How Well Are Your Characters Developed?

[Nikolas Faselli]

Now I have the chance to tell more about my character development...

Does someone here remember the Equa Dominator Era a.k.a the time when I played with Equa? Well, it was a glorious time when I woke up at 5:30 am to be even more in this society. Equa had a story. He had a simple, but developed background. And I also had plans with him, but not in the very far future. I remember, that he had a friend... Kaleeya Windurian. She tried to keep him on the right track. She tried to save him from the corruption. But Equa went crazy. He started listening voices, he did crazy things. After some time (some threads), he started going back to normal. He was capped to the title of Jedi Knight in the beginning of May. But then I left and I couldn't finish my character.

Then I came back. The month of July was the time I came back. I didn't want to use Equa anymore. I was so ashamed of myself. I thought everyone hates me because I left (and unfortunately left so many threads open). I started again with a simple Jedi girl. She didn't have any skills and she didn't have a lightsaber... nothing. She was simply a bit less developed character (I mean backstory). But just a few days (maybe it wasn't even days) later I found a Force sect I basically fell in love with. They were the Sorcerers of Tund. They were so interesting, that I wanted to make Lilith one of them. But it took some important thread. I wanted to make the change ICly in threads. But I left again.

Now, in the end of December, I came back. And now I have a really powerful plan with Lilith. If you saw my character profile a few days ago in the right time, you might have seen a sneak peek about her future. It's not there anymore, but you can still see the ACT III title. Act III is the time something will happen. I can only say, that Lilith might become a bit different person in Act III.

These were my main characters. But now about my major characters. During the Equa Dominator Era, I had a few stupid characters who didn't have a backstory at all. I just wrote something stupid about them and voilà, they were made. I did enjoy them. I just made them because they seemed a bit fun. But I was wrong.

Now, during the Lilith Mae Lancaster Era, I have a few other characters. My only current characters who don't have a developed story yet are @[member="Lorcan Roberts"] (but he is on my to-do list) and @[member="Ephyt-ri of Dahega"] (because she is not ready to become a character yet). I am almost satisfied with my other characters. I believe the Hack'awin family could have a really serious role in Logan's future, Aliannah will still fight for democracy (everywhere), Equa will try to enjoy his Jedi life and Richard is going to open his business soon, so I can say it's fun to create the characters if they have a backstory.

I have played in many different RP boards before joining this one in March. But I didn't normally have a backstory for the characters there. In one board (please don't laugh), people didn't even have to have a written biography. And almost none of them did have a biography at all... It was an epic failure. I created one board once which changed my life. It changed Estonia a bit. It was almost the most active forums in Estonia. It was so popular, that people came in with massive troops and it was all thanks to the members of the board. They invited their friends to the forum. And actually, the forum's promotion... worker? was really helpful. She was so good. She was actually one of the best RP forum makers in Estonia. But, well, my forum died. I can't say people lost interest. It was because most of the members (maybe all) were pupils at that time and it meant, that they didn't have enough time to be there so often.

But that's actually not what I wanted to say... I actually wanted to say, that this forum had a powerful backstory. Almost all of the main characters (made for forum's events) had a really rich backstory. And the main antagonist there was actually really developed. I loved it. The members of the forum played along. One of the biggest events was the search for the antagonist. And it was epic. The forum was fun, actually. The characters there were rich (not materially). They were funny, but had their weaknesses and strengths, they had some kind of planned out histories and it was really fun to play here.

If I would start comparing the forum and Chaos, I should say this one is clearly more advanced. I must say everyone here has even a richer backstory than the whole forum had there... But it was still really cool.

So to end this little post here, I will say: Planning is fun!

 

[Fabula Caromed]

Oh, another one of these threads. Alright, lemme see...

