Post by Tout-Perd on Mar 22, 2014 22:43:02 GMT -5
So, I guess here's the topic for batting around character ideas that you haven't had room to use yet, but you'd love to utilize some time.
-The one that forced me to post this: resized.tumblr.com/post/73758671858/youre-bey0nd-beautiful-angrymuslimah-gulabi
If Pohatu doesn't beat me to making a character for this, I'd love to have a lady from the Gulabi Gang join my cast. Exotic signature weapon (broom!), wicked aesthetics (vibrant pink sari and epic gold jewelry), and an awesome motivation, protecting women from being downtrodden. I could actually see her travelling to the Archipelago on a mission to take out some scumbag Power or such.
Not sure if the Vermilion Vanguard is still a thing, but it'd be rad for her to join them.
-Rina and Adlai Flowerday are a lesbian couple who I've got all worked out, but I'm trying to think of a good entrance for them. I don't want to spoil their situation (one's a Power, the other's not), but they're really cool and you guys are gonna love 'em. They started as a hetero couple, but after thinking about the politics inside their relationship (one gave the others their Powers), I realized there was no right way to tackle it. If I made the male give the female powers, it would make it feel like she achieved them by no virtue of her own, and if the female gave the male powers, well, dye my hair azure and call me Prime. So I decided to just circumvent it, and go for something fresh and balanced instead.
Ideas that I like, but haven't had room to develop:
-A bicyclist character who uses his bike like a weapon in combat. Problem is that Air Master already did it, so it's hard finding a unique space for him/her to occupy.
-I'd like to add a trans cast member, since ORP literally has no representation for them, but honestly, I don't know where they'd fit just yet. None of my current cast really feels like it'd work for them, so I don't think we're going to get that revelation from any of my existing characters. It would be fun to say Natalie was, just to go and totally change the context of her and Ender with nothing Choobs could do about it, but it's not constructive.
It's really difficult to figure out, because gender roles are such a minefield. If I went with a girl who was born XY-chromosonal, she couldn't be too effeminate/girly-girl or too aggressive and confrontational, because both would be stereotypical, and likewise with a male who was born XX. You have to strike a middle of the road balance, and that doesn't make for an engaging character. It's like a lot of the token characters you see on TV; they lack personality, because as the only representative of their demographic in a setting, their flaws are projected onto the entire group. So yeah, that idea is still a work in progress.
How about the rest of you? What character ideas have been burning a hole in your pocket?
-The one that forced me to post this: resized.tumblr.com/post/73758671858/youre-bey0nd-beautiful-angrymuslimah-gulabi
If Pohatu doesn't beat me to making a character for this, I'd love to have a lady from the Gulabi Gang join my cast. Exotic signature weapon (broom!), wicked aesthetics (vibrant pink sari and epic gold jewelry), and an awesome motivation, protecting women from being downtrodden. I could actually see her travelling to the Archipelago on a mission to take out some scumbag Power or such.
Not sure if the Vermilion Vanguard is still a thing, but it'd be rad for her to join them.
-Rina and Adlai Flowerday are a lesbian couple who I've got all worked out, but I'm trying to think of a good entrance for them. I don't want to spoil their situation (one's a Power, the other's not), but they're really cool and you guys are gonna love 'em. They started as a hetero couple, but after thinking about the politics inside their relationship (one gave the others their Powers), I realized there was no right way to tackle it. If I made the male give the female powers, it would make it feel like she achieved them by no virtue of her own, and if the female gave the male powers, well, dye my hair azure and call me Prime. So I decided to just circumvent it, and go for something fresh and balanced instead.
Ideas that I like, but haven't had room to develop:
-A bicyclist character who uses his bike like a weapon in combat. Problem is that Air Master already did it, so it's hard finding a unique space for him/her to occupy.
-I'd like to add a trans cast member, since ORP literally has no representation for them, but honestly, I don't know where they'd fit just yet. None of my current cast really feels like it'd work for them, so I don't think we're going to get that revelation from any of my existing characters. It would be fun to say Natalie was, just to go and totally change the context of her and Ender with nothing Choobs could do about it, but it's not constructive.
It's really difficult to figure out, because gender roles are such a minefield. If I went with a girl who was born XY-chromosonal, she couldn't be too effeminate/girly-girl or too aggressive and confrontational, because both would be stereotypical, and likewise with a male who was born XX. You have to strike a middle of the road balance, and that doesn't make for an engaging character. It's like a lot of the token characters you see on TV; they lack personality, because as the only representative of their demographic in a setting, their flaws are projected onto the entire group. So yeah, that idea is still a work in progress.
How about the rest of you? What character ideas have been burning a hole in your pocket?