Your Personas / Characters

[Jane]

Which of your characters (personas) is your favourite?  (This club, other clubs, former clubs, whatever.)  Is it the character who is easiest to write for?  The one who is most like you?  The first character you made?  The character who attained the highest rank?

Mine is a character who definitely writes himself but I think I have very little in common with him so I can't understand why he is so real!  He lives in a former club and he has been my highest ranking character but when I created him his role was to be unranked.  You see what I mean about him having a life of his own?  He's a bronzerider and he was named after Anne McCaffrey's T'gellen.  I just shuffled the first two letters until I found a pair that were pronounceable and gave a similar sound.  (I mean T'gellen up to the end of The White Dragon - Menolly's friend T'gellen.)  I've been writing for him for eight years and I don't think (or he doesn't think) he's ready for retirement yet.  He is one of my early characters, but not my first.

My first character was a female journeywoman smith at the Weyr with a large, close family ... Oh dear!  It wasn't Arateyka but I do seem to run to a type!

 :oops:

[PastMember]

My first 'sona was Burkina, who is a lot like me...She's fun to write for. You'll all get a chance to meet her as I bring back the majority of my DEW 'sonas.

My current favorite is N'kalen...he is just *so* easy to write for! He has all the fun loving aspects of me.

I also miss Nikeves, the first adopted 'sona I ever wrote for. I have long term plotting in progress to get him back sometime. He's the highest ranking I've ever had.

I love all my 'sonas! It really depends on my mood which is my favorite.

[Eimi]

My first persona was D'cal (Dacraslar way back in the day before he Impressed).  His very first post was with Dyaera, and that was the start of a two year romance that surprisingly is still going despite all the troubles they've had.

My biggest surprise was U'kaiah.  I intended him to be much different than what he is now.  He kinda ran away from me from the start ;)  I think he would have to be my favorite since of all my personas I think he's the one who has grown and changed the most over time.  And I have a lot more planned for him...

But my favorite kind of personas I've written has got to be my bad guys XD  THey are so fun.  It amazes me since I'm really a nice person in RL, but when I write a Meijah or a V'lorn I can be downright wicked  :twisted:   Who knew???

[Jane]

My biggest surprise ...

That's nearly a topic on its own!  My Jh'slaen was with me in my previous club for THREE years and was no trouble at all.  Slightly secretive and a bit of a loner but otherwise just nice and quiet and useful for a copost now and then.

I don't know what's in the water at RBW but he's turned into a very different character since arriving at Triad.

 :lol:

[Dana]

The first persona I ever made here was Shayla, and I guess she's the most like me personality-wise.  And looks-wise too.

The easiest persona for me to write for would have to be Traelyn.  Out of all my personas, she's the one I've developed the most.  She turned out to be so different than what I first had in mind.  In the beginning, she was supposed to be more reserved, especially when it came to her relations with men.  Ha!  I completely misjudged her, and she decided to take off on her own and write for herself.  *g*  

I have the most fun writing personas who have a lot of insecurities about themselves, like Trae, Larken, Nialyn...  But then, I love writing horny, arrogant, good-deep-down R'alt and Ar'lis too...

What can I say?  I love them all   :roll:

[Bree]

I don't know, Jane... I think sometimes the biggest surprise personas can become our favorites! :D

Of course, my favorite tends to change based on who is doing what... and usually whether or not they've surprised me lately!

Though the easiest persona for me to write is Abrei... because she gets to say all the stupid, annoying and just plain clueless things I often want to say but have learned better. ;) And MAN it's fun to be dumb sometimes!

Dyaera was my very, very, VERY first persona, back when I joined one of Triad's parent clubs in... oh, in maybe 2001? (And Mikel... I think YOU approved her!)

She's fun for me because she FINALLY is getting to age. And because she's actually evolving and growing thanks to her totaly messed up relationship with D'cal. (Oh, Eimi... how long ago it started! And how have we managed to keep them this miserable for TWO YEARS?!)

[Eimi]

But then, I love writing horny, arrogant, good-deep-down R'alt and Ar'lis too...

I think that says a lot about your taste in men there, Dana  8)

[Devin]

My first persona was D'ren, and he's such a nice boy I have trouble being mean to him. But he's growing up and we all know that means making some mistakes.

