Tyler

Crestwood Hollow

YAAAASSSSSSSSSSS QUEEN RITA IS BACK~

The Mavericks | Neo-Genesis

Maxine's biggest fear is failure; her reason for simply not trying half the time, is that she's afraid to fail. She has a lot of buried shame.

Crestwood Hollow

I have a feeling I'm going down a dark road where I'll forever be known as the thirsty girl and I am oddly ok with that

@FantasyChic

I always come in 3st place. You are not alone, friend.

Crestwood Hollow

And yet, you're still here.

Are we expected to have completed friends/enemies/etc sections? Mine will be, but a lot here aren't, and with that combined with what will eventually be Belle's bio, my sheet is going to be....long. This is the first time I've had a near-finished sheet so early into a game, so I don't want to end up fudging it just by over-doing the sheet.

@Roman

The way I see it, we need to know is accepted before we can start listing them as friends or enemies. I'm sure you're welcome to have NPCs in these lists.

Crestwood Hollow

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Well, given that all of your characters are the same, that isn't saying much.

@Mr Allen J

Be quiet. We've had our fun and now the grown-ups are talking.

Crestwood Hollow

@Tyler Oh no, I was referring to how one finds their image of a character.

I go power first as well. I always try to pick one I haven't done before and then I work from there. Like the one RP that Wraith wanted me to join but the other GM told me no (still not bitter about that...nope) I wanted to do Smoke Manipulation so from there I went to a sort of Bad Girl route and then I worked that into how she looked, tattoos, piercings, red hair, etc.

That was purely to tell people how I go to find an image of a character. Drawn pictures are typically easier for me since DeviantArt is chock full of them.

@FantasyChic

I'm not a fan of drawn images, personally. I take so much inspiration for the personality of my characters from the image I choose for them - and that can be as subtle as the way they are looking, or how they're dressed. It's a lot harder to make that connection with a drawing vs. a picture for me.

Crestwood Hollow

@MauveMarauder I basically google search exactly what I want.

Like for this, I googled Blonde teenager and (with safe search on) found a smorgasbord of pics to choose from. so if you want a guy with pink dreadlocks, just search for it. I also peruse DeviantArt, but that has questionable pictures.

@FantasyChic

I actually work in reverse - the image comes first for me, rather than looking for something specific. The first thing I consider with a character made for an RP like this one is the power. Some people will argue that the character is the important part and that the power ought to be secondary, but for me it's the power that inspires the rest of the character.

After that, I'll just keep the power in mind whilst I'm looking through images. I will usually begin by looking at fashion websites and browsing through the editorials, as they are a goldmine for interesting-looking models who aren't famous enough to taint the character. Usually the second I see the 'right' person, I know instantly that it is them. I'll then search on Google for more images of the same model until I find the one I like most.

Once I've got the image, everything else stems from there: I get a natural sense of what my character's personality is like by drawing upon the image and powerset I've chosen. I didn't want to be as obvious as giving Aiden a fiery and destructive personality, so instead I made him bright and warm - with the threat of exploding. Once you know how somebody acts and thinks, you can quite easily begin to imagine what their backstory is by thinking about what experiences have made them the way they are. And before you know it, you have a character.

Crestwood Hollow

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Bitch, my ego's like my dick: Enormous.

And I at least can back it up.

@Mr Allen J

Pics or gtfo.

Crestwood Hollow

I'll slowly construct my submission right here.

@MauveMarauder

I would advise revisiting the rules before doing so.

Crestwood Hollow

Dayum I can't see with all this shade being thrown

@FantasyChic

That would be the shadow cast by MR ALLEN J'S GARGANTUAN EGO.

Jesting aside, I'm really looking forward to seeing all the sheets.