Fabula Cavataio started as one of two gene-spliced and Force-magicked twin daughters of my original flagship character, Anna Sachae. Fabs and her sister Kris grew up as Witches in an era in the galaxy when Witches were ever-so-slightly more influential than they currently are, and were classically trained in Nightsister techniques. Even in her original life. Fabula sucked badly at being a Witch, though, and gravitated towards what she was capable of instead. Namely, fighting. She hung out with one of her trillion or so cousins, learning everything she could about beating people to death with lightsabers. Her incredible temper left her to be something like a rage-powered shock trooper, smashing headlong into Petra Cavataio's enemies like a human battering ram.

Then Petra went insane and killed her entire family. She might have killed herself, too. It's a little vague. She kept cloned bodies of all of her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and what have you just in case she needed to "replace" them later. Cue 800~ ABY, and Petra has need of a new enforcer. Her Opitvus Res. She defrosts Fabula, who was in life known for her unfaltering loyalty and single-minded desire to kill things, and does a little magic and chemistry to bring out her temper. The new Fabula, however, has this little kink in the design that Petra neither knows nor cares about: she has the same soul as her original body. So Fabula is reborn, retrained, and set loose upon the galaxy with burning Rage in her heart and a mountain of insecurities born from the vague realization that she might not be a "real" person.

Through her journey across the galaxy, Fabula has learned and evolved into a much more stable woman. Early on she would crack under any pressure at all, but now she's steeled herself against the slings and arrows of others, and isn't afraid to stand for what she thinks is right. She's discovered a way to fill the oppressive void of all-consuming loneliness that she was left with when Petra vanished, and has even built up a few friendships and a surrogate family: her "mom," Alndys Merrill, and her "dad," Ember Rekali. While still a fragile girl in many ways, she can at least handle herself now, and she has a good idea of what she's going to do with her life.

One night when she was feeling overwhelmingly lonely, Fabula went to a bar on some world that she doesn't remember. A Mandalorian woman bought her a couple of drinks and, hilariously, Fabula turned out to be a total lightweight. She was seduced by booze and an extremely attractive Amazon, dragged back to her ship, and the two of them started up a relationship. During a present thread, Fabula discovers that said Mandalorian woman is wildly and uncontrollably Force sensitive, and the two of them start looking for ways to hone and control that power.

This leads Fabula to find the Matukai techniques which, although not lost, are quite obscure in the modern galaxy. Her view of the galaxy as the "body" of the Force, and the Dark Side as "tumors" in that body, is a result of the Matukai belief that the Dark Side is a poison to the body and is to be avoided at all costs. She's spent the last few months trying to heal "sick" planets by unraveling whatever physical connections they have to the Dark Side. Combined with the loathing of Sith that Petra taught her, Fabula quietly entertains the notion that nothing would be more fun than to bash in Sith skulls until they stop making squishy cracking noises. She'd never go through with that, though. Poor girl cannot possibly conceive o the notion of killing another person.

 

[Lord Ghoul]

This is just my personality description:
Snarky and a bit sadisistic, Mikhail Shorn enjoys playing with the emotions of others. He is amoral almost to the point of sociopathy. His self-confidence and charm are often used in a seductive manner. He is passionate, often acting out of impulse. Despite all this, self-destructiveness seems to be his constant theme, perhaps due to a suppressed self-loathing and loneliness.

Mikhail Shorn wears cynicism, snark, and ego as a mask made up of all the negatives to keep others from growing close to him, like a repelling magnet. He does not want to know them, for fear that they would either turn on him, or be harder for him to kill in the future. He attempts to keep this mask on at all times, afraid of what would happen should other Sith see his true self. Beneath the vestige of the mask he is the visage of a broken man, rent by grief, remorse, and self-loathing. He believes he must be evil, or die. Anyone who tries to convince him otherwise treads a dangerous and unpredictable line, for Mikhail is prone to outbreaks of violence and targetted anger. However, he almost never kills without purpose. Occasionally, he loses control and some poor souls are reaped from the galaxy in the mindlessness of his wrath, but he despises himself for it, afterwards. He is prone to cover up his motivations for acts considered to be evil by saying he did them for fun.

