What Draws You To Your Character?

[eightfoldfiend]

Hey, it's a not-meme.

One thing I always find fascinating in this hobby is what draws people to the characters they play so this is me asking you that.

What drew you to your characters? What do you find fun about them? What aspects of them do you find easy or difficult?

For OCs, talk about how you came up with the idea for them and why you wanted to give them a spin in this hobby.

Read, converse, ask questions!

You can answer in list form, prose form, whatever form you're most comfortable with and with as much or as little detail as you want.

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The Luminary | Dragon Quest XI

[luminatus]

What actually compelled me to RP this guy was frustration. Dragon Quest games always feature voiceless, "blank" heroes that you are supposed to project yourself onto. This was hard in DQ11 since it is very much the Luminary's story and his history and relationships form the backbone of the plot.

But he doesn't speak.

The game does show him talk as a child in flashbacks and the way the party reacts to him indicates a character who could be amusingly playful and mischievous but gravely serious when needed. Since the game didn't want to explore this, I decided I would!

Playing with his voice, imagining how his personality works based on the (substantial) hints given in the game, etc is very fun but also the hardest part of playing him. I want to do him justice and it can be complicated when everything about a character BUT the nuances of his personality are known!