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Irish accents are just adorable.
Whenever I hear it, especially female, it makes me want to burst into tears of joy; it's just so gods damned cute.
That probably sounds demeaning, but I just can't resolve a better explanation than that. I don't mean anyone any disrespect, but how else can you express that exact quality--the feeling of your heart melting but NOT in the screamy bloody hemorraging death in forty-five-seconds-flat way? Gods, I wish I could do a good irish accent.
Stone Hawk--the character--speaks in a thick irish accent when I can manage to type it, though he has a quirk of it disappearing when a situation gets extremely, extremely bad; he's completely unaware of it. It'd be awesome if I could adequately voice my characters. Hell I'd practically want to do some kind of radio show if I had that kind of vocal flexibility :p espeically if I could even do my FEMALE characters justice XD THAT would be a trip.
My female characters, Adrianna and Allyssa, are actually kind of polar opposites on the surface, but extremely similar deep down. Deep down, they're both soft, lonely, kind, and compassionate, with a deep attachment to cubs and ferals, willing to give care at a moment's notice; devoted, dutiful, dependable... but their Differences... I mean, Adri's a white canine and Ally's a black feline; Ally is sweet and shy while Adri is rough and flamboyant; Adri is strong, self-sufficient, industrious, and proud... but Ally is lost, humble, and doesn't really think she has any useful skills other than maybe cooking. Ally is sensitive and patient; she'll listen to you pour out your heart and give you a hug at the end... but Adri?
Adri's latest community tie was when she lived as a hermit up in the mountains of a place called Greystone Valley, and she only came to town twice a week, saturdays to the general store for supplies and tuesdays to sip tea with one of Runihura's characters, Kiana Langeley. This sad, lonely single mother had a son (Kumi) who possessed a terrible habit of hanging around Adri's shack. Adri used to let Kumi help her with her dangerous expirements with untested potentially explosive steam technology(!!!!!!!). Kiana served Adrianna tea EVERY tuesday afternoon because it'd coax Adri to spill the beans about what kinds of danger she was putting Kumi in on a daily basis. I mean, imagine it. Your son is running off to this creepy woman's house where there's always smoke billowing into the air and frequent thundering EXPLOSIONS. Adrianna actually thought that Kiana was her BEST FRIEND, and was completely oblivious to the fact that Kiana was ACTUALLY scared shitless of her.
Adrianna also had a few other strange quirks. She makes it a point to don her old heavy Field Plate every morning and run three miles in it. She has a taste for apricots but likes to collect the pits in various jars around her shack for no particular reason. Every night, for one half-hour, before she sleeps, her ruse of pride and determination shatters and she realizes, for only that brief, sudden stint, that she is broken; that there is no hope of reinstating her rank in the army, that she'll never really replace her arm, that she really DOES miss being with people, that she really IS lonely and that she's getting older and may very well never have a mate... or cubs of her own... Just for one half hour, she makes a ritual of realizing how helpless she is... and then she falls asleep. The next day, it's right back to her strict daily regiment as if nothing happened.
You might think that Adri sounds like she's in a crippling emotional rut. You might be right. Just about ALL my characters are in some sort of a rut right now.. the only one with any semblence of activity or progress is Cyrus, and that's because his Son is motivating him to not just keep functioning, but keep living. And this post is a lot like Adri's nightly reflection for me... I'm realizing just how in terrible shape all of my personal inspirations are. Either it's a cause or it's a result... I just wish I could make my characters happy again without killing them off and replacing them with an extremely similar, smiling counterpart. *shudders* that always left me with a chill. I've always, always made it a point to run my characters on their original stream of consciousness.
i'm out of steam. sorry this wasn't more entertaining.
Whenever I hear it, especially female, it makes me want to burst into tears of joy; it's just so gods damned cute.
That probably sounds demeaning, but I just can't resolve a better explanation than that. I don't mean anyone any disrespect, but how else can you express that exact quality--the feeling of your heart melting but NOT in the screamy bloody hemorraging death in forty-five-seconds-flat way? Gods, I wish I could do a good irish accent.
Stone Hawk--the character--speaks in a thick irish accent when I can manage to type it, though he has a quirk of it disappearing when a situation gets extremely, extremely bad; he's completely unaware of it. It'd be awesome if I could adequately voice my characters. Hell I'd practically want to do some kind of radio show if I had that kind of vocal flexibility :p espeically if I could even do my FEMALE characters justice XD THAT would be a trip.
My female characters, Adrianna and Allyssa, are actually kind of polar opposites on the surface, but extremely similar deep down. Deep down, they're both soft, lonely, kind, and compassionate, with a deep attachment to cubs and ferals, willing to give care at a moment's notice; devoted, dutiful, dependable... but their Differences... I mean, Adri's a white canine and Ally's a black feline; Ally is sweet and shy while Adri is rough and flamboyant; Adri is strong, self-sufficient, industrious, and proud... but Ally is lost, humble, and doesn't really think she has any useful skills other than maybe cooking. Ally is sensitive and patient; she'll listen to you pour out your heart and give you a hug at the end... but Adri?
Adri's latest community tie was when she lived as a hermit up in the mountains of a place called Greystone Valley, and she only came to town twice a week, saturdays to the general store for supplies and tuesdays to sip tea with one of Runihura's characters, Kiana Langeley. This sad, lonely single mother had a son (Kumi) who possessed a terrible habit of hanging around Adri's shack. Adri used to let Kumi help her with her dangerous expirements with untested potentially explosive steam technology(!!!!!!!). Kiana served Adrianna tea EVERY tuesday afternoon because it'd coax Adri to spill the beans about what kinds of danger she was putting Kumi in on a daily basis. I mean, imagine it. Your son is running off to this creepy woman's house where there's always smoke billowing into the air and frequent thundering EXPLOSIONS. Adrianna actually thought that Kiana was her BEST FRIEND, and was completely oblivious to the fact that Kiana was ACTUALLY scared shitless of her.
Adrianna also had a few other strange quirks. She makes it a point to don her old heavy Field Plate every morning and run three miles in it. She has a taste for apricots but likes to collect the pits in various jars around her shack for no particular reason. Every night, for one half-hour, before she sleeps, her ruse of pride and determination shatters and she realizes, for only that brief, sudden stint, that she is broken; that there is no hope of reinstating her rank in the army, that she'll never really replace her arm, that she really DOES miss being with people, that she really IS lonely and that she's getting older and may very well never have a mate... or cubs of her own... Just for one half hour, she makes a ritual of realizing how helpless she is... and then she falls asleep. The next day, it's right back to her strict daily regiment as if nothing happened.
You might think that Adri sounds like she's in a crippling emotional rut. You might be right. Just about ALL my characters are in some sort of a rut right now.. the only one with any semblence of activity or progress is Cyrus, and that's because his Son is motivating him to not just keep functioning, but keep living. And this post is a lot like Adri's nightly reflection for me... I'm realizing just how in terrible shape all of my personal inspirations are. Either it's a cause or it's a result... I just wish I could make my characters happy again without killing them off and replacing them with an extremely similar, smiling counterpart. *shudders* that always left me with a chill. I've always, always made it a point to run my characters on their original stream of consciousness.
i'm out of steam. sorry this wasn't more entertaining.
ZombieCat
~zombiecat
Wow ... I love how deep and developed your characters are.
Cy Draegur
~stonehawk
OP
It's kinda' the only way I know -how- to design a character... other people consider character design a strictly graphical thing, what they wear, how their hair falls, what kind of poses they strike. Me, the only thing I can really decide on ... is their story. The story necessitates the physical details. For every scar, there was a battle, after all.
