IN THE BEGINNING... (allcapstitlelol)

[Edgar Christopher]

So. Sometimes characters spring up outta nowhere for RPs based on the subject matter involved. Sometimes we carry them over from existing sources/characters we've already had. :> Either way, the story of creation is usually an interesting one.

So share. Go go go. /shot They don't even have to be played on this site at all, just to make it interesting.

Aggie started out about... seven or eight years ago on Gaia (shock horror). Originally he was a one-off character for your average magical, multi-species bar thread thing. Originally... he was a naga. By the name of Joseph Christie. I'd done no research at all and kinda sorta sucked at everything. He even had an 'anime' PB. ...It was adorable. Luckily it was one I had drawn for him and not some random thing off of photobucket. I apped for another game soon after and decided... hey, why not use him again. The problem this time was that they needed real, human PBs.

... While everyone else was using scene kids and supermodels, I was using someone a bit different. Edgar's original PB was Matt Frewer. He was your bog-standard shapeshifter who just so happened to prefer reptiles. He also changed from absolutely the most adorable thing ever to hard-hearted, witty, and sarcastic. Naturally he was not a thread favourite. But! I found someone to RP with over private messages about a month and a half after that RP died. Bam, genre switch, name switch. Joseph was now Juno, and the pessimistic army clerk was now an interstellar time travelling bounty hunter. He gained the nickname Aggie during that game due to his last name, Christie. Aggie Christie. Even though his in-universe reasonings for it vary greatly.

Years passed, PBs came and went, and then I retired the bugger in 2009, five years after his 'birth'. I thought I'd left him for good, then he popped up again in March 2011 in an e-mail RP, with Hiddleston as his played-by. He picked up the middle name Edgar and was, for once, completely human. That RP died off in August. Then came October, when I ran into the site where I met most of the rest of the lovely admin team here. BAM, snake shifter. Sea krait to be exact. Way back to his roots. And once more, I picked a new PB. Cumberbatch. After that... well, let's just say the rest is history. :>

(His PB list in the past includes Matt Frewer, Liam Neeson, Eli Roth, Richard Armitage, Dean Martin, and of course Hiddles and the 'batch. Not in that order. I usually pick PBs based on the time period, and how the rest of the pups look in a certain game. Most of the time, I try to make Aggie the 'odd man out'. He's also been married at least twice, been part of a family five times, and has only ever had one child. Celeste. Who he was a surrogate father for.)

[rodentfanatic]

Alright, so, the first board I ever RP'd at was catgirl-based. Seriously, it was a set at a school for anime catgirls, with a school for catboys next door. I was fifteen, shut up. It's what got me into RPing, and where I really developed characters that I still used today, including Eva. You could be types of kemono-jin (animal people/folks with critter ears and tails) other than feline if you wanted, and Eva started out as a sixteen year old mouseboy named David. Honestly, she was trans from the start, but I didn't know what trans was or that you really could be born in the wrong body and stuff, so I was just calling her a crossdressing girly gay boy, the poor dear. Like I said, I was fifteen (and no, I didn't play David as a fetish for that either, which is good because I'd die now recounting it if I did). About two years later, I found out being trans *was* a thing, so I was like oh that fits, and then I spent awhile doing a buttload of research on the topic before I was sure (even then, I was of the opinion that research research research! and that identity-type stuff was serious and needed to be taken seriously, respected, given thought, etc.) and then finally made the chance that was always there anyway and said hey, she's a girl named Eva. When I took her to non-anime pastures, I normalized her coloring (she'd had magenta eyes and dark grey hair--remember, mouse!) and then later, when I started using PBs, found Emma de Caunes for her avatar and haven't changed her face from her since.

A person that I met on that same forum started one of her own, and I went there. It was also sort of catperson-based, but instead of anime nekos, it was Jellicles. Yes, as in the musical CATS. Sativa was originally just a name, the little sister of another character, but I adopted her and gave her a personality, and when I left, I took her with me, turned her human, changed her name to Sati Beshara, gave her an accordingly human background, and the face of Jasika Nicole.

Despite this history, I seriously have no fucking interest in cat or anime RPs, which I thought I should add in case anyone figured I might be a good person to ask about joining one. I'm not, sorry, my being in these spots was really all coincidence and going where people I knew were more than anything. Of course, since I draw what I RP, this means my art got stuck in a dew-eyed neko rut for four years, which I seriously regret because anime style has been hard for me to break out of artistically.

[Manx]

Melisande started out as a badger in Furcadia. No. Seriously. She was a badger, with powder blue dyed dreadlocks, who sat around, smoked weed and played her gameboy. She was chubby and Scottish. Her accent was thick and I had tons of fun typing it out, though I always had to translate it. Then Melisande became a ghoul. She was stunningly beautiful undead killer. Who would attract people with her prettiness... and then all the rest of her 'Ghoul Pack' would attack and devour the guy. And then Meli became who she is now.

Willow started out as a hot pink and black Red Panda. Her name originally was Pistol Roth-Crowley. Then she became a Sims character named Mae Crowley. I actually still play her in my Sims game, and she looks a lot more like the Willow we have now.

[Dmitriy Khiteev]

Dmitriy is a port of my blood elf rogue (well, one of my blood elf rogues >.> what problem) from World of Warcraft.

He started off as Vorrick Gaius Decius Quintus Highnoon-Longshadow (his parents thought more middle names made it fancier), a small-time bloodthistle grower with a serious mana problem that was getting increasingly difficult to keep hidden. He's changed a lot in the past...oh god almost two years now that I've played him, thanks largely to interactions on Wyrmrest Accord's IC twitter project as well as with the characters of a few good friends.

Dmitriy is a lot more like he was before those two years of interacting with people, save that Dimi has cleaned up and Vorrick very much hasn't. Dimi's also not terminally ill and hasn't seen most of his nation be devoured by zombies.

Which also alters his character just a little.

I'm looking forward to playing him on here, while Vorrick has his AUs, this is the first time I've fleshed out his non-WoW background some more. It's been fun having him actually get to be a coyote - animal imagery has always been a huge IC thing for him. OOC, Vorrick is very much a coyote to me - cocky, slow to learn and teaching others through acting stupidly himself. IC, he's not really sure what a coyote is. X) So having him know that will be interesting.

I'm still working on my application for Andy, but he's my blood elf paladin (Blood Knight, more specifically - he doesn't channel the Light through his faith to it, he takes it because screw you, Light) over in WoW.

He originally started as an NPC for other blood elf paladin, who needed a slightly detached father/legal guardian. My friends encouraged me to keep playing him, and he sort of just...evolved from there.

He'll be a fair bit different here, but I hope to keep his basic flaws and strengths the same. It's a bit of a running gag that he's a grizzly bear among some of my WoW friends, so having him be a bear shifter of any variety is kind of a nod to that. I was looking for animals with a good sense of scent and was like...'well dang, I kinda have to use Andy now'.

Most of his RP over in WoW has been focused around his relationship with a friend's character, and while I love their interactions I'm looking forward to playing him outside of a relationship for a bit. X) I think it'll help me to get a bit of a better handle on his character, specifically on parts that he pushes down while hanging around Lucrezia.