Nobody wants paragraphs and paragraphs of purple prose, but I'm really curious about the physical details of people's characters. Here are some questions/prompts/things; pick one or fifteen characters, answer, and post for the edification of your RP partners. ^.^
Typical outfit, or sense of style?
Height?
Hair color?
Eye color?
Body type (the more detail the better-- for instance, perhaps they have very bony wrists or super short legs)?
Tattoos, piercings, scars, birthmarks, amputations, etc?
Typical expressions and/or gestures?
Posture and movement?
What does their voice sound like?
Hygiene routine, if any?
Somewhat related, what do they smell like (take this one as metaphoric as you want, this is fiction)?
Any physical insecurities?
( Leah Ross (aka Innovator)Collapse )
Typical outfit, or sense of style?
Height?
Hair color?
Eye color?
Body type (the more detail the better-- for instance, perhaps they have very bony wrists or super short legs)?
Tattoos, piercings, scars, birthmarks, amputations, etc?
Typical expressions and/or gestures?
Posture and movement?
What does their voice sound like?
Hygiene routine, if any?
Somewhat related, what do they smell like (take this one as metaphoric as you want, this is fiction)?
Any physical insecurities?
( Leah Ross (aka Innovator)Collapse )
- biracial (mother was Cuban/Italian, father was Caucasian)
- usually stoic
- animated only when acting; a great actor.
- in her early 20s/
Monica Raymund
http://www.google.com/images?q=monica+r
http://www.hollow-art.com/base/monica-r
Demi Lovato
http://www.hollow-art.com/base/demi-lov
Keisha Castle-Hughes
http://www.hollow-art.com/content/keish
You know, I really should do some actual blogging one of these days.
( snagged from three of my peeps.Collapse )
( snagged from three of my peeps.Collapse )
Meme yoinked from 
camwyn:slayer_fray
From an early age, Melaka Fray exhibited unequalled strength, speed, and fighting prowess. She took to the power naturally, and as they say, power corrupts. Mel grew up a dangerous, unchallenged bully, a nightmare for the older sister who raised her, and the personal tormentor of her less powerful brother.
But he was still devastated when they were fifteen, and Mel, running alone on the rooftops of the warren, disappeared, and later presumed dead.
Mel was indeed killed, by a vampire known as Icarus. But in killing her, he discovered something amazing, and turned her out of perverse curiosity. Now, she leads not just him, but all the lurks in Haddyn, against the attempts of her brother, who is armed only with the loyality of his surviving sister, knowledge of the war between humans and demons that stretches back centuries, and the prophetic dreams that can sometimes be relied on to tell him her next move before she knows it herself.
Reneeinterrogoiterum
Renee Montoya was not a bent cop. She was never a bent cop.
She was that other, perhaps more dangerous thing; a cop so straight that she cracked with the effort.
It started in No Man's Land, when she was sent by a man she idolised to work with the murderous Two-Face. When her dealings with that criminal ended up with her and her family being kidnapped and held captive for months - and all because Jim Gordon sent her to strike a deal with the devil. Then, she started to crack, and began to realise that perhaps Dent had a point with his desire for revenge on the people who broke him.
She watched as Harvey Dent killed Commissioner James Gordon for the crime of sending her to Two-Face.
There was nothing she could do, of course; no one blamed her for that. Everyone knows you can't reason with Two-Face. Renee watched Dent kill her friend and her mentor, because he forced her to. She was the victim; no one blamed her, and she was offered support from the force.
But something broke inside.
Renee became hard, violent, and began to lose her faith in the law for doing what was right. When Two-Face outed her, framed her for murder, and broke her out of prison, she accepted her place as an outcast, but not before firmly rejecting his advances - she is, after all, a lesbian. In the ensuing fight, and out of spite, acid was involved - if he couldn't have her, no one would.
Unlike Harvey Dent, Renee didn't lose half her face, she lost all of it.
She never returned to Delia, or her family, or the GCPD. Renee Montoya gave up her old life, with all it's complications and struggles, and she became the Faceless.
At first, the GCPD were reluctant to go after the Faceless, because she had a habit of going after people who most of them agreed deserved what was coming to them: When Jim Corrigan walked free for the murder of Crispus Allen, it was the Faceless who hunted him down and killed him.
