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Dimensional Persona

Wed Nov 11, 2009, 10:33 PM
Okay, here's an off-the-wall topic: the multi-faceted character. As Humans, as individuals, we aren't just one thing or one person to everyone. We are employee, parent, spouce, offspring, sibling, audience, patron and sometimes pet owner.

While it's far more interesting to develop and write multi-faceted characters, the fact of it is, it takes a lot of work and thought. Each area of a person's life often affects another. For example, if your homelife sux and there's severe conflict, it affects performance at work. Vice versa. If there's too much stress in the life, it affects the creative process. As I work on stories and the characters, I find it vitally necessary to rewrite the draft at least once because there is so much to say, so much to demonstrate and remind the reader that the people in the story are more than just action figures on the page. One person is not the same person to everyone. Optimus is not the same person to Rodimus as he is to Magnus. And he's even more different to Rusti and again to the Dinobots.

At one point I thought about giving Rusti a pet dog or something but it just never worked into the storyline. So I took that idea and gave it to Koontah, who owns a pair of cats. By doing that, by making a slight change in the character's life, I found that it also affected the story. What was just a gift from a friend of his, became a plot device in the next book.

There is so much I'd like to fit into my writing, so much more that too often I just can't do that sometimes I'm a bit disappointed that I simply can't fit it all in. I do the very best I can, even though I know I can do more and do better.

Is that morbid obsession or just another facet of a multi- dimensional persona?
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  • Interests: Transformers, Science fiction, Dragons, animation
  • Favourite movie: The Lord of the Rings, The Ring, Fifth Element and Spirited Away
  • Favourite band or musician: Dead Can Dance, Breaking Benjamin
  • Favourite genre of music: Ambient, Techno (progressive), Heavy Metal, Space, New Age
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  • Favourite poet or writer: Dean Koontz, JRR Tolkien
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:iconmaddog78:
Yeah part B! After the nephew wakes up and we go grocery shopping I can read it :XD: Woot Woot!

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"Let's blow this popsicle stand"
-Rodimus Prime (Face of Nijika)
:iconcloudstreaker:
Thanks for the sunflower fav ^^ :hugs:
:iconkoontah:
It was lovely! ^-^

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:plotting: Writing demented stories is my vengence upon reality:typerhappy:

:pointandlaugh: leaving Transformers fanfic readers wibbiling in a fetal position since 1998!

G1: Done right the first time around. :love:
:iconmaddog78:
Glad you enjoyed my ode to Arcee drawing :evillaugh: :glomp:

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"Let's blow this popsicle stand"
-Rodimus Prime (Face of Nijika)
:iconmaddog78:
Glad you enjoyed my ode to Arcee drawing :evillaugh: :glomp:

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"Let's blow this popsicle stand"
-Rodimus Prime (Face of Nijika)
:iconmaddog78:
I changed my avatar to a portion of my new artwork. Maddy really wanted to beat the slag out of Arcee, so I let her have at it. Just working out Arcee post fight and it will be uploaded;) Its 6am and I have been working on this picture since helping my sister take my nephew to Urgent Care at 5pm. When the picture wants out I will draw until I am worn out lol. Poor, poor Arcee should not tick a femme off who adores Optimus and crushes on Rodimes :evillaugh: I might let her rip up Trion if Maddy continues to be nice:P Who would guess she is Autobot with her little temper!

Can't wait for the next chapter :boogie:

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"Let's blow this popsicle stand"
-Rodimus Prime (Face of Nijika)
:iconkoontah:
I can't WAIT to see that!! :excited: It's not often we get to see cat fights in Transformers. I'm rooting for Maddy! :D

Tell me more about Maddy! :D

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:plotting: Writing demented stories is my vengence upon reality:typerhappy:

:pointandlaugh: leaving Transformers fanfic readers wibbiling in a fetal position since 1998!

G1: Done right the first time around. :love:
:iconmaddog78:
I am still playing with Maddy's background. Thought about making her Optimus' unknown sparkling, but sometimes I feel its cliche. I thought maybe Elita had her and did not tell anybody and had another femme on a different planet raise her and bring her back to the Autobots as a teen to train her. She is a smartass that is for sure and strong. She doesn't mind a little sex appeal, but not flauting herself to every single mech. She goes by Kylie's song verse "What is sex without the finer feelings?" in other words she is a one mech femme lol. I keep hearing that song and wanting to blare that song at Arcee in your fanfic :rofl: Maddy is definately a fan of Rodimus and has a crush on him, but would never tell him that herself she is not a first move gal when it comes to love, but hey she will make the first move in a fight!

I am really trying to iron out her character lately, hence lack of drawing. :iconsotwt: is using the little bit of her character I have made for her for a little comic TFA style and I can not wait to see Maddy in that drawing style:)

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"Let's blow this popsicle stand"
-Rodimus Prime (Face of Nijika)
:iconkoontah:
When I first invented Koontah, I created a second character to ask him questions for me. Starting from nothing is really hard, isn't it? As for Maddy being Op's daughter, are you determined to make her a product of Op & Elita? Or have you considered the option of the Quintessons attempting to clone him and turn him against himself, but they botched up the attempt and she's the result? That'd be pretty different. :D

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:plotting: Writing demented stories is my vengence upon reality:typerhappy:

:pointandlaugh: leaving Transformers fanfic readers wibbiling in a fetal position since 1998!

G1: Done right the first time around. :love:
:iconmaddog78:
Hmmmm :plotting: but the whole Quint thing makes her kind of creepy... I am still playing around in my mind. I thinks with the OpXElita way, but seems overdone at the same time, even thought the whole IronhideXChromia way too. The second sometimes seems to fit her more.

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"Amazing. A booby trap that actually catches boobies"
-Optimus Prime (Prime Target)

"Let's blow this popsicle stand"
-Rodimus Prime (Face of Nijika)

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