Generally, when I make an rp character, I plan out a concrete back story that explains everything I want to do with them. First I think of what I want to do, even if it's just a vague idea spawned by various influences. I mix the ideas together and come up with a personality to attach to them and an aesthetic impression, sometimes a concrete mental image of how I want them to look. I think about what basic idea or theme I want the character to convey and draft a background to reflect it. If I make them a skilled martial artist, I want to have an explanation ready for it that I think will interest people and provoke thought or comment from their characters. If I want them to be socially inept, then I must think of a reason for them to lack experience socializing. It's partially because when I get an idea I tend to want to spew it out onto a page or text file somewhere, and partially because I think having a solid answer keeps me consistent, and I'm very forgetful.
As for the wiki, It's not like I'm aiming to be particularly deep or anything; I don't take myself that seriously. I feel like aiming for pulpy entertainment is as worthy a pursuit as trying to create some sort of exclusive cadre of tightly interwoven characters styled as actors in a play or a novel storyline. I'll freely admit to thinking "this character was cool, and I'd like to make something along the lines of that in my rp," and doing my own take on the same archetype. I like cliches a lot and I want to use them smartly. However, I do sort of want to provoke a reaction in people who play with me, and entertain them. Thus using my history and having it openly displayed in a really extensive profile feels to me like a good way to give people a more detailed view of what kind of rp they should expect playing with my character. When people interact with me IC and OOC tell me they think Virara is funny, or a scene made them sad, I find it really gratifying. (More the latter than the former, by the way.) Naturally if people react that way when they see her history on the wiki, I think that would be swell too, so I try to go the extra mile there too. A staggering amount of my characters have had ridiculously detailed profiles down to the type of cigarinos they enjoy or their favorite toy as a child, and only got slightly used in IC. Such is the nature of forum rp with flakes. But if I could impress even one person and entertain them with my open profile, I feel like at least I managed to make a really cool character.
I don't do this only for the character's history either. Future and present developments are of course mutable and subject to change. However, I typically have envisioned goals for what I want my character to do and act like later on in their development, and actively try to put them into situations which move them in that direction. If the plan changes because of someone's actions, then no big deal, but oftentimes I'll have four or five potential futures envisioned for the character planned out to their moment of death, and generally those unexpected happenings will fit into at least one of my plans in some way.
As for the wiki, It's not like I'm aiming to be particularly deep or anything; I don't take myself that seriously. I feel like aiming for pulpy entertainment is as worthy a pursuit as trying to create some sort of exclusive cadre of tightly interwoven characters styled as actors in a play or a novel storyline. I'll freely admit to thinking "this character was cool, and I'd like to make something along the lines of that in my rp," and doing my own take on the same archetype. I like cliches a lot and I want to use them smartly. However, I do sort of want to provoke a reaction in people who play with me, and entertain them. Thus using my history and having it openly displayed in a really extensive profile feels to me like a good way to give people a more detailed view of what kind of rp they should expect playing with my character. When people interact with me IC and OOC tell me they think Virara is funny, or a scene made them sad, I find it really gratifying. (More the latter than the former, by the way.) Naturally if people react that way when they see her history on the wiki, I think that would be swell too, so I try to go the extra mile there too. A staggering amount of my characters have had ridiculously detailed profiles down to the type of cigarinos they enjoy or their favorite toy as a child, and only got slightly used in IC. Such is the nature of forum rp with flakes. But if I could impress even one person and entertain them with my open profile, I feel like at least I managed to make a really cool character.
I don't do this only for the character's history either. Future and present developments are of course mutable and subject to change. However, I typically have envisioned goals for what I want my character to do and act like later on in their development, and actively try to put them into situations which move them in that direction. If the plan changes because of someone's actions, then no big deal, but oftentimes I'll have four or five potential futures envisioned for the character planned out to their moment of death, and generally those unexpected happenings will fit into at least one of my plans in some way.
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AV by Kura-Ou
Wiki (Last updated 01/16)
My Balmung profile.
AV by Kura-Ou
Wiki (Last updated 01/16)
My Balmung profile.
