RPG Characters History (Part Three point Five)
dunkel as HMF
Jan|6|2008
The Special Kid
Mirla Ambler
Straight from the profile at HMF:
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*giggle*
Ok. Well, let’s see. My name is Mirla Ambler, and I am 12 years old. I live with my Grandpa. I don’t know how old he is. *giggle*
Oh yes and, I’m a girl.
I was born on Spring 18th. I [came to Aurora] as soon as I turned twelve.
I don’t have a job, but… Grandpa says I’m a Princess. Does that count?
I have long brown hair, and I love putting it up in different ways all the time! My eyes are black like my Grandpa’s, but I’m not half as tall as him. *giggle* I like to wear dresses in pastel colours, with animals on the front! On my left hand, I always wear this bracelet that Grandpa says my daddy gave me. It looks very nice, don’t you think?
I’m… friendly, I like to talk. I love making friends! And…. Grandpa always says I’m much too curious.
I like animals a lot, and I like candy. I love to read, and sometimes I draw.
What do I hate? Um… That’s a hard one. I love about everything!
…Oh wait! I know! I hate bugs. And medicine! Yuuck! I don’t like papercuts either, but I like the bandages Grandpa puts on them. Oh and, I don’t like to travel a lot. I get sad whenever we leave..
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I remember WM complaining to me about Mirla, after I posted her profile and rped with someone about 2 posts in. It was an excellent complaint; it proved/suggested I was rping her properly.
“Why does Mirla act like a three-year-old?!”
Mental State
Wasn’t quite sure how I could title this section..
Mirla constantly claimed that she had a secret she could not tell anyone (ie in the entrance post that was linked in the profile I copied and pasted). It was understandable. Judging by the events that happened in her childhood, it was just logical that she’d keep it a secret.
She was mentally retarded.
Family/Past
Let’s keep this short.
Father - abandoned all of his family upon realization that his daughter was retarded.
Mother - stuck by her daughter for twelve years, to hopefully be able to bring their family back together. Ultimately gave up hope in the end, when her husband did not show up as he claimed he would.
Grandfather - the only truly sincere one, remained with Mirla until his death.
Art
Being a self-proclaimed art-nerd, I’d have to say Mirla was influenced by Picasso. After studying the fine arts, he seeked to draw like a child again. Thus with Mirla, I tried to not only have her create her own world with dragons, nymphs, castles, and royalty, I also had her draw [what she saw].
Father
From the start, I portrayed Mirla’s father as the usual ‘bad guy’ who abandons the family at the first onset of problems. The one who promises a reunion but never shows up. In the end however, it was revealed that he had never actually given up, and it was Mirla’s mother that did the abandoning (in Mirla’s introduction post, she departed swiftly as soon as she realized her husband wasn’t going to show up).
Reading Claude’s final post, you will realize that indeed, he is her father, and indeed, he was not ‘all bad’. He changed his last name due to shame and did initially leave his family and all his past behind, but soon realized that he needed his daughter. Unfortunately, Mirla never had a chance to discover this.
The End.?
As posted in HMF:
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She looked down at her small hands as they felt the rough iron of the gate. Everything about this town was rough. The wood of the fences that surround the never-ending stretches of farmland, the sand between her toes when she visits the beach, the hazy sky on lazy mornings, and worst of all, the burden of knowing her father has abandoned her for good.
Rough, rough. All very rough.., she thought to herself, as she continued to pass her hands over the bars on the gate. Why was there a gate anyway? To lock all the world’s stresses into a tiny village? She’ll let them out, she will.
Mirla slowly pushed open the gate, hearing the rough sound of its feet scraping the dirt floor. Just like the rough edge of each of the words that escaped her Grandfather’s mind..
But she’s leaving now, escaping this place for good. She took a step out of the village for the first time in months, and took a deep breath. Nice and soft. Soft like the clouds where Grandpa’s sleeping. When the tears began to well up in her eyes from the painful memories of the loss of her Grandfather, Mirla started to run.
They said she’d never understand. That because her brain will ‘never mature’, she’d never learn.
But she did. She understood. And she knew the thing she wanted most at the moment, was to sleep on that soft cloud up in the sky, beside her Grandfather.
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The ending of Mirla’s story is unclear. Her running suggests her eagerness; her desire of being with her Grandfather suggests a drastic measure she would ultimately have to take. However, could one say that someone like Mirla would be able to even grasp the concept of suicide (I admit, I do need to do more research on that to determine a legitimate answer)? Or perhaps she didn’t die at all, and just wanted to run away from all the bad fortune Aurora had obviously brought upon her? Of course, there is also the possibility that she finally meets up with Claude again outside of Aurora. It wouldn’t be too hard to determine whether a retarded girl named Mirla was your daughter or not.
I am rather proud of the final posts for Mirla and Claude… Considering that the decision for their departure came so abruptly, and that I figured out their ending in the couple of minutes that followed. That said, Claude was intended to remain a bad father throughout, but I changed my mind at the last minute.
Conclusion
Mirla and Claude are the first two RP characters I’ve ever rped simultaneously. Being a nub at dual characters, I obviously had to relate them somehow. Know that Mirla had not been planned out beforehand, and was more of a spontaneous idea (”Wouldn’t it be cool to rp a retarded dude? But I’m already rping Cl– They could be related! I could say that Claude abadonned him/her, and they were to meet up in Aurora again, But of course, he’s not going to want him/her back..” etc; Mirla’s gender was decided when I settled on a name).
It was fun rping Mirla (ie being the propellors of her own helicopter, made of nothing but Kiki (methinks?), kitten’s [old] character), but I found the process of weaving her story into Claude’s more interesting than the actual rping.
Thus ends dunkel’s RPG Characters History.
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