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Dec. 9th, 2010 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impersonaday 09: character that's had the most development
aaaaaaaaaah this one is tough. Have to give it to Onayepheton. He was the very definition of one-dimensional when I first created him (simply, he was just a dead little brother Asiel could grieve over. Also a parade of finger soup jokes). Then maybe two years after he was first formed, I experimented by coming up with his modern day incarnation, and when I was trying to get EV together and moving, it felt like he just EXPLODED in depth, at least to me. A lot of his development started out by simply working on the opposite of what Asiel would do/think, then suddenly he became his own creature. By nature the character is kinda shallow and oblivious, but with reincarnations to deal with and more character interactions, I was really able to flesh him out entirely, until I was able to create his own brand of Julian Logic. (A lot of the traits of Onayepheton/Julian, btw, were ported over for Amrit/Osiris in Pax. FYI <3 )
To me, btw, that is one of the indications that a character is really solid - if they seem to develop their own brand of Logic. That I don't even have to stop and wonder why a character would speak/act the way they do, but what is natural to them comes instantaneously to me. So I guess it is not Logic so much as Intuition, but I've been calling it Logic for so long that I don't care. Asiel/Galen was the first character I had who developed Logic - which again, is not so much logic as it is a ball of clustering neuroses.
aaaaaaaaaah this one is tough. Have to give it to Onayepheton. He was the very definition of one-dimensional when I first created him (simply, he was just a dead little brother Asiel could grieve over. Also a parade of finger soup jokes). Then maybe two years after he was first formed, I experimented by coming up with his modern day incarnation, and when I was trying to get EV together and moving, it felt like he just EXPLODED in depth, at least to me. A lot of his development started out by simply working on the opposite of what Asiel would do/think, then suddenly he became his own creature. By nature the character is kinda shallow and oblivious, but with reincarnations to deal with and more character interactions, I was really able to flesh him out entirely, until I was able to create his own brand of Julian Logic. (A lot of the traits of Onayepheton/Julian, btw, were ported over for Amrit/Osiris in Pax. FYI <3 )
To me, btw, that is one of the indications that a character is really solid - if they seem to develop their own brand of Logic. That I don't even have to stop and wonder why a character would speak/act the way they do, but what is natural to them comes instantaneously to me. So I guess it is not Logic so much as Intuition, but I've been calling it Logic for so long that I don't care. Asiel/Galen was the first character I had who developed Logic - which again, is not so much logic as it is a ball of clustering neuroses.
