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Thread: Most relateable character
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2014-03-15, 12:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Most relateable character
Hey guys. As the title implies, I'm wondering which character in the comics you guys feel most, for lack of a better word, connected to. Which one do you find you relate to most. For me, oddly enough, it's Belkar. There are times when I feel like I should Belkar out. (somebody add that term to the dictionary) And even when I'm not angry, No one else in the order really grabs at me. Hell, Belkar's perfect world looked like the awesomest place ever. Basically I consider myself a less violent version of him. (Kind off an oxymoron) And as always, go nuts.
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2014-03-15, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Hm... Probably Roy. I connect with him most of the time. He doesn't really resemble me, but he reminds me of my best friend, they're both the same actually-good-honourable-and-clever-at-the-same-time-LG-types. He's one of the most well-rounded characters : he can't be boiled down to one or two traits that really define him, but his reactions always make sense in context and are what you'd expect not from a roleplayer's character, but from an actual human being (and a pretty amazing one, too). That's why he's easy to relate to IMO.
EDIT : @Grey Watcher : Yeah, same thing here.Last edited by Seto; 2014-03-15 at 01:05 PM.
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2014-03-15, 01:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
For me, I guess I'd have to say it's either Roy or Haley. Roy is more the person I wish I was (were? whatever): intelligent, confident, driven, and able to balance a lot of stresses and difficulties with only a minimum of snarky bad attitude. Haley is more the person I probably am actually most like: smart, good at what I do, not without ambition, but lacking the confidence in myself to really go for what I want.
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2014-03-15, 01:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
For me it's Durkon or Elan. I want to do the right thing but there is always more growing up to do and more harsh realities to grapple with.
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2014-03-15, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-03-15, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
I would like to relate with Belkar, but unfortunately I'm no sexy shoeless god of war .
From the rest I would pick Haley (with Elan as a close second). But I can't really say why.
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2014-03-15, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Note to self: do not annoy Grey Watcher. He might shoot an unarmed bystander in the foot.
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2014-03-17, 12:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
I'll have to go with Redcloak. A good intentioned extremist who uses evil means to further the cause of his wrongly oppressed people. I am not as noble as Redcloak, but I generally have good intentions that lead to problems. Maybe I'm more of an Elan with self-destruct runes than a Redcloak.
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2014-03-17, 12:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Elan and Durkon. Easy. Elan because I'm in the process of accepting that the world does not care at all about my hopes and dreams, and the best thing that I can do is to do the best with what I have. Tying into that is Durkon's thing about doing your duty, even if it makes you miserable. My duty, to me, is to try and make the world a little better, a little brighter than it was before I go. Even if it makes me miserable.
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2014-03-17, 01:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Probably Xykon.
... look, I get really ornery when my sidekick doesn't let me drop people into vats of corrosive acid to have a fight to the death with an acid-breathing shark, okay? I mean, ****, who doesn't, really.
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2014-03-17, 06:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Sad to say but I worry I'm too much like Eugene, i.e a douche.
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2014-03-17, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Vaarsuvius, because I always want more power and stuffs then I have, and tend to be middling to terrible at handling it, and the only way I know how is hard work, so if someone offers me an easy ride to the top, I take it.
Roy, because at the same time, I am also willing to shoulder responsibility for my actions, and make a fairly good leader.
My life is a oxymoron!
And finally, Redcloak, Xykon and Belkar, because 1: I am always tempted to screw the ways, as long as I get the means.
2 and 3: when I'm fed up, sometimes you just gotta blow crap up, or stab it, or light it on fire, or whateves suits you. And doing such while being aloof and sarcastic is my favorite way.
And finally, Elan, because somewhere in me is a voice screaming: I'm just a kid! Can't I have fun? Why do bad things happen to good people?
I relate to a lot of people....
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2014-03-17, 07:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
I would say I'm about 1/3 Roy and 2/3 Durkon, with maybe a tiny splash of Belkar hiding in the back somewhere.
