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14 years ago
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Or even CHARACATURE development. Or how ever you want to say or spell it.
Most of us here on FA have a character to represent ourselves or some aspect of our selves and they all had beginnings. Some of those beginnings were in anime, roleplays, or just general scribbles on paper, and sometimes they started off as carbon copies of existing characters. Some how though they always seem to become our own and we keep them around.
The other night we went to go to bed and Hozz looks at all the badges he/we have hanging on the lampshade of the lamp by the bed. He says outloud "Hozz looks like somebody now"
Upon asking him what he meant, he was looking at the comparison of his first badge (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4044257/) and the one I recently made him (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6349068/). He was saying that in the beginning Hozz didn't really look "real" or wasn't "somebody". And it's the truth. He felt too clean cut and not enough personality. Granted I know Hozz a lot better now than I did then. In fact one of the first drawings I ever did of him (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4375636/) looks nothing like the sweet man I draw now. Infact he looked an aweful lot like Brock Sampson.
But it's interesting how characters develop and represent their owners better over time.
I'm not sure where I was trying to go with this journal other than it was a thought. And it was neat to see Hozz's development since it was pretty recent. WEEE!
I'ma go eat supper now.
Most of us here on FA have a character to represent ourselves or some aspect of our selves and they all had beginnings. Some of those beginnings were in anime, roleplays, or just general scribbles on paper, and sometimes they started off as carbon copies of existing characters. Some how though they always seem to become our own and we keep them around.
The other night we went to go to bed and Hozz looks at all the badges he/we have hanging on the lampshade of the lamp by the bed. He says outloud "Hozz looks like somebody now"
Upon asking him what he meant, he was looking at the comparison of his first badge (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4044257/) and the one I recently made him (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6349068/). He was saying that in the beginning Hozz didn't really look "real" or wasn't "somebody". And it's the truth. He felt too clean cut and not enough personality. Granted I know Hozz a lot better now than I did then. In fact one of the first drawings I ever did of him (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4375636/) looks nothing like the sweet man I draw now. Infact he looked an aweful lot like Brock Sampson.
But it's interesting how characters develop and represent their owners better over time.
I'm not sure where I was trying to go with this journal other than it was a thought. And it was neat to see Hozz's development since it was pretty recent. WEEE!
I'ma go eat supper now.
RPD is whom I'd like to be personality and morals wise (minus the smoking and drinking, that's for funsies) but for my own body and personality, a donkey fits me perfectly.
And y'know I probably wouldn't of done that until you drew him. XD
Entertaining, but certainly no progression line to measure anything with.
Though I still represent myself as a goat.
I wrote a short short that got pulled into this story "After the Voyage At one point the protagonist goes to an old ship in a crappy mood. My mind said "Aleilan will be waiting for him, and so will his son." Really mind? The fist I expected, I had no idea he had a son. But it was the most natural thing in the world and Clarke LaSaille was created on the spot. He has featured in several stories since including his unseen but difficult Mother.
I love it when characters decide their own development.
Haw.