I have to say, I've really warmed up to this thread, and I appreciate that there are people out there that enjoy reading about how characters came to be, and the story of the process.
M character, Ryanti Veanysus, was born around the year of 2010. The first name, Ryanti, was actually the middle name of a character I created for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The name of that character was Bain Ryanti Noronel and the name Ryanti itself was his real name, Bain being the name he would go by, because his presence around others normally spelled doom for their fates considering that he was a Sith.
When it came time for Final Fantasy XIV to come around, I was already an individual who had my neck deep into JRPG's. Ever since Tales of Symphonia in 2004, I had been immersing myself in more of the JRPG philosophies of world building, and spent many late nights studying what makes a JRPG wonderful. I became inspired by the natural idealistic beauty of the words, and also with sophisticated names.
The word Veanysus came from a combination of things. There was a character at the time whom I had a thing for, particularly in the new Star Ocean game that had released in 2009. This game was called Star Ocean: The Last Hope. In that game, there is a character by the name of Myuria Tionysus. Myuria Tionysus was a very capable woman who walked with a charismatic stride, and seemed to be perfect on the outside, but in truth had many faults and challenges battling her on the inside.
I realized that I wanted to make Ryanti's surname as a tribute to that wonderful game, but at the same time, I wanted to change that last name into a more romantic sounding tone. I took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance as well as romantic space fantasy. Quite odd inspirations for a pseudo-medieval world, but, the result, Veanysus, I believed was a unique one.
I made him a Hyur Midlander, with white hair, and cyan eyes. I went for the bishounen look, because I had come to admire the idealistic, ethereal storytelling atmospheric practices of the games and anime I had watched. I decided that he needed to look angelic above all else.
The first ideas I had for him were quite primitive and impromptu at first. I never really got that deep into roleplay in FFXIV 1.0. The game turned out to be very disappointing, so I decided to take the Ryanti concept elsewhere.
Enter TERA. Upon garnering interest in that game, I completely redesigned Ryanti's story to fit the universe of TERA. In TERA, Ryanti was a high elf male, who's father was lost in the great war that came before the present time of that game, and was forced to grow up before most boys did in order to succeed where his father had failed. I won't speak much of it, as I wish to erase that recorded story I did in TERA. Although I did write a few short stories about it.
However, TERA's community made me leave only after a few months. It was then that I realized that my internet pseudonym, which had previously been something else, was now becoming Ryanti, because of old friends leaving, and new friends being made. Ryanti Veanysus were two names I had came up with by the concurrences of my own mind, unlike other names I had came up with. Therefore, it began to become my own internet pseudonym. For a while, that was its purpose.
When Final Fantasy 2.0 was relieved, I waited a few months before coming back here. When I did, I sat down, and figured out how to redesign Ryanti completely again.
I realized I wanted to keep that aura of capableness that Myuria Tionysus from Star Ocean had. However, I wanted him to be defined by his weaknesses, not his strengths. I wanted him to radiate a feeling of vulnerability and struggle, but keep the sensations of beauty and gracefulness.
I felt like I needed a tough young man, but I couldn't make him gritty. I felt like I needed a strong soul, but I couldn't make him cold. I felt like I needed him to be heroic, but I couldn't make him sure of himself.
I thought back to the stories and trials and tribulations that I valued immensely in the past. Stories that stayed with me in my heart for many years. For Ryanti's personality, I ended up using the bishounen prince archetype. I combined the personality of Prince Arslan from the Heroic Legend of Arslan, Ciel Phantomhive from Black Butler, and inspirations from the original characters I am working on in my own original world.
I ended up adding some aspects of myself in there as well, in order for me to relate to him to a certain degree, so that I would find it easier to suspend disbelief, and of course, to empathize with him.
I wanted him to have a beautifully flawed inside, and define his strengths through his perceived weaknesses, in order to place emphasis on the wonder of being 'human'. Though of course, as you can see, Ryanti isn't human.