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2014-03-17, 03:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Choosing between the Order: Roy. Thats probably the reason he's also my favourite character (the second one is Belkar, but not because i feel similar to him... )
Outside the order: Redcloak (at least, he's the one I'm more sympathetic with)Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
Things that increase my self esteem:
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2014-03-17, 04:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
I have to say nale, i know this may be unpopular but as i child i really liked slapstick (a.k.a hitting somone in the face with the ball during soccer) and was really anoying when i did not get my way. Since if grown up ive becoe less like him and i never was evil but i still like the freedom that evil charachters enjoy en like the charachters more for it.
evil always triumphs because good is dumb
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2014-03-17, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-03-17, 07:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Vaarsuvius, a fellow scholar. Arrogant at times. Talks too much. I haven't committed mass murder, though.
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2014-03-17, 07:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
I really feel for Hobgoblin Warrior from Strip #433, panel 3.
Last edited by Keltest; 2014-03-17 at 07:17 PM.
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2014-03-19, 08:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Well, to be serious for a moment, as someone who has a chance to reflect back on various mistakes and missed opportunities and foolish blunders (and as someone who struggles with a superiority complex based on a perception as being extremely intelligent), I feel that Vaarsuvius is the character I most strongly identify with. Red Cloak is a second, but his religious connotations clashes with my worldview enough to knock him back to a distant second.
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2014-03-19, 09:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
O-Chul. I do what I think is right even if it means putting myself in a bad situation, and I don't like cats very much.
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2014-03-19, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2014-03-19, 08:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
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2014-03-31, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Roy. A guy who tries his best to be good, with some really notable slip-ups? Oh yeah. I also end up finding myself carrying responsibilities that no one else will, but I can't do it half as gracefully as him.
And for some reason I heavily identify with the power struggle between Redcloak and Xykon. I don't even know what that says about me.
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2014-04-01, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
The wizard in green robe.
There must be some sense of order - personal, political or dramatic - and if no one else is going to bring it to this world, I will.
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2014-04-01, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Like others, Roy is mostly an ideal for me when I'm at my best. I most often identify with Vaarsuvius though. Loquacious, smart, driven, but sometimes less considerate than I ought to be. I also admit that Xykon's philosophy on power has a certain appeal to it...
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2014-04-01, 12:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Roy is probably closest, but he's a bit more lawful than I am.
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2014-04-01, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Among the Order? Oh, it's gotta be Vaarsuvius. No question. I've always been the "super-smart" androgynous introvert with a distended vocabulary who tends to over-think things. Also, she gets the best lines. I wish my snark were that refined.
Outside the Order? Malack. Even though he was a filthy hypocrite and a terrible person, I have to admit -- if I were a vampire, I'd be exactly the same way. He valued his own survival and comfort above all else, but when those two goals were sated, he was happy to subdue his sinister nature and engage in cordial conversation with "friends". (And he's flippin' badass without being a hulk of muscle, so I respect that.)
Tl;dr I'm a brainy introvert who secretly craves the power to kill people with style. Fear me.
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2014-04-01, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Of the Order, I identify with Haley the most, followed by Roy, followed by Vaarsuvius (I need help). Outsider the Order, I'd identify with Redcloak and Right-Eye were it not for a particular allegory that I'm only half-sure is intentional. Not the one you think.
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2014-04-01, 01:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
Most of the characters talk too much for me to relate to them, so I guess I'll go with Zz'dtri. In group situations, I tend to let the person with the biggest ego get all the spotlight they want, much like Z. Also, I wouldn't have minded V being sent to the Demiplane of Extremely Painful Torture.
Plus, in a sense, isn't everyone on this board scrying on the OOTS?
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2014-04-01, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Most relateable character
It's always been a close race between Roy and Durkon for me. I generally have Roy's temperament (i.e. nice guy whose sharp tongue gets him in trouble and follows the rules MOST of the time) while tending to fill Durkon's role in any group (advisor/big brother figure) I'm in. I guess that suggests my alignment is Lawful.