@Memenu: Bold character! I approve. 
 And I have to wonder what would happen to Memenu should her people stop "needing" her so much...
I'll just introduce Antimony, as she was/is my main character in FFXIV.
This is her original incarnation:
Forsaken for life? xD She started out as a bank alt with a nerdy name and then grew into an actual rp character. And then some time during ICC, she became my actual main... This one set the base trend for all future Antimony's. She is a manager of client goods and finances ICly, as well as an amateur mathematician who enjoys applying mathematical principals to magic. She's also extremely proper, motherly, and far too ambitious when it comes to science for her own good. I race changed her a couple times in WoW - to Tauren when Tauren could finally become priests, then back again to Forsaken, and then later to Pandaren for a while before returning to Forsaken - though those were never IC. xD
Antimony skipped an incarnation in Rift. The next time she came up was in TERA.
Here she developed a ruthless streak. I played up the scientist aspect of the original Antimony until it warped into someone whose drive for discovering telling the truth governed her every move. She lost her motherly nature; instead she was a child who excelled staggeringly in a few things but never lived up to her parents' wishes and so struck out on her own. She was self-sufficient, wanting to do good but lacking a certain level of compassion, and willing to go to extreme lengths to achieve her goals. I say "was" because a series of very awful events have broken her down to someone almost unrecognizable.
During TERA, we dabbled in GW2 as well, and another Antimony was born:
She took the socially awkward and highly intellectual traits of TERA Antimony, but wrapped them in a more friendly package. I didn't RP her for very long (though I'm always willing to continue the RP at some point), so I didn't get to fully explore her character.
And then there was K'piru! Otherwise known as Antimony.
I dug up those motherly instincts that were a minor aspect of the original Antimony's character and really explored them. I built her a family, and then got friends to RP that family, and then I took that family away from her. Family - blood or otherwise - has been a huge theme in her roleplay, and it plays a large role in her motivations. Before the start of the game, she was isolated, socially and culturally. I took advantage of the potential in Seeker lore to craft up an entire tribe sub-culture, and I've had a grand time weaving that into K'piru's character. She is also very other-focused, her every action taken so as to better the life of those remnants of family she's managed to salvage. The intellectual nature that seems to have become a common thread across incarnations is still there, but it's colored and altered by a very different background. While, say, TERA!Antimony would scoff at superstition, K'piru has a whole host of beliefs that influence her day-to-day life and behaviors. She is also more emotionally demonstrative and extremely anxious.
Aaaaaand most recently, WildStar has held my attention for the past year and a half:
I love everything about this game and the character I've created. xD Although visually she takes her queues from the original WoW!Antimony, this incarnation is probably the biggest outlier of them all in terms of personality. Anne (as her friend Jack calls her) is staggeringly intelligent but has the emotional capacity and understanding of something along the lines of a 4 year old. She spent the vast majority of her life first isolated from her people (stowed away as a little kid on a small research vessel back when the Exiles made first contact with Arboria) and then isolated from all sentient contact whatsoever (the two scientists ended up dying in a pretty awful research accident). She doesn't handle people well, is extremely self-centered in a childish way, and grapples with a very simplistic understanding of right and wrong. Still, she craves some kind of personal connection even if she doesn't want to admit it, even as she's yelling at Jack and Spiderbot and Twig to just go away, let her stay on her crashed Spaceship alone forever, she doesn't need anyone, all she needs is her science stuff and herself.
She's a blast. xD
 And I have to wonder what would happen to Memenu should her people stop "needing" her so much...I'll just introduce Antimony, as she was/is my main character in FFXIV.
This is her original incarnation:
![[Image: aKTNHkV.png]](http://i.imgur.com/aKTNHkV.png)
Forsaken for life? xD She started out as a bank alt with a nerdy name and then grew into an actual rp character. And then some time during ICC, she became my actual main... This one set the base trend for all future Antimony's. She is a manager of client goods and finances ICly, as well as an amateur mathematician who enjoys applying mathematical principals to magic. She's also extremely proper, motherly, and far too ambitious when it comes to science for her own good. I race changed her a couple times in WoW - to Tauren when Tauren could finally become priests, then back again to Forsaken, and then later to Pandaren for a while before returning to Forsaken - though those were never IC. xD
Antimony skipped an incarnation in Rift. The next time she came up was in TERA.
![[Image: gc5tseq.png]](http://i.imgur.com/gc5tseq.png)
Here she developed a ruthless streak. I played up the scientist aspect of the original Antimony until it warped into someone whose drive for discovering telling the truth governed her every move. She lost her motherly nature; instead she was a child who excelled staggeringly in a few things but never lived up to her parents' wishes and so struck out on her own. She was self-sufficient, wanting to do good but lacking a certain level of compassion, and willing to go to extreme lengths to achieve her goals. I say "was" because a series of very awful events have broken her down to someone almost unrecognizable.
During TERA, we dabbled in GW2 as well, and another Antimony was born:
![[Image: VfAZyFr.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/VfAZyFr.jpg)
She took the socially awkward and highly intellectual traits of TERA Antimony, but wrapped them in a more friendly package. I didn't RP her for very long (though I'm always willing to continue the RP at some point), so I didn't get to fully explore her character.
And then there was K'piru! Otherwise known as Antimony.
![[Image: gB1dBsb.png]](http://i.imgur.com/gB1dBsb.png)
I dug up those motherly instincts that were a minor aspect of the original Antimony's character and really explored them. I built her a family, and then got friends to RP that family, and then I took that family away from her. Family - blood or otherwise - has been a huge theme in her roleplay, and it plays a large role in her motivations. Before the start of the game, she was isolated, socially and culturally. I took advantage of the potential in Seeker lore to craft up an entire tribe sub-culture, and I've had a grand time weaving that into K'piru's character. She is also very other-focused, her every action taken so as to better the life of those remnants of family she's managed to salvage. The intellectual nature that seems to have become a common thread across incarnations is still there, but it's colored and altered by a very different background. While, say, TERA!Antimony would scoff at superstition, K'piru has a whole host of beliefs that influence her day-to-day life and behaviors. She is also more emotionally demonstrative and extremely anxious.
Aaaaaand most recently, WildStar has held my attention for the past year and a half:
![[Image: DwoB3Km.png]](http://i.imgur.com/DwoB3Km.png)
I love everything about this game and the character I've created. xD Although visually she takes her queues from the original WoW!Antimony, this incarnation is probably the biggest outlier of them all in terms of personality. Anne (as her friend Jack calls her) is staggeringly intelligent but has the emotional capacity and understanding of something along the lines of a 4 year old. She spent the vast majority of her life first isolated from her people (stowed away as a little kid on a small research vessel back when the Exiles made first contact with Arboria) and then isolated from all sentient contact whatsoever (the two scientists ended up dying in a pretty awful research accident). She doesn't handle people well, is extremely self-centered in a childish way, and grapples with a very simplistic understanding of right and wrong. Still, she craves some kind of personal connection even if she doesn't want to admit it, even as she's yelling at Jack and Spiderbot and Twig to just go away, let her stay on her crashed Spaceship alone forever, she doesn't need anyone, all she needs is her science stuff and herself.
She's a blast. xD
![[Image: AntiThalSig.png]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/179079766/AntiThalSig.png)
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