What side of you do your characters represent?

[Sl'askia]

Just posting this out of curiousity....

I believe the characters we make up all represent a different side to us, as they are all a part of us in some way. This is true with some of my characters, most likely all of them (I just haven't discovered which side yet). Here is a run down of the characters I have that I know represent a side of me. Yes I know most of you don’t know who the heck some of these characters are…

Thunder Moon (Goddess of Healing) - my wisdom and councilor side.
Demonakos (God of Chaos) - duh...my random side. (NightStalker used to fill this too...but she changed on me, silly were)
Onul (Saurian, DragonLord of Justice) and Tilic (Slig tracker) - my honor and integrity(I think there are a couple more characters that represent this side too...not sure though)
Dementa (Cursed Forest Drakkic) and Cili (Mudokon, Moon Child) - depressed side. I think I created Cili to reflect the loneliness I was feeling when I first came up to ND. Dementa I am not sure of...
Spider and Malice (Both Drakkic Crossbreeds) - my violent side, though both have mellowed out since I created them. With Spider I am refering to the way he was in very VERY beginning. Now I think he represents something else now...but don't know what yet.(Both were created during stressful/frustrating times of my life)
Dragadon (Sky Dragon) - respresents the buried side of me I believe, the side of me I wish I could express in RL over the phone and in person but can reveal over the net.
Omi (Mudokon, half Moon Child) - him I think is my stubborn/rebelious side (Omi: HEY!)
Dragotor (Utah Raptor) - where Dragadon is my more ‘pleasant’ side…this one is my nasty side…she is new so most of you haven’t seen her yet…pray you don’t either…

Meh...thats all I can think of right now. What about the rest of you?

[FuzzyFuzzle]

Mal? Violent? Well, I never...

That's an interesting thought Drag. I'm reading this play about Arthur Conan Doyle, and how he put parts of himself into his star creation, Sherlock Holmes. I don't have many characters...er...more than one character...and his isn't very developed...um...maybe I could do some non-Oddworld characters that have been rolling around in my head as soon as I've fleshed 'em out.

Mirv (Treehugger Mudokon): Mirv's sorta the part of me that has got lost. The connection to nature that the modern age has crushed. The simplicity of his life (and mind :P (Mirv: Grrr...)) are kind of what I wish I had on some busy days/weeks/periods of life.

I should have my mom (a part-time psychologist (Or is it psychiatrist? Its the kind of mental care person that can't proscribe medicine)) look at this, but then again she'd commit us all to the insane asylum.

(think I used enough parenthesis in this post? Now to sleep...

[ January 29, 2002: Message edited by: FuzzyFuzzle ]

[cherie]

hmmm, that is an interesting question..well,i can think of a few...

ali: ali represents the side of me that would LIKE to be like that. there are many things i like to do ( ex: kick someone after they've insulted me) but i don't because iknow better and i don't want to get in trouble. ali doesn't give a darn bout the conquences, insult her and she WILL kick.

zander: zander is alot like me in someways. hes been teased and ridculed and is consdiered a outcast (sadly me)he also tends to keep his emotions bottled up inside and does not react physicly until the stress and angered gets too piled up. there have been times this has happened to be as well. despite all that he's loyal to his lifestyle, as i am.

[Teal]

I try not to think about that too much, as if all my characters are sides of me I must have a pretty buggered psyche... (I mean, what the hell side does Yax represent? *scared)

[One, Two, Middlesboogie]

David Bowie believed that his on-stage characters (Ziggy Stardust, Major Tom, Aladdin Sane etc) represented facets of himself, and he encouraged other people to find other characters within themselves.

I haven't really thought of my characters that way (I don't even have that many), but maybe I've matched them to parts of me subconsciously.

I did an interesting psychology test once. There were pictures of lots of animals, and the test told me to pick three and rank them in the order I liked them (with 1 being my favourite). I picked the lion first, the wolf second, and the horse third. The test then told me to write down four things that I asscoiated with each animal (and I had to choose the words from a list). For the lion, I wrote 'predatory, ferocity, strength, pride.' The wolf; 'courage, endurance, patience, intelligence' and the horse; 'swiftness, playfulness, agility, intelligence'.
The results were quite startling. Apparently your first choice is your ideal image; how you would like to be seen. Your second choice is the image you project; how you think you appear to others. And your third choice is how you think you really are. I read all that and I was gobsmacked. It was so true! I do want to be seen as ferocious and dangerous, but I think I come across as more of an industrious and intelligent type. But I really think of myself as quite gentle and playful (I don't associate myself with swiftness or agility, though; I'm broad-shouldered, wide-hipped, tall, and heavy).

