I was looking at Edmund ref sheet the other day, and a thought crossed my mind: Do I have anything in common with my character? Did I design him from my own personality? So! I doodled this up to compare.
Common factors: 1
We don't like bees. lol
But then another thought came. I can't be the only person on here to have asked themselves this question, right?
Therefore I ask you:
How much alike are you and your character(s)?
Ed
My characters may share a few
Every character share a trait
I agree with you on that. I
I've actually put a lot of effort into keeping him separate from me, but it's harder than I thought. XD
Tuoho: I bet it would be
Like Tuoho, I share some
But I think I also have couple of these "therapy characters"; I give them things and thoughts I'm pondering with, too (like when I was seriously confused with my sexuality) and try to get to understand my own feelings through my characters. They aren't me, I just reflect myself from them but I'll let them grow like they want to... I don't know if that made any sense, sorry, I'm not very good with explaining anything. >_>;;
I don't seem to be able to make any character totally "OOC". If I make myself somekind of fursona or something, it's always a bit IC, my fursonas and alter egos and things like that tend to portray just one side of me. >_>;; My skunk alter ego is really sarcastic, deer thing alter ego is really shy, old chimera alter ego was easygoing etc...
^exactly. <3
Same thing as Snowsauria for
Just gonna put a track here
I almost consider this a
All of my characters are essentially me, but they embody different parts of me. They embody what I am, and what I want to be. Some, such as Nechtan, maybe have more patience than I do, but what if that's my way of saying I wish to be more patient, and I'm using him as a stepping stone?
I can't outright write down all the characteristics of my characters and myself and compare and contrast. My "situation" is different from the normal, at this rate I think. In the end, they are me, they are simply expressing hidden feelings, hidden desires that I can't normally - or won't normally - express.
To sort of go off of Kohva's last paragraph, it really is hard to make a truly OOC character. I have 5 "personas" total, yet only one I plan to play in-Forest, soon hopefully. But even then, the forest is filled with nothing but characters, and even OOC's have IC characteristics and behaviours. What I usually end up doing is playing myself as a character. Playing OOCly (to an extent), and then turning that into IC interactions within biographies on the Comm site.
Uugh, I sound so confusing.
^ Lung has got it right on
Generally my characters have stronger personalities than I do, but they all essentially have traits I see in myself ( normally just on a grander scale ). Sometimes they're born from frustration or sadness, or happiness. Something that inspires me, maybe. I wish I could explain it better but I suck at explaining so. :c
A track for later. This seems
Kohva: I agree with you about
I've a few characters that I too just let grow from one thought I'd pondered for some time. Most of the time, they turn out lovely and reflect nothing of my personality, but other times, I realize to late that they have taken a darker turn for the "Mary sue" dramas of my true life problems. This of course, was never the intention, but sometimes, I feel, when a character starts shoving in your face "hey, you've brought your issues to life" I have to let them go. I feel like I could never play them as their meant to be played ever again. (what this has to do with "things in common", I have no idea. XD )
I also had an fursona once. It failed hardcore. lol I tried to hard to make them, how do I say, "happy go luckier" in attitude than me. No worries, stuff like that. I just ended up making myself depressed from realizing in the long run a fictional character was happier than me. Xc
But! It opened my eyes to the fact that I could be happier than the mint green corgi....I just had to try.
Thank you all for commenting!
Lung:I really like how your characters are all piecesz of you.
When I look back, all that I write down to try and see if I'm really similar to my favorite characters, I keep finding myself adding more and more. I realize that they are me, but at the same time they are their own. And your right, a truly OOC character is indeed very hard. Edmund has gone from a possible awesome character, to a way for me to express my art and happenings of my own life. Do I still wish for him to be his own and grow? yes. Will it ever happen? The world may never know. XD
I do enjoy the idea of playing yourself in character. I may have to try this.
Clare: I don't feel you suck at explaining at all.
