ways_back_room | DE: All the small things

A little bit.

Felix, way back in the day, I played as basically myself. We've developed in different directions since then, but that was a base point. Also our hair is pretty much the same color, although mine has never been as long as Felix's is in canon.

When I look at Fluttershy, I see quite a bit of me of several years ago. I mean, I was never a pony, or pastel, or female, or that into animals, but the shyness is very familiar. Nowadays I'm more "quiet" than "shy", but I certainly remember what it was like.

Cranky is not always me, but there have been times, such as when I've been having to deal with people in person on their timetables, that he is exactly me. Mentally, anyway.

Kain... not so much, I think. It's actually rather odd - I don't really understand his issues, but I know what they look like and have some idea of their manifestations. Come to think of it, maybe that's why he doesn't EP very often.

Me and Amascut? Never... Total polar opposites.

Well, maybe not. I am allergic to cats and thus a bit cat avoidant. It doesn't mean I will deny them scritches when the situation calls for it or out or boredom. I am a social scritcher. Also, Amascut's death is better than prolonged needless suffering philosophy is slowly creeping into my own thought process.

Other than that, Fairy Fixit (who I have only played once or twice in OOMs and sandboxes due to apocalypse shenanigans) is a portal and teleportation network engineer, which is oddly close to the career path I've set myself on. (Except no magical science or portals are involved. Yet.) I won't comment on Evil Chicken since his characterization changes so much.

Enzo has become more like me since I gave him very silly roommates/friends at the Academy (including two directly based on aspects of myself*) and they've had a certain amount of influence on him.

And I'm going to have a niece in a couple of months! So there's another point of convergence.

*And one loosely based on Chris Knight from Real Genius.

There are definite times when I share personality traits with all of my pups. When poked, I rant like Danny over things that bother me, and I can get just as annoyed by petty things. I can be just as prickly as Emma, and am prone to having just a few close friends, like her. I love sailing and fixing things, like Caspian. I can be as cynical as Wolfwood, and as blown away by the little beauties in life and people. And I try to let the world roll off my back, like Jack, when I can't change things.

However, I am not royalty, a savior, a mercenary priest, a gunslinger, and I can't stand New Jersey, so I guess the similarities are minimal at best.

As for Dragon*Con, it was great! Here is a photo of me with a bunch of other Emmas. Run, Tommy!

Cloooooones!

You look awesome, great photo shoot. Oh and you're up in the Drive OOM when you have time.

I guess it should be noted that I am the Emma to Mary Margaret's left, with the gun. Good to know, maybe!

I have to wonder if any Reginas were around and if they had apoplexies when they saw that many Emmas. ; p

ALL OF THE EMMAS

I have this habit of being a fixer sometimes and not always knowing when to take care of myself. Sometimes like Dem and Charles, I meddle when I'm meaning well but don't always know the right thing to do. I try to be as loyal as Will. I'm curious and a reader which is something I share with quite a lot of my pups. I try to be as emapthetic as Charles is, but even I can't manage that.

When pushed, I've got a short fuse like Will and William, and I love creating things like Sameth, Jane, Charles, Will, Tumnus. I try to appreciate life as much as Will and Dem but I'm still learning.

So yes, I've got a good bit of all of mine.

Edited 2012-09-04 15:44 (UTC)

Ben and I love food and the world tends to feel a little too small to each of us. I also can have a short fuse.

Like Palamedes and Kate, I try to live honestly and not lie.

Like Hank, I never really felt like I fit in when I was a kid and through most of my life.

And like Jessica I can have trouble with my long term memories.

Well, I'm Scots-Irish. I think. And I have become a little more brash ever since I started playing Voodoo.

Other than that? Not really.

Knox is me, more or less. Snarky Gothamite news reporter with a heart of gold played by a Jewish actor scans to somewhat snarky Jewish NYC public relations specialist. And over the years, there has been a good deal of drift in Knox to make him even more like me.

I would say not so much, but apparently the game at large disagrees with me. Ages ago at Millicon I was voted Most Like Their Character for Mike.

To this day I'm mildly horrified.

OMG! SO MANY DRAGON*CON STORIES!
I got a hug from both Rob Paulsen and Kevin Eastman.

I basically am Claudia now, minus the hacker amazeness. I am way too good at 'brash, rude, antisocial, impulsive' for my own good, and I have been on that awkward-as-shit 'boy likes me! HOW CAN THIS BE???' date. (Not only was this before I'd fully processed that girls are also awesome, he was... he tried, bless him, but I just wasn't feeling the same connection he was.)

I want to be Rebecca when I grow up; she has all the points in practical badassery, and she's determined to make her own life for herself no matter what anyone else wants her to do (and she does!). But right now I am Claudia, both for good and for ill.

In certain ways, definitely. Shawn is a lot like me with the ADD traits, only he's extroverted and I'm introverted. My other pups share my strong sense of loyalty.

Frequently political/social opinions, any friendliness or social awkwardness or being slow to let people in deep (yes, all at once), mixed cynicism and optimism, range of interests, passion, brains, and dubious sanity.

Jason and Henry are notably less temperamental than I am, and a lot less cynical. Henry and Lois are a lot less mathematics/science inclined, and Lois has taste in media/hobbies almost opposed to mine. Tavi's a lot more cold-blooded, arrogant (I think), and less artistically inclined.

I think what it boils down to is that I'm closest to Tavi in academics but very far in personal stuff, and want to be Lois Lane when I grow up.

Dragon*Con: yaaay. Brandon Sanderson chat went well, and got hugs from Aaron Ashmore (SV!Jimmy Olsen) and Dean Cain (L&C Clark, SQUEE!).

