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- Writing Levels
- Adept
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- Prestige
- Douche
- Adaptable
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
- Genres
- Fantasy is my #1; I will give almost anything a chance if it has strong fantasy elements. Post apocalyptic, superhero, alternate history, science fantasy, some supernatural, romance, and a few fandoms (especially Game of Thrones) are also likely to catch my eye.
Yup, I definitely have a variety of personas.
There's real me, which can be described by gross oversimplification as intellectual, logical thinking over emotional thinking, fairly cynical, very humor oriented (puns and witty jokes and racist jokes and everything in between), loud and talkative, always ready to debate and/or argue over anything from major philosophical questions to stupid "would you rather" style hypothetical scenarios, and often arrogant as well. As far as real life goes, only my immediate family really sees this persona, and pretty much only at home or otherwise in private.
Then there's my general out in public persona. I'm actually rather introverted, which is why only my immediate family really sees the real deal. My public persona cuts out pretty much everything but the intellectual and logical thinking bits, because I tend to just not join in on conversations unless I have a worthwhile (usually factually based) comment to make, and then after delivering it I'll go back to being quiet.
I also have a work persona, because despite working graveyard shift security I still have to interact with people. There are always a few minutes of interaction with coworkers briefly during shift changes, and there are a couple hours at the end of each shift where the building I work at is open and people are coming through the lobby to go to their own jobs, plus now and then I have to talk to the homeless people trying to camp out on the property and tell them to leave. One of my job duties is to greet people as they enter whenever the building is open, so I can't just passively sit there at the desk and try to avoid talking to people as I would very much like to do. This persona is actually closer to real me than the general public persona, because a slight bit of talkativeness and humor slip in there, generally in the form of small talk and boring family friendly jokes.
Then for the internet I've got two major variations. The first is for chat rooms and voice chats, which is close to real me but kind of exaggerated in some aspects, particularly the joking and the arrogance (which I greatly overplay online because it's funny), but nowadays I downplay my natural argumentativeness a lot for a variety of reasons. Then there's the forum version of my internet persona which is the chat persona but kind of... refined? Distilled? I can't think of any better word for it. What I'm getting at here is that on forums I can take my time to get my intended phrasing just right and self-censor anything I decide is too stupid to say or might be offensive enough to get me in trouble. It's basically my chat persona with generally better typing/phrasing and less goofy mistakes.
As for roleplay characters, eh, I've never made a self-insert of any of my personas, but there are aspects of myself in most (quite possibly all) of my characters. For instance, my favorite character at the moment is Kasim, an ex-slave archer who is extremely arrogant and rather hammy, and whose main motivations in life are to be renowned as a hero and to get laid at all opportunities; the arrogance and humorously hammy shenanigans are things that can definitely come from the heart, as it were. In that same roleplay (Brovo's Legend of Renalta) I also play Zin, a vampire mage who came from a rich merchant family background, and who is a generally logical thinker but also a coward and a pacifist whose main motivation is to simply not die because she's terrified of the unknown that lurks beyond that final horizon; the only real connection there to my actual personality is the logic > emotions in decision-making, and that's not a very strong link at all. When I make characters I purposely make them have pronounced differences from myself, because I want to play a character, not myself chucked into a fantasy world.
There's real me, which can be described by gross oversimplification as intellectual, logical thinking over emotional thinking, fairly cynical, very humor oriented (puns and witty jokes and racist jokes and everything in between), loud and talkative, always ready to debate and/or argue over anything from major philosophical questions to stupid "would you rather" style hypothetical scenarios, and often arrogant as well. As far as real life goes, only my immediate family really sees this persona, and pretty much only at home or otherwise in private.
Then there's my general out in public persona. I'm actually rather introverted, which is why only my immediate family really sees the real deal. My public persona cuts out pretty much everything but the intellectual and logical thinking bits, because I tend to just not join in on conversations unless I have a worthwhile (usually factually based) comment to make, and then after delivering it I'll go back to being quiet.
I also have a work persona, because despite working graveyard shift security I still have to interact with people. There are always a few minutes of interaction with coworkers briefly during shift changes, and there are a couple hours at the end of each shift where the building I work at is open and people are coming through the lobby to go to their own jobs, plus now and then I have to talk to the homeless people trying to camp out on the property and tell them to leave. One of my job duties is to greet people as they enter whenever the building is open, so I can't just passively sit there at the desk and try to avoid talking to people as I would very much like to do. This persona is actually closer to real me than the general public persona, because a slight bit of talkativeness and humor slip in there, generally in the form of small talk and boring family friendly jokes.
Then for the internet I've got two major variations. The first is for chat rooms and voice chats, which is close to real me but kind of exaggerated in some aspects, particularly the joking and the arrogance (which I greatly overplay online because it's funny), but nowadays I downplay my natural argumentativeness a lot for a variety of reasons. Then there's the forum version of my internet persona which is the chat persona but kind of... refined? Distilled? I can't think of any better word for it. What I'm getting at here is that on forums I can take my time to get my intended phrasing just right and self-censor anything I decide is too stupid to say or might be offensive enough to get me in trouble. It's basically my chat persona with generally better typing/phrasing and less goofy mistakes.
As for roleplay characters, eh, I've never made a self-insert of any of my personas, but there are aspects of myself in most (quite possibly all) of my characters. For instance, my favorite character at the moment is Kasim, an ex-slave archer who is extremely arrogant and rather hammy, and whose main motivations in life are to be renowned as a hero and to get laid at all opportunities; the arrogance and humorously hammy shenanigans are things that can definitely come from the heart, as it were. In that same roleplay (Brovo's Legend of Renalta) I also play Zin, a vampire mage who came from a rich merchant family background, and who is a generally logical thinker but also a coward and a pacifist whose main motivation is to simply not die because she's terrified of the unknown that lurks beyond that final horizon; the only real connection there to my actual personality is the logic > emotions in decision-making, and that's not a very strong link at all. When I make characters I purposely make them have pronounced differences from myself, because I want to play a character, not myself chucked into a fantasy world.