She was the Bat's problem, but the Bat was missing; he left Gotham for a year, and a new contender rose to take his place - a woman. A woman who had personal history with the woman now under the tutelage of the Religion of Crime, who would soon rise to be its head, and who would be there during the Final Crisis, leading Cain himself back onto the Earth
Dinah Lanceraptorcanaria
On Earth Two, Larry Lance was a brave, if occasionally cocky, Private Investigator who became a close friend of the Black Canary, and through her, the Justice Society. On Earth One, he was a selfish, back stabbing mob informant. Don't ask how he ended up fathering a child by the Black Canary, it's best not to know.
The Justice Society taught Dinah Lance everything they knew about of parental adoration and the desire to protect her from harm in the changing world. Her mother, however, was decidedly relieved that her daughter showed no inclination to follow in her heroic footprints, and was happy to dedicate her life to the pure pursuit of her martial arts hobby.
Which is where is went wrong. Because without the drive for Heroism into which to pour her talents, Dinah cared for little except mastering not just Judo, but any fighting technique she could learn, just for the Hell of it. She learned everything she could from her uncles, then left home to study under Sensei Otomo, Richard Dragon and even the O-sensei. When she began to exhibit a superpower, she ignored and suppressed it, because it got in the way of the pure expression of her art. She was soon tempted by assassination and mercenary fighting just to earn a living wage while she worked.
Since the death of her mother, the assassin has been operating under the name Black Canary, to the fury of those uncles who are still alive to see their devoted niece as a callous, unfeeling assassin. Having killed Lady Shiva, and defeated Bronze Tiger and all her former senseis in combat, she was for a long time widely considered not just the best martial artist in the world, but very likely unbeatable. Now, the world waits for her perhaps inevitable return to Gotham, to face the daughter of the woman she murdered.
camwyn:So many, if not all, of the characters we play are good men and women at heart. But in another world, where something went wrong, they become nightmares.Mel
slayer_frayFrom an early age, Melaka Fray exhibited unequalled strength, speed, and fighting prowess. She took to the power naturally, and as they say, power corrupts. Mel grew up a dangerous, unchallenged bully, a nightmare for the older sister who raised her, and the personal tormentor of her less powerful brother.
But he was still devastated when they were fifteen, and Mel, running alone on the rooftops of the warren, disappeared, and later presumed dead.
Mel was indeed killed, by a vampire known as Icarus. But in killing her, he discovered something amazing, and turned her out of perverse curiosity. Now, she leads not just him, but all the lurks in Haddyn, against the attempts of her brother, who is armed only with the loyality of his surviving sister, knowledge of the war between humans and demons that stretches back centuries, and the prophetic dreams that can sometimes be relied on to tell him her next move before she knows it herself.
Renee
interrogoiterumRenee Montoya was not a bent cop. She was never a bent cop.
She was that other, perhaps more dangerous thing; a cop so straight that she cracked with the effort.
It started in No Man's Land, when she was sent by a man she idolised to work with the murderous Two-Face. When her dealings with that criminal ended up with her and her family being kidnapped and held captive for months - and all because Jim Gordon sent her to strike a deal with the devil. Then, she started to crack, and began to realise that perhaps Dent had a point with his desire for revenge on the people who broke him.
She watched as Harvey Dent killed Commissioner James Gordon for the crime of sending her to Two-Face.
There was nothing she could do, of course; no one blamed her for that. Everyone knows you can't reason with Two-Face. Renee watched Dent kill her friend and her mentor, because he forced her to. She was the victim; no one blamed her, and she was offered support from the force.
But something broke inside.
Renee became hard, violent, and began to lose her faith in the law for doing what was right. When Two-Face outed her, framed her for murder, and broke her out of prison, she accepted her place as an outcast, but not before firmly rejecting his advances - she is, after all, a lesbian. In the ensuing fight, and out of spite, acid was involved - if he couldn't have her, no one would.
Unlike Harvey Dent, Renee didn't lose half her face, she lost all of it.
She never returned to Delia, or her family, or the GCPD. Renee Montoya gave up her old life, with all it's complications and struggles, and she became the Faceless.
At first, the GCPD were reluctant to go after the Faceless, because she had a habit of going after people who most of them agreed deserved what was coming to them: When Jim Corrigan walked free for the murder of Crispus Allen, it was the Faceless who hunted him down and killed him.
She was the Bat's problem, but the Bat was missing; he left Gotham for a year, and a new contender rose to take his place - a woman. A woman who had personal history with the woman now under the tutelage of the Religion of Crime, who would soon rise to be its head, and who would be there during the Final Crisis, leading Cain himself back onto the Earth
Dinah Lance
raptorcanariaOn Earth Two, Larry Lance was a brave, if occasionally cocky, Private Investigator who became a close friend of the Black Canary, and through her, the Justice Society. On Earth One, he was a selfish, back stabbing mob informant. Don't ask how he ended up fathering a child by the Black Canary, it's best not to know.
