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Thread: A question of character development

Are we talking about creating characters or how we take characters from one place to another? Because I think that's inextricably intertwined. When you create a character for a story, you really ought to know what kind of story you're going to be writing up front. Oh, sure, you can be surprised along the way, particularly if you're doing it RP-style with a partner like on this board, but basically, you've got to have some kind of direction to go in. This is one reason I tend to dislike omni-powerful characters, ones who are so badass up front. Mostly, that kind of thing is someone who doesn't feel very confident in real life, and wants to play someone who is. Which is just fine, and psychologically necessary at points, but at my stage in writing and reading, it's not interesting. To me, the only reason you'd make a character a superlative master of a given skill is if you want that skill to be mostly irrelevant to the plot. Oh, sure, if you're a supreme fighter, you have to have one or two fight scenes, just to show off, but most of your story is going to be about non-fighting things. The way to make it interesting again is if the character suddenly loses the ability, or finds something he or she can't handle, and then has to get clever to figure out how to get past that obstacle. It's like... you're reading a comic book, and Wolverine gets into a fight. You have no reason to expect anything but his win, so unless there's some creative violence, unusual imagery in the fight scene, you can safely skip to the end when the real plot comes up again. Wolverine fighting isn't the point. Wolverine doing something unusual during the fight, like finding a clue or explaining a plot point, or gasp LOSING, that's interesting. Okay, end of tangent. Good characters change. Whether good or evil, they alter as they experience the story, learn things, interact with others. The self-discovery method is good and true-to-life, because hardly any of us are really what we tell ourselves we are, and why would characters be any different, except that they tend to find out the truth through the story, and the rest of us rarely do. A character designed to change like in a poem or song lyric is perfectly valid I once played an RP based on a Browning poem, so I get that. Ultimately, your inspiration for the character is immaterial. Inspiration comes from literally anywhere. Hell, a melting icicle can spark a thought that leads to a character. The important thing is the character goes from point A to poing B, and is different in some manner along the way. Look at WALL-E, for example. He doesn't change much, really, as a personality. A little bit, as he dies and comes back, and then finds fulfillment. But really, everyone around him changes, as a direct result of interacting with him. And it's organic and believable, but wouldn't have happened without that interaction. Besides being a good example of visual storytelling, that movie shows a lot of good things we can use.
Thread: A question of character development

I've ALWAYS been in love with the idea of a character's journey to self-discovery using plots and witnessing events. Taking a character from zero to hero will almost always be in my character's future. Since I constantly create characters a new one for each story and RP I usually find my inspiration in the plot that they will be set into and generally put them as an opposite or contrast to existing characters or ideas, yet compliments the setting. Like if it's a WWII story, I would make a character who's personality fits the era, and who journey to self discover could start with the Blitz or something.
Thread: A question of character development

Witnessing events was a biggie for me. As soon as I like...experience something for myself, I can channel that into my character properly rather than just reading how OTHER people feel. My characters are all quite close to my heart in some ways, they all share traits that I have and that's why I have a connection to the ones that have 'staying power', whether they're something I want to be gorgeous, tall, sky high legs, long ginger hair...if you want a visual, think karen gillan with a less rounded face or something that I can connect to properly, they're all like...slices of me in some ways, so they react in similar ways to me but all differently as well when something happens. Recently, I experienced a couple of good and bad things which meant I could bring them into a character's past and give it a more...realistic feel than somebody who just throws around diseases like they're trends. MY CHARACTER IS DEPRESSED BECAUSE SHE HAS CANCER BUT SHE IS STILL FULL OF LIFE AND PRETTY AND ROSY-CHEEKED and so on and so forth really bother me...having been through cancer with a relative, I know that it definitely isn't rainbows and butterflies and inspiring moments, most of it is completely awful until you get the definite all clear, there's always the background worry that it could come back or they'll take a sudden turn for the worse... Yeah, sorry, that got away with me a bit. Definitely experiences and stuff, then the character's traits determine how they'd handle it.
Thread: A question of character development

As MM said, the melting of an icicle can spark a thought that leads to a character. This is how it works for me. I'm a very visual person and things tend to spark ideas to me. Once I have a general idea like sex, gender, racespecies, and a few behavioral traits, I do something that's kinda hard to explain. I try to visualize myself as this character. I start asking myself questions as if I was this character who's suffered a blow to the head, trying to remember everything. For some characters, the details wash over my brain pretty quickly. For a very few and rather special characters, the details come at a slow pace. Sometimes even in the middle of an RP, it's as if a memory is 'unlocked' by certain actions. That particularly sounds cheesy, but that's the easiest way to describe it. While I'm RPing a character, I honestly try to put myself into who they are to try and make decisions or dialogue. That can make things kind of hard as getting into their skin, so to speak, takes some effort if I've been doing several RPs. It's one of the leading causes if me being unable to reply to an RP for some time, outside of depression. I don't really have anything to add on character believability. I've typed out about seven different paragraphs trying to add something new, but MM really simplified the thoughts I share behind making mine believable. I wish I had more to add, but it's been well said.
Thread: A question of character development

