Comments | alkairis: Memememe

alkairis

Memememe

Sep 11, 2007 23:38

1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I write in fic or RP.
2. I will comment telling you the following:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her ( Read more... )

Comments 14

ebeda September 11 2007, 22:47:41 UTC

Lucia. (Although some sick part of me wants to say Ishmael, but you haven't written that yet, HAVE YOU?)

alkairis September 13 2007, 17:17:14 UTC

a. Hm, I haven't really written much with Lucia, but from the moment I created Isolde I was very sure what her mother would be like (you'll note that in Isolde's crappy old app I do mention Lucia - unlike Saul, poor bastard), partly because I knew the kind of interaction Isolde needed. Despite that I like her as a character in of herself. A lot of my characters are very big on having guilt complexes and effed up loyalties, whereas Lucia doesn't give a shit about any of that and that's a fun change ( ... )

she_who_is_soc September 11 2007, 22:55:28 UTC

Obvious route - KAMAEL

alkairis September 13 2007, 18:26:24 UTC

a. Kams probably had, like, the dorkiest basis ever. At the time I was really interested in Bhakti yoga and I was reading the Bhagavad Gita, and that led me to an interest in the whole concept of how the divine and the mortal relate; it was an easy thing to fall into, since I used to watch TV serials based on the Krishna Leela when I was teeny, which was all about Gods and their cute girlfriends and stuff. When I saw the option for an Angel of Joy in ANCD I was all over that - it really gave me the chance to see how I could take thos concepts and work them into a character. Radha is actually named after Radha in the Krishna Leela. And now you know how totally sad-ass I am. But anyway.

b. How much faith she has in the world and in people, hands down. She really does believe things will turn out for the best, but she's (hopefully) not irritating and zealous about it. Her faith underlies everything she does without being forced or overt.

c. The way she's such a total introvert. A lot of her problems with people could be solved by ( ... )

peppermintberry September 11 2007, 23:59:22 UTC

KAM--oh crud, Sage beat me to it. ^_^;;;

Okay then...Nesanel!

alkairis September 14 2007, 15:18:17 UTC

a. When I put Kamael into Pontiff's Wing I realised she had to have some sprogs, and I wanted her to have one boy, at least - hence Nessy. Originally I wanted him to be the one who was at first glance most like Kamael, but inwardly far more capable and smug and crazy. This has changed a bit since then - I think his development was possibly influenced a bit too much by the amount of fashion photography I went through: images that were quirky and strange but sort of remote, which is a description that fits Nessy pretty well too. XD ( ... )

shortcakegreen September 12 2007, 01:12:42 UTC

Just to be contrary and make your life harder... Hope! <3

alkairis September 14 2007, 15:33:31 UTC

a. I think I was still entirely obsessed with the manga Angel Sanctuary when I made Hope. Liz and I were trying to come up with some characters we could connect (this was pretty soon after I first joined the game), and I was being thoroughly miffed at the dislike of a certain female character in the manga - disliking a character for being too loving and not very clever wasn't on in my books, so I wanted to try the concept myself and see if it could work without resulting in people killing me. I don't think they wanted to, or at least I hope (lolz) XD.

b. Hope loves people from the bottom of her 'ickle sugar-coated heart. She's always more than willing to see the best in people, to forgive, to empathise and cuddle and hand out stupid pet names to anyone who'll have one.

c. Her willing childishness. Hope could act more like an adult, but she's in a position where maturity and an awareness of the cruel things people can and will do would force her to make difficult and possibly immoral choices. She'd much rather just love and be loved ( ... )

ambientfiligree September 12 2007, 02:02:01 UTC

Claudette!

alkairis September 14 2007, 15:54:54 UTC

a. It started a lot like this. Sage was all 'hey there's a really cool game about fairytales and hot prostitutes, wanna join, they need a cinderella' and I went 'oh awesome, sure.' And then I realised I had no idea what to do with Cinderella. I did not want to make an Usagi copy, for sure. So I tried to base Claudette on the concept of the dark side of the moon, on the not-so-nice side of the magical feminine, on the sharp-edged quality of glass and also on the whole concept of ashes and hearth, because I liked that. So, she's not very Usagi, but I like to think she makes a good total bitch ( ... )