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For his backstory, I wanted to be a male Miqo'te for the sole sake of OOC preference. As I have waited, and waited, and waited, in MMO's for years, in order to be able to play a race similar to the Miqo'te. With a few animistic features, but mostly humanoid. FFXI didn't allow it, so eleven years later, I couldn't resist.
However, I did not desire to RP him from the culture of Miqo'te. I wanted him to possess the affinity and the aura of man. (AKA Hyur). So I decided to make him a Miqo'te halfbreed, with his father being a Hyur. I wanted to RP a perspective from the haves, and I wanted most of Ryanti's suffering to have to deal with social life and self-actualization, so I made his family wealthy in a capitalistic sense. I wanted to put pressure on him to live up to his family name, so I made his father a War Hero, and an extremely successful man in life, that refused to show weakness in front of his son, and that who's 'perfect father' aura during the rare times he was home that he showcased to his son backfired into his son believing him to be perfect. That living up to him would be a nightmare.
I wanted him to despise the side of himself that made him feel like an animal. I wanted him to feel terrible about his mixed blood. I wanted him to frown upon the Miqo'te's tribal culture, as well as him being half-blooded with them. I gave him a ton of depth by diving deep into his personal life through his childhood, and involved nearly most of his backstory to be very close to psychologically ripping him apart. To define who he is in on the inside without being so blunt about it.
I made him a complicated, conflicted person by having multiple opinions about single situations. I made him so that his opinions are not iron clad, and that his values and views would forever be moldable by the world around him, which he looks at in a very rose-tinted perspective because he has had such a sheltered life.
I wanted him to have a sheltered life because I wanted a character who had his own perception of the world that would make sense to others if they had an open mind. I wanted a kid who spent his hours looking up in the stars, or balancing himself on a fence post while the rest of the world stared at him with a weird look. I wanted somebody who would walk their own path in perspective and by doing so, I would be able to create something interesting out of the way he behaves. I didn't want him to be grounded.
So fast forward to how, and you have Ryanti Veanysus.
Another product of my passion for writing.
M character, Ryanti Veanysus, was born around the year of 2010. The first name, Ryanti, was actually the middle name of a character I created for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The name of that character was Bain Ryanti Noronel and the name Ryanti itself was his real name, Bain being the name he would go by, because his presence around others normally spelled doom for their fates considering that he was a Sith.
When it came time for Final Fantasy XIV to come around, I was already an individual who had my neck deep into JRPG's. Ever since Tales of Symphonia in 2004, I had been immersing myself in more of the JRPG philosophies of world building, and spent many late nights studying what makes a JRPG wonderful. I became inspired by the natural idealistic beauty of the words, and also with sophisticated names.
The word Veanysus came from a combination of things. There was a character at the time whom I had a thing for, particularly in the new Star Ocean game that had released in 2009. This game was called Star Ocean: The Last Hope. In that game, there is a character by the name of Myuria Tionysus. Myuria Tionysus was a very capable woman who walked with a charismatic stride, and seemed to be perfect on the outside, but in truth had many faults and challenges battling her on the inside.
I realized that I wanted to make Ryanti's surname as a tribute to that wonderful game, but at the same time, I wanted to change that last name into a more romantic sounding tone. I took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance as well as romantic space fantasy. Quite odd inspirations for a pseudo-medieval world, but, the result, Veanysus, I believed was a unique one.
I made him a Hyur Midlander, with white hair, and cyan eyes. I went for the bishounen look, because I had come to admire the idealistic, ethereal storytelling atmospheric practices of the games and anime I had watched. I decided that he needed to look angelic above all else.
The first ideas I had for him were quite primitive and impromptu at first. I never really got that deep into roleplay in FFXIV 1.0. The game turned out to be very disappointing, so I decided to take the Ryanti concept elsewhere.
