How small we really are

[Dredge]

I've seen things on this site and just Role Play in general, it's hard to put it really. People don't seem to realize just how small and fragile we really are. How precious and delicate a organic body is, I've seen people grip star destroyers, ship yards, asteroids, hell I've seen people tear buildings down with their brain. And I think to myself is have we filled this galaxy with images of perfection? All these perfect people who have no depth to them. And I see how these perfect people don't realize just how small they are in the grand scheme of things. The largest person I've seen here was about ten feet tall, a lion beast of a man on the first thread I did here.

But in comparison to a planet, a ship, a building. He is still small and fragile but we write in a galaxy where everyone is a god. But I think we as writers have made our characters idealized versions of ourselves and people we want to be without realizing that we have lost touched with how humanity really works. We are tiny in all of it, we live our short violent lives and then we die.

But yet I look around and see just these perfect people, fit, tone, beautiful people and I'm no different, I've written characters who are beautiful people. I'm not the picture of physical fitness. I'm 6'3 230 pounds and yes I can run three miles but I feel like I'm going to die afterwards. I don't know what I'm trying to say really, or what the point of this. I know this is fiction and it is Star Wars. But I think what I'm trying to say is that even though its fiction and even though its Star Wars. Don't lose what makes us human in a character, litter, fear, cry, build trust and then lose it. Don't be this spitting image of perfection

Be Human

 

[Salem Norongachi]

You reached out and touched me in a special place Dredge *wipes a tear*

 

[Minna]

Made me almost want to make a monstorous ugly alien character *sniffs*

 

[Jsc]

Word.

 

[Verz Horak]

I also see my characters as an extension of myself.

That's part of the reason I just can't write evil characters. It just isn't in my nature, so I can't put myself in their head.

 

[Nikolas Faselli]

I thought this thread was going to be a discussion of how tall we are in the real life... :O

Oh, well...

 

[Lord Gaius]

Directions weren't specific enough, head-tresses stuck in blender.

 

[Curupira Hawk]

Hey! I like my pretty faces and I like looking at other pretty avatars. Deal with it.

But you are right on the brain thing. Ever since I've seen the video of... was it Starkiller who drives the star destroyer into the ground? Yeah, that's still pretty O__O even after all this time.

 

[Scherezade deWinter]

But many us of do write gods. In a galaxy where "billions" is just a minor fraction of the population, to assume that there are several dozens of gods is not really far fetched. Is it wrong to want to be better versions of ourselves, or better versions of aspects of ourselves?

 

[S.A.P.T.D]

Screw humanity.

Droids all the way

 

[Carona Totsari]

I think Carona has too many weaknesses... She's extremely attuned with the Force, but physically and emotionally she's a mess!

 

[Salem Norongachi]

As a man who writes a man in the body of another man who is also the son of the first man as well as being that man....


I confused myself. Carry on.

 

[Darth Ferus]

Krest ain't no pigskin. He's an Orc Zabrak.

Zug Zug.

I've seen this conversation before, it was on Coth. What I ended up getting from it was some people didn't want to see so many nobles because it made them (People who played lesser peeps) feel out numbered. I'm still on the opinion that RPers are a small fraction of a population (And in starwars I'm talking we're nothing. I mean, the amount of people we are versus the size of the galaxy is like.. We're less then an electron.) but they as RPers get to choose what percentage they are.

My example has to do with above. Orcs in WoW. In lore Blademasters were probably one of the rarest things around, yet in the player base there was.. 10. The whole player base was around 60. Technically there should of only been one, maybe two Blademasters. But who are we to dictate what percentage of a population another plays? If Blademasters make up 1% of the Orc population, how can we allow one person to play then prevent anyone else from doing so? Lorewise there could be upwards of two, three hundred blademasters. But because we only have 60 people, we limit how many blademasters there are because of 'consistency'?

Yeah, I was always for the "Let people play who they wanna play without judgement" side of things. But regardless! There really is no such thing as perfection. Look at people like Achilles or Hercules. Greek Demigods who were technically perfection to most, but they had flaws (Achilles being his ankle [no surprise right?] and Hercules being alcohol.) . While I don't like the idea of people making a neutron star through the Force and someone else eating it, tearing down a star destroyer would be neat. I mean, if you played the game that happened in it took a hell of a lot of concentration on Galen's part to do so.


Ah. I rambled. Whoops. Still posting this though, cause it's my feelings :I

 

[Curupira Hawk]

[member="Salem Norongachi"] That made complete sense. Lena says hi.

 

[Saran Drast]

Saran is probably the easiest character I have to write in that aspect. She can do two things: mess with this telekineticly, although anything bigger than a human is going to be difficult for her, and slash at things with sabers. That's it.
Oh, and a simple Mind trick. That's always fun.

 

[Salem Norongachi]

[member="Curupira Hawk"] It makes perfect sense when you've written a character for almost ten years, most of which you were so drunk bladder control was a foreign concept.

 

[Darth Imperatus]

Be Human

But what if you're alien? You bein racist brah?

 

[EmKay]

I try not to fall down the slippery slope of writing and infallible character. I don't always succeed, but in more recent writings I've definitely made steps toward making my character more, well, human. At least I think so. I'd have to reverence [member="Salem Norongachi"] for a second opinion.

 

[Curupira Hawk]

Well... I wasn't drunk for all the nine years I've written my gal. Things just kind happened, as things always do... at least she's an NFU so I don't have to worry about years and the Force and all those pesky subjects of how powerful a character can get... [member="Salem Norongachi"]

 

[Salem Norongachi]

[member="Atretes Rhoujen"] You've gone through some phases I'll give you that. This one I like. Be great to see where he goes and how he develops.

[member="Curupira Hawk"] How can you be a Witch and an NFU? YOU'RE CLEARLY SOBER, CLEARLY.

Edit: Unless you meant another character in which case I stand by what I just said anyways. >_>