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[muji]

The first of many 08 posts for me, I'm sure.

Question: What do you think is the hardest archetype to play in the bar, from the following list: deity, human over age 55, teenager, children under 12, or mortal non-human?

(Or a write-in choice of something I missed.)

Comments

[ostro_goth]

A public domain archetype or anthropomorphic personification. Among all my characters that I am playing or have played, Tower is the one that's massively different: he doesn't have his own agenda (there is nothing happening with him as a person) and he very much has his own mind. I find myself spontaneously typing things I never meant to, and if I have him do a tarot reading, I can't really play anyone else. His readings work uncannily well. It is almost scary to have such an entity making himself comfortable in my brain for one evening, so I try not to do it that often.

As a rule, I do believe in plot, in controlling my characters and in steering them at least as you'd steer a sailing craft - not like a car, of course.

[muji]

Ah! Public Domain's a good one. Everyone already has such a strong vision -- it'd be like apping Santa Claus.

[ostro_goth]

Yes, almost. Many people know the tarot, and many people know Tower, and he is an independent entity that lives in more brains than mine, and just extends a tendril into me when I play him.

This sounds bizarre, I know, or at least very, very esoteric; but I always found teriel's approach of Entity Work strangely helpful when working with characters. He might mean it magickally and esoterically; for me, it a short-cut to simply explain to myself and others what I am doing with my characters.

I invoke them into myself, and invoke myself into them, like an anime character will 'invoke' themselves into their Mecha, which becomes animated by the character.

It's easy to do with a limited novel character, especially one as obscure as Teja who might be down to two actual fans who write him at the moment, carolinw and me; but Tower is so widespread and so popular and so generally known and used by millions of practitioners of tarot around the globe, it is really massive to tangle with that sort of memetic clout.-

Chiming in

[will_scarlett]

Just chiming in with this is why I have worries when I do OOMs or just Will sometimes. I know his character really well, but he's also clearly a part of the Robin Hood legend which is large and many headed.

He's just my interpretation of one part of it but considering that certain ideas about RH make me twitch, I always worry that somehow my Will might be doing the same for other people and then I feel bad. So I understand completely even though he doesn't have the mystical issues, he's still very much a huge public domain character.