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Fluffysmartass · **07-19-2013, 10:22 PM**

Koba is meant to be that a cool and collect character. When I make Koba's personality I mostly think of Shizuo from Durarara!!Â Crossing out the temper and strength, they'd be pretty similar.Â
Shizuo is mostly quiet and calm. Kind of gets into other peoples business unintentionally. Hes straight forward when he talks and is looked up to a bit.
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Gideon Aryeh · **07-19-2013, 11:25 PM**

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"I'm not a thief I'm a Treasure Hunter!" - Locke Cole FFVI
Totally ripped "Treasure Hunter Extraordinaire"Â from this guy

This guy and his soundtrack especially. Yes the music definitely had an influence along with the gambling aspect of Setzer.
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Add in a dash of this guy for that slice of life aspect that this version of Amaare has
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Elkabong419 · **07-19-2013, 11:53 PM**

You know, it took me quite a while to to peg down how I wanted to make Night Rain. I admit, I do love taking different character perks from other characters in media and toss them into a blender and.. Viola! There is my character. For Night Rain, I used Doctor Alan Grant (Jurassic Park), Doctor Daniel Jackson (Stargate), and Doctor King Shultz (Django Unchained)

Xenedra · **07-20-2013, 03:30 AM**

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"I just try to be really, really honest with people when I think that they suck."

Yup, Santana Lopez from Glee. She sings, she dances, she thinks she's tough shit and gives no fucks. She sluts about without shame and speaks her mind when people do things she thinks are stupid... And she goes above and beyond to protect her friends, even if they don't realize it or understand her unorthodox methods. Generally Xenedra is not actually as bitchy as Santana unless she's angry, but the high emotional walls and attitude are definitely there.

Alternatively! Denna from the Kingkiller Chronicles. Many names, unclear past, uses her charm to her advantage. Once again musical, confident and insists on hiding her sensitive side.
http://kkc.wikia.com/wiki/Denna

Renaise · **07-20-2013, 11:30 AM**

For Renaise it's pretty much a patchwork of these guys.

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Martiallais · **07-22-2013, 01:27 AM**

This is an awesome thread and I really like all the great answers! Keep em coming!

When I originally started brainstorming Zarek, it was a tossup on if he'd become a Dragoon or a Paladin. I gathered that since it's a Final Fantasy game, there'd be plenty of both (no offense to those playing them of course!) and wanted to do something to stand out a little more, which led me to pugilist. After all, how many people want to be the one fighting a monster with skill and (mostly) bare hands alone? The answer is more folks than I thought but I digress.

My initial concept drew on the kind of 'so crazy it just might work' mixed with 'stupid good luck' from Gene Starwind with some 'too charming for his own good'-ness of Gambit thrown in. But, no matter how fun that mashup was in my head, I couldn't see the interactions with other players going well as the character's 'voice' wasn't one that I was overly fond of. That and I couldn't quite nail down a Highlander look that I wanted, since I'd kind of visualized him conceptually as similar to Abel of Street Fighter 4 fame.

A bit of video searching and research on pugilists, monks, and the Platinum Mirage later (thanks to both Gospel and Merri for fielding questions on this!) and I'd kind of gone with a character that drew some from both Mugen (Samurai Champloo, for unpredictability and a bit of crazy) and Spike Spiegal (Cowboy Bebop, an almost lanky guy who is able to both dish out and take a beating) for fighting style and some tidbits of typical mood/attitude. For the fighting 'style' he was learning from his mother, I took a bit of the visual concepts of both Fire and Airbenders (heavily leaning towards air, which added to his name) and nudged in a little here and there from Rock Lee (Naruto).

sugarfrosted · **07-22-2013, 01:45 AM**

(07-19-2013, 09:56 AM)Dogberry Wrote: Dogberry also resembles Brock Sampson when his over the top machismo conflicts which some of the not-so-macho things he does. While watching The Venture Brothers, I became fascinated with the idea of a character who was basically the ideal macho man, yet would still do things like dress up in victorian garb and having a tea party just to humor someone he cared about. He either isn't aware of this clash, or if he is, he doesn't care.

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That's so cool that you reference the Venture Bros. Just felt like saying that, anyways...

I think Borosolo Nasolo may be more like this guy:

Lazy, lackadaisical, and out of shape. There may be other influences but right now that was the first that came to mind.

