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Post by Zydrate on Aug 27, 2011 17:50:28 GMT -5
On my WoW server's roleplaying network, some users gave a weekly little exercise to both help write little short stories, a few paragraphs... And give people a little insight and depth to your character. These are usually "How would they react" type things, but they varied.
So, before I get to stealing, copying, transferring their ideas to this place.. I'll first start us off with my own idea.
Onward!
Post an excerpt of your character's life/styles when you log off. Omitting sleep (Wouldn't that be riveting!) and factoring in the times you're awake and at work... What is your character doing?
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Post by PoochieHellhound on Aug 27, 2011 18:00:50 GMT -5
Operator would be in his lab, well... working. Xi Nao would at most times be in the field, doing freelancer missions, if there is none to be done he'll be laying low in the city or visiting the Grand Shaman in his home village. Gorric would spend time in The Warp, trying to regain order (It's not as easy as you'd think in a realm of chaos) Pushover would be in his apartment, well, drinking and doing other stuff you do in an apartment.
My other characters I haven't built enough of a backstory to warrant what they do, except for the ones who have work and/or study during the days (Hurricane, Hairy Hippo, Gigantissimo, Bloodline, Mindleech, Silent Kill, probably some other that I forgot.)
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Post by maverickhunterx on Aug 27, 2011 21:01:44 GMT -5
During his freetime, IIIXIII will be participating in Lucha Libre matches in order to increase his income. He has taken a disguise of a Luchador named "Fuerza dela Peña" and fight in those matches using athletic maneuvers. Since it's a Luchador tradition to never remove your mask in public during the span of your career, he is more concerned on keeping his luchador identity than his superhero identity (actually, it's the least of his concern since it's his job as an UNTIL hunter to do superhero duties and has actually transformed in public numerous times in the past).
I just came up with the luchador side job though. I was considering adding that fact in my character profile and then I saw this thread.
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Post by moondragon007 on Aug 27, 2011 21:19:29 GMT -5
Well... my toon is always in the same place I parked her when I logged off.....
But Danielle Sinclaire/Starbird herself is a college student majoring in computer science. So she would be attending classes and doing homework for the most part. Maybe the occasional party, but her crimefighting activities wouldn't leave her with much time for that. I haven't yet decided if she has a part time job or if she's living on a scholarship. ------ The official board has Literary Challenges in the rp section, you can rip off borrow that idea too. ;D So far they've done origin, first costume, nemesis, secret identity, multifarian counterpart, sidekick, and fans.
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Post by Zydrate on Aug 27, 2011 21:34:23 GMT -5
I'll be sure to do that. I have to admit, you've all done it somewhat incorrectly. I was expecting full, IC posts. Few paragraphs, as I mentioned in the OP. It just helps flesh things out rather than just a couple sentences of "They'd be... here. Doing this".
I'll post my own when there's less chance of a power surge, less storm, and less... late.
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Post by maverickhunterx on Aug 28, 2011 2:14:08 GMT -5
Woops. Sorry, I'm busy doing something else so I just summarized it.
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Post by PoochieHellhound on Aug 28, 2011 3:15:39 GMT -5
I'll be sure to do that. I have to admit, you've all done it somewhat incorrectly. I was expecting full, IC posts. Few paragraphs, as I mentioned in the OP. It just helps flesh things out rather than just a couple sentences of "They'd be... here. Doing this". I'll post my own when there's less chance of a power surge, less storm, and less... late. I can do a lot of fleshing. I do mean A LOT. It's just that my characters to a lot of different things when they're not superheroing, so summarizing gave a better pictures. I'll add some flesh to my post later.
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Post by moondragon007 on Aug 28, 2011 14:04:49 GMT -5
A Day in the Life: Starbird
Danielle Sinclaire ran along the corridor toward her Intro to C++ class. "Dadgum alarm clock!" she grumbled for what must have been the hundreth time. "I'm gonna be late!" It was times like these she wished she could fly - but that would attract all kinds of unwanted attention. It was best to do things the normal people way... even if it did mean being late for class. Grrr!
