♠: What’s one thing you dislike about your Muse?
I enjoy him a lot as a character. The worst thing about playing him is when I have a hard time figuring out the best and most in-character way to respond to something, but that’s more a testament to my writing skills than anything to do with the character himself.
As a person…he could do with a lot of improvement. Like learning to handle his negative emotions in a reasonably healthy way, for a start, or learning to accept and enjoy positive emotions, or just learning how to deal with people a little better. Then again, those faults are also a large part of what makes him so fun to play. He is fun because he’s so deeply messed up.
My depiction isn’t exactly canon, though — just roughly derived from his behavior in canon and extrapolated into something that’s more emotionally relateable and that can be made into a versatile/consistent/reasonably interesting character. I do love canon Vergil in DMC3, but one thing I find frustrating is that they left him so ambiguous. It’s been confirmed canonically (in some supplementary stuff that was never officially translated into English) that he, at heart, is not evil and had no evil intention — his intent was noble. He just had a very messed up perspective on the world. So my biggest problem with him as a character is probably the fact that the game just…doesn’t do a very good job of communicating everything I like from canon about the character.
I would tell you all about the adventures developing him and the whys and whats, but that would take way longer and has nothing to do with one thing I dislike about my character.
âś«: Why you began RPing.
AHH YES LET ME FETCH MY GRANDPA GLASSES AND ROCKING CHAIR and then I will tell you this epic tale
So BACK IN MY DAY there was this site called Horseland, way way back when it was just this really basic site without the awful cartoon and all that jazz. So I, being the relatively tiny child that I was, ended up on this site as a result of all my siblings being on it and discovered the art of roleplaying in B2 (or basic-2, the second of three basic chat rooms accessible to basic users). I really never RPed on there that I remember, but I did end up following a link in an ad for a Proboards RP.
Without that single decision when I was roughly seven or eight years old, I kid you not, I would not be the writer I am today.
Even though I was only about eight, I was already way into reading and writing and COOL FICTION, partly for personal reasons but mostly because I just thought books were the coolest ever and people doing cool stuff and, more importantly, being friends and enemies and family to each other was just the neatest thing. People and how they work? More like fascinating.
…but it so happened to be a dog RP. I love dogs a lot, alright? I truly and genuinely feel no shame for humble origins.
I RPed primarily animals for a long time and eventually got to RPing human/oids along with writing my own stuff and fanfiction. The reason I got into RPing was an interest in writing and characters, and I feel it’s paid off. The only thing it has definitively not helped with is my ability to commit to a full plot when writing things besides RP stuff, which I kind of suck at.
I just love to write though because people are fascinating and it’s a lot easier to mess around with fictional people than real ones
✉: Any RPers the Mun admires.
Well ok firstly there’s this guy over here who also seems to have a love of characters akin to mine. I admire his investment in making his characters interesting and fleshed out (as they are!), and also his writing style.
I honestly have come to admire every CA RPer whose threads I’ve read, but here are just a few:
This dude has done a wonderful job of alternately making me laugh/snort milk and ripping my heart into approximately eighty quadrillion shreds, and occasionally quite the potent mixture of the two, with a challenging character. Also, how they juggle like fifty threads at once I’ll never comprehend.
This dude has a gift — and just with the two CA characters I’ve seen him play, he’s somehow managed the daunting task of balancing those characters’ inherent humor/cuteness/ridiculousness (yes, the good kind of ridiculous, but still) with a sincere look at the relateable humanizing emotional bits. Having attempted such a feat myself in the past, I will attest to how monumentally difficult it is to take characters like these and stay true to their characterization…while also taking their emotions and making them just as tangible and potent as any other character’s, no matter how radically different from most people’s they are. They shouldn’t be especially deeply relateable characters, as simplified and inhuman as they are in their respective canons, but this guy somehow manages it with great success, is what I’m saying.
This dude plays the character I’ve primarily seen them with so well and so sweetly — never losing sight of either the fact that she’s a god or the fact that she’s a dog. As with the above dude, this balance is no easy feat, and anyone who manages to stay true to a stylization while still making their character so human (if you’ll overlook the fact that neither this nor the previously mentioned pair are human) deserves the utmost recognition.
Aughghghh there are a ton of others I could write about just off the top of my head but I shouldn’t make this longer than it is. I admire a lot of wonderful RPers, basically.
(honorable mention; they’re pretty cool I suppose, if you like loads of silly nosense headcanons piled onto your characte— wait…)