ArmachiA · **07-22-2013, 02:42 AM**

Loki Aethertide

~ Herself

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(THAT is a scan of a print out of a drawing I did on MSpaint like 10 years ago. OLD SCHOOL.)

Loki in FFXIV is a version of my original character "Loki" from a table top game that me and Ellion made called "Unizen" (He did all the system, I did all the story). The game is about how humans evolved in a different universe after Earth poofed out of existence. Loki's race was one of nomads that didn't live on planets and instead settled on "Satellite Cities" (Cities made on asteroids) or just flew around on ships. They tended to be scavengers or pirates and tended to have lots of prosthetic limbs due to the volatile nature of their lives. Her race also had nicknames that they used to outsiders and "True names" they used with their clan and people they were close to. Loki's nickname was obviously Loki - named by her father's best friend who was into the study of mythology. She was created about 10 years or so ago and I was perfectly fine with using the name till the Avengers movie came out Tongue

. Now it's SHAMEFUL.

What I took from her is her name (And the fact it's a nickname, Loki is not her real name in FFXIV either and was given to her when the Crimson Blades - our old guild - handed out nicknames. We said it was because she was "Low Key" BA DUM CHA), the fact she has a fake leg, and her pirate-y lifestyle also came from U-Loki. U-Loki is almost like Loki in FFXIV - Flirty, A finder of trouble, a LOVER of trouble, Logical, etc etc. The differences are U-Loki has rage issues and is a racist (against other Unizen races), while FFXIV Loki has neither of these. I didn't think the rage translated over to FFXIV very well and I was worried how people OOCly would react to a racist, so I took them out. There's also a lot of differences between the two that come from roleplaying them in two different universes with two different sets of people that I can't really explain, but as roleplayers yourself you probably get it.

~ Armachia Mirandette - Armachia was a character I rolled when I was 17 (That was a long time ago) for Vampire: The Masquerade (Which I'm still a big fan of). Armachia was the villian of our RP group, she was a stereotype femme fatal, and a loud, annoying snotty brat who wanted everything her way all the time. Loki and her have nothing in common, but without Armachia existing, Loki would have not existed. So thanks, Armachia. (Armachia will get brought up again later)

~ Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop)

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Look, I like to pretend my character is "100% original do not steal" but the fact is, once I watched Cowboy Bebop is was really, really hard to not be influenced by it and Faye has influenced a lot of my character creation since I saw her for the first time back in 2001. Faye had a lot of influence on Loki in particular, being the kind of girl who has a love/hate relationship with trouble. I really liked that about Faye and outright stole it. None of my characters previous to Faye have had such a relationship with trouble, they were either good or they were bad. Loki is a bad good girl, and I got that from her.

~Vala Mal'Doran (Star Gate: SG-1)

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(There's no getting off this Sci-Fi train folks, I am a HUGE fan of the genre)

Loki was created before Vala ever became a regular on SG-1, but I still took some influence from her when smoothing her out, mostly her snark and her flirtatious nature. I also took her version 2.0 look from her (The picture above is her 1.0 look and it... just awful) though later I found a more fitting "face" for Loki. I love Vala so much, when Loki didn't work in SW:TOR I used the name "Mahla Veredon" as an homage.

Armi Alliando

~ Yuna (Final Fantasy X)

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Back when I played FFX, I thought that Yuna was just the epitome of self-sacrificing good girl. As I have never played one of those in RP before (Most of my characters were Loki-types or flat out crazy because they were Malkavians) when I was rolling my character for FFXI I decided to give one a try. Armi was born. She took pretty much everything from Yuna in that incarnation - quiet, studious, sweet, big ol' Martyr complex -- she even had a love story with a Tidus type (Accidental but still funny). I had no experience with someone who was just that GOOD, so in later incarnations I tried to "dirty" her up a bit. Still, she keeps the self sacrificing part of her TO THIS DAY. She will give her life to rescue another, be it from evil or from themselves.

Because of this side of her, Armi is my character voted most likely to get into a relationship haha.

~ Herself

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Like I said above, Armi was first rolled in FFXI. I explained how she was there, but over time she evolved... honestly I'm still working out her kinks. Because I feel she isn't perfect in any game I roll her in, I keep rolling her to see if I can get her right. Sort of like RP Reincarnation. The game she is perfect in, she'll probably stay in. That's kind of made Armi synonymous with ME though and people have just ended up calling me Armi as a nickname, regardless of who I play as my main. I'll just go down the list and what I took from her from each game.

