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Well, mine isn't nearly so cool and interesting. Truth be told, both Adelaide and Grietje were inspired by Noir. sweatdrop

I saw the RP had a delicate, female character, and that got my head rolling towards something opposite to that archetype. Adelaide, of course, came first, but Grietje came later, so they're both opposite sides of the same coin.

YOU NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED THEY WERE RELATED, WOULD YOU?

My goodness, if you think about it like that, they're practically family! XD

Hey, cool topic idea, Bari! xd

I can't remember exactly how I came up with Adrian. I just remember being harassed by Ivy to make a council member for this new RP, and so I was in a bit of a rush to come up with something interesting. blaugh In retrospect, I think I was thinking of Utena, and her motives for wanting to be a "Prince" and crossdressing and all that. I took that basic idea and warped it into something much darker. If Juri is a jaded version of the princely Utena, then Adrian is that to the extreme. Her "princely" traits have just distorted into something dark and dangerous. I do tend to enjoy bizarre angst, but I never knew Adrian's psychosis would get THIS out of hand. Most of the time I feel like I'm not really writing Adrian, she writes herself. Which is kind of scary, really. Getting in character for Adrian brings me in touch with a dark side I don't always realize is there. She's also based on several very screwed up friends/exes/characters. Most notably, part of her past was inspired by a scene in "Ma Vie En Rose," a French movie about a little boy who wants to be a girl. Unfortunately I can't find that specific part online, but this might also give some insight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r3CPsVKgxs



I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Charlie was completely ripped off from this minor (and apparently, very unpopular) character from Bleach:
She's pretty much the exact opposite of Adrian in almost every way, which is why she appealed to me. I wanted to have a character to balance Adrian out, and Adrian didn't really give me the opportunity to RP really comical or ridiculous scenes the way Charlie does.

Sofie is weird. I really don't know where she came from, honestly. XD But at the time that I made her, I was working on a story that involved a really bitchy blind girl, and so I took her and made her a little more elegant and tolerable.
She's inspired by my life in Vienna, where I really delved into classical music and operas, since my best friend had an Opera singer for a mother and a composer/conductor for a father.

I like Sofie because she has a different sort of strength than Adrian's beserker nature or Charlie's stupid bravery. And unlike the other two, she is much more subtle in the way she acts, which is kind of a breath of fresh air when playing two dramadrama freaks like Adrian and Charlie. XD That's not to say she doesn't have her own crazy bizarre angst story. I have a feeling that will begin to unfold relatively soon.

I'd like to say she's the most normal of the three, but that's not really saying much, lol. All I know is that she's the most difficult for me to get in character for. When I created her, I liked the idea of having a character to has to fight to prove herself daily, because people always judge her based on her appearance, which is something that she ironically can't see herself. That's one of the only things about her I can personally associate with to some extent. I'm not a tiny petite little girl, I'm not extremely mature for my age, and as an artist, my life revolves around the visual world. So, in a way, I made Sofie as a challenge to myself.

Weeell, they're both opposites in a way. Adelaide first:

Noir was soft, small, neat, and had feminine features, I think, if I recall the description right.

Everything Adelaide isn't, really? XD Adelaide is tall, built more heavily, not as neat with her hair or looks. She's plain in the face, too, with more square features than Noir's. And if I couldn't say 'plain', then I'd have to say 'more handsome than beautiful'.

Greitje was meant to be a more directly opposing force to Noir, as opposed to Adelaide who was just an opposite, especially in personality, so maybe that's why I always pictured her as being physically similar to Noir. I hardly had to think about it, really. She's small, has nearly the same hair style (w/o the bangs), isn't quite as graceful a figure, probably, but is a little more severe in the face. That's probably why I figured she'd have black hair, more of a contrast with Noir's. Too bad Noir left after I made her though. sad I had been hoping for some interesting scenes with her.

Ok then, maybe she was also inspired by:


SHIZURU and CHIZURU!? THE PSYCHO LESBIAN SUFFIX!? Ok, she wasn't based off Shizuru at all. I watched Mai Hime long after making up Charlie. And they really don't have much in common at all. xd

I did even base Charlie's name of Chizuru's, though. But that character was just a springboard, really. I made Charlie because I really, really needed some comedy relief after playing Adrian's doom and gloom all the time. Charlie was made as a clown character, but she's gotten a more human side to her now, which I'm glad for.

I don't really know where the decision to make her have this weird incestuous tendency towards her mom came from. Again, I think I just have a love for creepy/bizarre angst.

Oh, and of course, Vesuvious was inspired by the strip club in the computer game of Vampire the Masquerade. Charlie's mom is also somewhat similar to my favorite character in the game, both in looks and her severity. Except that that particular character is a Malkavian vampire who has a split personality, believing she is both an uptight businesswoman named Therese and her slutty younger sister.




Here's a blurb on wiki about these characters:


So... in a way, that's sort of like Charlie and her mom's relationship in a whole new light? lmao. xd

I knew it Yam, Charlie and her Mom are Vampires. It's cool how you spun it and made it a little more realistic and relevant to be applied to a ...fake-real life setting? lmao.

Interesting insight, Color :0 that would have been really cool to watch play out... it's a shame it didn't really work out sad !

I guess that's what happens though... we've been kicking 'round for 4 years now? and have gone through, like, a ton of character drop outs and all sorts of different 'story moods'... I think this 2 month time skip can freshen things up again.



Don't be discouraged! Listen, can't you hear it? If your soul has not truly given up... you should be able to hear... Grietje somewhere, maybe that little voice in the back of your head, telling you what she should do. I would love to see some more ego floating around (as if we don't already have enough of it? xd ) I guess at this point there would need to be a motivational drive? It sucks about Noir, especially since she dropped out and you had all this awesomeness planned. You're right, I think the character was way too subordinate - it would have been a cake-walk for Grietje to stuff her to the side.

Kudos to mean people btw, they get my stamp of approval.