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.

Comments

[owarifool]

btw if you haven't yet, i *highly* recommend the NHK drama Ryoumaden, as Izo is a central character in it and it gives even more context on his life and his relationships (though it takes at least a *few* small liberties with historical fact).

[hitokiri]

I have not but THANKS VERY MUCH for the recommendation I'll have to check it out! And probably will very soon since I've just been consuming all the content lately. Do you know if it might've been based on the Ryotaro Shiba 'RYOMA!' novel? I know FGO and some other stuff that's had fictionalised versions of them have pulled a lot from that novel so I wouldn't be surprised!

[owarifool]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dmaden it's not based on that novel, though, but it was hugely popular (and masaharu fukuyama's performance as ryouma had informed a ton of interpretations since then, including Fate's)

you'll need some VPN magic to get it working on the legal places you can watch it, but lacking that, there's uh. less savory places to find it, but that comes with a "browse at your own risk" warning.

[hitokiri]

Oh, awesome! I was gonna read it anyway since it's available in English and hope that one day they'll translate the one about Izō himself the same author wrote but I'll take any and all adaptations! I feel like I'm thriving considering with my last canon character we're really out here sifting for crumbs because there's very little to work with.

Good to know on the VPN angle too!

[owarifool]

also on a more just fandom-centric note, if you can find a translated playthrough of the Yakuza Ishin game, he's in that too, and *it's great*, but it's mostly because he's represented by Nishikiyama, and the parallels of Nishi's relationship with Kiryu with Izo's and Ryouma's is just

chef's kiss.