That much is true, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Though if you really want to get into specifics such as the character's mood at the current point, it all really has to deal with the current situation. As I outlined it in the previous post that what the character goes through is played straight to a T, it can lead to defining moments in the RP, ranging from Crowning Moments of Awesome, Heartwarming and or if for a comedic purpose Funny. I suppose another example of this is if you took a look at the one I have currently going - and one of the hottest running RP's I've had in perhaps the longest time! - with Devxx. In that, you can see for yourself that my character Thanatos suffered such a case when he had to deliberately fall off the WillisSears Tower despite there was a major league twist to it. The example can be supplied through hereurl on page 11 and continue onward, proving that despite that massive damage, he wasn't really above it all.
Thread: A question of character development

For me at least. When I'm writing a story. Sometimes when I roleplay. I try to distance myself as much from the character but at the same time I'm trying to understand him as I develop him. Try to know him or her, when I create them and add them to the world I create. Don't know if that makes sense... Most important thing to me though is avoiding creating a Mary Sue or Marty Stu who may turn into a self insert. I've already ready to many fanfics and even some stories that have such characters. I also think it's important to show flaws and show the characters overcoming the flaws Wesely Wynddam Pryce from the buffy universe to me is a prime example of character development. Look at him. HE went from a bumbling fool who could barely take down a vampire, to a competent hunter who is capable of far more ruthlessness then ever possible. And in the end he went out dying like hero even after everything was taken away from him.
Thread: A question of character development

Wesley is a great character. He's a good example of planning, in that all he became had its groundwork laid out over a lot of time previous to anything happening. He was also very sympathetic, in that you could understand all his choices, whether or not you would have done the same in his place. And he was very frequently the series whipping boy, in that nobody escaped wounds, but if you really needed someone to suffer, you could go to Wesley pretty reliably. Such a good performance by Alexis Denisof, as well.
Thread: Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... (New plot)

RE Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... Lycanthropy AND pregnancy? Please roleplay with me!
Thread: Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... (New plot)

RE Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... Of course !
Thread: Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... (New plot)

RE Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... Hey!!!!! Whoa. Please PM me because I would love to plan a plot with you. I would love to be a submissive male vamp dominated by a female vamp. Also, I would enjoy pretty much anything.
Thread: Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... (New plot)

RE Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... have a few ideas I could run by you, various types. anthro in most, pm if interested
Thread: Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... (New plot)

RE Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... Bumpity!
Thread: Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... (New plot)

RE Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... Would ou be up for a Slave X Samurai SlaveSamurai RP in which the Samurai ,my charie, is actually the younger sister of the person she is pretending to be. Her brother was murdered and she assumes his name so as to be able to travel having learnt how to use a sword from her brother after the rest of their family died. On her journey for revenge she takes along her slavemaid In ancient Japan they could be basically the same thing and long time lover in public behaving like a harsh and cruel master as is normal while in private it is the lowly serving girl who takes control. At some point in the RP I would love it if there could be a situation which makes it necessary for them to pretend to have sex, with the Samurai taking the slave, so as to avoid suspicion of some sort
Thread: Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... (New plot)

RE Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... i have a plot for a human and alien rp.
Thread: Random ahoy! RP for everyone!! Well, almost... (New plot)

Bumpity!
Thread: The breaking of a sword (Need partner to continue)

No bites yet... pouts sadly
Thread: The breaking of a sword (Need partner to continue)

Tenative bite. Reading up on the thread. I prefer to make my own characters though. Which gives the option of letting 5th return to his character, should he return.
Thread: The breaking of a sword (Need partner to continue)

Thank you for your interest, I do hope to hear back from you soon, if not then I am sure there might be someone else willing to try it a little.
Thread: The breaking of a sword (Need partner to continue)

Anyone interested? I am thinking we could also start from where she is currently in the cart being pulled and just start it as a new rp if someone is interested?
Thread: The breaking of a sword (Need partner to continue)

no nibbles yet
Thread: The breaking of a sword (Need partner to continue)

I'll take a look through the thread and shoot you a message or pm after I'm done if I find it something I can jump into.
Thread: The breaking of a sword (Need partner to continue)

Awesome, I hope to hear back from you soon, or anyone else that can help me in getting the rp rolling again.
Thread: The breaking of a sword (Need partner to continue)

