Q&A Meme

[twelfthspark]

questions meme



- Leave a comment below with your name and the character(s) you play.
- Respond to others' top levels with questions. Questions about their characters, questions about their plans and things they want to play, questions about their fandoms, questions about what they had for lunch today, whatever.
- Answer the questions you receive.
- After your answer, ask a question back. Keep it up for as long as both parties feel like.

Comments

[true_noir]

Well, as a starting point, I have a long-standing love of anti-heroes, deuterotagonists, villains and general scum of one ilk or another. In various RPGs, I've usually played the rogue or sorcerer with questionable loyalties to the group and their own agenda.

As such, my character list includes Equius Zahhak (hardly a hero), Reaver (Scum, absolute scum), Chloe, Millia Rage (Noble-hearted, but still an assassin with a lot of blood on her hair... hands), Rei Ayanami (A hero, yes, but at times Lillith's influence doesn't make that so clear cut, especially towards the end), Koishi Komeiji (No matter how nice she seems, the girl's an end boss for a reason), Kin Tsuchi from Naruto (Chloe, younger, and less redeemable), and Zaeed Massani from Mass Effect (who's basically hired merc muscle and doesn't bother redeeming himself). So, I play a lot of characters that are ... sketchy at best. My OCs are usually pretty sketchy, though I don't play them on DWRP anymore, other than in memes.

So, since she fell into the type, I think what it was that drew her to me was that I wanted an antagonist who was on some level a little redeemable, manipulative and largely amoral without being overtly RAWR EBIL! Someone who could act on their own self-centered or obsessive whims without a shred of hesitation, but who I could also play as a fairly normal person when their abnormal behavior wasn't triggered by the scene. Chloe suited this and had some more unusual traits usually not found in a deuterotagonist that lasted almost the entire series. They were usually found in short-run characters, dead within 1-4 episode arcs, giving a lot more to go on. She was amoral, or obeyed a very strict set of guidelines from her handler, insanely loyal to two people and capable of nearly anything in achieving her goals. She was bold, utterly fearless and unconcerned of people's reactions to her behavior and a bit brazen, manipulative in a way I could have fun with and quite cruel at times. That she was redeemable in a sense (because her issues were heavily influenced by nurture. Had things played out differently, she might have been a completely salvageable person if she were removed from Altena's control/influence.) made her more interesting in alternate settings.

But all the above is why I took her to Amat. I brought her back for this to explore some of her character more deeply, rather than exploring the setting more deeply. Chloe in Amat was heavily about Chloe in Amat, and what that horrible setting helped her become, and her attempts to reform her behavior later on. Chloe, here, is more of a focus on 'who am I, really? Why am I this way?' Something I wanted to do in Amat, but that a sex-game with choking collars doesn't exactly make easy to accomplish.