The point of that little anecdote was whether that could also be applied to our characters. Maybe your favourite of your characters is how you want to be; your second is most like how you present yourself to others and your third is most like you in RL. Just a theory.

Twisted Firestarter is my main character. I think she is a vague representation of how I would like to be. I certainly wouldn't want to be the strange human/hyaena/Glukkon hybrid that she is, but I would like some of the qualities I associate with the last two of those creatures.
Twisted can be a fierce fighting machine who can kill ruthlessly without letting her emotions interfere, but when she is doing things for herself rather than for duty, she is a very sensitive person (thing... whatever) who can empathise with others. She is also highly intelligent and resourceful. That's the kind of person I want to be. I want to be loved by my friends and notoriously feared and hated by my enemies. I want to strike terror into those I hate... I want to be dangerous!... and to be someone associated with kindness and nicety by those I love.
So Twisted is definitely my ideal image.

I'm really not sure what other facets of me my other characters represent.

[Teal]

Hm. *thinking more* So, if all my characters are parts of me.. .does that mean I have a psychotic, overbearing murderer inside me somewhere? Oh well, I guess it takes all sorts... Some I can understand, thinking about it more. Hell, I'll have a ramble. I like to ramble.

Bea - my "professional" side, I guess - at least, the side I like to think I am when working; after all, dispensing assistants have to be on hand to offer friendly advice, not prejudge patients on what they look like or what you know about them from their PMR... Drek is kind-of similar, but I suppose he's my more dismal side - the side of me that's quite happy to discuss gloomy subjects with a total stranger and put the world to rights...

Rek - Oh, I WONDER... Couldn't be my geeky side, could it?
Rek: Hey, watch it...!
*blows raspberry* I suppose he's my sciency side - him and Sim. Rek being the thoughtful, methodical side, Sim being the grumpy "it-didn't-work-again-dammit!" side.

Hm. Hak would be my laid-back side, although it doesn't show very often (not in RL, anyway). I guess he's my online laid-back side. My "oh the kids are pissing about again and annoying the adults, let's leave them too it and maybe they'll shut up" side.

I think in RL I'm more like Xar, when I get annoyed at something. Short fused and a little noisy, but thankfully he stays where he's been put most of the time. (Only my brother tends to prompt an outburst of Foggy-ness, thank Odd).

Slate is the moody me. The "I don't know why I bother, it'll never work and nothing will change" me. Like I get when I think about the whole banning foxhunting lark - some days you just know it'll never happen (in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence and public opinion) as the Government's scared of the supposed repercussions... *sigh*

Aura... Hm. I dunno what the hell SHE represents. Ideas, anyone?

The rest of 'em are all just little bits of my psyche, I guess (that or I just needed a character and said character developed from there, depending on what happened to them)

Yax - no, I ain't even going to START making guesses about THIS little puppy... *shivers*

*hides chainsaw and grins innocently*

[Gluk Schmuck]

Hmm, I never thought of Trey as a part of my personality.
If I had to choose I'd say he was my evil exaggerated.

Trey: Was that meant as an insult? I'll brake your f***ing legs, you f***er!
*starts shooting at Tom with his shotgun*

*runs*

[One, Two, Middlesboogie]

About the evil characters... I do have a pet theory that I thought up myself a couple of years ago:
Everyone, deep down, wants to be a criminal.

But only a sad few actually carry it out. The rest of us use evil alter-egos (although not everyone writes stories about them and posts them on forums ), and let them do what we never would dare.

[Silversnow]

Well, I'm not so sure, but I think this should be right...

Gold: I think he represents the searching and philosophical side of me. The one that wonders why everything is the way it is.
Gaia: The sad, shy and lonely part of me. Without a single doubt.
Tammer: The nervous and hesitating part of me. I believe he's the same kind of outcast as I am...

I think I got it right, not sure though...

