How does your RL reflect into your character?

[Kalooeh]

Since seems to be mainly personality based for this question, probably the closest character to my own personality is Sam, but most my alts tend to be based of a certain aspect of myself and then added to for depth and to give them their own life.

It keeps them from being too similar but same time can relate to them and helps with putting myself in their shoes.

 

Quite a few people seem to have issues that I admit that I am like all my characters, even if I'm not exactly or even seem to be very different. Usually because they feel the only way to actually rp a character well and maintain the ooc/ic separation is because

But really it's a common enough thing with acting too. If it's someone else's character you find something about them you can relate to and use it as a base for helping understand the character and motives and for pulling yourself in to character, even with aspects of them that arn't similar to yours.

I grew up with theater stuff and earliest I remember doing things in plays/being in a show is 5 years old and been pretty active in it. I wanted to do professional acting like for movies and things but mom never took me to auditions for those because she didn't want to deal with the typical things of stalking and lack of privacy and everything else negative that comes with getting bigger, more public roles.

 

Kal is outwardly very confident and sensual, as well as loud and mischievous. Quite a bit of her personality is in a base of what I was like when I was a kid. Not exactly, and I was largely still introverted and not very sexual, but I liked to play tricks on people and was like... a friendly bully that would tease people and friends a lot but usually wasn't malicious about it. She's caring but she can also be very violent and physical too, especially when angry. And when I was a kid my temperament was horrible and I got in a lot of fights.

 

Dheina is anxiety, simple-mindedness, being emotional, and part of me that really hates people getting hurt, and has issues with feeling useless and tries to hard for people's approval or hurts themselves trying to get something done that they most likely can't because of emotional or physical limitations but doesnt want to disappoint people.

 

Sam is probably closest in temperament and all to how I am now but is pretty much based on identity confusion and really having no clue what to do with themselves or their life and mostly kind of just wandering around aimlessly until something hits them in the face for what to do with themselves.

Armimi is a more serious character with more interest in science and learning how things work than interactions with people.

 

Cardea is part of my brain that is pretty much in the gutter and goofy, but also based on a kind of idea I think about for being flirty and also probably based less on a personality trait of myself but more off the black widow seductress types you see enough on tv to figure out the characterization.

 

And Samhain is more or less off the misanthropic part of me that's also has sociopathic tendencies. Based on the part of me that allowed for the interest in torture devices and methods when I was younger. The part of my thoughts that come up when angry or just tired of people and how the world works and saying fuck people I don't give a shit. That thinks "You got a problem with me, that's your problem".

 

Honestly I see nothing wrong with people taking parts of themselves and using it as a base concept to expand on and experiment with or create characters. Just because a character is based on something of yourself doesn't mean that character is you or that there's an issue with an ooc/ic separation.

The problem is when you take problems the character has personally. Like if someone's character doesnt like yours, you feel it's a personal attack on yourself by the player (This character hates mine so therefore their player hates me!) and you get angry and you use the character as a mouthpiece for your own feelings towards the other character and their player.

This has been an issue I've seen before where someone has made a number of characters that differ slightly but overall have the same way of thinking and speaking that also matched up with how the person acted oocly. One character of theirs had a problem with mine or they oocly had a problem with me and suddenly all characters would hate mine for the exact reason they oocly hated me/my character and they'd use the same insults and language as they did oocly and would throw fits the same way icly as oocly whenever something didn't go their way.

I have a lot of friends with characters that don't like mine, but we're still friends oocly and have a lot of fun and while the characters don't get along and exhibit traits we have, whether commonly or just on occasion, we recognize that it's character stuff and not personal.... though been times of course with ooc apologizing for their character and saying sorry their person doesn't like mine though they may oocly love mine.

Some of my friend's characters I absolutely adore oocly but they just don't get along with certain characters of mine.

 

I don't know this may be confusing for what I'm trying to point out here. But basically to me rp is like Improve acting and you can really get in to character and the character could even be near exact to you, and you can really get in to it, but at the end of the day you can recognize that it's not you.

Even if someone decides the best way to do this is to play a character opposite from them, it's still not a guarantee there wont be an ooc/ic issue. It can still affect a person emotionally ooc, and examples of this is like with what happened to Heath Ledger (Even if Heath wasn't actually like the Joker) and more or less the Joker killing him, but that's also a different situation than with rp in an mmo because the computer can help somewhat with separation too as you're not physically putting yourself in character, which actually does affect the level of connection between actor/player and character

 

And I ended up ranting a bit Sorry D; I'm just kind of passionate about acting and rp

[Melodia]

Oh for both Ruru and Melodia they share a trait only magnified to become the dominant or leading characteristic.