N'vanik is by far my favorite. Often he's the easiest to write for. I just 'get' him and he has a way of invading my thoughts. I love how messed up he is, and how he keeps shooting himself in the foot, and I like the way he's changing, even if I'm worried I'm turning him into a marshmallow ;)

[Dana]

But then, I love writing horny, arrogant, good-deep-down R'alt and Ar'lis too...

I think that says a lot about your taste in men there, Dana  8)

I have a thing for bad boys   :oops:  So sue me, Eimi lady!

[Rochelle]

I've only been in Triad a little while, and I've never done any other clubs, so my answer is a bit limited here. But I have done A LOT of writing for fun, and when I include my Triad personas (several more in the works included here) in with those characters, I can definately say that Eleada and F'melar are in my top ten.

Eleada I took everything I ever learned about character creation the hard way, and applied it when I made her. I love her! She writes herself, she is her own person, has her own memories and a past I both know and discover bit by bit. Even better, she's the kind of confident person I would love to be friends with, who I would love to be, but who's still human enough to relate to and laugh at or cry or roll your eyes with.

F'melar I haven't really done with much yet, but I really like him. He isn't happy, he isn't perfect. He's got parts of me I don't really want, some that I do, and in my mind he is the voice for all the frustration I have over being nearly deaf but am never allowed to show -his hearing issue is very similar to mine, right down to the two (bright blue and winged in his case ) hearing aids. But he's still his own person, and it's just starting to show and I can't wait to see where he goes on paper instead of just inside my head.

[Patrick]

My first on Triad was Cortana who is also fastest growing character.  She was never supposed to turn into the flirter she did.  I'm very happy about where she'd going though.

I'm really liking I'poro.  His dilemma with liking his best friend and having his newest friend like him is just a blast to write.

My favorite would have to be Kouna, she was a surprise in every way shape and form but I love her personality and trauma.  Its a blast writing her and I love how she pulls on a life of her own.

I still haven't made up my first ever character on Triad yet.  He's still a secret, but I promise you'll like him!

[Cali]

My first character was Arilanna I think... her or J'klin, I can't really remember.  Boy have both of them changed since I first adopted them!

My favorite would have to be B'vin.  The poor guy just can't be happy no matter what.

My biggest surprise would have to be Y'nub.  I know he's only a NPC, but I just love writing for him and he's begging to become PC!  I'm trying to fight it, but he's using his devious charms against me :D

[PastMember]

My first was Karaya. But, she has taken a backseat to Z'al. Z'al has become my favorite. I like to mess with his life. He started out as my fun loving boy. In one turn a lot of things changed for him. I mean he found out he had a son, got threadscored, fell in love, found out he is going to be a daddy again, Nyinth caught a gold, and his weyrmate impressed. And I am not nearly done with messing with him.

Though I find Dirwol fun to work with to. He is a harper Journeyman with a goldridder love....oh the possibuilities.

[Yvonne]

Firsa was my first, and the second character I created. Ever. I was pretty young.. probably 15 or so, and she and my first character, Isis, were somewhat Mary-Sueish. But then Firsa took on a life of her own. She's bitter, silent, cynical, and has starred in post-apocalypic earth dramas and captained her own junky space-age Fed-Ex-esque ship. She's been a smuggler and murderer. I love her to death... I just need to write her more.

My favourite Triad character...? That's hard. I really enjoy writing Larstad (who you will see more of, I assure you) because he's such an arrogant bastard and he runs all over people. I like Tsaera because she's so frighteningly strong, and because she's got a history. I like Harki because she's a self-centred cow. I love Mariss because of her curiosity and refusal to accept the status quo. I like Thalia's self-doubt and the way she is so... womanly. J'nus I enjoy coaxing out of his shell - he's a man with a story, but doesnt like to call attention to himself- which makes him a devil to write.

But my all time favourite pbem character is a soul-sucking asexual shape changer named Yxah. Man, did I have fun with Yxah... Yxah and a blind noblewoman named Tessra who I brought from a retiring mouse of a girl to a vengance-obsessed criminal mastermind. Someday I really need to finish her story...

GAH! I ramble. See how I ramble!

[Paula]

I have to say that my all time favourite character I have created is Xelinda. She ended up marrying a elven prince and had three children. Before that she rescued an elven princess from kidnapper (she was slave at the kidnapper's household.) Not only that, she was a wolffolk, a race that I had thought up, a people who could change their shape to a wolf.
She was kind, warm-hearted person,  playful and joyous, yet she also had something wolfish in her: she was also be ruthless, cold-blooded huntress. If you pissed her off, she literaly ripped your throat out.