She slung her backpack onto her desk and heaved a sigh of relief. The professor hadn't yet showed up. Good - that meant she wasn't late - no matter what the clock said. This was her least favorite class. Not only was it held at freakin' 8:00 in the morning on Monday, it was taught by Dr. "Droner" Dwayne, neither of which was condusive to proper wakefulness in the classroom. Danielle looked around. Most of her classmates looked about the way she felt. Some were sipping lattes; one guy had his head on his laptop and was beginning to snore softly. They had probably spent the night before partying, or just maybe studying; they would have been very surprised to find out she had spent the weekend tracking down VIPER operatives on Monster Island. She had just barely managed to get her homework done in time.
As Dr. Dwayne came through the door and began taking roll in his monotone voice, Danielle felt her eyes began to flutter shut. She almost missed her name being called. "Here!" she muttered. The rest of the class was just as riveting, with Danielle doodling manimals and teileosaurs in the margins of her notebook.
Her next class was a whole lot more exciting - she had barely gotten into it due to the demand for the class. The class was Genetics and Superbeings, and it was held in a large auditorium to accomodate a huge crowd. Apparently everyone wanted to know what made superheroes tick. A lot of the science was theoretical, but the genetics aspect was fascinating. It made Danielle seriously consider changing her major to biology.
Lunch at the university cafeteria was tasty compared to other institutions; it was prepared by the culinary students of the restaurant management training program. She sat down at a table with her tray, and just at that moment, something touched her on the back of the neck.
Danielle jumped and exclaimed, "Oh crap!!!"
"Relax Starbird, it's just me!" replied her friend Monica.
"Don't call me that!" Danielle complained. Inwardly, she cringed. She was never sure if Monica was kidding or if she was close to figuring out her friend's secret identity.
"Well you know you look like her, right?"
"Yeah, you've told me like a hundred times already! How can you even tell though? I bet she spends as much time avoiding photographers as she does fighting crime!"
"Yeah - what's she got to hide, anyway?"
Danielle shrugged. "I dunno.... maybe she's just shy?" Which was true; Danielle was shy when it came to publicity. But it also had to do with the fact that when she first made her costume, she had forgotten to add a mask, and now it would look strange for Starbird to suddenly start wearing one.
The pair continued to gossip about various superheroes for the rest of their lunch time. Then they split up for their afternoon classes; Monica to Figure Drawing and Danielle to Intermediate Algebra. The rest of the afternoon was uneventful. After algebra class, Danielle hurridly did her homework at the rec center, then caught her bus home.
Coming in the door, she called out to her mom, "I got tons of homework tonight, so don't disturb me, okay?" She went up to her room and changed into her costume, and flew out the window. Seems she had a meeting with someone called Valarian Scarlett.....
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I apologize for the last couple of paragraphs being so lame, but I just wanted to get this thing *done*!
Does anyone know what specific classes a com sci major takes? Otherwise I might have to change her major to Biology; that's at least a field I'm familiar with. I did com sci cos I wanted to explain why she can so easily bypass the electronics in various missions.
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Post by kusa84 on Aug 28, 2011 21:01:28 GMT -5
Momi is a full time adventurer but as such that doesn't pay the bills all to well. When she's not out saving the world she's probably doing odd jobs around the city. Bouncer, and body guard work mostly, though more embarrassing service jobs have been known to happen when money is tight.
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Post by moondragon007 on Aug 29, 2011 20:07:17 GMT -5
"Embarrassing service jobs" (*raised eyebrow*) Please do elaborate!
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Post by knighton on Sept 10, 2011 3:37:37 GMT -5
Rics and Specs are both college students, one a Physics major and the other an Engineering major, so they have quite a bit of homework to do. But other than college and college related things, I'm sure they find ample time to annoy each other. They love doing that. Specs enjoys flying in her spare time, so I imagine that when I log off she's still flying around, perhaps waving me goodbye as I click the log out button. I'm sure she gets hit on while I'm away too. I get that while I'm actually playing her, I'm sure it happens while I'm away. I think she spends some time working on her fighting skills too. As a nerd, she doesn't have much for hand-to-hand skills, but training with Rics seems to help. Rics loves scaring the crap out of people by running real fast - he has super speed - and jumping high into the air, clear over peoples' heads. One time he actually jumped ON a person. Needless to say, they ended up in the hospital. Rics is pretty heavy with his muscle and metallic bones. That and gravity could easily crush someone pretty well!
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