 

For example, Ruru's insecurity and loneliness reflect this in my irl persona, though I am nowhere near how Ruru is. I tend to see that trait in Ruru is magnified by circumstances and how he deals with it by growing more insular and dark toward others is not how I am. If Ruru's way of dealing with his loenliness was like me, he'd just be sad and pout. LOL.

 

Melodia's...uhmm...physical needs... lol....are taken from my own but I play it up for her to almost cartoonish levels and use other elements of her (rash temper, bit of flightiness) to sort of flesh out what in reality is a highly insecure char....damn I made two of them didn't I?

 

:frustrated:

[Meishali]

We share a birthday and an unhealthy passion for charismatic people, outer beauty and handsome faces in general. Otherwise, minus the highly individualist part, I'm hardly like her, and she's part of the few characters I really can't see myself getting in touch with/enjoying spending time with.

 

I'm too much of a workaholic. And she's very lazy!

[Clover]

My characters are always different people, none of them is based on myself. However, like it happens with any stranger I might meet irl, we might have some things in common.

 

-Clover: We're both dreamy, weird, and antisocial, albeit we're different kinds of antisocial. Out of all the characters I've played in my different roleplays, Clover is the only one who happens to share my asexuality, albeit she also seems to be aromantic while I'm not. She's quite independent and capable of living on her own while I'm the opposite; she loves reading books while I hate them. I love cute Japanese fashion while she dresses normally, and she wears the kind of colours I'd never wear myself (brown!).

 

-K'mih: We both have positive minds, we both display shy attitudes, and I guess we both like pink *laughs*. Other than that, and despite her occasional shyness, she's a very social and open person while I'm not. She trusts people way easier than I do, she doesn't seem to have personal insecurities while I have tons of them, and she basically belongs to a whole different culture which views I don't share at all.

 

-K'rahto: We both can be obsessive and jealous, albeit we don't display our emotions the same way. He's also antisocial, but while I still try to be friendly, he doesn't try at all. He likes girls while I like boys *sweatdrops*. Overall, he's really unrelated to me, hahaha.

[K'nahli]

K'nahli - 

K'nahli is like me in that she's not overly social. While not shy, she prefers not spend her time around too many people and limits unnecessary interaction with others to an extent. She likes boys while I like girls, but we can both agree that we each like K'rahto. It could also be said that she very heavily relies on the people she shares the strongest relationships with, not unlike myself.

 

Ah, also we share the really, horrible trait of overanalyzing and obsessing over certain things.

 

Andre - 

Andre was raised with good mannerisms and as a result does his best to get along with and be friendly to people. I think I share that in part since, even if I have no interest in talking with or engaging with a stranger at the time, I will anyways - instead of letting them down or making them feel bad(however the circumstances seem to be). Also I can be a bit of a peacekeeper when it comes to conflicts, particularly ones not directly involving myself.

 

Also, I suppose you could say that we have a similar interest in girls as far as aesthetics go.

 

Alex -

Alex is always rather stoic and inexpressive and I don't think that there's much that I share with him. I will say that he would be very level-headed even during conflict or when challenged and that tends to be how I react to situations too, with only a few specific type of situations garnering a more emotional response from both of us.

 

I imagine that were he to find something to put it in, then Alex would also be quite loyal to whatever relationship(platonically speaking) it was that he deemed worthy. I suppose I could say the same for myself(?)

 

Lulani -

Lulani is more or less an outlet for my own stupidity, so alongside us both being stupid, I'd say that I also share some of his shyness. Aside from that, I could probably say that we can both, at times, fail hard at trying to make a situation better and instead only make it worse when it comes to personal disputes.

 

Also fixation.

 

K'tyanu -

I don't know about this character. He's confident and a bit arrogant while I am neither of those things.

 

 

 

All of my characters love or at least like animals. I think that's the one trait that will carry into every single one of my characters.

[Temmi]

My character, Temariah Dawnsong, has a few similarities, and a whole slew of differences. I find that a lot of the similarities are caused by different things though!

