1) Characters whose speech/action/thought patterns do not fit a norm for their age/gender/race/species(?)
and 2) Characters whose behaviors are very easily influenced by other characters.
My Littlesister!Marlene is a great example of this.
On top of being sorta-kinda brand new to RP, Marlene is a character I have never once explored. Her voice is very new (and surprisingly difficult) to me, and I'm trying really, really hard to find it. She's also an extremely complicated character. After all, the girl was genetically engineered to harvest stem cells from dead bodies and eat them. What can you expect?
For one, she's been engineered so her body doesn't age, and her mind has, in a way, left her body behind. So, just because she looks like an 8-year-old, doesn't mean she will completely act and think like one. Sure, she may "dumb down" the way she says things and thinks about things, but that doesn't change their meaning. Equivalent to maybe a 12-year-old, and despite its difficulty for her, she seeks companionship, friends, and she does want to fit in. And she's very adept at sensing even the smallest shifts in mood and atmosphere, and will figure out through conversation exactly how to manipulate it in the way she wants it. Most 8-year-olds that I know aren't that intuitive and empathetic.
On top of that, having been genetically engineered, it's very easy for characters to influence her. Especially darker characters. If they wanted her to start harvesting ADAM from people -- they can give her something that looks like her hypo, add a suggestion or two, and she'll start gunning for people's bellies. (With the mun's permission, of course.)
She's not ALWAYS going to be this static, cute little girl crawling through cupboards carrying a stuffed moogle! Sorry guys. But this is why she's a little sister.
And you're right; it is like having the shell of this wonderful idea... but not being entitled to do whatever you wanted with it despite it being your great idea. And sometimes, it really sucks.
By the way, I tracked you down via permanent_ooc in order to figure out wtf this AIM chat is because I absolutely FAIL at the whole AIM business! Then I saw this and had to add in my 2 cents, just in case you were wondering. xD
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1) Characters whose speech/action/thought patterns do not fit a norm for their age/gender/race/species(?)
and 2) Characters whose behaviors are very easily influenced by other characters.
My Littlesister!Marlene is a great example of this.
On top of being sorta-kinda brand new to RP, Marlene is a character I have never once explored. Her voice is very new (and surprisingly difficult) to me, and I'm trying really, really hard to find it. She's also an extremely complicated character. After all, the girl was genetically engineered to harvest stem cells from dead bodies and eat them. What can you expect?
For one, she's been engineered so her body doesn't age, and her mind has, in a way, left her body behind. So, just because she looks like an 8-year-old, doesn't mean she will completely act and think like one. Sure, she may "dumb down" the way she says things and thinks about things, but that doesn't change their meaning. Equivalent to maybe a 12-year-old, and despite its difficulty for her, she seeks companionship, friends, and she does want to fit in. And she's very adept at sensing even the smallest shifts in mood and atmosphere, and will figure out through conversation exactly how to manipulate it in the way she wants it. Most 8-year-olds that I know aren't that intuitive and empathetic.
On top of that, having been genetically engineered, it's very easy for characters to influence her. Especially darker characters. If they wanted her to start harvesting ADAM from people -- they can give her something that looks like her hypo, add a suggestion or two, and she'll start gunning for people's bellies. (With the mun's permission, of course.)
She's not ALWAYS going to be this static, cute little girl crawling through cupboards carrying a stuffed moogle! Sorry guys. But this is why she's a little sister.
And you're right; it is like having the shell of this wonderful idea... but not being entitled to do whatever you wanted with it despite it being your great idea. And sometimes, it really sucks.
By the way, I tracked you down via