#42 - Insert witty line here.
Feb. 22nd, 2007 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reileenThe thing about coming up with original characters for original worlds is that I have a really hard time building up who they might be in my head. At least if I came up with original characters in a pre-conceived world, I would have that pre-conceived world to help dictate even a little of who the character would be. But when someone as talentless as me in the way of creating original characters doesn't have a world to fall back on, it creates a little bit of an artistic dilemma.
Lately I've been mulling over various aspects of an original story currently called Scar, whose main namesake is a 20-something-year-old redheaded woman whose birth name is Scarletta Rhyder. (If you call her that, and you're not her companion Hunter, her grandmother, or a family member she still likes, she'll rip your head off.) Now, I think I could get to like Scar enough to have her tell a story. Her ghostly, smirking apparition in my head promises an intriguing journey. But I have absolutely no idea what kind of story she could tell. I see sarcasm and a carefree attitude to life, I think, but that's about it. She also runs uncomfortably close to another original character in my head who happens to be redheaded and sarcastic as well, although this character's worldview is decidedly darker than Scar's (and for good reason). I probably just need to spend a little time getting to know her, but it's almost like I'm afraid of what I'm going to find out. The opening line to Scar recently came up in my head as: "If there was one thing Scar hated the most in life, it was..." And then nothing. I have to fill in the blank, like a Mad Lib. If I can just figure out how to best complete that sentence, I'd have a good part of Scar's character nailed down.
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From the Tiny Toons NES game, we have the most appropriate inappropriate caption evar!
ETA: Also, I am quite possibly the world's laziest overachiever. I should get aDarwin Award Guinness World Record for that.
-Reileen
you know you wouldn't want it any other way
Lately I've been mulling over various aspects of an original story currently called Scar, whose main namesake is a 20-something-year-old redheaded woman whose birth name is Scarletta Rhyder. (If you call her that, and you're not her companion Hunter, her grandmother, or a family member she still likes, she'll rip your head off.) Now, I think I could get to like Scar enough to have her tell a story. Her ghostly, smirking apparition in my head promises an intriguing journey. But I have absolutely no idea what kind of story she could tell. I see sarcasm and a carefree attitude to life, I think, but that's about it. She also runs uncomfortably close to another original character in my head who happens to be redheaded and sarcastic as well, although this character's worldview is decidedly darker than Scar's (and for good reason). I probably just need to spend a little time getting to know her, but it's almost like I'm afraid of what I'm going to find out. The opening line to Scar recently came up in my head as: "If there was one thing Scar hated the most in life, it was..." And then nothing. I have to fill in the blank, like a Mad Lib. If I can just figure out how to best complete that sentence, I'd have a good part of Scar's character nailed down.
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From the Tiny Toons NES game, we have the most appropriate inappropriate caption evar!
ETA: Also, I am quite possibly the world's laziest overachiever. I should get a
-Reileen
you know you wouldn't want it any other way