see his psychopathy in a clear and violent way. Add to that his intense guilt about hurting her, and certain other disenchantments due to Garleans, and the relationship seems like a slow inevitability in retrospect. But it could just as easily have never ever happened, and I can't even imagine how the past few months would have gone without it.
That and actually falling for her. He is (was?) a bit of a player, so he'd drop the 'love' four letter word with relative ease. But it wasn't until he actually got jealous that he realized his player's handbook rules were no longer applying properly.
Getting kidnapped. What?
Getting propositioned by Garleans? Even less expected, though more in line with his personality.
What was the most surprising thing you found out about your character?
How much of a mess he really is, I guess. I thought I'd over-plotted him in the time between betas and launch, but when he got into the game, he just ran away from me completely. The only core concept he's really holding onto is his memory loss. Everything else is constant flux.
How genuine he can be. He was initially very shallow as a sort of protection against his memory loss. He could be prodded into genuine-ness when discussing the particular subject of his amnesia, but when he started confusing the hell out of himself, he ended up pulling out the real, true honesty card more often than not.
What relationships did your character build?
His old best friendship is now a complete mess. They go back and forth between sharing jokes over coffee and screaming in full out rage at each other in the space of a few hours. It's sort of on the mend? Sort of? There's more civil discussion and less screaming now anyway, and some bro hugs.
He's got lots of little friendships he didn't have before.
And then there's Armi. Which is just crazy town in messy land.
He's still technically out of the FC and I'm not sure where that's gonna end up, considering above mentioned best friendship is the crux on which his giving a damn about the FC hinges, but that technicality does skew his less close relationships in a weird way.
What are you looking most forward to seeing in the future with your characters growth and story?
I know Armi's plaaaans. So he'll probably go off the deep end in one way or another. He could either go full on hero mode or jump ship and head for the Empire. To be honest, I have no idea. He's a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in coliseum gear right now. I'm looking forward to figuring out what the hell he's gonna do next. It's like waiting for the next episode in the series. Except I'm the writer. And I'm not exactly stable either.
He started off with mostly free company stuff. Then girls happened. Damn girls! But they're so pretty, and that way they move, them legs, and they smell so good... Where was I? And there were Garleans. Out of nowhere. Along with his Syndicate hitman, drug dealer, spree murderer, general agent of destruction lifestyle in the background.
How has your character changed since the game re-launch?
SDLKFJSDLFKJSDFKLJ
That's all I have to say about that.
I kid. He was designed to be a bad guy. The introduction of bad guys to the bad guys kind of threw him into a hero role on occasion, which proceeded to make his head explodey. Then girls. Considering his head is explodey by design, things got a bit messy.
He tried leaving the free company to help himself get back on the uncomplicated easy track of life he'd been on, which has been a miserable failure. He does feel better being able to make his own decisions, but he still hasn't figured out what he's supposed to do about anything much at all.
He's had a couple important people die on him (NPCs), which for someone with only a short-term memory is unpleasant. Those things threw him for loops. (I actually had both those deaths of pre-established characters in his life happen when someone I knew IRL died to help give myself an excuse for my own instability bleeding into him, but he deals with it better than I do, which isn't saying much.)
He was a fairly unstable person who flopped between knowing exactly who he is and believing himself to be the broken ghost of another man. Now he's an extremely unstable person who flops between being okay with himself as an unforgiveable cold-hearted killer who protects himself with a spiky wall of snark and being determined to destroy the identity he built for himself so he can rebuild it as something that's a lot more helpful to the few people who matter to him, before they go and die on him, like they keep doing.
Despite having lived through the war, he hasn't really lived through a war, so losing people who matter keeps hitting him hard. That and people haven't really mattered to him in general until recently. Living as a hitman is a lot easier to do when you don't give a damn about anybody.
I'm still not sure where all these chips are going to fall. Or maybe they'll just stay in the air forever and he'll end up one of those mental cases in desperate need of a straightjacket so he stops hurting himself.
What has been your favorite RP moment so far?
I don't want to pick just one. I liked when Darien got his face punched for being a horndog. I liked when Armi tried to help him and he watched Armi sleep (completely unhorndog) so she would feel safe before any of the subsequent craziness even happened.
What was the most shocking RP moment this year?
Armi/Darien happening at all. She was ridiculously genuine and showed a subtle genius when he first met her and she was talking to a lamppost (yep), and that hooked him right out of the gate. He got protective of her pretty quickly, so she never really got to see his psychopathy in a clear and violent way. Add to that his intense guilt about hurting her, and certain other disenchantments due to Garleans, and the relationship seems like a slow inevitability in retrospect. But it could just as easily have never ever happened, and I can't even imagine how the past few months would have gone without it.
That and actually falling for her. He is (was?) a bit of a player, so he'd drop the 'love' four letter word with relative ease. But it wasn't until he actually got jealous that he realized his player's handbook rules were no longer applying properly.
Getting kidnapped. What?
Getting propositioned by Garleans? Even less expected, though more in line with his personality.
What was the most surprising thing you found out about your character?
How much of a mess he really is, I guess. I thought I'd over-plotted him in the time between betas and launch, but when he got into the game, he just ran away from me completely. The only core concept he's really holding onto is his memory loss. Everything else is constant flux.
How genuine he can be. He was initially very shallow as a sort of protection against his memory loss. He could be prodded into genuine-ness when discussing the particular subject of his amnesia, but when he started confusing the hell out of himself, he ended up pulling out the real, true honesty card more often than not.
What relationships did your character build?
His old best friendship is now a complete mess. They go back and forth between sharing jokes over coffee and screaming in full out rage at each other in the space of a few hours. It's sort of on the mend? Sort of? There's more civil discussion and less screaming now anyway, and some bro hugs.
He's got lots of little friendships he didn't have before.
And then there's Armi. Which is just crazy town in messy land.
He's still technically out of the FC and I'm not sure where that's gonna end up, considering above mentioned best friendship is the crux on which his giving a damn about the FC hinges, but that technicality does skew his less close relationships in a weird way.
What are you looking most forward to seeing in the future with your characters growth and story?
I know Armi's plaaaans. So he'll probably go off the deep end in one way or another. He could either go full on hero mode or jump ship and head for the Empire. To be honest, I have no idea. He's a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in coliseum gear right now. I'm looking forward to figuring out what the hell he's gonna do next. It's like waiting for the next episode in the series. Except I'm the writer. And I'm not exactly stable either.
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