Your RP characters

[aerelm]

My main char, Saerieve, is the char I've put a good chunk of my Disco time on. The char started as a Pirate IDed Freelancer IFFed Roc, or to put it simple - a 'just another pirate, bullying defenseless traders', and what I like about that char is... I didn't plan anything for him. I just drew a rough outline of his personality for myself, then went on the server and started flying around, interacting with random passerby. While most of the interactions were short/aggressive type, some of them actually played a major role in the character's development.

The char's development was pretty much writing up some forum RP about "how it went" on the server, and after a while, it had progressed enough on its own to form a totally different char from what I started with. Right now, that Pirate IDed Freelancer IFFed Roc is a Freelancer IDed IFFless Katana working for Golden Chrysanthemums and the Blood Dragons, and all the key parts of these changes happened on server. So, to put it simple... To answer "How I develop my RP chars", I just create a rough outline of what I want the char to be, then get on server and then wait and see how it develops.

My other char, Gullveig, also had a similar development process. I just started the char as a Merc IDed Excal-Eagle back during the Merc-Rush'„¢ days, and just flew around shooting random targets from random boards. What the char is right now however, is incomparable to what it was when it started. Funny is... That char has the minimal forum RP - A half written bio, a comm channel thread or two, and a two-page group RP -. So imho, although having some background written on forums helps with a char's development, but it's not a must. A char might be poorly-developed even with tons of forum RP, and another might be well-developed without even an RP post on forums. It just depends on how solid the idea behind the char is, and how well it's played on server.