Character Brainstorming Chat

[Aadesh Jhadav]

THE IDEA;

This is a board where you can ramble out your character ideas and talk about it with other members before you start writing up your character application. I figured it could be useful just to get some ideas out so you aren't stuck while working on your app or you can get advice or even inspiration for your character. Just like how you write outlines for an essays, this is a place to get out all your ideas, review them and discuss. (I actually don't usually write out outlines for my essays.. Probably why it takes me hours to do them.. So this is good practice, lawls.)

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[Zaeff Aderyn]

Ok so so far I only have one half-solid idea for a character... his little WIP board is already up. :3
Eli Zyan... and I want him to be, basically, half robot. o.o; They use a lot of technology in Lebya to enhance abilities and features, so I want him to be like, one of their main expiraments. He's also one of the descendants of the original Zyans, as you can tell by his last name. =D (to be honest I couldn't think of anything else, but it fits >>)
And uh... yeah. He's emotionless most of the time but he'll snap every now and then since he doesn't really like the idea of science and having artificial body parts and what not, so he has his own little moments. He's probably going to be a bit sarcastic and have some attitude, but not very often.

Other than that I haven't thought of any other characters =p

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[Aadesh Jhadav]

Oof. No emotion? That's hard to pull off; people often mistake emotionless as having no kindness and just being downright cold. Make sure you have that in mind, though you've specified he does have emotion some of the time. At least you know.

I have one or two characters in mind. I want to make an anthropomorphic grunt-like character, a wolf or a bear, I dunno. He'd have a big, bulky frame but stocky and have his head hunched down all the time (depending on the original anatomy of the animal he'll be). He's gonna be disgruntled but mellow guy, barely barks out or stands up for anything. He's more physically crude than his attitude. He'd be the kind of guy hanging around a bar, sitting around in a group but mainly out of it. He's a follower, but he is smart and tactical in some ways, though not enough to survive on his own.
I don't know what animal I should go with, though. My original plan was a grey wolf, but maybe a bear would be cool too. Wolves are so overused. Something that is commonly stereotyped as scary, but not as known to be the smartest animals. I dunno.
He'd look like this.. But a lot shorter. And, uh wearing clothes.

I was also thinking of bringing Vincent in as a human, but.. eh.. I'm not planning on switching Vincent's back story anymore and I just don't think he'll fit into the whole jobs scene.

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[The Force]

Well... Most of you know Kyrian. =) He's my theif character who has a strange inner interest in magic, but doesn't know where to go to learn it. He's a VERY petty theif and wouldn't go for the challenge of Lybia, but might stalk paths leading into Lybia to pickpocket people traveling through. He'll be human, and I hope to have him learn the shapeshifting ability in the far future along with small magic spells.

And I plan to have an Elf character as well who is kinda a bit of a creature trader person. She tames the one she likes, and lives in either Mahor or whatever the magic-based city is gonna be. She'll do all kinds of creature sales, whether it be undercover illegal stuff to forming a week long shop in the Lybia Marketplace on her way through if the times are right. =) Hopefully.

Lastly I plan to have an Anthropomorph fox character who lives/lived in Lybia. I dunno about history, character, or anything about her, but I think a fox fusion smartie pants would be fun so I mentioned it. ;D

[Zaeff Aderyn]

He's going to have emotion...he just doesn't specifically like to show it. What he's thinking in his head and what he says are too very different things. ^^

And Kimo, for your anthropomorph character, I like the bear idea. It fits his character really well. :3 And wolves are overused ._.;

And I love your charrie ideas Cricket =D

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[Aadesh Jhadav]

I've been thinking it over all day and I'm gonna go with a bear. :3 I did sort of want to have a character that was a common sight in Xyanen (yeah, I am assuming wolve dudes run around all the time, but there are wolves. And how many bears do you see running around? (not including platypus bears, armadillo bears, etc.. -Avatar joke xD-)

I think I'm gonna make a side wolf character that the bear hangs out with, a more pushy, arrogant attitude. Although, if I make this guy.. I would probably make the bear just all around mellow. So a hasty wolf and a patient bear, but both working together in the thief class..
So it would be like splitting my inital character plan into two seperate characters. So I could do that or mess around with just a bear character.. Hurrmm..
Or I could make a army wolf person! (Oh the possibilities. Once again, getting ahead of myself.)

..What kind of anthro are you thinking of, Cricket? Meaning by how far you go.. See below:

Just curious.

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[Zaeff Aderyn]

HAHA I major laughed out loud at that picture Kimo.

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[The Force]

^^; Kai showed me that picture.
Probably 50%. I want her to have the typical ears and tail, obviously since those are the cutest fox parts, but I also want her to have like.. fur in different parts. I don't want her face to look like that, because that 50% one looks terrible in that picture, but I want her to have fur all of her body, but just not that.. terribly ugly. x.x;

fox-dev.deviantart.com/art/Femme-Fox-30042219

Kinda like that. =) Actually, a lot like that, but different hair/clothes, less muscle, and more.. bland looking to start out I guess. I want her to be my character I don't really have a plan for, and just a basic personality understanding, so that I can kinda be on the adventure with her. ^^; If that makes sense.

[Cash]

Uh, I need a little help with my character 42. 42 is two legged un-know species of dinosaur. He has learned to talk English and several other languages. I'm planning for 42 to work in some kind of store or maybe a librarian or something in the Torian Kingdom. But I'm not sure what kind of job would be good for a dinosaur. Oh and he can easily grab things without a problem.

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[Ebry Whitney]

Cash, I can't really help you much. But I would like to say I am already in love with 42 from that little bit of information, right there. <3

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[Kyrian Fox]

He sounds like a cutie. =) If you weren't aiming for a scholar, I was imagining an epic gate guard for Lebya. x3 Maybe he could be a librarian. It would make sense for a dinosaur, if you think about it haha.
That's a cool idea. =)

[Cash]

Well I was originally going for a librarian but he would end up a lot like Zippo from Dinotopia.
Should I just not care and make him that? Cause 42 is very smart and laid back.
Also having him as a Spearman gate guard would be really cool, but I want him to be more interactive with other people.

Maybe if we had a Scholar class I could make him into that...so hard!

[Kyrian Fox]

You could make him a spearman gate keeper as a side job. I mean, like.. maybe have him take shifts occasionally. And he would meet people that way too, because people go through the gate. And when you don't want him there have him in the marketplaces or something. ;D

We should have a scholar class. =) For overall intelligence instead of just magic like a mage.

[Cash]

Oh, that's a good point! I like that idea! Thanks a lot Cricket!

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