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I chose my character because I always play a heroic type in RPGs and LARPs. So I doubt I could change much.

I am afraid to answer this question, for I know the answer. ._.

Aw, go on. Screen it or something.

Miss you! Lestat and Todd need to have drinks again sometime.

Hmm...I could screen it? You can screen your own comments? How? :feels really dumb, scratches head:

And hell yeah, I always wanted to play with Lestat again, but we keep missing each other! Let me know your schedule or something. :}

*headdesk* Am a fool. No, you probably can't screen comments.

I'm usually in about 8 until 11 GMT, whenever I can.
*pokes Lestat* If you see Todd, say hi, okay?
Lestat: "Ow... I mean, oui!"

In that case, when I am not sitting in a motel lobby, I will endeavor to answer your question. Or maybe I should e-mail you. Am I the only one who finds a question like this weirdly personal? :}

And yes, Lestat, you similarly blond, toothy, nasty cutie. There's a golden boy out here waiting for you. :D

I know that playing Val has made me a bit calmer, more in tune with peoples' emotions. Also, her inherent -goodness-, even though she thinks she's evil makes me take a step back and look at myself, and the nature of good and evil. Also: Playing a character who's about ten times smarter than you are can be a large challenge. Mark, well, he's interesting in that he doesn't -care-. The bohemian spirit can be Quite Infectious sometimes. So, there's my few cents, for what it's worth.

Playing Tom has been a pretty amazing experience, especially as far as writing is concerned. I feel like I can write much more quickly and easily. I've also improved in some areas with my writing. Being able to guide a character's growth and change, sometimes due to external happenings that I had no idea would effect him, has been incredible.

I am not like Tom, really, but I have enough Slytherin tendencies to let me understand him. There are probably some siilarities that I'd rather not own up to. But my evil is very cheerful, I assure you ;) I chose Tom because I wrote a story called Strange and Wondrous about him, and I fell a little in love with the idea of there being a happier ending for him (there wasn't one in my fic).

The thing that makes it easiest to play him as he is now is because I see the amazing changes that happen to young, troubled, angry children when you tell them you love them and they are good. I'm a preschool teacher for a low socio-economic group of kiddos -I even have a very Tom-like boy in one of my classes - very cute, bright, charming, and so angry and sad...

I am a believer, friends, in redemption ;)

The trickiest thing in playing him is that Tom's smarter than I am. Eep, that makes things harder.

I don't think I'm becoming like my character, but I find my character becoming someone I'm very proud of.

Ooh, shiny answer!

*giggles*

Do I get a gold star?

Roger has made me a little quicker-witted, I think...and there's a certain part of me that opens up to Roger as this very sexual, very flirtatious being. I'm not exactly shy in real life, but I'm not really quick to open up, either (with rare exceptions), but I guess I've become a bit more coquettish.

Grima--when I play him for long periods of time--makes me a little retracted and kind of mean, but subtly. Ender makes me sad about my own lack of nobility.

oooohhh... Good question!

Well, I can honestly say that I was a bit like all of my characters before I started playing them. But playing them has definately made that connection stronger. I mean, I knew they lived there, but I didn't usually refer to them in the first person. And now, it's not uncommon for me to have entire conversations as one of my characters. (Usually LaCroix) ^.~

However, as I play more I notice that LaCroix is changing a bit as well, as are all my characters. It's unavoidable, I suppose, that after a while they would take on a bit of my flavouring, but I like to think I'm not so much changing his character as I am... improving it.

In my opinion. Some other Cousin may come along and despise what I've done to Nunkies. But, so it goes.

Well, I've always identified with Nick. I'm the type who implodes on the inside before bothing anyone, apologizes for just about everything, tends to try and fix everything (and flails when she can't) and has a problem with her need to please everyone. Playing him has made me look more at him as a character (because oh, the canon yet NO continuity) and look at how dumb my actions which are like his can often be. It's easy to point out how dumb Nick is being on the screen, not telling anyone why he's upset, sitting around getting angrier and sadder without a word, angsting...but it's much harder to look at myself making busywork, playing DDR insanely, and listening to Billy Joel on an endless loop and admit the same. I'd like to think I'm learning with him sometimes to trust my friends and let them help me.

