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for example, my character luna - my oldest character (2000) and the beginning of my designing these stories - i named her logan, gave her a new look, a... fairly new back story, and ultimately gave her a new trajectory that diverges from and mirrors what luna's was in the storylines i keep personally. it has been genuinely great to examine luna closer through the creation of logan, and that is the same for all the characters that got this treatment.

another character that i cloned was elijah. elijah is a rich boy born into a religious noble dragon family in a country that has made religious expression illegal. they live in the deep wilds of marasii (country) and elijah is raised with his younger brother, in tune with the nature and land that surrounds them. he has a loving and supportive family, who is murdered in a most cliche manner, and he goes on to an academy where he studies to become a guild master. he utilize his inheritance to kick start the guild and ends up becoming a hoarder of unique and skilled tradesmen, complete with its own militia and political sphere.

so, for his clone - ydris - i decided to turn a lot of the aspects of his upbringing that made elijah such a strong leader on their head. raised in a home where he is not wanted, disdained, only to escape and find refuge with isi. knowing that his family is happier without him, fine. at his core, this character is both a leader and a loner, so how fun would it be if his childhood was basically inverted?