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What influenced your character?

DaskalosDaskalos Credit Whore ExtraordinareRolling amongst piles of credits.
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So, I was having this discussion the other day with someone else, and now I'm curious what other people used\use as guiding points for their character? When I setup Dask, I knew he was going to have a backstory to hate Vampires, that he was going to be zealous, but music actually was sort of the inspiration for Dask's attitude...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdmG0k8S8k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb4Q-2TueEM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCrB9fX20g

So, what did you use for inspiration for your character?

 

 

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Message #17059 Sent By: Oleis           Received On: 1/03/2014/17:24
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  • KiyotanKiyotan spectacular vernacular Summit of the Falconmount
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    Some may say we've lost our way, but I believe we've not gone far enough.
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    AldricElanthValenaeDamonicusLiancaIosyneLinPeriluna
  • AlexinaAlexina the Haunted Soul
    Wait.

    You used Kiyotan as inspiration for Kiyotan?
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    LiancaAmaraKiyotanIosyneLinArbrePerilunaErzsebet
  • AlistaireAlistaire Las Vegas, Nevada
    I don't know what kind of anime stuff is in the videos, but I'm referring to the songs, anyway.



    Oh, and..

  • DaingeanDaingean Xanhaal, probably.
    edited December 2012

    This song. Even the weird tangent about the car sort of foreshadowed his very odd sense of humor.

    Also,

    I don't know if anyone ever read this manga, or watched this show, but Dain is pretty much exactly like Tsuna, when he's in Dying Will mode. His gloves are even sort of modeled after Tsuna's X gloves.

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    Proudly fighting against Greytolia since the [approximately] 3/1/2010 at 18:00.
    Alistaire
  • LinLin Blackbird The Moonglade
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  • ArekaAreka Drifting in a sea of wenches' bosoms
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    KiyotanLinEdhainAryanne
  • LinLin Blackbird The Moonglade
    Liked for Brand.
  • ZunZun
    edited December 2012
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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Duality[/spoiler][spoiler]image
    The Ripper - Stylistic murders. Penchant for brutality.[/spoiler][spoiler]image
    Frankenstein - Remade into a new man. Undead zombie-look. Was going to have him wear his goggles around his neck...thought it was too much.[/spoiler] [spoiler]image
     Penny Mob - Gangs from Glasglow, called so for the price of their bail.[/spoiler]
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  • OrisaeOrisae

    ^

    [spoiler]

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    Zun
  • OrisaeOrisae
    edited December 2012
    Alright, in all seriousness:

    I can NOT seem to get these spoiler bars up. How the heck do I do it? xD

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    Twenty minutes later... spoilers can stuff themselves. >:[
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  • ArbreArbre Arbrelina Jolie Braavos
    [orisae]stuff[/orisae]

    Only not your name
  • AkimotoAkimoto
    edited December 2012
    [spoiler]

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  • AlexinaAlexina the Haunted Soul
    edited December 2012
    Originally, Alexina was supposed to be a tall, fair-haired valkyrie type but that never really came to fruitition:

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    [spoiler]
    The Battle Poem of Valkyries:

    "See! warp is stretched

    For warriors' fall,
    Lo! weft in loom

    'Tis wet with blood;
    Now fight foreboding,
    'Neath friends' swift fingers,
    Our grey woof waxeth
    With war's alarms,
    Our warp bloodred,
    Our weft corseblue.

    "This woof is y-woven
    With entrails of men,
    This warp is hardweighted
    With heads of the slain,
    Spears blood-besprinkled
    For spindles we use,
    Our loom ironbound,
    And arrows our reels;
    With swords for our shuttles
    This war-woof we work;
    So weave we, weird sisters,
    Our warwinning woof.

    "Now Warwinner walketh
    To weave in her turn,
    Now Swordswinger steppeth,
    Now Swiftstroke, now Storm;
    When they speed the shuttle
    How spearheads shall flash!
    Shields crash, and helmgnawer
    On harness bite hard!

    "Wind we, wind swiftly
    Our warwinning woof
    Woof erst for king youthful
    Foredoomed as his own,
    Forth now we will ride,
    Then through the ranks rushing
    Be busy where friends
    Blows blithe give and take.

    "Wind we, wind swiftly
    Our warwinning woof,
    After that let us steadfastly
    Stand by the brave king;
    Then men shall mark mournful
    Their shields red with gore,
    How Swordstroke and Spearthrust
    Stood stout by the prince.

    "Wind we, wind swiftly
    Our warwinning woof.
    When sword-bearing rovers
    To banners rush on,
    Mind, maidens, we spare not
    One life in the fray!
    We corse-choosing sisters
    Have charge of the slain.

    "Now new-coming nations
    That island shall rule,
    Who on outlying headlands
    Abode ere the fight;
    I say that King mighty
    To death now is done,
    Now low before spearpoint
    That Earl bows his head.

    "Soon over all Ersemen
    Sharp sorrow shall fall,
    That woe to those warriors
    Shall wane nevermore;
    Our woof now is woven.
    Now battlefield waste,
    O'er land and o'er water
    War tidings shall leap.

    "Now surely 'tis gruesome
    To gaze all around.
    When bloodred through heaven
    Drives cloudrack o'er head;
    Air soon shall be deep hued
    With dying men's blood
    When this our spaedom
    Comes speedy to pass.

