folchinator
Gotcha, gotcha. What if the "next RP" is verrry different? I've always had trouble in that regard. My RP's are so varied that I can't keep a good character consistency. It sucks, because I get attached to certain characters.
Very good point. If you can use the exact same character in every RP you are in, then you are doing something horribly wrong. But my characters are one of the factors that keep me interested in an RP, and every time I have to create a new one, I risk that. I love creating new characters on the one hand, but I can't force myself to do it for every RP on the other hand. There are two things that help me with this:
1) knowing how much I'm willing to change the character, without getting rid of whatever makes that character work for me
2) having a good number to chose from, with a core of the most used, the most developed, and a periphery of characters that I know I like well enough but haven't gotten to play enough yet.
For me, character consistency consists of an elusive element called personality plus a few key history events that help explain that personality. The most important consistency is within an RP or story, not between stories. My oldest character, Austin, has undergone several major story line revisions to place him in different RPs. If I had always stuck to the original story line, this character concept would have never improved, because boy did it suck. He's still one of my favorites because he's one of my few non-fantasy characters. The story line always involves him working for an evil government and having the chance (but not always taking it) to realize this and try to get out from under them. That vague summary actually encompasses every single history/setup I've ever given him.
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