World of Warcraft: Armi was a Blood Elf who was against Kael'thas Sunstrider before it was revealed he was actually evil and not awesome like all the Blood Elves thought. Armi was a diplomat of sorts and worked closely with the Draenei, eventually falling in love with one of them. She was funny and outgoing - very different from her FFXI persona - and strongwilled. I took the funny, smiley part of her from this version. I actually think this version was closest to perfect, but she had lost the Self Sacrificing side of her here and I didn't like that.
Aion: I kept the nice, classy side of her and added the witty side to her, then added BACK the Martyr Complex to this incarnation. Problem was, every character in Aion was basically a Mary Sue by default (It was canon you were immortal, one of the "chosen", had huge angel wings, had a special title no one else had but you, and were stated as being demi-gods) so being "Self sacrificing" meant very little. To get around this, I made Armi hate her status as a demi god and try to go out and kill herself every time she was in battle - which she was A LOT since I PvPed all the time. If she was injured, she intentionally didn't heal herself, as some kind of reminder she was once human. This worked... with varying degrees of success. The witty, sweet side of her ended up romancing a Daeva named Siben, and the weird dark side of her had her romance a one named Lloire. Honestly I felt like the Suicidal part of her started to take over her whole personality a fair bit so when I got hacked I just quit the game. lol.
SW:TOR: I kind of liked the fact Armi was darker in Aion, but didn't want to go down the suicidal thing again, so in TOR I made her a Dark Sided Jedi. She was a good person who didn't believe in the Jedi code, but was completely against the Sith. BUT because the Jedi code leaves little for people like her, the Jedi branded her as dark sided and kept trying to get her back to the fold to "get her back to the light." Armi worked closely with the Republic and was generally a good person, but because of that one thing (Not being a Jedi, really) she was considered almost a villain in the game. Many a character tried to preach how evil she was and how dark sided she was for not following the Jedi code, meanwhile she was helping the Republic as much as they were in regards to getting rid of the Sith.

In FFXIV I went back to before Aion a bit, Armi is hopeful and jubilant, smart and witty, kind and sincere, though she isn't looking to kill herself for a greater cause (Anymore *ahem*) she still has that self sacrificing nature of wanting to save people, even if it risks herself. She wants everything to be okay and wants to push people to be okay. BUT, taking from Aion and SW:TOR, as a former priestess of Nymeia she's angry at what happened with the Calamity. She can't justify what happened there as "The Gods' Will" and her entire belief system is spiraling away from her, deep down inside she's as lost and confused as those she wants to help. I think I may have gotten the right mix of Light and Dark in this incarnation... we'll have to see though.

~Armachia

It's where her name came from. I needed a name real fast and my ex-husband suggested Armachia... I thought it sounded harsh for the type of character I wanted and shortened it to Armi.

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Is this enough words? I'm not sure it is.

ForestGuardian · **07-22-2013, 05:47 AM**

Hyltwakka (Only representation of him I have so far. :<) Not 100% on these, but they kind of fit.

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Tohru from Jackie Chan Adventures. xPÂ

Rubeus Hagrid from Harry Potter.Â

Snorlax? Yes-... Snorlax.Â

K'tahrl · **07-22-2013, 05:58 AM**

A lot of my influences for K'tahrl's personality stem from the first anime I watched growing up so it'd be these two as the most in likeness/inspiration for his design.

Gene Starwind
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Vash

There's still a lot of kinks I'm working out with him but for the most part a combination of both personality types would fit K'tahrl the closest.

Poe · **07-22-2013, 07:09 PM**

I had to think this one over a bit. I picked my top 3 influences with the understanding that I wanted Poe's experience of feeling dischord with her Mito'qe culture being the driving force for her venturing out from her family.

Leeloo (besides loving her hair, even if they aren't totally legit dreads, I appreciate them!)
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Chiyo (Sayuri's child name) is another influence. While I do look toward her transformation as she matured and became a Geisha, it's her child persona that I truly draw from.
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Sam (Natalie Portman from Garden State) I love someone not afraid to truly be themselves!
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Skyborn · **07-22-2013, 08:00 PM**

Jidan Skyborn is, without equivocation, my favourite RP character that I've ever come into to date. He's a quirky, high functioning sociopathic, eccentric savant while still managing to be suave and charismatic. And he's a thief, con artist and pirate. I first started him in Guild Wars 2 but I feel like he fits infinitely better in a Final Fantasy world. Really looking forward to when Musketeer and Corsair come out so I can put him in a fitting class/job role

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Grey Everheart was the name of my very first RP character back...probably 11-12 years ago. It was incidentally on a Final Fantasy VIII RP site so bringing him back around into another Final Fantasy universe is a trip for me. His character has changed drastically, though, from originally being a stoic, aloof swordsman to an abrasive, cocky jerk with a bit of a protector complex. Pugilist was an easy pick for him.