    "So cheerily chant we
    Charms for the young king,
    Come maidens lift loudly
    His warwinning lay;
    Let him who now listens
    Learn well with his ears
    And gladden brave swordsmen
    With bursts of war's song.

    "Now mount we our horses,
    Now bare we our brands,
    Now haste we hard, maidens,
    Hence far, far, away."


    [/spoiler]

    It -has- been a subtle theme in her career in Aetolia: she wore a Valkyrian fullplate as a paladin, raven/wolves (these are symbols that represent valkyries) has been features in her designs, her wings rooms is in Yggdrasil, and so on. 
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    OrisaeMastemaHadoryu
  • DemarcusDemarcus Black Flagon Inn
    Ask Kerryn and Haven. Also, I like to burn things.
  • KiyotanKiyotan spectacular vernacular Summit of the Falconmount
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    Some may say we've lost our way, but I believe we've not gone far enough.
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  • AlexinaAlexina the Haunted Soul
    I always knew there was a small, vulnerable, ginger girl with a ponytail inside Kiyotan. It's why I love him so much.
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    ZunAmaraKiyotanLunaDashaHadoryuOrisaeArbreErzsebet
  • KiyotanKiyotan spectacular vernacular Summit of the Falconmount
    Alexina said:
    I always knew there was a small, vulnerable, ginger girl with a ponytail inside Kiyotan.
    You've got that backwards.
    Some may say we've lost our way, but I believe we've not gone far enough.
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    LinAlexinaErzsebet
  • AlexinaAlexina the Haunted Soul
    O my god, Kiyotan.

    I seriously lurv you so much.

    <3
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  • RaecheRaeche
    edited December 2012
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  • LunaLuna
    edited December 2012
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    Illidan said:
     if you ever see me killing someone (newbies especially) it's because I've had good reason to do so
  • XavinXavin
    edited December 2012
    A little bit of this

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    Some of this

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    A dash of this

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    A bit of this for flavor:
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    And a hint of this:

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    Ugh that last picture didn't link right the first time.

  • EdhainEdhain
    Two dreams I had.

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    The first was about a guy named Darren with blond hair who was in an army. His captain was an evil dark haired guy named Edhain. Eventually Edhain took Darren's wife and turned her into a stuffed horse doll. He was sexually abusing the doll and forcing Darren to tearfully do whatever mission he asked on the basis that he would turn the horse doll back into a human. 

    In the next dream, Darren was a bowl-cut blond hero in comic books and Edhain was a raggedy little dark haired orphan. He would go around on the street and do odd jobs for money and save his money fastidiously to buy the comic books. One day he was wandering the city and he actually saw Darren run into a run down building. He followed through an apartment that belonged to his friend, and found the apartment was all messed up. His friend was there and so was his friend's baby, and the baby was talking like an adult. Anyway when he caught up, there was a creepy machine in the basement that was electrocuting out all of Darren's powers. The machine was controlled by government lackeys with blue-glowing masks. So Edhain ran away, his illusions about the world dashed. Eventually he developed the understanding that there was something he had to do about all this and that understanding ended at a lake (like the story of Beowulf and Grendel). Along his way to the lake he met some interesting things, like a full maned lion that spoke in a little girl's voice and a bat that could turn into a coin with a ship on it. Those creatures accompanied him, but I woke up before he ever went into the lake.

    After having those two dreams I started to feel that despite the dichotomy of light and dark, Edhain was a far more interesting character than the very bland Darren. I didn't have any more dreams about either of them, but they stuck in my head as characters and when I wanted to check out Aetolia I decided to use Edhain. He kind of developed on his own from the start concept.[/spoiler]
    Hadoryu
  • AldricAldric
    edited December 2012
    ..Nevermind. Pictures aren't linking quite as well as I'd like them to.
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    Feelings, sensations that you thought were dead. No squealin' remember, that it's all in your head.
  • AngweAngwe I'm the dog that ate yr birthday cake Bedford, VA
    The Angwe you all know and love is a prequel. So, his inspirations aren't really relevant yet. I litterally rolled him up with no planning whatsoever and wrote a backstory based on what the character told me.
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  • AarbrokAarbrok Breaking things...For Science San Diego, CA
    Well, Aarbrok....

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    With a dash of 
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    Sprinkled with...

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    Frosted with...

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    You're welcome, Internets!
    Akimoto
  • LinLin Blackbird The Moonglade
    I heard this guy could kick Aarbrok's ass in a science-off.
  • AarbrokAarbrok Breaking things...For Science San Diego, CA
    Lin said:
    I heard this guy could kick Aarbrok's ass in a science-off.
    I am okay with this, so long as I get some gentle petting and violent slaps while we science together. 
    Akimoto
  • DamonicusDamonicus
    Aarbrok and Anfini's Ankrean Asylum ... That would be an interesting building to walk into.

  • SeirSeir Seein' All the Things Getting high off your emotion
    edited December 2012
    There were a few outside inspirations for Seir when he first came to be and along the lines of his development.

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    With a little bit of this next guy for his werewolf badassery and hatred for vamps (though Seir did not bang one)

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    Sprinkled with

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    And topped off with

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    and

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    Joshua Graham, the Burned Man[/spoiler]

    And evidently, I cannot get this to work either.
  • SeirSeir Seein' All the Things Getting high off your emotion
    edited December 2012
    Aarbrok said:
    Well, Aarbrok....
     
    Sprinkled with...

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    You're welcome, Internets!

    Who I picture Aarbrok as now:

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    AarbrokLinAngwe
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