I will say that Nick is getting better at giving gifts...and I seem to be picking up on his Shatner-esq delivery at times. As for more, well...I'll probably think about it later ^_^

I'm - like Meg and not like Meg, in a lot of ways. Some aspects of me have definitely snuck into Meg when I wasn't looking (her caffeine addiction is not based on real life, oh no, not at all, not in the least tiny way!). That said, being Meg's mouthpiece - because I don't control her, not in the least little bit; she dictates to me and I type - has changed me, too, in a lot of ways. I think occasionally some of her bounce and insane hyperactivity rubs off - y'all can judge for yourself if this is a good thing or not - as well as, I hope, her willingness to love just about absolutely everyone she meets for whatever they can give, evil or not. (Todd and Lecter, don't give me that look - she has her reasons and you know it.)

As for Inigo - er. I suppose Inigo rubs off on me less because with Inigo, I stay much closer to canon. I'll admit that Meg has become so warped by now that only a small percentage of her actions here are traceable to her canon roots - admittedly, that's because she hasn't got many canon roots, but still. I try and make Inigo toe the line much more, and so less of him rubs off on me, but every so often I find his rockheadedness creeping into my conversations. It's a bit like having a beautiful cocker spaniel in your head shedding all over the furniture. I love him dearly, though. Love both of them, actually, and wouldn't change them for the world.

I'd have to say that I chose to play David because I love the transformation he went through, from his old self - so close to death - to his new one - who creates death, though not through his own choice, though you know that.

And I'll admit that there's more of me in David than there rightfully should be, but I think, overall, he's canonically correct, though fucking around with details of his childhood helps a little. It's not as though it's the most well-known past in the world.

Armand is Armand. I can't change him. He's not ever going to cry as much as David, though he honestly has no reason to - he has his passion, he has a love, and he still pines for Marius, though no one knows it but me. But he loves his Master, and Richard knows it - or certainly will do after their trip to Rome.

Donnie's... a geek. And he's not gotten to play too often. Mostly getting used to the idea of being dead, so far as I'm aware, and I'm cynical like him to a point anyway.

So... I'd say I'm like David anyway. "I remind you of an old brainy English dude? Sweet!" I have Armand's passion, no matter what, and Donnie's cynicism. I suppose I chose them because I can see parts of me in them and parts of them in me, and anyone who says I have them OOC, well...

How would we ever know? Has David ever had his heart broken in canon? Ever been returned to mortal state? No. So whether IC or OOC, I chose them because I love them :) How's that for an answer?

Also a shiny answer ma petite! This is the one I was most looking forward to ^_^

Aw, Armand still pines for Marius, *sniffle* and Donnie? Must ask you about this Donnie, will do right now in fact.

Still not sure whether you hate me for comparing you to a stodgy English pensioner...

I told you: I went, "Squee!" because he's fantastic. I love him to bits.

Donnie... Mr Donnie Darko. I applied about three weeks ago, he got accepted a week ago, and he's barely been in the bar yet :)

Playing Andrew is fun. He's like me in a few ways: his tremendous geekiness and his tendency to see everything in relation to stories are aspects I relate to a lot. His essential insecurity and timidity, and his detachment from his own realness and that of people around him ... well, I can relate to those too, from memory, though not to the same extent as he's got them.

Cordelia Vorkosigan is someone I want to be when I grow up. If I have anything in common with her now, it's the tendency to cope with things by becoming analytical ... and possibly something of her resistance to being shocked by human behavior. And a somewhat similar attitude towards God.
I don't have her groundedness, or her centeredness, or her wisdom, or anything like her strength. But I'd like to.

I don't think playing either of these characters has changed me, particularly. ...except in that I've become completely obsessed with Milliways, thanks.

Much the same for me.

