Sprotchymon wrote:
One more vote over here for the character being an extension of myself. In my case, he is closer to what I would like to be rather than what I am. There is some hyperbole as well: I'm shy with some martial arts skills, he's mute with badass swordsmanship. As far as dominant versus submissive, both are evident, but only in terms of martial arts. Not... marital arts.
C'mon, A! I know you have it in you to squick the shit out of all of us if you want. Let it all hang out; everyone knows you've been savin' up all this time! ^_~
Blue wrote:
I couldn't be much different, it wouldn't feel right.
But Blue, not feeling right sometimes just feels so...
right, you know?
My playing style for Patch is definitely a very pathological one; I would be much like him only if I completely let myself go — where he is a reveler in the moment, my thoughts are often of the future. Where he is himself, I am self-conscious and vicarious. Where I (usually, anyway) feel I have a firm conception of truth, and logic, Patch is left to construct his own history and sense of what's real from glimpses of his past and fabrications which have emerged along the way. Where he is a vagrant, and an addict, I try very hard to stay on track, and although I don't draw those stupid Xs anywhere I am straightedge (I know, I'm a bitch... nono, thank you, please, you are too kind, please!)
His core personality works similarly to mine, but insteadof that being watched and suppressed closely, it is unhinged and unapologetic, most times.
So, in many ways he's a shadow, although in a broad sense he is stronger than me — comfortable with himself, natural, brave, indulgent of all whims — the future doesn't scare him.
It's not every time I'm on Faibanx that I play
fully in character, especially when I'm just in the Square, but when I'm not there, odds are I'll be more IC.