[charloft](MON) - pieces of me
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magic_fratboyWhat pieces of you are in your characters?
All of my characters are, to be blunt, versions of me that I run away with until they no longer resemble me in any way, shape, or form...let's be honest: every original character in RP, literature, and otherwise is born as a Mary Sue. It's the good writers that find that creative spark to make them something more.
A rundown on some of my more active/vocal characters...
Tommy Karras: Tommy is my love of magic personified. Literally, I wanted a magician muse because I've been in love with illusion since I was thirteen. Elements of my little obsession have constructed Tommy's persona and his world...I'm a hardcore devotee of Houdini, escapology is fascinating to me, and to me the art of magic has always been about the propagation of hope. Houdini's a big part of that being that he was popular during the Great Depression in particular. He did incredible things and through them, gave people hope that if he could get out of a straightjacket hanging over a New York city street, or beneath the waters of the Mississippi, they could overcome poverty and destitution.
Artie Jackson: Artie is my love of the vampire myth, along with a little of the anarchist's streak I have in me. He lives his life very unconventionally and revels in it...he's a hero and doesn't know it, fell into the status of 'role model' without really meaning to. He does the right thing no matter what. If he were a man with weaker morals, he'd be dangerous, but instead of running amok he upholds the law and the ideal of a brighter future for Paranormals the world over.
Rian Baxter: Even though she's gone kinda quiet on me, Rian's a dearly loved muse. She's the sunshine and daffodils in my personality, not to mention all of the extremes in my personality. She'll give you a ponies and rainbow enema and make you like it. She embraces the goofy, the tacky, the saccharin and makes no apologies for it because it's truly sincere. She hasn't led a perfect life, but she's rolled with the punches nicely. I don't like to think of her so much as perky, but resilient. She takes her licking and keeps on ticking with a great big smile.
Mays Ryder: Ryder is actually two pieces of me, in that he embodies both some of the darker parts of my personality and my attempt to show an example of breaking hate's legacy. Racism, religious prejudice, any and all forms of intolerance are a HUGE sticking point for me, so I utilized the Hunters in the Highlander mythos as an example of blind hatred and one man's attempt to escape from it. Ryder's psyche was so warped by hate and his opposition to it that it literally made him sick for most of his life. Only when he saw truth did he start to reclaim his own life, but those years spent at war with his own beliefs and the things his father taught him left a confused by to grow into a good man with a lot of demons and a warped sense of morality. He knows the difference between right and wrong, but chooses instead to follow his heart...and his heart is so damaged by the things he's seen and done that it often takes him to some nasty extremes.
Cain Callahan: Cain is my faith. I was raised as a serious practicing Roman Catholic in a very open home, and as such it developed my faith into something that wasn't a religion, but a way of life. I've never been one to preach or try to convert the masses, I simply lived my life as a Catholic and I really put that into Cain's character. He's a gritty, street-smart, and flat-out aggressive man, but his faith is the core of his life. He'll take the Lord's name in vain and confess it in Church, goes to Mass every Sunday he can manage, and is never without his rosary. He prays through his day, often wears a scapular, and although he hasn't forced his daughter into his way of life, he lives it openly in front of her as an example.
All of my characters are, to be blunt, versions of me that I run away with until they no longer resemble me in any way, shape, or form...let's be honest: every original character in RP, literature, and otherwise is born as a Mary Sue. It's the good writers that find that creative spark to make them something more.
A rundown on some of my more active/vocal characters...
Tommy Karras: Tommy is my love of magic personified. Literally, I wanted a magician muse because I've been in love with illusion since I was thirteen. Elements of my little obsession have constructed Tommy's persona and his world...I'm a hardcore devotee of Houdini, escapology is fascinating to me, and to me the art of magic has always been about the propagation of hope. Houdini's a big part of that being that he was popular during the Great Depression in particular. He did incredible things and through them, gave people hope that if he could get out of a straightjacket hanging over a New York city street, or beneath the waters of the Mississippi, they could overcome poverty and destitution.
Artie Jackson: Artie is my love of the vampire myth, along with a little of the anarchist's streak I have in me. He lives his life very unconventionally and revels in it...he's a hero and doesn't know it, fell into the status of 'role model' without really meaning to. He does the right thing no matter what. If he were a man with weaker morals, he'd be dangerous, but instead of running amok he upholds the law and the ideal of a brighter future for Paranormals the world over.
Rian Baxter: Even though she's gone kinda quiet on me, Rian's a dearly loved muse. She's the sunshine and daffodils in my personality, not to mention all of the extremes in my personality. She'll give you a ponies and rainbow enema and make you like it. She embraces the goofy, the tacky, the saccharin and makes no apologies for it because it's truly sincere. She hasn't led a perfect life, but she's rolled with the punches nicely. I don't like to think of her so much as perky, but resilient. She takes her licking and keeps on ticking with a great big smile.
Mays Ryder: Ryder is actually two pieces of me, in that he embodies both some of the darker parts of my personality and my attempt to show an example of breaking hate's legacy. Racism, religious prejudice, any and all forms of intolerance are a HUGE sticking point for me, so I utilized the Hunters in the Highlander mythos as an example of blind hatred and one man's attempt to escape from it. Ryder's psyche was so warped by hate and his opposition to it that it literally made him sick for most of his life. Only when he saw truth did he start to reclaim his own life, but those years spent at war with his own beliefs and the things his father taught him left a confused by to grow into a good man with a lot of demons and a warped sense of morality. He knows the difference between right and wrong, but chooses instead to follow his heart...and his heart is so damaged by the things he's seen and done that it often takes him to some nasty extremes.
Cain Callahan: Cain is my faith. I was raised as a serious practicing Roman Catholic in a very open home, and as such it developed my faith into something that wasn't a religion, but a way of life. I've never been one to preach or try to convert the masses, I simply lived my life as a Catholic and I really put that into Cain's character. He's a gritty, street-smart, and flat-out aggressive man, but his faith is the core of his life. He'll take the Lord's name in vain and confess it in Church, goes to Mass every Sunday he can manage, and is never without his rosary. He prays through his day, often wears a scapular, and although he hasn't forced his daughter into his way of life, he lives it openly in front of her as an example.
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Date: 2008-12-22 11:20 pm (UTC)Meahwhile, the mun pets Bee and turns to Bee's mun, asking how so much neuroses in such a little girl muse doesn't drive her mun insane. The mun also apologizes for Cain, who got the whole silly mess that is Bee started in the brainmeats kthx. :P
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Date: 2008-12-22 11:24 pm (UTC)Mun has long since given up on trying to understand how the muse's mind works. She just goes with it.