Will someone please continue this with me, I can change it up a little with allowing a new character yours to step in and take over.
Thread: Late Night( Tristeza/Silver)

She was so tired right now. It was nearly one in the morning and Jennifer had at least another hour before she could call it a night and leave. But she had to get these papers done. It was important, very important. She'd been promoted to executive to her branch and as such had to make sure to oversee the direction her fellow workers went through, as well as meeting up with bosses, and not to mention the hounds of works she had to do. The blond had two different jobs, the first of which she'd already done. It was a job as a cook at a famous restaurant, but she only took it because she loved cooking and got bored when she finished off her college work and from her other job and had nothing to do. Sure, she was overworking herself, but that was what she'd done her whole life. ..Well not all of her life. Not during her partying years anyways. Which was from thirteen to eighteen, and so she'd only spent the last two years sober. What had caused her partying lifestyle was the death of her older brother, Aeden. She often woke up sobbing from nightmares about him. The two of them were very close, and he often took her out for rides, to the mall, on her motorcycle, anywhere she wanted. He wasn't ashamed that his little sister followed him everywhere. She in fact was his little weasel and he was her Zorro. She loved him so much and she misses him a hell of a whole lot.Even though he died 7 years ago it still doesn't make things easier. Often times when she has nightmares or is reminded of him she will go into her room and cry.She does visit his grave and talks to him there. She's learned to live with it and has to be strong for her younger sister now that she's the only one left, but the memory of him is still very hard for her to talk about. She believes in her heart he was killed because he was gay. And the fact that that happened infuriated her to no end. She had to take care of her younger sister Kate too, being the oldest now. Her parents took care of her, but they often times had to leave her with Jennifer because they had business to attend to, being wealthy and all. Not that Jen minded. She loved her little sister very much, and the two were close. Jen sighed again,looking up. The sky was completely pitch black from the window in her 5th story office and looked back at the door. Silent. Good. With a shrug she continued to work,her eyes narrowing as she concentrated, drinking the fourth cup of coffee she'd made to keep herself awake.
Thread: Late Night( Tristeza/Silver)

Jen wasn't the only one staying late that night. Outside her office, in the mini jungle of cubicles and tables, another woman furiously mashed her keyboard, the screen reflected on her glasses as she peered into the powerpoint. The numbers had changed, the client demanded more things, and who paid the bill? Maria. The 24 year old leaned back into her chair, mindless doing and undoing a small braid with her light brown hair. A frown twisted the freckles on her pale cheeks, mulling over how to rephrase something to make it more appealing to the customer. She rubbed her blue eyes, quickly reddening due to staring for so long at the computer. Bloody hell... Oh, I'll just... She tilted her head to the side, a few of her chin long curls falling on her eyes. Maria hadn't always been dressed up as fancy, all executive with the white shirt, gray skirt and sheer black stockings. She'd been born in a poor family, in Portugal, and moved along with them to England in search of a better life, at the tender age of 4. There wasn't much she remembered from her home country, except the language her parents spoke at home. It was in England that she came to find her true calling, music. Jazz music. Singing was her passion. Her parents disaproved though, and she was always forced to spend a more or less solitary life. While in some places it was accpetable, to her conservative parents Maria would always be some sort of a blight, compared to her brothers. After all, what normal person was like... that? With two genders? And she wanted to be a singer? What if everyone found out? It'd be their disgrace!! The moment Maria finished college, she was out of there. A flight to the US later, and she was home, baby! No more chastizing her, no more shame, just music! ... Well, it'd have been nice if it was like that. But it'd turn into a year or so, and if the girl had still clinged to her dream, she'd have starved by now. The accountant degree did come in handy, in the end, getting her this job when she arrived. At first it was half heartedly, but a few months later and she'd fully settled in. It wasn't so bad. If only the client didn't change his mind like that. Urgh. And as far as her futa state went... well, it gave her problems some time. With the skirts and all. But at least no one bothered her because of it. Half an hour later, and Maria was done, sighing happily. She got up, stretching herself as a reward for a job well done, and her baby blue eyes wandered to the door. There was light underneath it. Jennifer was still here? Maria sighed, that girl would work herself to death if this went on. She'd been there for more time than Maria, and had recently climbed up another step of the ladder, but being boss didn't mean a coworker wouldn't care. Something had to change. Crossing the hallways, Maria walked up to her office and knocked on the door softly, opening it a little and peeking in. Jen?
Thread: Late Night( Tristeza/Silver)

