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[center]DEAD MAN ON A HILL
INSPIRATIONS
"Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill." - William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'
'dead man on a hill'
BASIC INFORMATION
[=10]The character's name is
Nirvana. It seems to have various meanings;
a blowing out, extinction, deep silence. In Buddhism, 'nirvana' is the end to the cycle of rebirth. I did not choose this name beforehand; it merely leapt into my head and seemed to fit.
Nirvana's name was suggested at birth by his uncle, rather than his parents. The reason for this is that his uncle did possess a human form, unlike his brother and sister-in-law; he was interested in Buddhism, having discovered it recently, and so suggested the end to all ends as a name, oddly.
The character is
male. I have always had difficulty creating female characters that are not overly similar to eachother, and I do tend to lose interest in them very quickly, with a few exceptions. Male characters are far more interesting to me, and I enjoy playing them and particularly writing them.
Nirvana's gender was irrelevant to his parents. Although his mother had quietly wished for a daughter, it made no difference to her after her son was born and she treated him just as she would have had he been female. However, much later when she gave birth to a doe, Nirvana would start to have strong feelings of inadequacy, feeling that his parents loved their daughter more than him. Not only was she female, but she was the youngest and therefore Nirvana felt she was always being doted upon.
The character previously died as a b]young adult[/b] in the Forest; the equivalent, perhaps, of being in a
human's early twenties.
