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 Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:10 am
I've had a couple character's where the parents were alive but most of them are dead.lol
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:04 am
Here's an example of one of my characters that I"m forever tweaking.
Name: Ismaire =A Ei=Eutraschias Zellthuhile Re Puree (Recently Changed) Scheherazade ('Zade for
Short if you wish)
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Race/Species: Human
Personality: 'Zade's a bit distant to many of the people she meets. Being of noblel birth sometimes does that to people no matter how much they want to get close. Such was the fate of Scheherazade. Though once someone has broken past the cool and serene demenor they find a kind, caring person who only wishes to be accepted. Other wise, Scheherazade's caustic words and crule wit keep many people far back from her as possible; only hurting her bad habit of being distant more. She has a bad habit of talking to herself and is known to randomly sing to the ghosts. Her weak spot when it came to love would probably be men who had intellect (in other words she loves geeks), and preferably long hair.
Bio:
Zade's real name is Ismaire =A Ei=Eutraschias Zellthuhile Re Puree, quite the mouthful when it comes to pronunciation, thus she had changed it once she got the chance to. Born into nobility, her childhood consisted of training for magic, taught the languages that all nobility had to be taught. Having found a knack for magic, she pursued the arcane arts with a passion and truely could care less about anything else. Her younger years were mainly plauged with her tutors and parents trying to steer her away from the path of wandering magicians, but to no avail.
The occult had drawn her deep into their complex depths and she could not do anything but to drink in the knowledge that came with the complexity. She loved it, felt like she belonged in the world of incoherent words and hand symbols. This is what she felt that she could fit in, not in the corsetted and frilly life of the 'ladies' in society. No, she couldn't stand the constant twittering and mutterings of the unimportant topics, entertaining empty headed nobles who had nothing in mind other than climbing up the social ladders. Rather, she would love to travel the roads known to few and visit the villages known to even less. She wanted to see the world for herself, not through streached out stories that were constantly being told to her by 'pig headed' nobles who have probably never been to the specified places that they so elaborately spoke of.
Books seem to be her life, Scherhazade is known to be the kind of person with a classic book and just spend hours and hours in the library curled up in a comfortable couch and reading to her hearts content. Her parents denied her much of the freedom a normal child. Her teen years were full of pointless political parties and ideas for her husband. Quite simply, she had no taste for stratigical moves in the ladders of society. Another reason perhaps is possibly the fact that at one of these so called 'fancy parties' full of 'gentlemen' and fine 'bachlors' one of these bachlors had gotten drunk on the sprites that were offered at such a party, figured that she was a lovely 'city vixen' and proceeded to drag her out of the room and do the unthinkable to her. Needless to say, she was broken afterwards and he was suffering with pain in his groin for a long time to come. Traumatized from the incident, she locked herself away in her room. In essence she was no longer a great asset to her family and thus, she planned to make her getaway and create her own life with the passion that she carried in her heart. Finally, after years upon years of pursuading her parents, she finally recieved freedom from the guilded cage of nobility and found joy in the wanderings that were a part of being a way finder magician.
Once she was out of the house with her trusted grimore, a staff (which served a double purpose of being a wand and a walking stick), some make up to hide her identity while on the road if needed, an empty journal to keep thoughts, some food for the beginning of the journey and some money, she set off at once towards the least known path towards the least known village. Of course, not all journeys were perfect, many in fact are far from it, and this one was not an excepton. Not too long after she had left, a large storm came down and poured what seemed to be a whole sea of water on her head. Cold, wet, hungry, and unable to build a fire in such a downpour, she found a small village luckily and thus, within the walls of that inn, she found her first job as a magician there. Quite frankly, stage fright took a hold of her for the first few moments, but it soon the audience melted her frightened heart and had fun for all that it was worth.
