Thoughts on character

[Yogo Romlo]

This is more of a question of how lore breaky my story for my character, or my character in general, is and if so, what I should change.

 

First I guess is the general kind of stuff about my character:

Race: Xaela Au Ra

Gender: Male

Birth name: Yeke Ura

Name: Yogo Romlo

Age: 21

Class:Machinist

 

The origin story is that he lived peacefully until he was 10, was taken by Garlean scouts while helping his father strip ore from the mountain. Put into a workshop due to his basic understanding of ores and forging weapons. After 8 years here joined the empire's army as an engineer, working on Magitek Armour and Vanguards.First posted as a traveling engineer, going to where he was need the most then was permanently posted to Castrum Occidens, defected and changed his name after 3 years, due to exhaustion of supplies, an eventual combat position, and poor treatment weapons and machinery.

 

And now I guess character specifics, chose the name last name Romlo after his nick name for his favorite Vanguard. A tinkerer that loves to create weapons and traps. Has many mamets and pets, including a combat mamet of his own design and a young bomb that he nurtured back to health.  

 

That's about all I can think about. Opinions and comments are welcome!

[Branson Thorne]

I'm not really on the up and up with all the lore in the game, but I think this is pretty lore friendly.

[Eses Fafa]

I'm not too sure about timelines right now, that's my main clinch, but the Garleans have been around for a long while, with a long time to do their annexation run. Capturing an Au Ra at a young age doesn't sound too far-fetched.

Seems quite tame as far as 'contrived' stories go.

[kamikrazy]

It sounds pretty straightforward and believable enough. This character's edge would probably be best sharpened by how he reacts in the context of once being part of the empire.

 

1) How does he feel about his life so far?

2) Does he know or care about his origins?

3) Does he actually hate the empire or does he feel indifferent?

4) How does he feel about Eorzea? Does he look down on them?

5) What effect did the empire's propaganda have on him?

 

Little things like that in conversations will take a character like this a very long way

[Branson Thorne]

It sounds pretty straightforward and believable enough. This character's edge would probably be best sharpened by how he reacts in the context of once being part of the empire.

 

1) How does he feel about his life so far?

2) Does he know or care about his origins?

3) Does he actually hate the empire or does he feel indifferent?

4) How does he feel about Eorzea? Does he look down on them?

5) What effect did the empire's propaganda have on him?

 

Little things like that in conversations will take a character like this a very long way

And as someone who learned this the hard way, it's best to figure out these types of questions first so you don't have to wing it in an rp session.

 

The problem with not thinking about it beforehand is once someone puts you on the spot, your brain usually races for an answer and you end up just blurting something out and then having to remember what you said exactly so when another person asks you the same thing 2 days later, you give a different answer.