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Almost every single character I've ever rolled started out as an extra in the Great Lusternian show. Many don't make it, because they just don't catch on or give me any interest.


Generally what I'll do is make them, chat with people a bit, see where I fit in, invest some credits in them. After a while, I  stop playing them for a week or two. If I actually realise I have a desire to log back in as that character, I log back in and invest more into them, both time and money. This is where they start to develop personalities, likes/dislikes, and actual roleplay. They've graduated from being extras into being side characters. They might pick up a guild position, join an order, maybe a family.

Orventa said:

Orv was of the firm belief that Vengeance games was playing too much with time and would lead to disaster and never participated. Hundreds of years later, she comes back, there's timequakes! >.> She's since played her only game in the Game of Bobseses, and was killed off immediately. 

...Waaait a minute.

Lief said:

Lief is basically the girl from that Main Character Syndrome comic.

Hee. Comic is by SecondLina, who also does Namesake. I love her stuff.

Xiran intentionally has a mundane appearance/colouration (for a Serenwilder), originally for blending into forest environments. I hadn't considered roles in terms of being a "main character" or not with all that goes on in Lusternia, but I definitely enjoy playing Xiran as supporting cast or peanut gallery member. She's gotten plenty of characterizing moments, but they tend to be in one-on-one settings or through conflict/post-conflict banter. Yes conflict is literally character-building.

1. The ruined camp on the shores of the Shallach River. I stumbled across it purely by accident one day, and it brought another level of depth to a story I was already well and truly involved in.

2. Allie isn't nearly as old as most of my characters have been, but she has definitely evolved a lot. The random choice one day to go bother Czixi turned out to be a defining moment in her life, the first and most important (by a hair).

3. Probably Serenwilde (because Maylea and her people make it look pretty appealing) although I've had a soft spot for Celest since Saoirse first took me under her wing many years ago. I really don't foresee a circumstance in which it would ever happen, as Allie is quite entrenched as she is right now.

4. It's tough, as I really adore several things for various reasons. Nelras' and Allie's instruments that I designed, both to suit particular aspects of their personalities. The compass brooch of glistening stars designed by Maerad, because it's been picked at random by Allie and I want to say both of her daughters. 

It's a good thing you're not asking me to pick a favourite beast. >.<

I used to do that kind of stuff, but then when I made Jolanthe I decided just to go dumb party girl with built in mardi gras colouring. That... kind of got derailed. Maybe a little bit. But I've still mostly evaded responsibility and authority, haha!

Lief is basically the girl from that Main Character Syndrome comic.

I totally wrote Yinuish to just be a small character who gave some roleplay and then went away again. But then I met Kistan, actual roleplay happened where he was like 'Let's get married' so then I actually gave Yinuish time and she turned into something more serious. Oops. I'm not sure I'm capable of just playing a roleplay character as soon as some interesting roleplay happens. 

1. There is a quest tengentally related to a certain important historical figure. If you give that person the untranslated scroll that was originally written for them, you fail the quest because it won't be returned, but you are thanked profusely because they are fully able to read it. It is heartwarming to see at least once, but it is a HUGE dangling plot thread that I want to pull at OH MY GODS.

2. So, there's a certain thing you learn in Hallifax. It either DESTROYS your character or it makes them stronger. It was really interesting to see Luce's reaction to that when it happened, but seeing someone else go through the process and come to the same conclusion is interesting. I've taken on a mentoring role now and it's been a trip.

3. Freaky Friday A where character realizes what's going on and is basically the same person? New Celest is the only org Luce has a PRAYER being able to pretend to be a member of. Freaky Friday B where it's an alternate-timeline Luce? During the Great Zagrean Kerscuffle, Luce picked up memories from an inverted version of himself where he was more draconic than vulpine (essentially a short, foxlike dracnari raised in Dairuchi instead of a draconic furrikin from Estelbar) who was sassy, confident, and liked to cater and hang around the edge of HUGE parties then write about the aftermath in the Gossip-equivalent.

4. I'm cooking up a customisation for my beer goggles, but my custom nose is pretty cool (need a custom line for it). For non-custom, the Wonderbrazier is the bee's knees.