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 Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:09 am
I was sitting here comparing my real life self to Strifer. And I was wondering, why some of our characters are ... The way they are. I just thought some people would like the chance to explain why their character does certain things.
I started out with my character as being a Pirate. One because Pirates were fierce, if a little ruthless and heartless. They also decided things more democratically than most places in the world at that time. More importantly Pirates were always free to do what they wished, even if it ended with extreme back lash. And some had a strict sense of honor. Or so I like to believe.
Second, the hat. I've always wanted to be able to receive something of significance from my father, or grandfather, or mentor to wear on me and keep close to me that I could pass on to my child, not that I haven't gotten anything like that. The hat embodies the memory of Strifer's mentor, and the life he lived under that captain.
Strifer as a person is driven strongly by his emotions, and simply knows the thing that is right for him, or seems right to him at the time. He knows how he's going to act. He knows what he's going to do and he has confidence in what he does. I second guess many things that I say in real life. I feel as though the thoughts in my head wont come out right if I try to put my voice to them. I'm not confident in very many things that I do while I'm doing them.
Strifer has a tattoo around his eyes to bring out the emotions that they show, when he has them. That comes from my fear that my eyes are never conveying the emotion I want them to. Since Strifer knows what he wants to do, there is no need to hide his eyes.
Edit: (Forgot one) Strifer drinks rum. A lot. So much so that if he doesn't take it in at regular intervals he looses the ability to keep his body still. Eventually it progresses to the point where he begins to act drunk. When he's drinking a lot he acts perfectly normal. Why? Because I'm terrified of getting drunk. Every male on my dads side of the family that I've seen getting remotely close to drunk ends up being a mean drunk. The ones that pic the fights, get on your nerves, yell in your ear. I don't want to do that. Who would?
Basically when I made Strifer I took what I saw as my major faults and reversed them.
I thought it would be interesting to see if anyone else was willing to share why there character act/feels certain ways.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:19 am
Wielder is... Me. I have Wielder act, exactly how I would act. The only difference is, Wielder is powerful. He can summon swords that he's had 300 years to train with. He can shoot fireballs, or become fire! He can be anywhere at any time. It's how powerful I wish to be. Why?
Wielder fights to protect those he cares about. If they're fine, only then will he fight for himself. And I'm the same. I would put my life on the line if it could save one of my friends. Wielder is the same.
Through Wielder, I live. I am stronger through him, and his very existence in my mind gives me strength. I call myself Wielder and Riley are one and the same, in my mind, which grants me a sort of confidence. If I'm confronted by my foes, I won't just be some high school kid, I'll be a high school kid who's been kicking a** for 300 years. Maybe I can't fly or shoot fire, but I can believe in myself, and in my friends, and as cliche as it sounds, that makes me stronger than any enemy.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:37 am
All my roleplay characters on Gaia have two things in common; they wear a mask of some kind, and they are generally scarred.
Honestly I don't know why I chose this so long ago, hel even my avatar has never shown its face. He wore the Mami mask from the beginning getting upgraded to the Bone Helm until eventually the Dark Halo you see today.
My characters are also often crippled in some way, even though that my be correct. For instance my Revres character is blind but has a mask with optics. Again this is another thing I do but I don't know why.
As for personalities, most of my characters believe in the saying, "No worse enemy, no better friend."
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:14 pm
Much like Wielder, my character is..me. Well, plus the special abilities and sword and physical appearance, but he's basically me. he acts the same way I'd act, says what I'd say, thinks like I'd think. Reason being is at it follows:
One day when I was rookie roleplayer, i wanted to create the strongest character out there; a combination of all heroes so that I could be unbeatable. I went for the typical and cliched arrogant and cocky guy who is misunderstood but truly has a heart of gold. But it was just so hard to come up with things he'd do. it felt so forced. So little by little, he changed and started doing what I'd do if, for example, he was facing a giant lion who breaths fire. of course, if this was a real-life situation, I'd probably try to understand why the heck is that happening followed by me getting the heck out of there. but I believe if I had K's abilities, I'd try to take the guy head-on, even if its just for kicks. If K' gets his butt kicked, then he'd run like me.
So this just made things much easier. playing his feels natural and it's fun; it's my way of breaking out of the real world and having a little fun in a what-if world.
As far as personal traits and artifacts, K' has a few.
Silver hair to show everyone he's not an average human. What it means? I am actually a foreigner and for some reason, almost everyone is able to notice it. I've never felt like I fit in because of this, though my life is alright. K' feels the same; another reason why he's not quite the social person, like me.
A pendant he carries. A family heirloom from his long-deceased family. My family is miles away from me and I'm only able to see them once per year. I usually keep something with me that reminds me they're out there somewhere or that I'll never be completely alone.
The fact that he's an orphan. I've always been a reckless child. I believe I've got into enough trouble because of it and I probably would've got into a lot more if it wasn't for my parents who stopped me. I'm thankful and it's not like I'm a deviant, but a side of me would like to know what would have happened if I could have done all that? So K' has the freedom to find out.
The cape. As a kid, I wanted to be a hero but then life kindly slapped me in the face. At some point, it also happens to K'. he becomes this kinda bitter, cynical and careless guy. But he doesn't wanna risk his life to become a hero no one remembers. He's still good and will help people so the cape symbolizes his inner child; cape=hero.
The name K'. It's actually the first initial of his demon name: Kensei. But in K's story, people obviously are a bit afraid of demons. So instead of going around flaunting his demon name, he chose to hide his name, now merely using his human name which may or may not be his true name.
I got so much more to say about my character. He has a whole background story and motives so I'd need like at least 3 pages to cover all that. But I won't. I think that's enough. 
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:02 pm
Mine's an alien and a shapeshifter because I'm not human and am known for having many different personalities, IRL and on Gaia.
Her personality is...pretty much me, on the outside.
I could go way more into this, but my hard shell won't let me. So...that's all you get. ^.^
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:35 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:38 pm
My character, as many of you know, is based off a TV show superhero. But I chose him because he was a lot like me, and I could see that (even though the show was canceled) when he grew more as a person and hero, he would be even more like me. I always put more emphasis on intellect than physical prowess, and have always enjoyed finding sometimes complex, but outside-the-box methods of solving problems.
My character changed over my five years here, and has become slightly darker and more unforgiving than he used to be, a startling change I've noticed in myself as well. So yeah, my character is, to quite an extent, based on me.
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:08 am
My character, is basically a more representation of my dream self. Smart, but his true wit applies to where he can become a strategist just by noticing the minute, usually unnoticable details and working off of them. Unlike the real me, however, he happens to be more confident, and among other things, isn't human. How he was created, however, is a rather odd story. His great grandfather, my original character had originally began as a custom made digimon of all things. When I began using WinMx, I knew it would never follow through well, so I changed said character into a Dragoon, and then sort of a minor deity, which eventually became the start of the Kenuro family after I basically "killed" the character off, leaving ten sons. One of them had a child, and then grandchildren, one of which Kaneharo was born from. I basically made this Kaneharo as the most modern possible Kaneharo in existance, sort of retconning his past characters into members of the Kenuro Family, a new Kaneharo being born every 13 generations. But as I have a different Kaneharo almost everywhere, roleplay-wise, this Kaneharo is closest to the main Kaneharo I use in stories and private RPs, in the sense that the Gaian Kaneharo is in a universe that pinched off when the main left his planet to do some "training" for some amount of years. The Main one is training with his uncles in the forest where the first incarnation of Kaneharo had trained, a ritual that has been repeated for every Kaneharo.
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