I am currently playing in two RPGs. They have both started and I am starting to get clear ideas of the characters. I generally play a certain type of character, young, strong, female and that hasn't changed. I am trying to make them distinct and different and so to help myself I am going to do an excellence exercise, namely comparing and contrasting the two characters.
If you are not interested in Roleplaying, you probably won't be interested in the following. Even if you are interested in roleplaying you may not be interested. People who are playing the games may be about to see OOC info, but I think they are all strong enough to handle that :)
Cass Crewdson vs Lily Devlin.
Cass and Lily are both attractive young women with a tendency towards the performing arts. They both have much older loves in seperate cities. They both live away from their parents. They are both relatively new to the place they currently live and are in the process of making/cementing cities. Both have past (and present) experience with vampires and magic.
Cass is only 17, she is in her last year of highschool and aspires to be a film actor. Her mother is going through some personal stuff of her own and decided Cass might be better off back in small town Exeter, which they left 4 years ago. Cass has a gorgeous 24yr old boyfriend that her mother is also trying to seperate her from. Cass is (rightly) worried that this plan might work. She has been going to a performing arts school and has already completed all highschool requirements, but the tertiary provider she wants to attend won't allow her to enrol until she is at least 18. The current year will be a strange hiatus for her life.
Lily is 23. She is good at languages and attained a music degree at a german university. She currently DJs for a living. After some funky stuff happening in Germany she ran away to Prague and is currently living there slowly building up a fan base and coming to terms with Magic. She is still in love with her ex-boyfriend Jaeger, who is still currently in Berlin, but feels that their relationship is more than doomed and is afraid that if she does see him, she might be drawn back into it.
Cass lives in a Buffy-verse. She was introduced to the mystical side of life through her elementary school friend, Candy, who was a potential and is now a fully realised slayer. Cass is the single child of a young and ambitious single mother and is kinda used to doing her own thing. When faced with strange creepiness she doesn't back down or lose her head, even though she is not necessarily well-trained or equipped! Cass likes to have plans and to feel in control of her life. She will work as part of a team, but doesn't particularly like being a follower. Cass enjoys competition.
Lily lives in a WhiteWolfWorld. She was introduced to the mystical side of life through being the herd and then actual girlfriend of a Vampire. He had decided to turn her and it was during the Embrace that she Awakened. She is now trying to deal with being a mage. Lily tends to go with the flow. She is happy to follow someone else's lead and the panicked running away from Germany after being Awakened was probably one of the few times where she has really strongly and decidely gone directly against someone else's wishes. Her Djing "career" isn't exactly what her parents wished for her, but she did go and get a degree first and meanwhile started DJing. Part of her wanderings around Europe may be based on her fear of them actually confronting her about it.
Phew! I feel much better now!
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