There are parts of Will's character I identify with, of course, or I couldn't play him. The tendency to be cheerful over an underlying unflappable calm, the combination of introversion and enjoyment of being around other people, the self-acceptance, the tendency to be cheerful and focus on other things instead of thinking or talking about problems. I think he carries all of these farther than I do, but there's enough there that I can identify. The tendency, too, to link stories and myth to things in daily life -- although my attitude towards and understanding of that is quite, quite different from Will's. Also, I have a tendency to take the long perspective about things like death and so forth, and to have trouble sometimes when I know that that's not the perspective someone wants to hear and yet I'm not sure what else to offer. There are many ways in which I'm different from Will too, of course, and even the similarities are not exact. Some of those differences I'm quite glad for, really.

I don't think playing him has changed me, except that Milliways has given me a number of new good friends, and brought me to write a great deal more DiR fanfic than I ever did before. And, like any immersion in a canon, has led me to see links to DiR and/or Milliways in everything, because this place is an obsession, darnit.

Snow has changed my wardrobe, and severly increased my addiction to Fables. Neither of us are the most social of people under normal circumstances, but that changes when we get into an area with geeky background levels, though Snow wouldn't likely see it that way. And hey, I'm the one who came up with the channeling theory in the first place, so I'm interested to see other people's answers.

Van Helsing - him I picked b/c I had a sudden huge obession with the movie and the character, but there was more than that. He has this 'missing past' and he's trying to find something - memories, family - he's like a lost child in many ways, or like that older kid who still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up, so he just keeps doing what he's doing now until he figures it out <-- that would be the *me* part that I see in VH. Plus, he has a really cool hat! *g* I will say, VH is a bit more straightforward and violent than I am. He tends to go for the kill a bit quicker than I would. I'm more analytical.

Connor - Highlander is my passion. Really. Beyond my obsession w/ VH - Highlander is my *big* fandom. The one that hasn't died - not to this day. (MacGyver's the other one, but I couldn't play him if my life depended on it - I suck at science.) Anyway - Connor is snarky and sneaky and can get under someone's skin with just the right question - even if he's not really trying, but he usually is. He's quiet (which I *so* am not) - until he gets angry - and even then, he doesn't go for the yelling and the loud - he's methodical. I think he can plan things in his head as he moves along, doing whatever he's doing. I don't know if I've changed b/c of playing him - I can just 'write' him.

Bob the Skull - honestly, he may be the hardest character for me to play. He's flirty and VERY direct with more snark than you can shake a stick at. He also has an incredible knowledge of the mystical, magical and other-worldly that I just don't quite have yet - more b/c his canon hasn't exposed much of it yet than anything else. Jim Butcher's only got 6 books out so far - and says he has 20 or so planned - even then - probably only about 20% of all of the magical canon he's thought up will ever be used in the books themselves. That's what makes Bob tough to write/play - all the *knowledge* that he has about magic that has to be made-up on the fly (which I'm still not so good at yet - but maybe playing Bob can help me there).

And the last:

Martouf / Lantash - I love this character. Love him even more after having met JR Bourne, the actor who plays him. The hardest part about playing Martouf is remembering to not use contractions in his speech and not end sentences with prepositions if I can help it. His speech patterns are so much different than 90% of the population. I haven't been playing him that long, so I don't know if he's affected / influenced me or not. But I love that he's so genuinely inquisitive about everything. He doesn't presume to know things and whatever he doesn't know and wants to know - he asks about. Lantash, OTOH, is a bit more 'forceful', I suppose. There isn't as much on-screen information about Lantash to go on - most of the character interaction is with Martouf. Lantash, though, has the Tok'ra knowledge and is a little less emotional than Martouf. Again, Lantash hasn't really had time to affect me yet, but, I'm sure he will in the future.

Mostly, the characters I picked are the ones that I can 'write' their voices for in fic form. If I can *hear* the character in my head when I'm writing, I'm comfortable with what they're doing.

