A Good Judge of Character
May. 10th, 2004 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianThere has been tidy. My desk is devoid of random bits of paper, the coffee mugs are washed, and generally all is cool. I even signed my offer letter and put it in the internal post. Aren't I a good little performing monkey? Ook. (No, sorry; that's orangutan.)
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cholten99 has told me that most people wind up playing the same types of characters in RPG over and over again. Toos is given as the classic example -- no matter what her character starts off as, he (and it's always a 'he') winds up behaving like a 14-year-old. Kat, on the other hand, plays the unlikely hack-and-slash types, for the most part (even Richard, who's kind of a girlie-man from what little I can tell). So I'm thinking about the characters that I've been playing and wondering if they conform to type at all.
Aidan MacIntyre: (7th Sea; on hiatus)
Medic, scholar, inventor and general intellectual. Weedy, over-polite and generally nervy. Unlikeliest luck in combat. Scarred, romantically speaking. About as hard as a sofa cushion.
Alison Smith: (7th Sea; current)
Spy, assassin, Jenny and all-around party girl. Dumb as a sack of Panzerhands. Knows manners, but doesn't see the point of using them most of the time. "Tart with a heart", but too flighty for relationships. Pretty, and knows it.
Mila: (Immortal; defunct)
Medic, Guide, herbalist and weather-witch. As countrified as they come; sort of wide-eyed and whimpery. Good with animals and at least not impolite. Claustrophobic. Generally, dull as dirt.
Violet McLean: (Buffy; current)
Witch, student, misanthrope, comparative theologist. Rude to the point of hostility, she displays all the people skills of a rabid hyena. Feels the best defense is a good offense. Bland appearance, volcanic emotional landscape.
Leah Burden: (Angel; pending)
Medic, cook, waitress, pyrokinetic. Attractive, but does not notice or care. Maintains polite distance from others, keeps emotions on a tight leash. Ice-maiden type.
So then there's Victoriana and Exalted. I really want to try my hand at all-out insanity next. I don't think full-on Lucrezia-style lunacy would work for an adventuress -- I think she'll just be a bit looped. My sun-priest for Exalted, however, I'd like to be almost dangerously warped. Not sure exactly how I'm going to play either, but I'm sure I'll think of something once I'm more familiar with the rules.
Well, apart from most of them being girls and at least three being medics (with one of the others good with first-aid), that's pretty varied. Good. Hate to think I was typecasting.
cholten99 has told me that most people wind up playing the same types of characters in RPG over and over again. Toos is given as the classic example -- no matter what her character starts off as, he (and it's always a 'he') winds up behaving like a 14-year-old. Kat, on the other hand, plays the unlikely hack-and-slash types, for the most part (even Richard, who's kind of a girlie-man from what little I can tell). So I'm thinking about the characters that I've been playing and wondering if they conform to type at all.Aidan MacIntyre: (7th Sea; on hiatus)
Medic, scholar, inventor and general intellectual. Weedy, over-polite and generally nervy. Unlikeliest luck in combat. Scarred, romantically speaking. About as hard as a sofa cushion.
Alison Smith: (7th Sea; current)
Spy, assassin, Jenny and all-around party girl. Dumb as a sack of Panzerhands. Knows manners, but doesn't see the point of using them most of the time. "Tart with a heart", but too flighty for relationships. Pretty, and knows it.
Mila: (Immortal; defunct)
Medic, Guide, herbalist and weather-witch. As countrified as they come; sort of wide-eyed and whimpery. Good with animals and at least not impolite. Claustrophobic. Generally, dull as dirt.
Violet McLean: (Buffy; current)
Witch, student, misanthrope, comparative theologist. Rude to the point of hostility, she displays all the people skills of a rabid hyena. Feels the best defense is a good offense. Bland appearance, volcanic emotional landscape.
Leah Burden: (Angel; pending)
Medic, cook, waitress, pyrokinetic. Attractive, but does not notice or care. Maintains polite distance from others, keeps emotions on a tight leash. Ice-maiden type.
So then there's Victoriana and Exalted. I really want to try my hand at all-out insanity next. I don't think full-on Lucrezia-style lunacy would work for an adventuress -- I think she'll just be a bit looped. My sun-priest for Exalted, however, I'd like to be almost dangerously warped. Not sure exactly how I'm going to play either, but I'm sure I'll think of something once I'm more familiar with the rules.
Well, apart from most of them being girls and at least three being medics (with one of the others good with first-aid), that's pretty varied. Good. Hate to think I was typecasting.