RPG Characters History (Part Two)
dunkel as HMF
Nov|23|2007
The Lonely Glazier
Rusty
Originally, I wanted to just post up the .txt file I brainstormed Rusty’s character with. I tried to pack all the mental illnesses I knew into him; it was kinda funny. I also wish I hadn’t lost the .txt file because I’ve forgotten a lot about Rusty (ie his last name). D:
Family
Rusty moved to Aurora in search of a cure for a fatal disease that had taken over his hometown. His family was still alive, but no one was allowed to leave the town (how he was able to, I don’t remember). Unfortunately, his sister was one of the many victims..
Occupation
Again, I wish could post up my brainstorming file. I ran through a lot of possible jobs for Rusty, including taxidermist, glass blower, locksmith, and music-shop..-ist (link). In the end, I ’settled’ with glazier (link). It was unfortunate that Rusty never got to see his shop open before he moved out of Aurora (ie I got boredz with him D:).
Mental Health
As I stated earlier, I tried to pack all the mental illnesses (and other random things) I knew into one guy. As far as I could remember, he had hallucinations, schizophrenia, OCD, paranoia… I ended up making him a locksmith anyway, because he had a multitude of locks on his front door alone, and always had to double-triple check all his locks before leaving his house (thus paranoia + OCD). Also, one of his ultimate goals was to make an unbreakable (unhaxable!) lock.
The death of his sister obviously had a large impact on him, for he began to see an animal as his sister. The animal resembled that of a squirrel, and was a hallucination. He’s often seen chasing or looking for his ’sister’.
Character
Oddly, Rusty was my first ‘friendly’ character (aside from Miku, but she was a side character..). He talked a lot, and genuinely liked to be around people. However, his unexplained references to a sister often alienated him (imagine eating dinner and having him suddenly jump out of his seat, running around your house scolding a ‘little sister’, then sitting back down, calming down the empty space that was supposed to be his sibling).
House
Rusty dug his own house out of the side of a mountain, and coined it the Wooden Door. His house was supposed to be a personal art project, to force myself to practice drawing more inanimate objects. But that proved to be phail.
Not about to let go of his potential as a taxidermist, I was going to have him dig out his own secret taxidermy workshop. To stuff animals in a sad attempt to recreate his sister. His paranoia was supposed to escalate as he created more stuffed animals, but, I never rped Rusty long enough to reveal his skillz as a taxidermist. For now, you’ll just have to imagine a creepy red head gutting ferrets (and enjoying it).
Conclusion
Rusty was created near the beginning of my discovery of the field of Psychology, which explains the cramming of mental problems. However, he was completely created from my imagination (aside from his name, which I thought up after reading about Dusty from one of Cornelia Funke’s books), so was something I could be proud of. And I am. It would’ve been interesting seeing him interact with other people in Aurora, and seeing whether he’d ever realize he was only imagining his sister.
If I were to ever write a book, it’d be about him.
RPG Characters History (Part One)
dunkel as HMF
Nov|16|2007
..Starting from the Great Wipeout of ‘o4, because the ones before that are teh lame0rz, and dunkel would rather forget about them.
I also feel the need to write this because many aspects of my later characters were never revealed (got bored of them too soon).
The ‘Feral’ Child
Kyouhai Adauchi
Not entirely a feral child, but he has lived alone in the wilderness for ten years or so. He’s not one of my proudest characters, but I’ve used him for the longest.
Originally, he was pretty much based off of Sasuke from Naruto. Yes, I liked Naruto, but it was back in the day when it wasn’t officially in North America, so I was teh cool. I remember convincing Colleen (White Mage / Wonder Weasel) to watch the first episode of it, and how pissed she got when she saw Naruto perform his Sexy No Jutsu. Yes, Colleen did used to be that innocent.
The main difference between Kyou and Sasuke at that time was that Kyou grew up in a forest alone, instead of the city. So, I had fun making him hunt for animals and being technology-challenged (i.e. attacking Wolf’s pickup truck because he mistakened it for some sort of beast). I did realize how ghey basing a character off of an already existing one was soon, so I branched off fast.