Speaking of Martouf/Lantash, one of my boys will have to speak with him someday soon, because: the squee! *is a Stargate geek*

please do! any or all - ;)

and yay! more *squee*

*is also a Stargate geek and trying to get Stargate geek friend to bring her Stargate character in... grrr*

There is a reason I don't RP Pestilence that much. That is because I slip into the 'diseases! yay!' mindset FAR too easily for my own comfort. I think half the challenge of writing any of the Horsepersons (and War seems to be my specialty, as far as Good Omens fic is concerned...) is making a POV that so utterly contradicts most of humanity's still sound convincing. Anyway, I start writing Pestilence's stuff and it comes so easily that I'm really rather frightened, so he mainly turns up when there're other Horsepersons about.
As for Jane... well, Daria would probably have been much more suited to my personality, in terms of sarcasm and writing as a hobby. But I figured Jane would be more likely to dive in and talk to people, whereas Daria would find a handy corner and snark at everyone. I'm more like Jane, in that sense. Also, it's nice to have a normal person in the bar.

Jenny is fun. Megwyn is entirely too serious. They are seldom played.

Bruce, on the other hand, is both entirely himself, and entirely my inner child out for a spin. Because really, I love being eight.

Anakin, though, is the one closest to my heart. Both because my love affair with his character is epic and because I tend to infuse a lot of myself into him. He is highly empathic, which is a trait I didn't start consciously putting into him, but it appeared anyway out of my own empathy. He's also loyal and chivalrous, which are traits we share. He's outstripping me for maturity these days, though. When I started, we both reacted the same way to things, namely, emote first and think after, but now, he's gotten careful. He doesn't charge headlong into things anymore, as much as I wish to.

Also, generally the way my characters react to things is the way I am reacting. So any body language of theirs is my actual body language. How they speak, though, isn't half so precise. I can only give what I think they would say most of the time.

I've been playing Hannibal for only a short time (since the beginning of October), but I've been playing characters based on certain aspects of his character and personality for years now. And I can't say it's changed me much - Not that I could tell anyway.

However, oddly enough, playing on LJ as much as I have been since joining has changed my spelling for the worse - I don't know why, but I find myself looking back at my posts and wincing (before sent), because I spell simple words badly. Quest becomes qwest ... head becomes hed ... And I have always prided myself on my spelling. Incredibly distressing.

I so hear you on the spelling issue - I have a terrible problem with typos. It was much worse when I started, and for a while, I previewed every single comment, much to the dismay of anyone I played with. Now I've been at it a while, I tend to not goof up as much, but still my fingers will slip and something will get through. When you get caught up in RP it's easy to forget to proofread, and sometimes even when you do, your mind fills in a missing word or you skip over the comma you've typed instead of a period so as to go faster. It's quite vexing.

I envy the people here who are always perfect. So so jealous.

Brennan - I'm not much like him. I don't have the slight arrogance and total sense of self that he does most of the time; Brennan knows who he is and what he's going to become, and he's comfortable with that. On the other hand, I do have the desire, almost a need, to help people if I see them hurting, and I'm far too easily hurt, which Brennan is as well, underneath it all. Brennan is my sweet boy, most of the time, the one who says the things that I might think but never really can bring myself to say. I'm much more closed-in on myself than he is.

Lochiel - is a tricky one. He started out amoral-shading-to-evil, and through the influence of certain people *coughMegcough* has become much more benign and caring. He's probably closest to my personality; easily hurt by words and actions, deeply introspective at times, generous to people he cares about, unwilling to admit weakness because he's afraid of what people will think of him. Lochiel is very much afraid of people's opinions of him, and tends to think the worst or assume people dislike him. Now that he's changed the way he has, he's very insecure about himself and his place in the world, and we share that.

Tye - is my lighter side, my creative side. I write and draw; he sings and composes. His pleasure in music mirrors the pleasure I get from writing and sketching. His (so far) angst-free personality, despite bad things having happened to him in the past, is a projection of what I'd like to be. I think, out of all my boys, Tye is the one I'd most like to be like. He has amazing power, but prefers to use it sparingly or not at all, except to evoke emotions. He's at once complex and simple, and is a relief to play amidst all the angst of my other boys.

Alex - I'm not much like Alex at all, really. He's open and careless about physicality, while I'm quite the opposite. We both have the same attitude towards sexuality, but Alex acts on his desires and impulses. He's graceful and elegant and beautiful, but incredibly unhappy in himself and his relationships with others. He's got my habit of hiding things that hurt or upset him, and keeping a mask between himself and the world, but other than that, we're not much alike.

