I can answer this in only one way: Amongst all the characters I've ever had, Siobhain is unique. A lot of them have been the same. Usually very feminine characters who were quiet and maternal to some degree. Usually soft spoken and intelligent, exceedingly slow to anger, and vicious in their own way when the time came for it. Some were really witty (because I love my quips) but overall just very submissive personalities.
Siobhain? Complete opposite of that. She is a dominating female without being a crazy Amazonian. Despite having something of a commanding presence, she never dwells in it or allows it to give her any sort of ego amongst her peers. She's confident, physically and emotionally strong, strategic, she thinks ahead and she tends to be rather open-minded. Unlike my other character's she's not self-centered nor would she throw her life away over any little cause simple to prove she's brave. Not only do I find her different from all of my past characters, I find her pretty different from other female Roe-- though admittedly I have met very very few Hellsguard.
My Roe-lady has several emotional flaws that are generally tempered by friends. Her anger is heavy and almost inexplicable at times. While she can be open-minded on several topics, morality isn't one of them and she refuses to protect anyone who commits what she considers to be crimes; mostly stealing, killing, and betraying one's loyalties. Romantically she has no idea what she's doing or where she's going-- she had no experience with hugging or hand holding or kissing. She was just as awkward as you can imagine. She is almost always blunt and that bluntness can be derisive, usually aimed at people of a certain race (Yes, she's racist against male Elezen.). Her final and possibly largest flaw is her naivety about religion. She can be very easily manipulated by an individual who simply presents themselves as devout and pious. It hasn't quite happened yet but I'm waiting for it. Physically, she's short compared to most Roegadyn women and relatively light. She bears a number of scars which could or could not make her more or less unattractive in the eyes of others-- she genuinely does not care either way.
Most of how she is and how she thinks stems from two sources. Her broken family and her Sultansworn mentor. Her father and brother abandoned her-- when her brother returned more than a decade later, he was a smarmy criminal and virtually embodied everything she despised. Between the two they fleshed out her distrust of larger men and her own people, as well as rounded out her hatred for bandits, mercenaries, and bullies in general. Her mother's faith broke and she neglected her, leading her away from wanting to be a blacksmith/housewife like her mother. Waken gave her virtually every one of her personality traits, including her naivety and all of her likes and dislikes in some facet.Â
That's probably one of the things I like most about Sio besides how she's slowly and surely learning and adapting to having friends without being clumsy or hateful all the time-- that she has characters in her past who influence here where most of my characters were stand-alone toons without much by way of history. Sio's history is pretty filled out.
Siobhain? Complete opposite of that. She is a dominating female without being a crazy Amazonian. Despite having something of a commanding presence, she never dwells in it or allows it to give her any sort of ego amongst her peers. She's confident, physically and emotionally strong, strategic, she thinks ahead and she tends to be rather open-minded. Unlike my other character's she's not self-centered nor would she throw her life away over any little cause simple to prove she's brave. Not only do I find her different from all of my past characters, I find her pretty different from other female Roe-- though admittedly I have met very very few Hellsguard.
My Roe-lady has several emotional flaws that are generally tempered by friends. Her anger is heavy and almost inexplicable at times. While she can be open-minded on several topics, morality isn't one of them and she refuses to protect anyone who commits what she considers to be crimes; mostly stealing, killing, and betraying one's loyalties. Romantically she has no idea what she's doing or where she's going-- she had no experience with hugging or hand holding or kissing. She was just as awkward as you can imagine. She is almost always blunt and that bluntness can be derisive, usually aimed at people of a certain race (Yes, she's racist against male Elezen.). Her final and possibly largest flaw is her naivety about religion. She can be very easily manipulated by an individual who simply presents themselves as devout and pious. It hasn't quite happened yet but I'm waiting for it. Physically, she's short compared to most Roegadyn women and relatively light. She bears a number of scars which could or could not make her more or less unattractive in the eyes of others-- she genuinely does not care either way.
Most of how she is and how she thinks stems from two sources. Her broken family and her Sultansworn mentor. Her father and brother abandoned her-- when her brother returned more than a decade later, he was a smarmy criminal and virtually embodied everything she despised. Between the two they fleshed out her distrust of larger men and her own people, as well as rounded out her hatred for bandits, mercenaries, and bullies in general. Her mother's faith broke and she neglected her, leading her away from wanting to be a blacksmith/housewife like her mother. Waken gave her virtually every one of her personality traits, including her naivety and all of her likes and dislikes in some facet.Â
That's probably one of the things I like most about Sio besides how she's slowly and surely learning and adapting to having friends without being clumsy or hateful all the time-- that she has characters in her past who influence here where most of my characters were stand-alone toons without much by way of history. Sio's history is pretty filled out.
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