Her years as a magician could not have been a happier one. She met new people, saw a new perspective and felt as if for once, all of the whistful thinking of being able to finally spread her wings were at last coming true. Her abilities with the magics helped her much. She was an illusionist, someone who wove pictures of fantasy and brought them to life for a moment. Her spells do nothing but sparkle, enchant and entertain. Over the years, her skin had tanned itself from the dainty porclaine color that the nobility favored to a golden tan that the sun had gifted her with. She continues to travel today, searching for a love, a life that brings happiness and joy to the people she entertains through weaving stories of the old and accompaning them with the fantastical illusions of her magic.
Does she miss her parents, probably, but she finds happiness here, through wandering and fighting for her life. Not the sheltered and dainty life of the nobles and their frivolous ways. This, is her story.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:23 am
GanonFirenight What bothers me is that every RP character seems to have dead parents. Am I the only one who ever has living parents who aren't actually RP characters? I mean, they're part of Ganon's history, no one ever meets them because they live in a different country, but he goes to visit them and they're still alive. I feel like the only one. I have several characters in a larger Rp who still have their folks, or at least one surviving parent.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:36 am
Kuriboh_Coast GanonFirenight What bothers me is that every RP character seems to have dead parents. Am I the only one who ever has living parents who aren't actually RP characters? I mean, they're part of Ganon's history, no one ever meets them because they live in a different country, but he goes to visit them and they're still alive. I feel like the only one. I have several characters in a larger Rp who still have their folks, or at least one surviving parent.
So far, I've got two main characters that don't have parents, but that's cause the mother died when giving birth to the younger one and then the father commited suicide since he couldn't live with his wife. Other than that, I have a large slew of characters who have parents but don't exactly like them, or have very close ties to them, or have 'flown the coop' and don't feel like going back to their parents.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:45 am
I think most of my folks have one parent (with good reason, at least.), and in the case of one, she "flew the Coop", so to speak after her brother ran away. the character I play with most lost both her parents (and the rest of her family), ********, I lost my point.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:23 am
Yes, the "dead parent/s" thing is really quite common. It was very common in my earlier characters, strangely.
For one character, one died of murder and one died of disease.
Another, he killed his own parents.
Another, they died at her earliest ages.
Another, never exactly had parents.
I do like to get creative with how they die. I almost seem to have a tendancy of killing off their family...
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:43 am
-shrugs- Family members are so much fun to kill just to add to the angst factor... yup...
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:04 pm
Yeah. But I always beat myself up for being so mean to them. (Not really, but I do feel bad.) I'm a very serious roleplayer and writer, and I tend to be quite empathetic, so I regard my characters as actual people a lot of the time.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:10 pm
I agree to that. A character is a living person. Not someone you can kill off anytime you want. Just because you'll be using him/her for one RP doesn't mean that you can make him/her have no life and kill off any relation that he/she has with family. A lot of my characters have very close ties to their family and suffer from homesickness a lot >.>;
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:12 am
I think the fact of the matter is that people think it's a good way to make their character edgy and put some kind of dark background behind their roleplay. If I wanted to do that, though, it'd be a much darker, more traumatizing secret, like physical or sexual abuse in the character's history. =/ Something that actually scars the character.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:24 am
GanonFirenight I think the fact of the matter is that people think it's a good way to make their character edgy and put some kind of dark background behind their roleplay. If I wanted to do that, though, it'd be a much darker, more traumatizing secret, like physical or sexual abuse in the character's history. =/ Something that actually scars the character. Yeah...Hehe..
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:12 pm
Two of my characters have family only they visit from time to time. But yes many people have characters who's parents have died or they haven't existed. I really like it how you decided to make this.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:16 pm
I can swear I do too much of that "traumatizing events" thing, or "the death of family", or "murder", or some form of separation...but I do have a few characters who haven't had it so roughly.
Still. Too much. I just realized. ...Hrf, not that I remember a lot of my characters anyway...and I don't like that...leaves a very unpleasant sensation of horrible guilt...
I try to stay as realistic as possible. But thanks to this thread, I'm now aware of the cliche I've been adopting into most of my characters. Geebus...
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:53 pm
"Ya , it does look like it will help others with rping but does it fit in the rp forum?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:31 pm
Well... I dunno where else it would fit... >.>;
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