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impersona ([personal profile] impersona) wrote2010-12-09 05:34 pm
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Nowhere to go on a one-track mind

day 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.  

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[personal profile] sporky_rat 2010-12-10 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
It's very strange, then, that all of my characters have a brand of Logic that would make a Vulcan weep for the practicality of the illogic of it. Everyone of them.

Especially Saris. Oh god, that woman.

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[personal profile] tatterpixie 2010-12-10 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I absolutely love how Rick is so much Julian but very clearly his own character. I've always adored Julian/Ona, and really kinda sad we were never able to get EV off the ground -- I really wanted to play my little punk-arse Ndmh off him. XD
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[personal profile] prodigy 2010-12-10 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It was really enjoyable to watch Ona/Julian grow and develop after you created him, from my limited perspective! Your meme answers continue to be really interesting.