facets and definitions and names
Oct. 24th, 2002 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashSo I'm thinking of starting a character on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hereliemonsters since a large number of Interesting People seem to be migrating there.
I could just duplicate an existing character there; this is something many people do, with the same character played on four or five diferent mu*s. So far, though, this is a choice I've avoided. My very first muck character existed on both Fluff and Furry, but I soon lost interest in Fluff. And later on, in that character.
With that one exception, every time I've popped up on a new (to me) muck, I've created a new character. One got duplicated onto another muck, but only after her first world folded up and vanished. It's not something I've consciously thought about until today, but there it is: each facet gets to express itself in one virtual realm. None of my characters are strongly RP'ed; while they have various backgrounds, they're all essentially just different masks I hold up over the same core personality, so it's not that big a deal.
By now, it would feel strange to be Peggy on another muck without the companionship of her wolf; her several years of marriage to Ravenscroft are a large part of who she is. Without him, she'd be perpetually off-balance. (By the way, I love you, wuffy!)
I pondered porting over Coral, Peggy and Ravs' too-rarely-played daughter - but she, too, would be unsteadily rootless, I think. And there's also the one-mu*-per-character rule; considering her made me realize the existance of this rule.
Looking through my sketchbook for random undeveloped sketches, I toyed with this cheshire cat I'd doodled a while back. And I realized something else about the characters I tend to end up making and playing: while soft, warm fur is nice to cuddle up to... I don't want it on me. I just can't imagine it feeling right any more. Smooth and scaly is what I am, somewhere in the back of my mind.
(No, I'm not claiming suddenly to be a dragon trapped in a human body, or anything like that. I'm merely noting the roles and personas I feel most comfortable assuming: I like playing reptiles. Their caricatured attitudes suit me.)
I might break this one-muck-per-character rule, now that I've consciously acknowleged it, and just duplicate Kalinda from Tapestries. Or I might do something strange and new and slinky; I have some odd hybrid doodles I'm playing with in my sketchbook. I could even deliberately decide to play something all fuzzy and warm, to see if it's really all that horrid. We'll see.
hereliemonsters since a large number of Interesting People seem to be migrating there.I could just duplicate an existing character there; this is something many people do, with the same character played on four or five diferent mu*s. So far, though, this is a choice I've avoided. My very first muck character existed on both Fluff and Furry, but I soon lost interest in Fluff. And later on, in that character.
With that one exception, every time I've popped up on a new (to me) muck, I've created a new character. One got duplicated onto another muck, but only after her first world folded up and vanished. It's not something I've consciously thought about until today, but there it is: each facet gets to express itself in one virtual realm. None of my characters are strongly RP'ed; while they have various backgrounds, they're all essentially just different masks I hold up over the same core personality, so it's not that big a deal.
By now, it would feel strange to be Peggy on another muck without the companionship of her wolf; her several years of marriage to Ravenscroft are a large part of who she is. Without him, she'd be perpetually off-balance. (By the way, I love you, wuffy!)
I pondered porting over Coral, Peggy and Ravs' too-rarely-played daughter - but she, too, would be unsteadily rootless, I think. And there's also the one-mu*-per-character rule; considering her made me realize the existance of this rule.
Looking through my sketchbook for random undeveloped sketches, I toyed with this cheshire cat I'd doodled a while back. And I realized something else about the characters I tend to end up making and playing: while soft, warm fur is nice to cuddle up to... I don't want it on me. I just can't imagine it feeling right any more. Smooth and scaly is what I am, somewhere in the back of my mind.
(No, I'm not claiming suddenly to be a dragon trapped in a human body, or anything like that. I'm merely noting the roles and personas I feel most comfortable assuming: I like playing reptiles. Their caricatured attitudes suit me.)
I might break this one-muck-per-character rule, now that I've consciously acknowleged it, and just duplicate Kalinda from Tapestries. Or I might do something strange and new and slinky; I have some odd hybrid doodles I'm playing with in my sketchbook. I could even deliberately decide to play something all fuzzy and warm, to see if it's really all that horrid. We'll see.