I like sleeping.

I generally make a point of avoiding apping characters I feel I really identify with, as I tend to be a little neurotic about the idea of keeping a character IC, and I find it really distracting to be concerned about the idea that I'm just writing what I would do rather than what the character would do. I don't mind it so much for NPC work, for instance, but Milliways inherently involves putting characters in situations they would never be a part of in canon, and so I feel like I have to have a really good hold on the character in order to app them, and having something that really... anchors them as different from me helps with that.

When I first started playing Elle, a lot of the time I thought of her as basically doing the opposite of what I'd do in a situation, and even now we're not that much alike personality-wise. I am sort of similarly built to Kristen Bell (which was something noticeable for me, given that my first character was a tall teenage boy and thus I couldn't really relate to him physically at all, whereas I do tend to have a very good sense of Elle's physicality), but other than that... I mean, maybe I don't have the best perception of myself, but I wouldn't say we have much in common.

Leslie was a character I really hesitated on because I felt like I identified with her a lot, but she's really like... the person who's inside me, but under a thick layer of social conditioning. I can get excited and enthusiastic like she does, but I don't tend to show it. And like her, I love Sarah McLachlan, sugar, and Ann Perkins. And we're also both from Indiana, and went to IU for school at some point in our lives. We also both have mothers who work in local government (albeit in pretty different fields), and I think like Leslie, particularly if I am excited about something, I can get kind of commandeering and fail to pay attention to others' thoughts and advice like I should. But flaws and all, Leslie is really someone who I'd like to be.

... Manny is a talking skeleton dude. So far part of the fun in playing him is acting in a way that I would never really act in real life. I like his sense of humor, but I'm not sure I'd say it's identical to my own. I think I'd say the most we share is a similar approach to and interest in problem-solving.

On the exterior, Asami is probably the most similar to me of any of my characters. We have very similar temperaments, friendly but kind of understated and leaning more toward passive-aggressive than openly emotional. But unlike her, I am terrible with cars and... pretty much all other technology that isn't basic 'how to format something in HTML' or the like, and I sort of conceptualize her thought process as one that... well, orients toward being an engineer much more than mine does. I can also relate to her eventual trust issues to a degree, but they're really not... that similar. It more just gives me some emotional footing with her.

Edited 2012-09-04 19:08 (UTC)

Gene and I share a lack of patience with idiots and whiners. We both have a strong mentality of 'take responsibility for your shit'. And underestimated smarts. We both like drinking! And tend not to be openly emotional, unless that emotion is anger, or can be conveyed through sarcasm.

I'm not as lazy as he was in Life on Mars though, nor as focused on one thing as he was in Ashes. Sam really did a job, turning him into something so single-minded. The most important difference though, obviously - he's City, and I'm United. We could never be friends.

Ramon - ahahaha. No. Except maybe being slow to forget a slight.

Bruce - some personality traits in common, yeah.

Harry - hmmm. We definitely both like treacle tart (has anyone ever tried this made with actual treacle? Because, ew.), and sport. Pretty sure I'd be in Gryffindor, so there's that.

Other than that, I'm surprised to say...not really. Perhaps him being a teenage boy helps mark the difference, and having such bad things happen to his family. But he's far more openly emotional than I am, and more at ease with depending on friends. Nothing in common there.

Elrond is who I want to be. And Eric is who I am. Kinda. Less creepy I hope. But definitely sarcastic and such. Also naked (it's a Scandinavian thing).

Identifying with my characters is generally not what attracts me to them as people I want to write. I usually get that spark from someone very different from me whose mindset I want to explore, or whose issues I want to get to see play out somewhere very different from canon.

That said, there are a few things I share with characters I play, though they aren't always particularly significant in terms of characterization, for them OR me.

The biggest one that shares similarities with me is, oddly enough, Dean. We both have that parental-ish figure to little brothers, though my brother and I are not at all codependent, so that works out. He is definitely all about things I don't give a damn about, and he's got an engineer brain that is in good communication with his hands, which I definitely do not have.

X -- likes cats? Just like me! Um.

Nynaeve's crankiness all the time was like me when I was tired and on the very edge of my ability to pretend to be civil!

Michael's attitude of 'oh my god, really?' is similar to mine when I despair of a situation I find myself in.

Tommy and I are both New Yorkers.

And that's pretty much it.

We like ice hockey?

That's it, really.

Well, despite my usual quiet and withdrawn nature, I have been known to launch into a profanity-laden rant if provoked, but it has to be something I feel strongly about for that to happen.

And Lou talks the way I like to write in general, so that's a little common ground there.

D*C: I ... accidentally bought a sword?

So both Ava and I are 5'5" brunettes who own metal blades equal to or greater than the length of our forearms?

I can be as enthusiastic as Aradia, and as keen on discovery, and I'm every bit as morbid. I had similar hair -- albeit blonde -- at one point, but I chopped it off because it was hopelessly tangled. HOPELESSLY.

Honestly, if I don't have some common ground with a character, fandom or OC, then I have difficulty thinking of anything to do with them. With the possible exception of villains (though perhaps the common ground there is my dark side), but villains are exhausting to play.

Also, I tend to absorb bits of my characters' personalities just as much as I use bits of myself as the anchoring point when I write for them.

Edited 2012-09-04 23:09 (UTC)

..Scarily, of all of my pups? I am the most like Pinkie Pie.

Just try to picture THAT.

Otherwise, only when I'm among people I'm comfortable with am I the extroverted loudmouth that most of the rest of my pups are.

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