He is passionate about his love for Alexis, a girl who he loved in his youth, but whom fate, fortune, and his father ripped apart. He dreams one day of finding her, but buries these dreams beneath pragmatic and ruthless survival instincts. Nonetheless, this subconscious longing to find her remains a driving force behind his will to live. The previous feelings were subverted when he killed Alexis and the Soulsaber took control of his emotions. However, after losing the Soulsaber and being lectured by his subconscious, Mikhail steered a course toward trying to do some good in the world. However, the death of Alexis left his world shattered and the plains of his morality seem to be ever shifting on the rubble.

A more self-destructive side of Mikhail fuels his snide comments and disregard for authority. Mikhail despises himself and his actions so much that he subconsciously wishes for his own destruction by a more powerful hand, and thus he tempts fate and flaunts authority with sarcasm and snark. The lack of any love or friendship in his life make Mikhail a lonely man. He often seeks to drown his solitude with casual flings of the flesh, alcohol, or the sadistic pleasure he derives from killing. This sadistic streak is something that terrifies his inner subconscious, as he truly does derive satisfaction from causing others pain.

All of these have formed a man who creates his own little world to escape it all, wherein he has no feelings of regret for his actions. It is an amoral little world. But it is Mikhail Shorn's little world. And he holds onto it with a stubborn grip. This stubborness makes up a whole other realm of Mikhail, which, along with his arrogance, makes him a man who bends very little. He does become angry, though it is often shielded as he pretends it to be a passing irritation and annoyance at the arrogance, or idiocy of some individual or other. His anger, however, derives from and is often caused by his own arrogance.

In terms of mannerisms, Mikhail tends to act with a flippant air of nonchalant cynicism and false charm. Due to his refined upbringing, Mikhail can certainly act with courtly etiquette when he has to, but he rarely, if ever, does and only in cases of extreme desperation, or mockery. When trying to appear intimidating or threatening, Mikhail often gives them a wide-eyed, icy blue stare, his eyes seeming to look through others, rather than at them. He has an alarming lack of personal space when confronting others in an attempt to unnerve or seduce them. He does not smile. He smirks. And he never laughs. He snorts and scoffs, but outright laughter has been squeezed from him.

Unlike other Sith, Mikhail does not wear robes. He favors leather jackets and plain, dark clothes.





The bio itself is 4,000 words. And that's before he even makes an appearance as a Sith Apprentice.

So, how developed? You decide!

 

[Delila Castillon]

Well, Kitt is on the back-end of puberty so...

Only you would say something like that.

 

[Fabula Caromed]

All I know is that this conversation just turned to Kitt's back-end and the fact that she's no longer going through puberty.

 

[Hemlock Briar]

Not very, but that's because he's new. Here's what I do have so far:

Draethos have a few natural abilities that make them unique, telepathy, low light vision, and a -very- long lifespan. They can live to be 800 and some have lived to be as old as 1000. Hemlock is a 200 year old Draethos. He was exiled by his culture for being a peace loving intellectual and sentenced to roam the galaxy forever without a home or family. He was banned from every marrying or having children, a punishment he takes very seriously.

He spent the next one hundred and some years roaming the galaxy as an exile. He finally stumbled across an old Jedi who felt the raw talent within him to be an empath and a healer. This Jedi taught him how to heal and how to feel within the Force, along with how to move things and hone his telepathy. He never taught him how to raise a sword, istead instilled years of peace loving and natural living into his memories. The Human lifespan is generally laughable by Draethos standards and the Jedi master eventually passed on, leaving a void in Hemlock's life.

He roamed around a bit more, planting and taking care of his master's favorite flowers, the Nova Lilly. Unable to find love or family, Hemlock Briar filled this paternal hole with helping the less fortunate. The Draethos now travels about the galaxy on a whim, listening only to the Force, trying to heal and save as many people as possible.

In the future I want to focus on his empathy and healing. He hates to get caught up in the politics of the galaxy seeing as he's seen more empires and ideals fall than prosper.