The Justice Society taught Dinah Lance everything they knew about of parental adoration and the desire to protect her from harm in the changing world. Her mother, however, was decidedly relieved that her daughter showed no inclination to follow in her heroic footprints, and was happy to dedicate her life to the pure pursuit of her martial arts hobby.
Which is where is went wrong. Because without the drive for Heroism into which to pour her talents, Dinah cared for little except mastering not just Judo, but any fighting technique she could learn, just for the Hell of it. She learned everything she could from her uncles, then left home to study under Sensei Otomo, Richard Dragon and even the O-sensei. When she began to exhibit a superpower, she ignored and suppressed it, because it got in the way of the pure expression of her art. She was soon tempted by assassination and mercenary fighting just to earn a living wage while she worked.
Since the death of her mother, the assassin has been operating under the name Black Canary, to the fury of those uncles who are still alive to see their devoted niece as a callous, unfeeling assassin. Having killed Lady Shiva, and defeated Bronze Tiger and all her former senseis in combat, she was for a long time widely considered not just the best martial artist in the world, but very likely unbeatable. Now, the world waits for her perhaps inevitable return to Gotham, to face the daughter of the woman she murdered.
Posts I need to make:
Dinah Lanceraptorcanaria for Teja ostro_goth (Maru)
Renee Montoya for Kait Galweigh redefinevictory (Ashie)
Deathno_justice for Adrian Shephard remindmeof_me (Camwyn).
Melaka Frayslayer_fray for Weyland mechanicalswans ()
Posts I need to tag:
Artemus Gordonwildwld_gadgets by Melaka Fray slayer_fray (Spooky)
Kate Beckettfanofthegenre by Dinah Lance raptorcanaria (Austen)
Jane Austenjane_becomes by Death no_justice (Fi)
Kate Bishopnothawkingbird by Renee Montoya (Di)
Dinah Lance
raptorcanaria for Teja ostro_goth (Maru)Renee Montoya
for Kait Galweigh redefinevictory (Ashie)Death
no_justice for Adrian Shephard remindmeof_me (Camwyn).Melaka Fray
slayer_fray for Weyland mechanicalswans ()Posts I need to tag:
Artemus Gordon
wildwld_gadgets by Melaka Fray slayer_fray (Spooky)Kate Beckett
fanofthegenre by Dinah Lance raptorcanaria (Austen)Jane Austen
jane_becomes by Death no_justice (Fi)Kate Bishop
nothawkingbird by Renee Montoya (Di)A. Has my portrayal of a character(s) changed the way you think of him/her?
B. Pick one of my characters and I’ll answer the following questions about him or her.
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What’s their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?
C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I’m in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching and why!
B. Pick one of my characters and I’ll answer the following questions about him or her.
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What’s their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?
C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I’m in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching and why!
Ask a character a question, any question, and they HAVE to answer completely honestly. Have to. It's the meme rule. Even if they'd normally lie, they suddenly have been hit with a truth serum of some kind and must tell the truth. Bwaha.
Milliways
Renee MontoyaClaire BennetDeathDinah LanceMelaka FrayWill TurnerShatterverse
Leah RossAi LingJubilation LeeMelaka FrayJack HollinsClaire BennetIroh FrayWolfgang von VegasFloyd LawtonDinah LanceOr any of the above in Mixed Muses continuity. Bonus: specify a character from Chiraptora continuity and I'll try my level best.
PICK ONE OF MY CHARACTERS AND I WILL TELL YOU:
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fcs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)
BONUS ROUND:
» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question ♥
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fcs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)
BONUS ROUND:
» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question ♥
1. What gender of character do you play more of, male or female? Why?
Female. I have a few men, but - yeah, female.
2. Is this different or the same as your own gender?
Same.
3. Do you find that your gender makes it easier or more challenging to play your characters?
I think easier. But it's not an ease thing. I just like writing women, because I want to tell women's stories.
