micro as macro

[gfish]

Fun question stolen from theferret: What do your RPG characters say about you? What is the common thread?

For me, my characters are almost always about seeing the world through an unorthodox technological filter. My high school Masquerade character was a scientist convinced vampirism had a viral cause. In the D&D game corivax used to run, I was an elf who had been banished for his tendency to use his nature magic to create Frankensteinian chimeras out of cute fuzzy animals to solve random problems. My 4th ed D&D character last year was a neolithic ranger and master flintknapper sent into the wider world to discover if this new "metal" menacing his tribe was a force for good or evil. Less well developed characters tend to be techies, weak in combat but always looking for clever hacks to get around it.

I'm always a sucker for technological metaphors. They're how I primarily tend to understand the world -- and therefore learning new technologies means learning new ways to understand the world. Being able to take that to a radical extreme is absolutely a form of wish fulfillment.

So, what's your story?

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[vixyish.livejournal.com]

The exception would've been your aboriginal shaman, of course. :)

I suppose I'm a simpler soul. Mine have pretty much always just been about pretending to be pretty, graceful and powerful, since I rarely see myself as any of those things (or at least never all three). I'm a vain little creature at heart.

I seem to particularly be drawn toward being underestimated and turning out to be powerful. There's wish fulfillment for you.

Oh, and they're nearly always elves. I spose I used to read too much ElfQuest.

[solarbird]

I spose I used to read too much ElfQuest.
Oh now shut your mouth. Right now. No such thing. -_^