Post by Toadkiller Dog on Sept 20, 2010 8:51:11 GMT
I have a habit of created truly flawed characters, things are often dirty, nasty and genuinely shitty for them. I write a lot of villains, sometimes villains that happen to pose as "heroes" simply because they're the lesser of a few evils. Bella was a character like this, she truly was a pretty lousy person when you broke it down completely, even though she COULD be sweet and caring.
She's actually however pretty tame compared to my usual fare. A favorite of mine and my wife's favorite character I ever created is a fellowed nicknamed Six. Six is an over the hill, hard as nails hit man. He's a rotten son of a bitch, will take any life for the right price, men, women or children. He has mental bouts with himself in a twisted multiple personality battle and regrets the death of his wife, which he caused, directly and violently. But part of him revels in the agony he brought to others, like his wife, but more so the agony he brings upon himself mentally. Hurting others he genuinely cared about simply to make his own life hell, holding regret for the other person as an afterthought.
He's a terrible character, hard to root for and genuinely VERY unlikeable. But yet everyone I've shown his story to always comes away loving the character. Why? Because he's interesting, he doesn't follow stereotypical traditions and hell, sometimes it's hard not to feel at least a little bit sorry for a guy who's life is total shit, but also know that he himself made it that way.
I love writing characters like that. It's a task to make a character so horrible, so violent and so worthless, appealing to a reader. It's a fun task. Bella was kinda like this, just not quite to such an extreme extent. My goal was to make her likable to the others, but always with a slight taste of revulsion in their mouths as they dug deeper into her mind.
But the cool thing was how many other characters like this showed up in this RP. That's what I liked about most of the characters here. They all had faults, oftentimes major faults. None of us were really that innocent, except of course Jason, and we all pretty much knew it. But had to work together regardless.
Early in the game when playing Bella's reactions to Christian, I remember trying to think of myself in the same situation, and thinking, yeah I'd be unnerved by him, he gave off that aura that he might seriously kill you if you got in his way. Well played.
She's actually however pretty tame compared to my usual fare. A favorite of mine and my wife's favorite character I ever created is a fellowed nicknamed Six. Six is an over the hill, hard as nails hit man. He's a rotten son of a bitch, will take any life for the right price, men, women or children. He has mental bouts with himself in a twisted multiple personality battle and regrets the death of his wife, which he caused, directly and violently. But part of him revels in the agony he brought to others, like his wife, but more so the agony he brings upon himself mentally. Hurting others he genuinely cared about simply to make his own life hell, holding regret for the other person as an afterthought.
He's a terrible character, hard to root for and genuinely VERY unlikeable. But yet everyone I've shown his story to always comes away loving the character. Why? Because he's interesting, he doesn't follow stereotypical traditions and hell, sometimes it's hard not to feel at least a little bit sorry for a guy who's life is total shit, but also know that he himself made it that way.
I love writing characters like that. It's a task to make a character so horrible, so violent and so worthless, appealing to a reader. It's a fun task. Bella was kinda like this, just not quite to such an extreme extent. My goal was to make her likable to the others, but always with a slight taste of revulsion in their mouths as they dug deeper into her mind.
But the cool thing was how many other characters like this showed up in this RP. That's what I liked about most of the characters here. They all had faults, oftentimes major faults. None of us were really that innocent, except of course Jason, and we all pretty much knew it. But had to work together regardless.
Early in the game when playing Bella's reactions to Christian, I remember trying to think of myself in the same situation, and thinking, yeah I'd be unnerved by him, he gave off that aura that he might seriously kill you if you got in his way. Well played.