 

Temariah has a hard time getting close to people, because she doesn't want to be close to people. 

I have a hard time getting close to people because I'm still changing so much year to year due to frequently moving and changing my views.

 

Temariah likes watermelon and sangria...

I like watermelon and sangria.

 

Temariah is a cool, distant professional, especially when it comes to tending someone's wounds.

I consider myself to be charismatic, cheerful, and nosy!

 

Temariah is tall, lithe and blond...

I am... short and brunette.

 

I'm very much a believer in the concept of your culture and upbringing having the biggest impact on a person, even in fantasy, so it's kind of difficult for me to recognize similarities these characters may have with people in the real world. This was a very interesting thought experiment for me because of that!

[Branson Thorne]

This is all very interesting, almost like getting to know each others characters, and the person behind them at the same time.

 

I, too, have characters that I've created to be complete opposites of me, but somehow, they all seem to share a fee likenesses to myself.

[ArmachiA]

I honestly think it's impossible to make a character completely opposite of you. Not because someone couldn't play one but EVENTUALLY a well rounded, three dimensional character is going to end up sharing a similarity somehow. It's inevitable. Just like real life, you stick around someone long enough you'll eventually find something the two of you agree on.

[Renata Turner]

I like this idea!

 

[align=center]Eorla Brynn[/align]

 

[align=center]IC: Kind, bleeding heart, strong morals

OOC: Pretty much the same

 

IC: Shy, backwards, awkward, bashful

OOC: I'm sociable enough, but when I've had enough, I just want to be left the hell alone.

 

IC: Only swears when enraged beyond belief.

OOC: Only swears on days ending in "Y", between the hours of 12am - 11:59pm.[/align]

 

[align=center]IC: Insecure, quick to blame herself for everything

OOC: Yeah.

 

Eorla has many of my issues and baggage, but where I will swallow it until it eats me alive, Eorla accepts those flaws as a part of her. I've learned to 'cope' with my baggage, Eorla is learning to live with hers. We are both prone to fits of brooding moodiness, but again, we handle those things much differently. 

 

Eorla, in some aspects, is a manifestation of the way I wish I could live my life, or could have lived my life had life not happened as it did. Eorla, at the time of this particular post right meow, was only recently de-virginized by her soulmate. Yeah, the one that split after the disaster of a Haukke run. I don't know what it would have been like to willingly give up my v-card, no matter how much I might say that it doesn't count, truth is, it did count, and it's just something I'll never experience. 

 

Eorla's current foray into the darker elements is but a walk along where ocean meets sand, and it is a growth experience for her. She's going to question her morals, her beliefs, and almost everything she stands for, but she'll pull through it and be better for it...and maybe that's why I truly love her so much. She's not me. But she has had a few similar experiences, and we share a lot of common faults...she's not perfect, but she is far stronger than I ever was, and while she's no Mary Sue, I admire the evidence of strength and endurance in her life where there is but failure and sorrow in my own.[/align]

[Zyrusticae]

Physically, she's a lot like me. Skinny to the point of having higher-than-normal muscle definition (but she's bulkier than me, for very obvious reasons). Same skin tone, hair color, and eye color. Some SEA features, especially her eyes. She is quite a bit shorter than I am, however. Also more feminine (but still genderqueer), though that's more a limitation of the character creator than anything else (yes, that goes for RL too - oh, how I would love to be able to create my own body...)

 

Mentally, however, she's the opposite in many ways. She's FAR more social, despite being about as introverted as I am. She has considerably more confidence, possesses great martial skill where I have none, has very little shame where my own embarrassment tends to be crippling, and is far more likely to provoke people intentionally, often for the fun of it. To be honest... she's a lot of what I would like to be, though naturally there are some qualities that I would leave given the option.

 

Oh, she's also a lot less empathetic than I am. I'm a regular bleeding heart. She's more (much more) likely to turn the other cheek than aid someone in need. Part of it is undoubtedly due to exposure - she sees a lot more terrible shit on a regular basis up-close-and-personal than I do, after all, and so much exposure to that sort of thing inevitably produces desensitization unless you have unlimited resources and the ability to fix problems at the root (which she does not).

 

Qualities we share? Well... our views on sex, and our views on property are pretty much the same. That's probably not a good thing to admit given the kinds of things she gets up to, but that's how it is. There's not much beyond that that I can really think of. Quite a wide gulf between our personalities, I would say.