Friday DE: Pieces of you

[bjornwilde]

Yay, it's Friday!

What part of yourself have you brought to your characters? 

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[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

Sahaal in canon is only ever depicted during a period of extreme stress and anger, so I had to construct his 'normal' personality from scratch. Given that, he's probably got a few elements of my personality in him. He definitely has my speech patterns.

Sevatar is a pretty well-defined character already, so I haven't brought much to him. A few of his views about his home universe come from me, though.

I didn't bring much of myself into Artyom, but rather used my preferences in his games. I play Metro with a focus on stealth, silenced weapons and long-range precision gunplay, when I can. Milliways!Artyom uses these as his main battle tactics.

[bjornwilde]

Danny's recent EP had him saying he takes mustard with his soft pretzels as his dad used to steal his when he ate it with cheese. I took this from my own childhood when my dad would steal my fries until I started eating them with mustard. (cue music.)

Sabine is an artist from conception but I added the idea of her working on propaganda and such from my early days of learning advertising back in art college. I was rather gratified when the book Star Wars Propaganda, actually gives her a shout out, thus proving my head canon.

Hank's nervousness is pulled from all my high school awkwardness.

Ahsoka...about all I think of is her recent enjoyment of sauces that came up with Cassian. I am a foodie at heart, so I latched onto that.

[thebattycakes]

Bill Pardy is probably the character who is the most me. His sweet tooth, love of fishing and football are all me. Although him being a Colts fan was the blame of a friend who sent me Peyton Manning videos back when he was doing ridiculous commercials about laser rocket arms. XD

We both don't like vegetables, don't understand strange sandwiches and super expensive chocolate, and given the choice between hitting the town or a quiet night in we'll take the quiet. Most of the time.

Charlie is a canon gambler, but his time spent at the racetrack is from me. (Although I'm better at betting the ponies than he is, natch.)

Barry is turning out the opposite way, with his characteristics beginning to influence me. I've started listening to more of his music, and taken interest in things he's into (although I would have been equally as excited about this last Monday's eclipse as Barry, because SPACE AND SCIENCE AND AWESOME!). We share optimism, although his hope and heroism are something to strive towards.

[feminine_menace]

YT favors vodka and tequila, just like I do.

[sdelmonte]

Not that I play Alex Knox that much anymore (or ever), but he's me. I played up actor Robert Wuhl being Jewish, and then ran with the fact that Knox was essentially a smart-ass New Yorker. Half of the fun playing Knox was getting to be my inner snarkmeister and my long-denied inner reporter.

Otherwise, with the exception of the two non-heroic types, I tend to imbue my pups with my own essential goodness and decency. Which sounds hokey but is at the center of what I do here. I like the good guys. I like being ethical and moral and decent. It's who I try to be and who they are.

[bjornwilde]

I hear you on the goodness and decency. I can appreciate a well written/acted villain, but I just fail when I try to play them.

[inlovewithwords]

Likewise.

look i haven't actually tried to play a villain yet give me time he'll get there

[sdelmonte]

I played Sideshow Bob so long ago he was still funny in canon. That went nowhere, even though I can jump to BobSpeak even now.

And I played Gibbs from PotC but he wasn't really a bad guy, just a pirate.

[likeroaringlions]

...William Douglas has to make up for all my regret that I can't just blunder around without any self-awareness like a big dumb rich boy.

[i_am_your_host]

I think for me it's more of what I don't have, is what I put into my characters.

But out of all my pups, Emcee was the least fully formed in canon, so I had more room to give him things. So the most 'me' thing would probably be the way he took to classic rock and disco. Not that disco is my ultimate favorite, but I do appreciate some ABBA. Also, Emcee's crush on Eric Northman is just a blatant projection of my own crush on Alexander Skarsgård. Not gonna lie.

[onceaviking]

Isn't that the truth of most Eric Northman crushes?

[never_promised]

where's the like button when you need it

[dwellsinthedetails]

My mother taught art at my high school, so I was doomed to the Art Nerd pretty much from the second he showed up. (It didn't fully take until after we cleared Madarame's Palace, but I was doomed early on - 'art kid' is one of my Persona character types, though weirdly I also have journals for the tallest party member in each of the last three games. XD)

ANYWAY. My take on Yusuke's art style is filtered through my own understanding, which admittedly skews more European than Japanese. The paintings of his that you see in gameplay are extremely Expressionistic (and fittingly, he drops a reference to Van Gogh).

There's probably more of me in Claudia. Her family's spaghetti recipe is my mom's spaghetti, I set her birthday about six months after my own so we have similar pop culture touchstones, and the (original) age gap between her and Joshua worked out to be the same as the gap between me and my sister.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: Nothing really. He already likes horse-riding and happy endings.

Evelyn: my choices for her game, and some amount of my personality. That will be far more in evidence when she's not quite so much scared into inaction as scared into anger and action and then Thing Happen.

Lois: It might be easier to say what I don't bring: my math-leanings and my geekiness and my music/dance. Lois comes pretty naturally to me as she usually talks, well, surprisingly like I do in regular conversation. So with Lois I generally just write me, and then edit out the bits of me that shouldn't be there.

R2: My love of profanity~! And my love of technology such that every time I actually try to figure out what those beeps are saying, I keep on translating it not just into how we'd understand it, but the literal meaning of what he's said--eg, exhaust pipes instead of asshole, etc. It is a beautiful meeting place of profanity and tech geekery to inhabit.

Anakin: Dear fluffy bunnies. Maybe my deep set drive to find ways to show how Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader really aren't two different people and try to show the Vader lurking in Anakin and the Anakin still scattered through Vader? Maybe the part of myself he gets is that he is occasionally a bit of a dorky geek about building things. I may not be a mech-eng person, but I know how to geek.

Tavi: The people I've known. I mean, yes, the snark is me and the ability to write a huge geek enthusing is me and the love of magical theory is a) totally canonical and b) totally me, half the reason I clicked with him is that we have a rather similar set of interests all told. But while I'm not a genius or an engineer or a security person or social manipulating or deep into military history--and those kinds of people who have that much intelligence and that much breadth of interest, yes polymaths are amazing and intimidating? I've lived with literal geniuses, am friends with these kinds of people all around me, and while I know I couldn't react the way he does if it were actual life, because dear god I am not him? I know the people who are him, I've watched how they think, and if I'm having trouble wrangling Tavi, sometimes I ask myself "Okay, so what would [Friend] say?" or "How would [Other friend] analyze this?" or pull out the knowledge I've gained from watching and playing and talking with them. And then I write them instead of me.

[chanter1944]

Sariel... doesn't have a lot of me, really. We are two extremely different people, personality-wise. The fact that she sings does match her mun, but that's as much drawn from me extrapolating from the sound of her actress's voice as anything. The unshakable sense of wonder at the universe... Sariel has yet to (and never will) lose hers, and I would very much like to keep mine; managing so far, thank you space geekery. The tendency to overdo it in pursuit of an important enough purpose is canon, so it's a coincidence that it matches. And the lavender tea thing... I know I found that while researching for Sariel early in playing her, but I truly do not remember if I started drinking it first, and then she did, or the other way around. One of us influenced the other, though, and now we're both fans. :)

Her bilingualism isn't drawn from me specifically, but I am a giant language nerd, and that aspect showed when I made Sariel a Patois-speaking Lucian.