I’ve pulled together a list of every character that I can remember playing for more than just a few days, and who perhaps had some input into my developing RP skills. Although it looks like a normal list of names and games it can actually be viewed chronologically, and its quite a history of progression from those early innocent days. It’s also a way of seeing how my writing skills have progressed, or not. That opinion lies with the reader after all. You might start to see some common threads. I noticed them as I started pulling the list together. There is a strong thread of blood wending its way through a lot of these characters. For the vampires that’s obvious, for some of the others its more subtle. There is also a hint of fire. I’ve had a couple of pyromaniacs in my time, but then I do have a thing about flames real life, and no that doesn’t mean I’m an arsonist. The other is a late entry almost, though I realise it was there in the background from early times, although tenuous and subtle too in places. There is definitely a sinuous, sibilant snaky thing happening, be it with me or the people I’m playing with. Got to love those S words. I thought it was a new thing then I realised that there have been snakes, dragons and wyrms in my playing history from an earlyish stage. On a personal note, my characters were created to fulfil needs in me, whether it was my devious natured need to steal someone’s secrets and stab them in the back while doing so, or whether its my overwhelming need to mother someone. Each character displays a different trait of my nature and, although I don’t make a habit of sharing the secrets I find out nor backstabbing people, they are not me. There is no one character that I can look at and say, yes…I was playing myself there. A few come close by having several things in common with me, the rest are only by a very tenuous link. Some are just from my love a romantic stereotype. 
I also have a very strong understanding of what is IC and what is OOC and I don’t allow the boundaries to blur, although again, I’m human and there have been times I’ve allowed something that’s happened IC to piss me off OOC. When I see that happening I usually take a time out and a deep breath, and try to work out why the scene hit a nerve. Anyways, enough spouting off! Have fun looking around, and if you see a problem with the pages or anything, just bear in mind I’m no expert and I just dabble in this stuff. To the Front Page |