08-22-2016, 02:59 AM
I think all three characters could work well! Though I'd probably veer towards Ash or Indiana as your main.
This is mostly because I tend to view your 'main' primarily as a character you use to drive plots of your own devising, and your 'alt' as a character you primarily use to engage in other people's plots. Caboose seems like he would be a harder character to create and drive storylines with, but a great character to engage with existing stories with - so I'd consider him as an alt.
Also, with the caveat that I've only been here ~a month or so at this point, and every game has a different culture ... I would say that, speaking entirely personally, I disagree with Guu's assessment. Sure, a lot of people here enjoy taking an existing character and taking them in new directions... but that is not the only way to approach a character and make them successful!
I've done a lot of RP as canonical characters over the past ten years, and what brings me back is the challenge of writing the character as close to their source material as possible. This is not to say that I never take characters in new directions - because the situations and storylines they wind up in demand that - but I definitely don't try to make the character 'my own'. I want people to read my posts and go 'oh yeah, that is so (character name)'.
The trick for me has been treating these games like ... games. I don't take it seriously (in the sense of agonising over my 'work') and if/when it stops being fun, I'm quite happy to swap over to another character and start over; I don't get invested in characters as extensions of myself. (Though running out of fun does not seem to be an immediate issue on either character I have right now).
This is mostly because I tend to view your 'main' primarily as a character you use to drive plots of your own devising, and your 'alt' as a character you primarily use to engage in other people's plots. Caboose seems like he would be a harder character to create and drive storylines with, but a great character to engage with existing stories with - so I'd consider him as an alt.
Also, with the caveat that I've only been here ~a month or so at this point, and every game has a different culture ... I would say that, speaking entirely personally, I disagree with Guu's assessment. Sure, a lot of people here enjoy taking an existing character and taking them in new directions... but that is not the only way to approach a character and make them successful!
I've done a lot of RP as canonical characters over the past ten years, and what brings me back is the challenge of writing the character as close to their source material as possible. This is not to say that I never take characters in new directions - because the situations and storylines they wind up in demand that - but I definitely don't try to make the character 'my own'. I want people to read my posts and go 'oh yeah, that is so (character name)'.
The trick for me has been treating these games like ... games. I don't take it seriously (in the sense of agonising over my 'work') and if/when it stops being fun, I'm quite happy to swap over to another character and start over; I don't get invested in characters as extensions of myself. (Though running out of fun does not seem to be an immediate issue on either character I have right now).
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