4. What sexuality / gender identity do your characters have?
Bisexual females:
Mel (who has only had sex with men in either game, but she's still in my head bi), Leah (who believes herself to be gay), Jubilation Lee (I have no idea why, but in my head, she is), Toph (or she will be, as puberty progresses), Red Riding Hood
Straight females
Dinah Lance, Francesca Bruni, Ai-Ling*, Claire Bennet,
Gay females:
Karolina Dean, Jack Hollins (iffy. Depending on your viewpoint, he could be a straight transman)
Straight Males:
Will Turner, Iroh Fray, Wolfgang von Uberwald*
* I reserve the right to later prove myself wrong about these characters.
5. How does your character's sexuality and gender identity define / affect their personality?
For the straight and practising straight cissexual characters (and for Mel, no matter who she slept with) it has no effect, except for people like Will, who has shaped his life around love.
Jack's formed himself into a bit of a parody of a straight man in his attempts to pass. His mannerisms are a little more exaggerated than a cisman, and he sometimes hides his true polyamory as promiscuity as he tries to fit in.
Karolina had deep self esteem issues as she came to terms with her sexuality. She's more or less over them now, but her time in the closet has formed her into a slightly unsure, almost shy young woman.
Leah has deep seated issues with sex. In some ways, her homosexuality has defined her personality less than her personality (partly a result of abuse) has pushed her further along the Kinsey scale. She's firm and unapologetic about her sexuality (except with Sam, although she has yet to recognise the crush that's fueling the deception) and she's proactive and determined not to be victimised, but this has been informed more by what's happened to her than who she's perceived herself to be.
6. Do you tend to predominantly play characters of a certain sexuality? If so, why?
My canon characters tend to be canonically straight. So I tend to lean towards lesbians and bisexuals when I have the choice, for balance. On the other hand, some of my OCs were written into a ship, which happened to be het.
7. To what extent do you write / play your character's sexual or romantic life?
I'm all about writing relationships of all sorts, romantic sexual and other, so where there is sex and romance in a character's life, it comes up. I try to keep a balance, as its not everyone's priority. Shatter!Mel, for instance, isn't looking for a relationship and has priorities. Sex with Dean happens because I want to write it, rather than because she prioritises it. If a character has good friendships, though, it's all the same to me. I don't write much smut, so it hardly matters.
8. How has the character's romantic life affected his character development?
In some cases, romantic life is deeply tied to canon progression; see Will, Karolina and Dinah. Because canon does it all, I don't give myself much room to develop more. In others, it's not relevent.
Mel's character progression in both games is nearly all about her romantic life: she's more grounded with Mike than she ever was, and in Apharstreetshatter she has children. Leah's character progression is also being tied up with her feelings for Sam Winchester, and Jack's love for Jo Harvelle is affecting him more than I ever thought it would.
9. Do you set 'ships' or plan for your characters to be together with other characters, or do you allow their relationships to develop organically? Why?
Bit of both? Mike/Mel evolved entirely organically, as did Jack and Jo and a few other ships I've planned. Sam/Leah is based on us agreeing they have chemistry and are cute. Dean/Mel was entirely planned and engineered, but worked well.
Basically, I don't like to deeply plot, but I do fairly often say "hey, let's see what happens if we thread these two" or "X should shag Y" and if it works, it works.
10. Do you change the gender identities / preferred sexualities of canon characters? Why / why not?
No. I'm very narrow with how I play canon characters. It used to be a pet peeve, like any hints of OOCness in characters, but I'm over that now. Still, my own playing of canon characters is more creative interpretation of another's canon then it is borrowing a name and likeness for my own storytelling. So if Dinah Lance says in canon "I'm as hetero as they come", I'm never going to stick her in bed with Babs, unfortunately.
Female. I have a few men, but - yeah, female.
2. Is this different or the same as your own gender?
Same.
3. Do you find that your gender makes it easier or more challenging to play your characters?
I think easier. But it's not an ease thing. I just like writing women, because I want to tell women's stories.
4. What sexuality / gender identity do your characters have?
Bisexual females:
Mel (who has only had sex with men in either game, but she's still in my head bi), Leah (who believes herself to be gay), Jubilation Lee (I have no idea why, but in my head, she is), Toph (or she will be, as puberty progresses), Red Riding Hood
Straight females
Dinah Lance, Francesca Bruni, Ai-Ling*, Claire Bennet,
Gay females:
Karolina Dean, Jack Hollins (iffy. Depending on your viewpoint, he could be a straight transman)
Straight Males:
Will Turner, Iroh Fray, Wolfgang von Uberwald*
* I reserve the right to later prove myself wrong about these characters.