Gawd, fuckin' idiot. Put the wrong papers in the wrong folder. Can't believe him. Jen muttered, having to reshuffle the papers she oh so carefully put together. Jen herself was Scottish American, having been born in Scotland but leaving the country when she was six. Her accent was mostly gone now, save when she got really angry or drunk and slurred. Difference was, even though she had adapted to being American for over 16 years, she still wrote certain words such as color as colour and disliked the Metric system America had. Made no sense to her really, but she'd learned it and used it in case anyone else couldn't understand. The majority couldn't anyways. Jen took another swig of her vanilla peppermint flavored coffee and sighed herself,letting out a yawn. At the rate she was at she'd have to work until 5 in the morning. Not that she hadn't before, but it meant no sleep, yay. She was running on just 5 hours,a record for her in a while. The twenty two year old let out an aggravated growl and let out a shuddering yawn, her own cobalt blue eyes red rimmed. She swept her long blond hair out of her face and bit her lip,thinking. After a few moments she finally finished the whole fiasco with the papers deal and moved on to adding up a few things and writing a report for her bosses. She herself was the boss, and it felt good to be so, but she didn't abuse her power.She'd use it if it was necessary, but Jennifer liked to think herself a fair boss, one that treated her fellow coworkers kindly, and she did. She wasn't about to go corrupt or anything like that. No. After a while she heard the door open and saw one of her coworkers come in. She smiled tiredly and yawned, rubbing her eyes once again.Oh,hey Maria. Still up huh? I've been doing this since the early morning. She wouldn't say she was tired though her body and facial expressions showed it which she tried to mask. The blond was such a busy workaholic and was so determined to get her work done that she'd often skip eating and forgo sleep just so she could get everything done. She still didn't feel like everything was done and let out another yawn, nearly knocking her coffee over. Thank God for caffeine. I'm probably going to be up till near six in the morning writing papers. Yay. That meant she'd be the only one in the building most likely and while she was used to it, sometimes it was really lonely. When people would be coming in for work she'd be leaving at times, heading off to get a good amount of sleep before she went to school and finished up there, and went to her second job. She looked at the other girl, smiled, and looked back down at her work, continuing to write.
Thread: Late Night( Tristeza/Silver)

The older woman walked in, brow raised. I believe anyone would be able to see that... from around the block. Maria had seen other executives on the same scale as Jen, and none of them worked half as much. It was insane! And absolutely unhealthy. A brow perked at the mention of coffee, giving it a brief glance. Coffee. Urgh. There are probably vry few people who could go on till late without coffee, and one of them was Maria. It was 'the drink from hell', as she had once put it. Scratched off her list. Permanently. And I bet you've drunk so much coffee you have enough energy to power an entire city... Maria watched the other girl silently as she returned to work, sighing deeply. There really seemed to be no hope... Was she compensating for something? It did seem like it sometimes... Well, at least I hope those are really important papers that absolutely can't wait for tomorrow. Maria mused, glancing over to what Jen was writting. If they weren't... Mmmmh... and if they were? Mmmmh... no, she still wouldn't care. Tonight she'd take Jen out, and by force if need be! Not that she'd mind taking Jen by forc- 'Damn, stop it, Maria!' the brunette thought, blushing briefly. Another cause of discord back home was that Maria seemed to be attracted to the 'wrong' side of the table... not that there was a right or wrong with her, her parents thought. In fact, that had been the only reason Maria hadn't been sent to a convent. A nun like her? It would be hell unleashed! Still, it had been a thought Maria had entertained a number of times. If anything, she could at least take Jen out for a drink, right? ... They can... wait for tomorrow, right?
Thread: Late Night( Tristeza/Silver)

Yeah yeah, I know. She said, looking towards the other woman and smiling softly. She rubbed her eyes. She wasn't big on coffee herself, didn't even like the taste, well except for this peppermint flavored one, which wasn't half bad. No, she only drank it for the caffeine, and if she'd had soda she'd probably be guzzling that down too. Sure, she'd end up having to go to the bathroom a lot, but it'd at least keep her up. Jen stretched and chuckled dryly. I could probably power the entire country with how much I move around. She said and smirked, her head tilting to the side as she watched the other girl. The girl brushed her long golden hair out of her face again and began writing, crossing out things and mumbling underneath her breath. I need to speak to Keith about his complacency. It's really going to cost him his job if he keeps this up. We've got a deadline due in a few weeks, I can't have slackers on the team. She muttered to herself and checked the clock. One-ten. Goodie, four more hours to go. No no, these HAVE to get done tonight. If I don't, I'll end up working on something else and forgetting about them. And I've never forgotten anything before. I gotta keep going, even if it kills me. Didn't get this job for nothing. She put in,leaning back and sighing. God, what she'd do for a drink right now..no. She'd sworn herself off the alcohol after her sister got hurt, and she wasn't about to change that for anything. Well, a little drink wouldn't be bad would it? Stop it Jen.. She muttered out loud with a heaving sigh,scratching more words on those papers.