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*SCREAMS HERSELF*

I am never eating again. Never. I have to wait a week to buy this one because I just bought the other shirt and and and and and shiny.

*loves loves loves friede*

*blushes alot*

*cries really loudly in her head*

Why do you people like her?! I don't understand, but I don't care; keep doing it!

And, a weird question...what do you people think of your characters now? I mean, I've kinda come to the idea that Fleur is now a bit my baby just as much as she is J.K. Rowling's baby. Am I alone in this? A couple of you I was talking to, I know what you think...but the rest of you? Have I just entered an entirely new dome of crazy?

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Nope. They're mine, all *ahem* six of them...Fortunately, they're mostly public domain, so I feel less guilty about them...

I am not alone! *cackles* Hurrah!

But, you have a right to say that. You really took an idea for a character and shaped it into a real character. Well, except for Willow, but the rest are all your doing. No room to talk for you! You have actual children. *gives virtual cookies for your hard character creating work*

Yay! Virtual cookies!

Do I get beat up if I add more?

Of course not! Add all you want!

I'm kind of afraid, but there are so many characters that need to be here! Augggh!

New crazy is good. But nope, in this case I think you're right. In my case, I'm trying to take a character with fairly little depth and make him a real person, which naturally leads to a bit of attachment.

.. at least, that's what I'm telling myself. ;)

Whahaha! I am not alone. *cuddles you* Thank you for your thoughts, dear!

Hmmm...I don't know that I'd consider Sirius my baby, but then I play him as if he were me...*thinkety thinks* Really what I was more concerned about this past week or so was how terribly awful both he and I would feel if Kassandra-mun was no longer around. I literally questioned whether I could play Sirius without Kassandra or whether I ought to ask Nny and Sophie to retire the character if that happened. How much of that is attachment to her mun, I dunno. Glad I won't find out :)

All of us are very glad we don't need to find out. I don't even know her, and she has her own pray candle. Beatrice (Kassandra-mun's orange pray candle) is down to her wick. Yes, I know I'm odd. But I'm a happy odd for everyone is alright.

Thank you for thoughts!

I think you've taken Fleur in a very different direction from anything Rowling intended. Which is cool; plenty of folks here have done something similar (Tom Riddle, for instance, rather springs to mind).

Personally I'm trying to keep my character pretty sharply in line with how she's written in the original canon, but that's because I love Bujold's Cordelia and honestly don't think I could improve on her. If I were playing a more minor or less well-developed character, I'd probably want to develop hir more ... in which case yeah, I expect I'd feel proprietary about the new version of the character. As it is now, though, I don't feel that way about Cordelia; she's not mine at all, I'm just borrowing her.

Yes yes, I know. She is a dirty character that would never exist in the clean world of Harry Potter. But, I like to pretend she might. ^_^

Thank you for your thoughts!

Hmmm. That's a really interesting question. I agree with what Sam said about playing the character as if it were me -- but then again we don't have a lot of canon information about her, so maybe that's to be expected. I like who she's become in the context of other characters in the game, particularly the ethereals, so I feel a little covetous of that part of her, if that makes any sense. :)

Your Fleur is very different than I had imagined her to be, but I love her. She's wonderful and warm and rash and unpredictable. She could very easily have been a one dimensional character, but you didn't let that happen -- good for you!

Yes, it makes sense with playing her as yourself and the part about how she has become this regular super mediator. Which she is, I mean. The mediator that is also super.

I can't really do that myself; playing as I would react, I mean. *eyes cross* I'm really not a cheap tart in real life. And I'm glad you like the crazy Fleur! I've worried that I've taken her too far into left field, but as long as people like the crazy chick, I won't change it. Character wise, and also just to put it down some place and point to it with glee when asked, I like to pretend in my head she is what the spirit of the character would be in a more adult canon. If that makes any sense what so ever since it's 1AM and I think lots of things make sense that don't right now. Thank you!

*laughs* Am now picturing Tonks in standing up very straight, hands on hips, wearing a t-shirt that says "SUPER MEDIATOR!" Gee, I've always wanted to be a superhero. *g*

I definitely know what you mean about a "more adult canon." That's part of the fun, that Tonks can swear like a sailor and sleep with Charlie Weasley -- we're filling in the blanks to the world Harry et al just wouldn't see, in a way. It would make sense for Fleur to be the way she is, given her, um, genetic heritage. Hee. So no, don't change her. She's spicy and fun.

Didn't figure you for a tart, anyhow...not if Super Geek Boy had you pegged for Lizzie Bennet. And that's what makes Milliways so addictive, is experiencing this world as someone you wouldn't, ordinarily. For as much of myself as I put into Tonks, there's still a lot of her that's different from me that I have to keep at the forefront. I envy her directness with people, for example. Maybe I should start being that blunt in RL... :)

Not in this RPG, so far.
Pestilence was 'mine' as of

buggreallethis, especially since I was taking a character with one sentence of canon and developing him further. (Mainly because I wanted to RP a Horseperson. XD) Jane I'm more sort of borrowing, as Cordelia's RPer put it - she was one of the major characters on the show, so most development I would do would be her college life, since I'm going post-canon.
My Discworld RPG characters are very much 'mine.' One of them's an original character, even. The other was a major player in one book (making him a pretty minor character overall, when you consider Discworld's 30ish books and counting), but he's evolved so much since the end of that book (in the RP) that it's not funny. (Or maybe it is.)

I think that, for the most part, people don't play the character so much as simply be themselves in the character-suit. The characters, at least the ones I'm familiar with, don't exactly act as I remember them . . . then again, I never saw them in the restaurant at the end of the universe . . . We shape them in our own image, we act like we would if we were them. Snow here tends to be more relaxed and talkative, if that's merely the lifting of responsability and worry about what the other Fables would think, or my influence . . .

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