09-09-2015, 07:55 AM
Well, firstly, because he's a character that was previously doomed to a host of RP's that just didn't get off the ground, but I stubbornly wanted to play him regardless.
Raal Deathwind existed in a form as a sort of tired Veteran - someone who was once a complete monster, but had entirely lost his drive. this was mostly due to the multiversal RP he was brought to being so absolutely huge in scale, and overall useless efforts. I wasn't totally happy with this version of the character, and much of this concept for him now exists in a different character entirely. still, in that RP he came in at the tail end of it's end, and thus wasn't played for some time.
Later, I attempted to make a Warcraft RP site that would begin centered on the first war, then move to the second and so on, with the stipulation that elite teams of alliance and horde crack troops would change how the story'd go. In that Raal started off as a simple warlock, and one with a lot of confidence and drive, and at that point he'd been solidified to something a lot closer to what he is today.
Sadly, I made very bad staffing choices, and the RP itself was not properly thought out. it died very quickly.
From there I let Raal kind of rot for a while, joined other RP's, and got a lot better at the practice in general, RPing and at times staffing for RP's. I kinda forgot about him.
When I decided to join the omniverse, however, and was halfway through making a different character entirely, the way the staff and 'verse itself worked here made me think about making Raal here as a sort of evolved version of his second concept - and the idea took hold and never let go.
As for the second reason, or to be more accurate, "Why I like the character to RP"
There's a lot of overly sympathetic villains and etc. in media now, I feel. Not everyone does bad things because of a past trauma, or neurosis, or etc. some people can be total jerks and are just waiting to be given the power to do that. But the fact is that such villains in media tend to be represented as merely flat, one-dimensional characters. Some even feel that's the limit of what such characters can be by design. I feel that's wrong. If such people exist in real life, and people are multi-faceted, complex, deep beings by nature, that must be true of even the least redeemable of us.
With Raal, I have a character that's unquestionably a monster. He casually joins his race in an attempt at genocide, has little conscience, feels self-justified in even the most underhanded tricks and would think nothing of killing a defenseless child or ten.
And absolutely none of those stop him from being a fully-formed personality with goals and drives.
With Raal, I have a certain satisfaction in seeing his motivation push him to greater heights and watching him strive for his horrible, underhanded goals just as hard as a hero would and with the same amount of hoops to jump through and intellectual self-improvement to go through in order to accomplish them. He's not on the journey of a hero, but it doesn't prevent him from learning lessons, taking risks, feeling the highs and lows of existence, pushing through all manner of adversity, or making his own share of friends and enemies.
he's the psychotic evil villain, but he's also just as relatable and understandable as any ordinary person.
and that's something worth RPing.
Raal Deathwind existed in a form as a sort of tired Veteran - someone who was once a complete monster, but had entirely lost his drive. this was mostly due to the multiversal RP he was brought to being so absolutely huge in scale, and overall useless efforts. I wasn't totally happy with this version of the character, and much of this concept for him now exists in a different character entirely. still, in that RP he came in at the tail end of it's end, and thus wasn't played for some time.
Later, I attempted to make a Warcraft RP site that would begin centered on the first war, then move to the second and so on, with the stipulation that elite teams of alliance and horde crack troops would change how the story'd go. In that Raal started off as a simple warlock, and one with a lot of confidence and drive, and at that point he'd been solidified to something a lot closer to what he is today.
Sadly, I made very bad staffing choices, and the RP itself was not properly thought out. it died very quickly.
From there I let Raal kind of rot for a while, joined other RP's, and got a lot better at the practice in general, RPing and at times staffing for RP's. I kinda forgot about him.
When I decided to join the omniverse, however, and was halfway through making a different character entirely, the way the staff and 'verse itself worked here made me think about making Raal here as a sort of evolved version of his second concept - and the idea took hold and never let go.
As for the second reason, or to be more accurate, "Why I like the character to RP"
There's a lot of overly sympathetic villains and etc. in media now, I feel. Not everyone does bad things because of a past trauma, or neurosis, or etc. some people can be total jerks and are just waiting to be given the power to do that. But the fact is that such villains in media tend to be represented as merely flat, one-dimensional characters. Some even feel that's the limit of what such characters can be by design. I feel that's wrong. If such people exist in real life, and people are multi-faceted, complex, deep beings by nature, that must be true of even the least redeemable of us.
With Raal, I have a character that's unquestionably a monster. He casually joins his race in an attempt at genocide, has little conscience, feels self-justified in even the most underhanded tricks and would think nothing of killing a defenseless child or ten.
And absolutely none of those stop him from being a fully-formed personality with goals and drives.
With Raal, I have a certain satisfaction in seeing his motivation push him to greater heights and watching him strive for his horrible, underhanded goals just as hard as a hero would and with the same amount of hoops to jump through and intellectual self-improvement to go through in order to accomplish them. He's not on the journey of a hero, but it doesn't prevent him from learning lessons, taking risks, feeling the highs and lows of existence, pushing through all manner of adversity, or making his own share of friends and enemies.
he's the psychotic evil villain, but he's also just as relatable and understandable as any ordinary person.
and that's something worth RPing.