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Are your characters you?
9 years ago
An artist I follow opened up some freebs ychs, but the catch was your Furlong, or what have you, had to be like...ACTUALLY you or representing you and it just got me thinking about the whole persona/fursona/ sona sona sona thing and....I dunno.
I guess I never actually thought of making my characters representative of myself.
I mean, obviously they are based on aspects of myself or stuff I find cool, but I wouldn't say any of them are ME.
Slaan is an almost idealized hedonist version of myself. Confident, sexy, comfortable, and ultimately powerful and in control of their own destiny.
Slaan is everything going I would want to be in a fantasy life and the only thing I really have in common with them is interests cause they are my interests...I guess in THAT way Slaan and I am the same person but again. In an ideal magical world.
Persoq is soft and cute, loveable and dorky. I guess he'd be the closest to me in a lot of ways but I think he has way more charisma than I actually do.
I'm not nearly as cute or charming as my bear son so that's why I've never considered him to be ME. Just again, what I wish I could be.
Mintea has my dream job and my ideal body shape but they are way too sweet and calm to be anything like me.
Same with Nuka and really any of my OCs.
I don't really talk "in character" unless joking around with friends or RPing, but I see some people who are ALWAYS on.
And not that there's anything really wrong with that, it's just something I've noticed.
I never really look thru the eyes of my character cause I've always had the Separate concept of character and myself.
He'll if I did make an oc based off me it'd be like... half pug half pumpkin, and it'd always be crying XD
I dunno, just something stuck in my head I wanted to thunk about
I always wonder if stuff like this helps create a sense of elitism in the Fandom?
I guess I never actually thought of making my characters representative of myself.
I mean, obviously they are based on aspects of myself or stuff I find cool, but I wouldn't say any of them are ME.
Slaan is an almost idealized hedonist version of myself. Confident, sexy, comfortable, and ultimately powerful and in control of their own destiny.
Slaan is everything going I would want to be in a fantasy life and the only thing I really have in common with them is interests cause they are my interests...I guess in THAT way Slaan and I am the same person but again. In an ideal magical world.
Persoq is soft and cute, loveable and dorky. I guess he'd be the closest to me in a lot of ways but I think he has way more charisma than I actually do.
I'm not nearly as cute or charming as my bear son so that's why I've never considered him to be ME. Just again, what I wish I could be.
Mintea has my dream job and my ideal body shape but they are way too sweet and calm to be anything like me.
Same with Nuka and really any of my OCs.
I don't really talk "in character" unless joking around with friends or RPing, but I see some people who are ALWAYS on.
And not that there's anything really wrong with that, it's just something I've noticed.
I never really look thru the eyes of my character cause I've always had the Separate concept of character and myself.
He'll if I did make an oc based off me it'd be like... half pug half pumpkin, and it'd always be crying XD
I dunno, just something stuck in my head I wanted to thunk about
I always wonder if stuff like this helps create a sense of elitism in the Fandom?
I don't think it's a sense of elitism as much as it is just... Different styles. Sure Blizzard has plenty of my aspects but like your characters - it's not a mirror of myself. Glad to see someone one the same page as myself though!
~Blizzard
So i understand that sentiment completely! That's a very nice way to put it!
I made our personalities match in the fact that we are both modest honest and that we each try to be friends with everybody.
Normally before I even say something, I stop and ask myself, would I really find myself saying this?
When Espresso speaks He talks in Tandom And when I do need to speak for Espresso I switch to orange.
A few of my friends tell me that we look similar.