Sadly, this is normal

[ultranos]

Current Irritation: characters inside my head who are not only mouthy, but seemingly intent on taking over my brain.

Especially a certain tabletop character. Dammit, I stopped being 17 seven years ago! I don't want to relive it!

Also, let me tell you internets, it's very, very surreal when a character comes out to you five months after you roll up her stats for the first time.

CHARACTER: Um, I think I'm maybe kinda gay.
WRITER: Wait, what? *checks back the background from character generation* I didn't write that!

And you then spend approximately the next 10 months dealing with teenage angst.

WRITER: Dammit, [Character]! Stop influencing everything I write!
CHARACTER: It's not my fault!
WRITER: YES IT IS.

Clearly, I hate myself.

Comments

[havocthecat]

THANK YOU. It's not just me, then?

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Apparently not. YAY.

(Liz Dretzka is the mouthiest character I have ever created. And one of the ones who has come alive the most. It's rather frightening. And slightly annoying when I'm trying to do final projects and she's having existential crises relating to inferiority complexes and the possibility that she'd accidentally outed herself.

And was so far in the closet, she had a timeshare in Narnia.

FUN TIMES.)

[havocthecat]

Meg Benjamin started out as Meg Halloran, and then, five months later, said, "By the way, I'm gay." And then I wrote 17k words of femslash Arthurian fanfic featuring her and her newly-created girlfriend.

It sounds like Liz Dretzka is, in fact, one of the most fun characters EVER. From a distance, at least. :) Existential character crises during final projects kind of suck.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

And they were very good 17k words!

Oh, Liz is a lot of fun. Especially nowadays since I have another player to bounce off of, because at least one of those existential crises was resolved. :)

She's rather quiet and a bit passive, so I have to do a lot of roleplaying via facial expressions. I'm not sure what it says that the other players didn't get it until I flat-out told some of them OOC. :) Facial expressions are a bit hard to catch in a tabletop setting.

It's a lot of exasperated amusement at times, though.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Oh, characters. *pets them*

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

For all the irritation they cause, they are rather endearing, aren't they?

Sadly, this is normal

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Somehow, yes. I don't really understand it. :)

Re: Sadly, this is normal

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

You think I do? Magic, I tell you! Magic!