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.
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