Sure, I'll bite!
I play Zhavi Streetrunner. She's a total streetrat, daughter of a whore and an unknown man. She was born in Limsa Lominsa, and there she's stayed. She hasn't ever tried for a better life -- what she has is what she thinks is all that's open to her. Crime and risk. She's not a very nice person. She's what the streets have made of her.
IRL, I'm a character junkie. I tend to go for things I haven't written about before. Things that catch my interest. Things that I see around me and want to recreate better than reality. I've played a 50-year-old sweet grandmother who lost everything, I've played 40-something has beens, I've played teenage losers, thirty-something professionals (including a bureaucratic clerk trying to do his best in a corrupt system) and hunters, hundred year old inhuman monsters, twenty-something nobles -- the compliment someone gave me that I have relished was how different all of my characters were from each other. The second compliment that made me happy was how one of the people I used to rp with always thought of me, the ooc person, as being a 50-something year old grandmother. That told me I'd pulled it off, at least to some extent.
For for Zhavi, the main reason I wanted to make her was because the last streetrat I made was a fairly incompetent coward (which, while fun in its own way, didn't quite settle the itch). I'm drawn to city rp because I all but live in a forest next to a very small city that is probably very possible to be compared to a small town. The largest city I've ever been in is probably Seattle . . . so cities fascinate me. How people interact in and make a living in cities fascinates me. I wanted someone who lived in that world, and couldn't escape it. I wanted someone to who that world is the world to her. Someone who can't see the forest for the trees, that sort of thing.
As well, playing someone so amoral is fun because it is so different from who I am (the choice word people tend to apply to me is 'sweet', with 'nice' being second place). I like playing the antagonist, the bad guy, the guy on the other side of the river who you don't understand and don't want to. I want her to be someone who lives and breathes in a space that is almost completely alien to me. I want to make it believable. At the end of the day, that's why I rp and go for disparate characters -- to create worlds, outside of my experiences, with other people, and watch how all those created characters interact with each other.
I play Zhavi Streetrunner. She's a total streetrat, daughter of a whore and an unknown man. She was born in Limsa Lominsa, and there she's stayed. She hasn't ever tried for a better life -- what she has is what she thinks is all that's open to her. Crime and risk. She's not a very nice person. She's what the streets have made of her.
IRL, I'm a character junkie. I tend to go for things I haven't written about before. Things that catch my interest. Things that I see around me and want to recreate better than reality. I've played a 50-year-old sweet grandmother who lost everything, I've played 40-something has beens, I've played teenage losers, thirty-something professionals (including a bureaucratic clerk trying to do his best in a corrupt system) and hunters, hundred year old inhuman monsters, twenty-something nobles -- the compliment someone gave me that I have relished was how different all of my characters were from each other. The second compliment that made me happy was how one of the people I used to rp with always thought of me, the ooc person, as being a 50-something year old grandmother. That told me I'd pulled it off, at least to some extent.
For for Zhavi, the main reason I wanted to make her was because the last streetrat I made was a fairly incompetent coward (which, while fun in its own way, didn't quite settle the itch). I'm drawn to city rp because I all but live in a forest next to a very small city that is probably very possible to be compared to a small town. The largest city I've ever been in is probably Seattle . . . so cities fascinate me. How people interact in and make a living in cities fascinates me. I wanted someone who lived in that world, and couldn't escape it. I wanted someone to who that world is the world to her. Someone who can't see the forest for the trees, that sort of thing.
As well, playing someone so amoral is fun because it is so different from who I am (the choice word people tend to apply to me is 'sweet', with 'nice' being second place). I like playing the antagonist, the bad guy, the guy on the other side of the river who you don't understand and don't want to. I want her to be someone who lives and breathes in a space that is almost completely alien to me. I want to make it believable. At the end of the day, that's why I rp and go for disparate characters -- to create worlds, outside of my experiences, with other people, and watch how all those created characters interact with each other.
