I sort of thought of this when reading Mouse's fruit consensus, but I've been considering it with Adrian a lot, too.

What traits do your characters share with you?

I find that Adrian's almost uncomfortably like me in some senses. His fashion (black and white striped shirts with red scarves), his habitual smoking, and his slightly unhealthy obsession with good teeth.

Of course, I'm also not pansexual or a major druggie, but yes.

I'm bad at assessing my own traits!

Andrei doesn't know what he wants to do with life.

Jon draws.


I'll think of some more when i'm trying to go to sleep tonight. I'll have to get up and write them down.

Oooh! Lorre draws too. Or, he used to. He's better at drawing than me, though. All of my characters are also kind of obsessed with fashion in some way.

Jay's a little obsessive about fashion, but that's, like, he's got my fashion obsessiveness amplified.

Andrei has a lot of my asshole traits-- like if I were still fifteen. =D

Joey is a smart-arse but was brought up to respect her elders.

Jessie is shy and bookish. (Yes, I'm very shy. Nail-bitingly so. Unlike Joey I'm only a smart-arse to those I know.)

Fei Yen takes a keen interest in social work.

And Tam... um... I like Tam.

See, this is what I was thinking about, too. There are things about Sylvie that are just too like me. Even things about her that are like what I'd like to be like, or what I idolize. They just made a set of things, like an outfit or something, that I stuck into one big ball and gave a name to.
And the staring? Vodoun fascination? That's all me.
I think she's just my expulsion character. I put the excitable bits of me in her and shoo them away. Then I can make somebody who isn't so influenced, you know?

Dacey is like my clone. Except more outgoing. And hyper. And she has no inhibitions.

But yeah, she's pretty much exactly like me, right down to the horrible fashion sense. I even base a lot of her clothes on clothes I own. And if not that then on clothes I want to own.

Which is why I'm attempting to make more characters. Because I bore myself.

My characters tend on the social side. Which I guess makes some sense, since I'm sort of a social introvert. I think Lorre's most like me when it comes to being social. Like, he likes going out, but it doesn't define him like it does for Adrian.

(I'm like, the exact opposite of shy. I talk to much. ._.)

And my characters totally wear my wardrobe. :D

Levi and I are both unsocialized. Also, neither of us can cook to save our lives.

Oh hey. I forgot about that. Yeah, none of my characters know how to cook. They all survive off frozen food. Which is very much like me.

I can't cook at all, but Andrei can. I kind of don't think Jay can. =D

I'm pretty sure other than the fact neither of us are ever, ever going to get laid, I don't have much in common with Wit.

Hahaha, awwww. I love wit.

Your sad aristocrat sun makes me sad, Lisa.

Cort's always been a kind of direct link to my more sullen side. Given that, he was a lot easier to play without feeling cliched and repetative when I was 17 or whatever. The rest of my characters has small things here and there, but I haven't played them enough recently to pin them down so well.

Kendra despises yard work almost as much as I do.

And I'm pretty sure we both love pears. Oh yeah. Pears are good.

Let's see. Me and Tats and Di all believe that duct tape solves everything. We are correct.

Uhm. Di and me also have a thing about 'nets and Doctor Who. And as Kestral so kindly pointed out, we both think alcohol is a good way of dealing with life.

Just look at him upside down and he's happy!

I keep forgetting I'm probably like 98459084958348545 years younger than everyone else here.

/THREAD DERAIL.

Oh man, how did you know I was secretly 98459084958348553?

Ahahaha, Hat-- make cort mature! Like not all at once; that was a verb, not an adjective. This is my current plan with andrei. He's had his head up his-- ahhh-- rear for a while now. I figure he's going to start slowly seeing the world around him 9though I doubt he'll really shed his assholishness unless he works hard for many, many years. Unlikely.)

Pssht, there's a whole 'nother interesting topic: the age gap. My oldest character is two years older than me. It doesn't seem that much now, but had I been playing a seventeen year old at fifteen... I think there would've been a huge gap between my imagination and reality. I tend to stick to characters my age or younger because I've been there, done that, known people like it. Some the characters here who are played by people younger than them have a tendancy to seem... immature? I dunno, I just find it funny how few of 'em have proper jobs or families. xP

Oh, uh.

Wit is twenty years older than me.

=D

Heh, yeah; lack of experience is one reason there. Stuff happens.

I do have some older characters, though, and then some my age. I don't tend to play characters a whole lot younger than myself.

I do the same thing. Try to keep characters around my age group, because it's easier. My oldest character is Lorre, and he's only like four years older than me. But I think I was seventeen or eighteen when I made him?

i wrote this whole long treatise on the way kits deals with people versus the way i deal with people and then deleted it because it got really bizarrely personal.
um, suffice to say there is a form of connection.

Vaughan is mine and Jesse's love child. -nods-

He looks like Jesse with his dark tan and wild curls and oh so pretty colors (the hair, the eyes, the skin)...over all, he got Jesse's Key West/Bahamian Island Boy-grew up on a boat between the islands look.

He's a book worm, insanely out-going, dances, sings, and is essentially rubbery (that is to say he springs back from almost anything) ... which about covers me. Although he's much more social then I am. And he's prettier (which Jesse is).

Also, Alucard is terribly sad and lonely but I love him so much and haven't even played him yet. someoneplaywithhimheneedsyou!

