The Truth

I'm a mess.

Doomwar has really taken off. I'm glad people are liking it :)

I need to fix the bio for this character.

Flood control. ;)

@xiandra: Oh...I see well good luck then.

@shadowswordmaster: Done with that nonsense, thankfully. The sentiment is appreciated, though.

@xiandra: Good to hear : )

I'm stuck in a fixed point in time with Higgins until that RP is done.

@dark_vengeance_: *Kicks!*

Get up!

@Andras_

*puts covers over his head.

It's too early.

Test week is over, time to update that Bio.

Test week is coming up.

Well, this day is ruined.

@antonia: Are you ok?

I should work on figuring out how Emilie would get back, or what that might even be like. Because I am really unsure, right now.

@fukuro_zoku: I could help lol

@owen_porter: I am...a little afraid to ask you for help. Okay, I'll bite. What have you got? Give me some wisdom.

@rosso: This character just found LeBeau's body. I could say I stumbled across Ant's mother in the compound. Whatever hold LeBeau had died with him, leaving her lost and confused. Perhaps Ant has offered a reward through various underground contacts for her mothers whereabouts and or safe return?

@owen_porter: -_____- I miss Chuck.

It's...not Antonia's mother. >_> But something like that could work, sure.

@arquitenens: Oh its not? hahah then I dont know who she is :P nevermind

@owen_porter: It's Abigail's mommy! Seriously, you forgot? Shaking my head.
Gimme stuuuuuffff! Please?

@jaegerjaquez: Ohhh yeah :P

I'm not on my A-Game yet so my creative genius has been stunted a bit. What I gave ya was the best I had at the moment.

@owen_porter: Hehe, aside from the Antonia and "underground contacts" part, I thought that was fine. Buuut if you wanna wait for your goodness to catch up, take your GD time. ^_^

greatness

@owen_porter: If it's greatness, shouldn't it be caught up already?

@jaegerjaquez: My greatness is SO great, it operates on its own time table.

I actually forgot about The Mercenary, he's another of the literary badass archetypes in the nU other than Charlie and Kratesis.

Where a character comes from is interesting to me. The location itself can sometimes matter but its more important that I be able to sense and feel a characters roots through their posts. Andres for example was from Spain and that showed through his posts, very strongly.

A non-comicbook example would be Stone Cold. His character was from Texas and that infused the entire character. He wouldn't have been the same type of character if he had been from California or New England.

Amaranth carried a little bit of many cultures with him. His sword is inspired by the western knight, his armor by the samurai, goatee from ancient Egypt and his handguns by the cowboy. That was fun.

@lady_liberty: Now I gotta figure out how to make Xenon seem more African :P

@lady_liberty: While it's not necessarily the same thing, I'm into a similar type of thing with character backstories. Because they set the foundation for characterization so it's interesting for me at least, to know backstories because of that. Like with Batman. His backstory is summarized as witnessing his parents' murder which set the foundation for the biggest aspect of his characterization, his personal obsession with stopping crime.

@la_espada: *Nods* Yeah, I understand what you're saying. Its in the same family as what culture a character grew up in but its more pivotal to the characters goals rather than just how they express those goals. [For example Batman from Spain might still be out there fighting crime but he might also talk and act a little differently.]

Oddly enough I use to hate doing backstory bios but now I've come around and its one of my favorite parts of the process. Serpent of Steel's bio was one of my favorites to write, as was Strigidae 23's new backstory.

i dident know RPing like this is a challenge im messing up some times :/

Anya's "Gothic City accent" was originally inspired by watching the original Strigidae 23 at the Hellfire Academy.

@antonia: Ah! Nice. I didn't know that lol. I've often wondered what people in Gothic City would sound like.

@lady_liberty: Exactly. Whereas the backstory enlightens the reader on what circumstances led to the character's moral, ideological and psychological identity, where they're from, they're culture, it defines how they'll express these character traits and to a degree it also affects what kind of ideologies, ethics, psychological disposition etc. they may have. A Batman from Spain LOL, would be very different from say a Batman from Scotland or Germany.

I hate writing backstories (not really, I like them) because of how much work they take to write one that I'd personally be satisfied with. I haven't read Serpent of Steel's bio, and now I will :)

@lady_liberty: You were the first one to bring it out. I think that 23 was from Gothic, and you said it in the thread. And at that point, I think I had just come around to figuring I'd make Anya be from Gothic too, and so I kinda watched you a bit and picked up some cues, threw a bit of variation in there to account for different dialects within the city, and slang'd my way through the rest of it.

@mryashimora: All part of learning. Don't beat yourself up; learn from your experience and move forward.

@la_espada: German Batman lol, that cracked me up.

The time is the reason I originally didn't like them. That and they were very draining. So I don't write many but the ones I do write I enjoy.

I originally went through with the intention of trying to run through Serpent as quickly as possible. Then I got interested in her mind and capture. Now I feel she'd be a really fun rival.

@antonia: I'm going to have to come back to that and look through your posts the next time I want to write a Gothic raised character.

yep, i inspire to be a better righter anyway ty :)

@lady_liberty: I chuckled while writing it LOL.

They are very draining. Especially for writers like yourself who put so much detail into powers and the concept behind the character that I can't imagine you having much energy left to do the backstory once you're done with the other two.

@lady_liberty: I do Bethany a bit differently, because she's from the city but she's wealthy, so she still has some of what you might expect from a loose teenager, but not quite as bad as Anya.
But now you're scaring me.

hay i trying cute me some slack im only human :b

@brahma_bull: Better than British Batman! "Ya keeled me parents ya blimey git!" Criminals pass out from his stanky breath and rotted teeth.

Honestly I just have to break it up and do them over several days.

I laughed. And nearly choked on a panini.

@mryashimora: Then step yo game up! jk ;)

@lady_liberty: Ai Dios, I just died LMAO. Well, a British Batman would have a better excuse for not using guns since you know.. he wouldn't have them LOL.

Ah I see. Have you ever written a backstory for Amaranth? I don't remember one but he's my favorite CV character of all time so I'm interested.

should i ask for a mentor?

@mryashimora: That's the spirit. Remember, even professionals make mistakes! ;)