Nope, no idea what that song is at all.
KAY SO APPARENTLY MY PHONE LACKS CERTAIN FONTS, WHICH MADE THIS POST VERY CONFUSING AT FIRST.
I'M GLAD I WAITED TO REPLY ON MY ACTUAL COMPUTER.
But seriously though my phone apparently likes to turn Comic Sans into fucking Times New Roman or some shit and I just...?!
As for Ib and OFF, I'm thinking, but can't come up with anything.... I'm not that good at writing bios/characters, I can barely match others' post length. ;~; Any ideas?
Dude, don't worry about matching post length. This has nothing to do with that, and I'm not asking for length -- all I wanted was a little bit about Ib's actual personality, since I felt the description you at first gave (even though the
length was fine) sort of missed the mark in regards to what it was actually trying to tell me.
So.... I need advice. If you were to play Ib,
@Kaga-kun , what'd you do? How did you imagine them? I was thinking of characterisation through dialogue (by imagining what they'd think/say), but that's kind of... Eh, a bit difficult, and not very descriptive either.
Hmm... that's a difficult one. I guess you could make them sort of a quiet and curious type, and then also, ah... maybe sort of creepy, too?
Actually, you could even say that Ib is basically a painting, themself (sort of like Mary), which could go interesting places. Granted, I realize that isn't exactly
personality-related, but, yeah, it could go interesting places and help you design more of a character from there. (In fact, digging up the thoughts I had about a possible Ib fandom way-back-when, I'm pretty sure this was one of the ideas I came up with...)
But, anyway, since I'm feeling a bit stuck on Ib in particular, let me just give you some general advice:
You have options in regards to what things you can base a fandom off of. You can model their personality off of their main characters, the nature of the series itself, what the fans are known for being like, or, if it's a video game, you can work off of what it feels like to play it and make choices as a player.
The latter of these is where I got a lot of the inspiration for Undertale, since the game is all about letting you choose whether to kill or spare enemies, and so I made Undertale "capable of both great kindness and great violence" to reflect the two possible extremes of where that core gameplay mechanic can go, and said that xe essentially sees every enemy with the opportunity to kill or spare them, and that it's just a matter of figuring out how to do each one (which is very much the nature of most fights in the game).
In terms of other things you can base a fandom off of (like main characters or the nature of the series itself), I for one like to have a lot of fun creating parallels between these types of things and
really strengthening those traits. For example, Doctor Who is a relatively old fandom who, because of his longevity, outlives a lot of his companions, which makes him kinda lonely, so he often seeks out new ones to replace the ones he's lost, but no companion can ever really grasp just how small they are in the life of the Doctor overall, even if he might care deeply about them at the time. He's also a bit arrogant sometimes, thinking a bit much of himself thanks to his years of experience, and sometimes has a bit of a "hah, you don't know
nothin', kid" mentality towards younger fandoms, as he may feel that his experiences as an older fandom might make the concerns of younger ones feel like nothing ("nine month hiatus? Hahahah try
fifteen years", "a main character died?
Haaaah at least they don't kill yours off on a
regular basis"). He also loves to remind people just how old and experienced he is -- as if he's just waiting for opportunities to mention his age. A lot of these personality traits can be attributed to the in-canon Doctor (the loneliness/outliving everyone else, the arrogance, wanting to mention how old he is so that he can emphasize how short and insignificant the lives of everyone around him are...), but those same traits can also be explained through his existence as a fandom (he's lonely because he's
old and outlives others on a similar scale; he's arrogant because he
has been through a lot, so things like losing a main character, hiatuses (even Sherlock-length hiatuses...), and being handed over to a different showrunner aren't nearly as big a deal to him as they are to other fandoms who might experience these things; and he likes mentioning his age because, well... come on, hasn't "it's been running for over 50 years" become one of the show's biggest selling points recently when introducing it to new people? Don't fans just LOVE to say that now, even if they have no intention of watching the Classics??).
Steven Universe is kind of similar -- I based her personality mainly around the main character, Steven, who,
as you know, is probably the most kid-like kid character ever, and so, she does have a very child-like personality full of naive optimism, but a lot of that also comes from the fact that she's a relatively young fandom who's been seeing pretty much nothing but increasing popularity from the start, and has yet to really feel the age of being a series that's run for, say,
at least five years, having a bit more of a troubled history with more ups and downs.
Hunger Games was based a lot around the idea that fandom characters don't always know how to live up to their canon characters... and this is amplified a thousand fold by the fact that, in the books/movies to begin with, Katniss has no idea what she's even doing, as a combination of impulsive decision-making and just sheer circumstance throw her into a bunch of situations where she has no idea how to please everyone -- and she's basically made into this grand symbol of the rebellion despite having no clue how to actually live up to all of that, which is very similar to how Hunger Games feels about living up to her status as essentially an A Class recognizable name, wanting to be the awesome hero you'd expect from that sort of thing but having no clue what to actually do to live up to that.
Trigun was based almost entirely off of her circumstances as a fandom, though it helps that her main character, Vash, is also super conscientious about the value of life and wanting to protect it. Basically, Trigun's an old fandom who is becoming all too quickly forgotten, and she's concerned about how much time she even has left. And, in the manga, Vash's hair changes color from blond to black as he uses up more and more of his life energy, leaving him with less and less time -- so I gave Trigun the same hair color-changing mechanic, to give her even more of a reason to be super conscious of that sort of thing and to practically start obsessing over how much blonde hair she has left (I mean, if you had a death timer over your head that didn't even seem to progress at a steady rate, you'd be kind of paranoid, too, huh?).
Beatles I didn't have as much room to be clever with, seeing as how the band is pretty much known for the incredible amount of diversity in their songs, so, it was hard to pin down much of any overlying theme... I had to narrow it down to just a few chunks of the Beatles discography that they're probably most known for -- cutesy and light-hearted love songs, and drug-inspired acid trip music. So... he's basically a drug-using hopeless romantic. Also! He's kind of stuck in the past, too, since the band broke up in 1970, and so, it's not like he gets a lot of new content often... I haven't gotten much of a chance to show this in the IC, but I imagine Beatles would actually be mildly sexist (not in an overtly malicious way, but in more of a "you girls shouldn't be putting yourselves in danger like that, this is a man's job!" sort of way), just because a lot of the Beatles love songs have that sort of chivalrous undertone to it, if only because that's just the time period it was written in. He's also kind of out-of-touch with the younger generation and has no idea what any of them are really up to. This is in sharp contrast to Doctor Who, as, despite the fact that the two of them are roughly the same age, Doctor Who is much better at adapting to the times, as that sort of change is kind of what the show is known for. Sooo Doctor Who's kind of the only one keeping him in-touch with the times these days (in fact, early in the IC I mentioned that the Doctor only recently convinced him to get a smartphone, and is still in the process of teaching him how to use it).
*deep breath* Well, hopefully these examples got you thinking, anyway. @_@ You don't have to get as incredibly clever as I was with some of these (lol), so don't worry about trying to compare yourself to me or anything! I just wanted to show you what my thought process was for my fandoms to see if that might spark any inspiration for what you could do with yours. You know, show you the possibilities and all that.