To Start
Kyou became interested in being a doctor, whereas Sasuke wanted to be a policeman. Kyou hacked off his arm to stop an infection, whereas Sasuke is still relatively healthy to this day.
Past
I think the most fun I had with Kyou was almost always when I wrote his flashbacks. The first one or so, I admit, was pretty much the same as all that was revealed of Sasuke’s past. Again, I soon strayed off (yayz) a lot. Here’s the last bit of his past revealed to people. Quality’s poor though: View n00b Flash
Organizations
Back when dunkel was a n00b, when he made a character based off of another, he stuck with it, despite attempts not to. D: So Kyou’s brother Rikane, started a group named the Kuroi Gaitou, obviously paralleling Itachi and the Akatsuki (though Itachi did not form the group). Near the end Kyou did join his brother’s group, and ended up learning how to be an assassin through the more ’skilled’ members (shown through a series called To be an Assassin, but it is pretty shameful, so view with low expectations: TbaA). Each member had a weakness of sort. Somewhat influenced by FMA. *lame*
Brother’s Goal?
Now here’s the thing I never really had a chance to reveal. Rikane had never completely abandoned Kyou (unlike Itachi), and turned out to have been closely watching him as he grew up. He created opportunities for Kyou to practice and to improve on his combat skills. Rikane’s ultimate goal was to use Kyou as a weapon against..something I forgot, because I never wrote it down. -_- His other goal however, was to resurrect.
Magic
This was different from Naruto’s chakra and Jutsu system, as magic was not allowed on HMF. Only Rikane had magic, and he only appeared in the stories I posted in a site that I’ve taken down. He was able to read thoughts, control people (made Kyou attempt to kill Colleen many times), and near the end, to resurrect.
Pets/Failing Sanity
Sasuke never had any pets, and is currently sane. Simple as that.
Kyou however, had pets. Originally a fox named Seken, then a coyote named Kainashi. One of Kyou’s flashbacks included the discovery of his fox, and how he came about to name it. I forgot how it died, but it did. And that was when Kainashi came along. In the beginning, Kyou hated it, for the coyote was the one that chose him. As time passed, Kyou grew to accept it, but never showed it.
As Rikane continued to mess with Kyou’s head to turn him into the weapon he desired, Kyou’s mental health began to deteriorate. He gouged out Kainashi’s eyes, which evidently led to the coyote’s death, thinking he could stop it from seeing the evil in the world. When Rikane successfully resurrected Kainashi, the coyote returned to Kyou (though whether it reached him itself or whether Rikane brought it there, is not known… I just never thought about it.), though as a half-rotten carcass. Still feeling guilty for having killed his friend (and having never told it how much he cared for it), Kyou saw Kainashi as perfectly alive and well. He clings onto it, even though it was missing patches of fur, was lacking eyes, and had rotting flesh hanging from exposed bones.
Ah yes, he had a horse somewhere along the line too (Thunder or something?), but it was killed by Rikane, blah blah. I should post up all the flashbacks again someday. They’d be fun to laugh at. [Edit: lul, I found it, and uploaded them: here]
Death
The death of the Adauchi’s apparently was to fuel Kyou into wanting to surpass his brother and to kill him (which, I assume was the same for Sasuke and Itachi). Kyou did succeed to an extent, which made Rikane realize he joined the Kuroi Gaitou not because he wanted to support the group, but to be able to kill him.
Conclusions
I like to think of Kyou as actually ‘my own’ character near the end of his stay in Aurora Village. It was only after I realized how much of a nub I was that I actually made Kyou mine. I’m terribly ashamed of his roots though. Ah well. It’s done and over.
Amazing how there are whole message boards out there dedicated to rping as characters from a particular series/anime. One Sasuke is bad enough. Imagine rping where a multitude of Sasukes are running rampant.
And thus ends this self-confession of what a n00b dunkel started out as (what with all those Japanese names and all. -_-). ..Actually, my memory’s kinda foggy. Someone ought to bring WM over here to look it over. She’d remember every single detail.