[Black Dragon]

Wow, I'm on a roll tonight. Hmmm... *Cracks knuckles* all fo my characters represent an emotion or side of me. I mean every single one... from the nasty Lord Draconese to the cranky Hunter.

Unopa Nightfire: The true online side of me. Unopa has all of my main strengths and weaknesses, but is slightly more outgoing than I am IRL.
SilverFyre: My wolven, or wise and 'pure' side. SilverFyre is an elderly wolfess that possesses amazing wisedom and infinite kindness to all.
Fire's Fury: My were-Styracosaur form, blood-red in color. She is my relentless, enraged, and mean side. She can also be calm and comtemplative, depending on the situation. FF is one of my favorite forms.
Hunter: Hunter is my stubborn and serious side. He is always scowling and such... heh, just like me IRL.
DragonAura: a big one for me. DragonAura is the oldest of alter-egos that I have revealed. She is what I would like to be... exactly who I'd like to be: independent, smart, strong....
Mikos: Mikos is honor, nobility... that small bit that is in us all. Mikos is my romantic, poetic side.
Firay: Firay is my hyper, spastic emotion in one firey package.
Snek: Snek is that side of me that is oh-so annoying.
Draconese: Draconese is my evil side... that devillish side that makes a nasty appearance every once in awhile.

Hmmm... I think I've covered it all...

[ January 30, 2002: Message edited by: Black Dragon ]

[DarkHoodness]

I dunno what sides of me my characters are on, but what I do know is that they are all more or less on the same side. Notice a little problem there? Maybe when I get round to writing my fanfic, the characters will sort themselves out.
- DH

[Danny]

I seem to be unusual among the Forum Fanfic Writers in that my characters are just that: Characters. They have no "life" of their own, they make no little appearences in my Forum posts or on MSN, and, as far as I am aware, they do not represent any parts of my psyche. I'm sure some psychiatrist would tell me otherwise, and say something about facets of my subconscious trying to make themselves heard or something, but to the best of MY knowledge, my characters are characters. They exist only for the period of time of the story.

My characters evolve in the course of their stories. In many ways, my stories are not so much about their plots as about the development of the characters. The Plot and Characters of my Fanfics are intricately linked and all but inseparable. This is probably the main reason why my characters do not invade the Forums or MSN, and also the reason why I never write sequels: My characters have definate paths to follow. I know where they start off and where they will end up. Whereas the path they take between those two points is uncertain, I make sure that they do not deviate too much from the set story...

Hmm. That got a bit off-topic, there. I'd better summarise my answer to the question:

None.

EDIT: Thankfully, now that I come to think about it. I shudder to think that there might be a Psychopath like Ulven inside me somewhere, however much I like the character...

2ND EDIT: Also, I have Super-Capitalist Glukkons in my stories, and I'm fairly sure there isn't any Capitalist in me...

[ January 31, 2002: Message edited by: Rettick ]

[Alector]

I knew that some of my characters are parts of me, since Jess and I began to work on our comics. It’s true that they are not living, but you know that our fantasy has no limit. I think nobody could make-up an character that doesn’t have the same qualities as the drawer of it.
Every character is sort of a small ‘puzzle’ of us. We join every piece of us together, then we get a character with his own respectively weird qualities.


I’ll begin with Alector. He is the sensible, strong and clever part of me. He copes with all difficult problems, accepts defeats and is most silent and unsmiling (like me in RL)

Mexola: He is the egoistical part of me. He is very spontaneous, active and a bit loud.

Melas and Aeris: They are the funny part of me. All things are better when friends are together! I want to say with it, that I’m just funny when friends are around me, and Melas and Aeris are good friends.

Draco chryseus: The strongest part of me, he is the mirror of my artistic life. This Dragon is the first character I ever had. He is elegant and ‘posh’.

Amanda: My actual alter ego. She is one of the main characters in our first comic. Amanda is almost myself. She has all the qualities I have in RL. She is the polite, romantic, choosy ect. Part of me.

Lupus: This wolf is also a character of our first comic. It’s the ‘natural’ part of me.

Electra: erm…how you know already is this character very violent and very short-tempered (not that you think I can be like him…). Actually, I’m not that violent as him, but sometimes, I just could explode!

That wasn’t all characters of mine, but I told you the most important.

[ February 01, 2002: Message edited by: Alector ]