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BlackJaque · **07-22-2013, 10:09 PM**

Hachi is such a combination of so many different personality traits, but these are the three primary fictional characters that I think Hachi draws from.

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Rikku ( Final Fantasy X) - Hachi pulls her energy level and youthful behavior from Rikku. Her reactions are also based off of Rikku's very enthusiastic or adverse reactions to different things in the game. She is very animated and so is Hachi.

Xiaoyu ( Tekken )- Like Xiaoyu, Hachi has big dreams as far as where she is going in life. Also, like Xiaoyu she isn't afraid to put up her dukes if push comes to shove. She also reflects the same kind of dedicated loyalty to the people she cares about in her willingness to go to any length for them.

Pepper Potts ( armored adventures) - Hachi's insatiable curiosity and inability to not get into things is modeled after this version of Pepper Potts. She is also very excitable like Pepper.

Uther · **07-29-2013, 06:47 AM**

I was thinking about this thread yesterday. Usually, when I'm in a beta and getting a feel for the game, I come up with a plethora of strange and different characters from my main and do a sort of process of elimination as time goes on until I narrow it down to one or two characters (sometimes three if I'm feeling really attached). It's kind of a plug-and-play sort of scenario.

That being said, I'm working on a character that I really enjoy brainstorming. Whether he ever comes into existence or not is based entirely on how good I am at manipulating the character creator. I've been lightly talking about my ideas for him on the Misericorde skype lately, though not saying much. I got the idea from seeing pictures of Native Americans in the 1800s wearing business suits whilst simultaneously wearing feathers in their hair. The character is very much based on TarzanÂ with a fair amount of Queequeg, and even Beast from the X-Men,Â thrown in. The whole concept of the character is based on one who grew up in a tribe (in no way similar to the fun-loving half-tribes that the game's lore provides and everyone seems to adore. We're talking about loincloths, feathers, stone weapons, and possibly cannibalism. Seriously, they're barely more advanced than the rest of the animal kingdom) but, like Tarzan, taught himself to read by memorizing the coded shapes attached to pictures in children's picture books over the course of a decade. Later he learns to speak, after befriending explorers, and joins society. He wears nice clothes, speaks with a wide vocabulary, and has the manners of a gentleman; but his body is still covered in scars and tribal markings and, in battle, his instincts tend to kick in and he goes full-on savage. The back story is not established in the slightest, but I feel the character has some potential.

I have little faith that the Miqo'te character creator will allow me to make him look as feral as I'm hoping, since SE decided all of the notorious feline hunters would be fourteen year old boys. Assuming I one day manage to defy reality and get him to look the way I want andÂ I get over the fact that everyone and their mom is playing a Miqo'te, it should be a fun RP experience. We'll see, though. As of right now it's only a pipe dream, unfortunately.

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I'll throw in some sweet pics, since everyone else did.

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Tarzan, from Tarzan of the Apes: Primary Influence

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Queequeg, from Moby-Dick: Secondary Influence

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Beast, from X-Men: Tertiary Influence

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Since I'm a musical person, I also get inspiration from songs a lot. Here's a score that's helping me as I'm coming up with this character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmUd10jp7A

C'io Behkt · **07-29-2013, 07:14 AM**

When I think of C'io, she mostly has the qualities I see in the Fallout series protagonists. She's the Lone Wanderer, the (Tribal) Chosen One, the Vault Dweller, and the Courier all in one. She's left an isolated community to discover and learn the wider world and to help it fight its problems. The Garleans are the Enclave, the Beastmen are the Super Mutants under the Master, and the people of Eorzea are just people trying to make it through another day after the Calamity.

If I had to think of a more recognizable figure that reminds me most of C'io, I'd have to say Korra, except much more spiritually attuned. Since C'io's also older than Korra, that makes sense. Still impatient, headstrong, and pugnacious, though.

In all honesty, though, when I was making her, all I had was my playlist dedicated to the desert going. A collection of desert sounds, Journey, and Arabian music. I had Sufi mysticism in mind and dervishes dancing with the winds.

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