Character Attachments
I am a person very emotionally tied to my characters. I basically have a character for every mood I'm in. I've got the haughty and brazen one, the painfully devoted one, the fun, rompy one, the jokester, the endearing kid, the acutely moral self sacrificer... And each of these benefit during whatever emotional state I'm in, intermittently exchanging the spotlight throughout the year.
Because of this, perhaps, I like to recycle characters rather than create new ones. Old characters flow easily from the fingertips into the keyboard while new characters is like starting a new relationship, the writer and the new idea circling around eachother with wary and uncertain expectations. I have always been a full believer that the character comes to you and demands creation, not the other way around. But then I never played dnd before writing here, either, so I think my perspective is a little skewed. I don't choose my characters by what I want to try, rules-wise, or build. I let the character form themselves first then try to structure rules and setting around them.
This thread is about character attachments. How much of yourself do you put into your characters? Do you discard them when their game dies and start anew, do you find them new homes, or do you work inbetween? Do you consider yourself to have relationships with your characters, or do you write from a distance? How hard is it to write a happy go lucky character when you are feeling down and out, and vice versa?
Let's hear it.
Because of this, perhaps, I like to recycle characters rather than create new ones. Old characters flow easily from the fingertips into the keyboard while new characters is like starting a new relationship, the writer and the new idea circling around eachother with wary and uncertain expectations. I have always been a full believer that the character comes to you and demands creation, not the other way around. But then I never played dnd before writing here, either, so I think my perspective is a little skewed. I don't choose my characters by what I want to try, rules-wise, or build. I let the character form themselves first then try to structure rules and setting around them.
This thread is about character attachments. How much of yourself do you put into your characters? Do you discard them when their game dies and start anew, do you find them new homes, or do you work inbetween? Do you consider yourself to have relationships with your characters, or do you write from a distance? How hard is it to write a happy go lucky character when you are feeling down and out, and vice versa?
Let's hear it.