And Valentine is like...perfection. Which I'm totally not. He's my black sheep nothinglikeme child.

I don't really have much in common with a Love Goddess, gotta say. (Mostly I mean that I'm currently very happy in a stable, monogamous long-term relationship that isn't even interesting to hear about, and I'm not doing sex before marriage. I am comparatively very boring!)

I'll cop to the fact that Amor's female form-of-choice looks a bit like me-- the eyes, the hair, the legginess. Mostly because that's my conception of Ideal Female Pretty, so Amor and I both strive to look like it. (She's more successful, obviously. I'd need a tan, a padded bra, magic lipstick and a better manicure.)

Also we both really don't like it when people say nasty things about their ex's. Except I can't really do anything about it but make pointed remarks.

As for the age thing, when I was a kid (you know, 12-faking-16) I'd never make anyone older than one school-group ahead of me. I tend to feel I know enough about what's coming next to take a shot at it-- highschool, back in the day, and then college, and now I'd feel fine doing college or early gradschool or shitty temp job. But that was always my rule-- in middle school, I wouldn't do college characters because I knew nothing about it (except I was dead convinced that everyone got raped all the time. As an about-to-be college student, I hope I was wrong on this.)

Hm... Well, I thought it'd be fun to make a very tall character, because I'm... uh, very tall. But other than that, Maddy's not like me. She dresses better and is about ten times meaner. I wanted to make somebody mean so I could use my stale arsenal of comebacks and snide remarks, which has been slowly accumulated over the years thanks to having three cruel, cruel brothers. I suppose her sense of humor is like mine (technically it is mine, really) but she's more likely to say something. I just sort of keep it inside and laugh later.

And Madigan isn't like me very much at all, except that she has a bad-tempered older sibling and is a fairly decent human being. At least, I hope I'm a fairly decent human being. I guess I won't know more about her until I actually use her, though.

I usually try to use some characteristics of myself in my characters, because then I have first-hand knowledge and can be more convincing. But then I try to through in a trait I either wish I had or am glad I don't have. It keeps things interesting. Or just really, really bizarre.

All of my characters have bits of me spun around and drawn out a bit. I figure it's like acting, where every character you play will, by necessity, have at least a little of you in them, because otherwise how could you relate to them or manage to play them comfortably? (Admittedly, I have incredibly little in common with Dionis right now, which is probably why he's been so ass to play.)

Cyril (who is now defunct) was the skittish middle-school actor part of me, gone a lot more masculine-posturing. El (also defunct) was a bit of the unsure young-female oh-god-what-am-I me, a few notches higher up the Kinsey scale, but I barely played her.

Ronnie has the bit of me that's always wanted to run flat-out at four in the morning and map out every line of what I could and couldn't do physically. Ronnie has the me that did competitive sports as a kid and expected to become someone very different than what I am now.

Duck has all the guys I knew as a kid in suburbia wrapped up together, and a lot of bits of me that might have come about if I'd been less the little sister and more the little brother. Duck is the most extroverted character I have, and probably one of the most - obliviously privileged? Duck is my suburban white boy, and gets to go through life never thinking about all sorts of things that bother me.

Deo has the bit of me that gets overloaded and reverts to the viscerally physical (cold glass, bits of metal, moving things, whatever) to try to coax my mind back into my body and the present moment. Deo has a lot of family connections that I don't - he has a giant, extended family, which he's really fairly close to, which is very alien to me. He also has very different coping methods.

Dana, the character I'm working on now, does data entry and librarian things but is considerably more - confident in her ability to Function As An Adult than I am. She's moved around a lot, like I have, but thinks of it in a different way.

Cyril, Ronnie, and Duck are all comic book geeks, though Duck is kind of a Marvel kid. They're all, aside from Duck and to an extent Dana (and of course Dionis), inherently internal, as I am, though they go off in different directions. All of my characters are a lot healthier than I am, but that's mostly because I find chronic illness incredibly boring and would have no idea what to do with it.

I like the discussion of the age thing - I did what Sar did, a lot? Bumping up one age group. It was weird once I started realizing I was approaching, or surpassing, the age of a lot of characters I'd created as years older than myself.

Well, I like to think that Gaven and I share some pragmatism, but that's probably about as far as it goes. I'm not mellow and acquiescent about things like he is, and he and Morgan both know how to hold their mouths shut when they need to.

I'm a much more open, people-person than either of my characters. Not that either of my characters could be described as classic introverts, but I talk and talk and talk to just about everyone that I meet. I have a fascination with learning about people that neither of them have.

Also, Morgan is much more sua-vay than I am. Also a much better dancer. I can do all five positions in ballet, but that's just because my legs are flexible, and it's as far as I go.

Instead of modeling them after myself, I think I've sort of made them into "people who I think I would be interested in meeting." Is that weird? Yeah, yeah.

The character that I originally intended to use was a twenty-ish female, but I couldn't keep myself from infecting that character with my own personality. I knew it would take about 40 yrs, and some testosterone to keep me from RP-ing as myself, so I created "Dashiell Picot" a 60 yr old man from the South. It was actually a lot easier to create a back story about a character that was completely impersonal. I haven't used him yet, but maybe once I've done some RP-ing I'll make a girlie character.

I sometimes think that's my issue with playing girls-- I can't get that necessary step-back, the distance I need to see the little lights flickering in all the corers of their brain.