Hope that's of interest and I haven't just rambled randomly :)

Whoa. You're all of the Brennan-canon characters bar Hale? Impressive!

Nope... there's Hale, Niall, Ian and Aidan, though I don't think Ian's made it in yet. But yes, I am Brennan, Lochiel and Tye. Made the Brennan-and-Lochiel thread... interesting...

Ow, my brain still hurts...

And if I get accepted, there shall temporarily be yet another player for the Cheysuli canon, so the madness gets spread out more evenly.

I adopted Richard from another player, but I've always been fond of him.

It's hard to say if I've become more or less like him because we're somewhat similar to begin with. His temperament is easy to play, I just worry about his vocabulary and syntax.

Spot on for Englishness, sweetie. Worry not.

I brought Gil here almost lock stock and barrel from another RP, bar a few physical changes below the waist.

As far as congruence between our characters go I see very little. For instance I am not and could never be a decent cook. We are both English, though, which probably counts for a lot and I've never made any secret of the fact that I'm a good bit older than the average RPer [believing very firmly that fun should NOT be age restricted as long as it's legal], which probably accounts for a bit more.

My characters both here and in the

discworld_rpg get awlays a bit of me added to anchor the way I invoke them into myself. That is on purpose.

And I keep discovering the potential for the canon characteristics of those characters within myself while I am playing them. Most extreme case: my playing

beth_metatronim, the vampire painter who sometimes comes in here as well, made me take up drawing and painting again, after I had given up on it for more than a decade.

I would fear what being Asar-Suti might do to me, but he's only temporary, and not even approved yet.

Granny here was my first character, but I picked her more because I love the character than because I'm much like her. I can't help but think that there are several other Discworld characters who may have been a better fit for me. I will say, however, that whenever I play her I end up tempted to learn how to play Cripple Mister Onion. She doesn't get played very often, though.

Kestrel... is a lot like me in certain ways, and certainly has the loudest voice in my head right now. However, there also appears to be a voice in my head that's hell-bent on punishing her, and it's even easier to listen to, so I fear that she hasn't been terribly canon-accurate lately... but we're working on that. And that whole voice-in-my-head thing makes it VERY interesting when I'm reading one of the Shapechanger books - it makes me want to yell at Brennan right now, and then I realize this and laugh. A little. I'm still mad at him, though, and that's not entirely because of him trying to kill Lochiel the other night.

Frankie, on the other hand, is also making his presence known lately... and the oddest thing is, I think it's Meg's fault that I've been behaving as I have this afternoon with my family, in that weird Real Life place. I mean, I'm used to acting like a little sister... not so much acting like a little brother. It's quite odd. Fortunately, that whole "oozing sexuality" thing hasn't really been showing up IRL today. Thank heavens.

I also have the character Sir Richard Francis Burton from the Riverworld books, but while he's been approved for a bit over a week I haven't managed to bring him in yet. Tonight or tomorrow, though. Should be, anyway. I *was* going to bring him in last Saturday, but then it was all the A/C angst, and I was too busy wibbling. I have no idea how he's going to affect me... except that I've already started to say "Yaas?" in real life. *headdesks*

I really hope I'm not getting more like Anthy. Cause, Anthy.

I do think playing her has made me much more introspective, if only because I spend so much time trying to figure out what's going on in her head that it leaks over into non-Milliways life. Also, I now giggle hysterically at every mention of curry. This could be a problem later in life.

Oh, this is a fun question, I do hope I'm not too late.

Well, I'm a sucker for Arthurian stories of any sort, and Elaine of Astolat and I are (scarily enough) quite a lot alike, especially me pre-marriage, pre-kid, in the naivete department, the whole clingy-longing-please-don't-leave-me stuff. Though I'm not mad. (Well, maybe a little.) Playing her has been like a little bit of self-discovery each day, and I hope I am developing her character into a bit more of a mature one.

Hmmm, did that make sense? I chose Elaine because she was naive and innocent, I wanted to bring her to a place where she could discover herself a little, realize her own power, love someone who loves her back. I'd like her to be pursued by someone who really adores her, and have her be bewildered by that.

Hmmmm...a bit off topic at the end. But yes. There it is.