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RE: Your Character's Beliefs And What You Do With Them - Caspar - 05-06-2015
(05-06-2015, 12:30 AM)Verad Wrote:I kill them. Or otherwise retire them.(05-05-2015, 10:21 PM)SM Nick Wrote: Some people may consider Solis's belief naive and sometimes silly, but this belief is the very foundation of Solis's way of life, and he is absolutely determined to hold onto this belief no matter what.Quote:Hammersmith
But he's going to get into your head anyway just to see how you hold onto YOUR beliefs. Â He's going to see how much space there is for a prybar in your brain and then start pulling the wall apart just to see what happens. Â Maybe he can't help himself. Â Maybe he's never known anything different.
He wants people to prove him wrong. Â He wants people to be more than he expects. Â
He wants you to disappoint him. Â
I believe you two should date.
In all seriousness, the contrast here interests me - someone who will not be bent, and someone who will try to irresistibly bend, in their beliefs. On an IC level this is all well and good, of course, but it does lead to questions regarding what happens when a character's belief systems are irrevocably undermined from their original state.
This leads to another question, for both those who have already posted and for those who have yet to post: Is it possible for your character's beliefs to be undermined or goals to be achieved in such a way that the character is no longer satisfying to play? What do you do if that happens?
Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I just can't be satisfied writing fulfilled characters with nothing to struggle against. In the same way, I'm too distorted to write a happy ending.
Note that I haven't been able to do this that often, as in the past most rp I've been in ended before I could complete my intentions for my character's story. I usually have a death in mind as early as the design stage though.
The alternative is that I could introduce a new goal and a new angle for the character. That often makes me wonder if I wouldn't prefer drafting a new one though.