5. How does your character's sexuality and gender identity define / affect their personality?
For the straight and practising straight cissexual characters (and for Mel, no matter who she slept with) it has no effect, except for people like Will, who has shaped his life around love.
Jack's formed himself into a bit of a parody of a straight man in his attempts to pass. His mannerisms are a little more exaggerated than a cisman, and he sometimes hides his true polyamory as promiscuity as he tries to fit in.
Karolina had deep self esteem issues as she came to terms with her sexuality. She's more or less over them now, but her time in the closet has formed her into a slightly unsure, almost shy young woman.
Leah has deep seated issues with sex. In some ways, her homosexuality has defined her personality less than her personality (partly a result of abuse) has pushed her further along the Kinsey scale. She's firm and unapologetic about her sexuality (except with Sam, although she has yet to recognise the crush that's fueling the deception) and she's proactive and determined not to be victimised, but this has been informed more by what's happened to her than who she's perceived herself to be.
6. Do you tend to predominantly play characters of a certain sexuality? If so, why?
My canon characters tend to be canonically straight. So I tend to lean towards lesbians and bisexuals when I have the choice, for balance. On the other hand, some of my OCs were written into a ship, which happened to be het.
7. To what extent do you write / play your character's sexual or romantic life?
I'm all about writing relationships of all sorts, romantic sexual and other, so where there is sex and romance in a character's life, it comes up. I try to keep a balance, as its not everyone's priority. Shatter!Mel, for instance, isn't looking for a relationship and has priorities. Sex with Dean happens because I want to write it, rather than because she prioritises it. If a character has good friendships, though, it's all the same to me. I don't write much smut, so it hardly matters.
8. How has the character's romantic life affected his character development?
In some cases, romantic life is deeply tied to canon progression; see Will, Karolina and Dinah. Because canon does it all, I don't give myself much room to develop more. In others, it's not relevent.
Mel's character progression in both games is nearly all about her romantic life: she's more grounded with Mike than she ever was, and in Apharstreetshatter she has children. Leah's character progression is also being tied up with her feelings for Sam Winchester, and Jack's love for Jo Harvelle is affecting him more than I ever thought it would.
9. Do you set 'ships' or plan for your characters to be together with other characters, or do you allow their relationships to develop organically? Why?
Bit of both? Mike/Mel evolved entirely organically, as did Jack and Jo and a few other ships I've planned. Sam/Leah is based on us agreeing they have chemistry and are cute. Dean/Mel was entirely planned and engineered, but worked well.
Basically, I don't like to deeply plot, but I do fairly often say "hey, let's see what happens if we thread these two" or "X should shag Y" and if it works, it works.
10. Do you change the gender identities / preferred sexualities of canon characters? Why / why not?
No. I'm very narrow with how I play canon characters. It used to be a pet peeve, like any hints of OOCness in characters, but I'm over that now. Still, my own playing of canon characters is more creative interpretation of another's canon then it is borrowing a name and likeness for my own storytelling. So if Dinah Lance says in canon "I'm as hetero as they come", I'm never going to stick her in bed with Babs, unfortunately.
You have to specify which one you want!
NUMBER THE FIRST
NUMBER B
Give me a current character of mine and I will list for you their:
01.) Full name?
02.) Best friend?
03.) Sexuality?
04.) Favorite color?
05.) Relationship status?
06.) Ideal mate?
07.) Turn-ons?
08.) Last sexual experience?
09.) Favorite food?
10.) Crushes?
11.) Favorite music?
12.) Biggest fear?
13.) Biggest fantasy?
14.) Quirks in bed?
15.) Bad habits?
16.) Biggest regret?
17.) Best kept secrets?
18.) Last thought?
19.) Worst sexual/romantic experience?
20.) Biggest insecurity?
NUMBER THE FIRST
Give me a character and I will give you at least five facts about them according to my own personal canon. This can range from their birthday, favorite color or even their earliest memory up to what they had last night for dinner.
NUMBER B
Give me a current character of mine and I will list for you their:
01.) Full name?
02.) Best friend?
03.) Sexuality?
04.) Favorite color?
05.) Relationship status?
06.) Ideal mate?
07.) Turn-ons?
08.) Last sexual experience?
09.) Favorite food?
10.) Crushes?
11.) Favorite music?
12.) Biggest fear?
13.) Biggest fantasy?
14.) Quirks in bed?
15.) Bad habits?
16.) Biggest regret?
17.) Best kept secrets?
18.) Last thought?
19.) Worst sexual/romantic experience?
20.) Biggest insecurity?
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