You hit the nail right on the head, right there with Lung. I think a vent character is a great idea. It let's you get it all out, and when your done, who knows, you may find this character of great value and wish to do more with them. Inspiration is the key to success, in my opinion.
(I start to respond, and I lose all train of thought. Then I go back and reread what I wrote and it still makes little sense. XD )
My answer would, essentially,
Each character I make embodies some primal element or form of what I know myself to be.
Some bear more resemblance to me than others, but all of them are an extension of myself, at base level.
When speaking to my friends of Pandora, they've often heard me say 'Pandora is me.' This is because, of all my characters, she is the one who shows everything I know myself to be- albeit in an exaggeratedly darker manner. Pan reveals my jealousy, my easy wrath, my laziness, my greed, my sins. Her entire story encompasses these things. However, she is also feral, indomitable, savage, unpredictable. These are what makes Pan her own self, and not me. She also touches on my good 'side'. Loyalty, devotion, pride in others. Family oriented, protective, and willing to take a breath and just play when life seems willing to give a break. Her morals shadow mine, but are not mine. Though personality wise we are similar, our minds are far from related.
Thus, Pan is most of me.
Accendare would be second most similar. She is my independence, my dignity, my woman. Besides that, Dare is entirely her own self.
Andreas expresses my interest in males, of course. His style, his attitude, his lifestyle are the things I desire, even if they'll never happen. I also find he's my masculine side. Chill, sarcastic, devil may care.
Nikodim is my action.
He does not think, he has no motives, and he needs no preemptive notion to do what he does.
He does because he does, and there need not be reason.
He is the part of me that sometimes just wants to act without a method to the madness.
I do hope I'm nowhere near as destructive as he is though >_>
The rest, however many there are, mirror some small feeling of myself in some way, at the very least.
I definitely find it difficult to make a character who has nothing to do with me. They are a creation of my mind, but my heart is what shapes it. I would not play them if I did not like how they looked, how they behave. The heart certainly has some influence on what I make. Each character is its own. But there are definitely ties, noticeable or not.
/done rambling sorry
My characters all have a life
I sure hope that made sense.
Short reply because it's four
I'd say Cydae embodies my want to remain a child, my anger, and my want to use physical force as a way of fixing conflict.
Brooks would be me wanting to be bolder, to have that go get 'em! attitude.
Bealo: instinct to protect, the need to guard what I have so it wont ever leave.
Momma: Motherly instinct. I guess all that I share with her is that we both want to take care of anything cute/tiny.
Yeah, I'm tired.
My characters do have quite
my characters tend to be: -
- my darker side, the worst traits i possess, my sins and weaknesses but also my most hidden motives, thoughts and feelings; my primal instincts and everything wild and inhuman buried deep inside of me, or;
- everything i'm not, everything and anything to balance my own personality out, anything that would help me escape my own shell and forget my existence.
the line between these two archetypes can be quite blurry, as my characters tend to have quite a few sides to them, just like i do. i, personally, can't stay interested in a character that i cannot relate to for a long time. every single one of my characters is, essentially, a tiny little piece (or a pretty big one) of my own soul and they all fit together to create me.
This is an excellent idea of
. Hum ... As Cedrelÿa, I'm very possessive with my friends ... But now, I don't show it, contrary to the past.
. I also like observe people behaviour around me, without say nothing.
. I need some solitary moments, I really appreciate to be alone.
. I like mushrooms xD
. I don't like be ignored too (but it's the case for everyone I think).
. I'm a little agoraphobic, and Ced don't like when there are too much deers around her.
. I really hate when people attack the weakest persons.
. I don't accept everyone as friend ... I'm enough complex, I keep only people I really appreciate around me, never the ones which are not enough authentic. Ced hates when a deer starts directly to play with her without saying "hello" before, and whereas she doesn't know him at all.
Finally, she really looks like me ... I think what I love is exaggerate my character through her, so you don't have to imaginate I'm exactly like her