Enter TERA. Upon garnering interest in that game, I completely redesigned Ryanti's story to fit the universe of TERA. In TERA, Ryanti was a high elf male, who's father was lost in the great war that came before the present time of that game, and was forced to grow up before most boys did in order to succeed where his father had failed. I won't speak much of it, as I wish to erase that recorded story I did in TERA. Although I did write a few short stories about it.
However, TERA's community made me leave only after a few months. It was then that I realized that my internet pseudonym, which had previously been something else, was now becoming Ryanti, because of old friends leaving, and new friends being made. Ryanti Veanysus were two names I had came up with by the concurrences of my own mind, unlike other names I had came up with. Therefore, it began to become my own internet pseudonym. For a while, that was its purpose.
When Final Fantasy 2.0 was relieved, I waited a few months before coming back here. When I did, I sat down, and figured out how to redesign Ryanti completely again.
I realized I wanted to keep that aura of capableness that Myuria Tionysus from Star Ocean had. However, I wanted him to be defined by his weaknesses, not his strengths. I wanted him to radiate a feeling of vulnerability and struggle, but keep the sensations of beauty and gracefulness.
I felt like I needed a tough young man, but I couldn't make him gritty. I felt like I needed a strong soul, but I couldn't make him cold. I felt like I needed him to be heroic, but I couldn't make him sure of himself.
I thought back to the stories and trials and tribulations that I valued immensely in the past. Stories that stayed with me in my heart for many years. For Ryanti's personality, I ended up using the bishounen prince archetype. I combined the personality of Prince Arslan from the Heroic Legend of Arslan, Ciel Phantomhive from Black Butler, and inspirations from the original characters I am working on in my own original world.
I ended up adding some aspects of myself in there as well, in order for me to relate to him to a certain degree, so that I would find it easier to suspend disbelief, and of course, to empathize with him.
I wanted him to have a beautifully flawed inside, and define his strengths through his perceived weaknesses, in order to place emphasis on the wonder of being 'human'. Though of course, as you can see, Ryanti isn't human.
__
For his backstory, I wanted to be a male Miqo'te for the sole sake of OOC preference. As I have waited, and waited, and waited, in MMO's for years, in order to be able to play a race similar to the Miqo'te. With a few animistic features, but mostly humanoid. FFXI didn't allow it, so eleven years later, I couldn't resist.
However, I did not desire to RP him from the culture of Miqo'te. I wanted him to possess the affinity and the aura of man. (AKA Hyur). So I decided to make him a Miqo'te halfbreed, with his father being a Hyur. I wanted to RP a perspective from the haves, and I wanted most of Ryanti's suffering to have to deal with social life and self-actualization, so I made his family wealthy in a capitalistic sense. I wanted to put pressure on him to live up to his family name, so I made his father a War Hero, and an extremely successful man in life, that refused to show weakness in front of his son, and that who's 'perfect father' aura during the rare times he was home that he showcased to his son backfired into his son believing him to be perfect. That living up to him would be a nightmare.
I wanted him to despise the side of himself that made him feel like an animal. I wanted him to feel terrible about his mixed blood. I wanted him to frown upon the Miqo'te's tribal culture, as well as him being half-blooded with them. I gave him a ton of depth by diving deep into his personal life through his childhood, and involved nearly most of his backstory to be very close to psychologically ripping him apart. To define who he is in on the inside without being so blunt about it.
I made him a complicated, conflicted person by having multiple opinions about single situations. I made him so that his opinions are not iron clad, and that his values and views would forever be moldable by the world around him, which he looks at in a very rose-tinted perspective because he has had such a sheltered life.
I wanted him to have a sheltered life because I wanted a character who had his own perception of the world that would make sense to others if they had an open mind. I wanted a kid who spent his hours looking up in the stars, or balancing himself on a fence post while the rest of the world stared at him with a weird look. I wanted somebody who would walk their own path in perspective and by doing so, I would be able to create something interesting out of the way he behaves. I didn't want him to be grounded.
So fast forward to how, and you have Ryanti Veanysus.
Another product of my passion for writing.
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