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camwynI was going through some old RP threads the other day and found myself trying to remember who all I've played at LJ and Dreamwidth, what 'types' they were, etc.
Sgt. Detritus of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (Discworld)
Ray Stantz (Ghostbusters)
Jah-lila the unicorn magicker and midwife (Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer Trilogy)
Gimli son of Gloin (Lord of the Rings)
John Constantine (Hellblazer)
Finrod Felagund (very briefly) (The Silmarillion)
Sergeant Harry Wells (Dog Soldiers)
Annie Wells (mentioned in Dog Soldiers)
Sergeant Frank William Preston, RCMP (Sergeant Preston of the Yukon)
Quinn Abercromby (Reign of Fire)
Ironhide (Transformers)
Bumblebee (Transformers)
Vergil the Huragok (Halo 3 ODST)
Gordon Freeman (Half-Life)
Ambassador Calyn of the elcor (Mass Effect)
Fawkes the supermutant (Fallout 3)
Corporal Adrian Shephard (Half-Life: Opposing Force)
Ecto-1
Katma Stantz (these two are both fandom OCs; Ecto-1 achieved sentience through the intervention of the Knight Foundation, and Katma is Ray and Romanadvortrelundar's daughter)
Grimlock (Transformers)
Darius, the Prince of Persia (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time)
BLU Medic (Team Fortress 2)
Captain Roger Maxson, later High Elder Roger Maxson (Fallout)
Ellen Park, the Vault 101 Dweller/Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3)
Kate Shephard
Dan Shephard (also fandom OCs; Kate is Adrian's mother, Dan is Shephard's younger brother, more or less)
Arcade Gannon (Fallout: New Vegas)
Varric Tethras (Dragon Age 2)
Dr. Mordin Solus (Mass Effect 2 and 3)
Thalestris (The King Must Die)
Hektor of Troy (general legend; I used Mary Renault's version of the Age of Heroes for his setting)
Hua Mulan (historical edition, not Disney or OUAT edition)
Doctor Adoulla Makhslood (Throne of the Crescent Moon)
Zira (Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes)
Stacker Pentecost (Pacific Rim)
Belar (The Belgariad and The Malloreon)
El Santo (soooooooooo many lucha libre movies)
The Great Librarian of Pnakotus (Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth)
Admiral Zhao (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
The Silver Corporal (two stories by pulp writer Lester Dent)
Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart (Doctor Who)
Erwin 'Whistler' Emory (Sneakers)
Father (Equilibrium)
Carcer (Discworld)
I'm not counting characters that I only played once at a sandbox unless I was seriously considering playing them more often after that, like Darius there.
Apparently I'm not very fond of bad guys/villains. I count maybe three, maybe four- depends on whether Medic counts as a villain or not, given the nature of his canon. Possibly five, depending on how you view the Great Race of Yith. I don't really play very many female characters either, I admit, although I have somewhat more of those than of villains- and it has long been my headcanon that Gimli son of Gloin as represented in the Peter Jackson movies is in fact female, and that the scene where Gimli rattles off the Appendices' information on dwarven women to Eowyn was a thinly veiled way of saying 'sister, you ain't the only chick in this movie'.
Lot of military and police types, with the scales weighted more towards noncoms than anything else. Roger is a little bit of an aberration, starting off as a commissioned officer the way he does, but given that within ten days of the first canon we see from him he winds up Head Man In Charge (see: Stacker Pentecost, Admiral Zhao, the Brig) he's probably not all that far out of pattern.
Among the humans: Not nearly as many characters of color as there probably ought to be, although I'm working on that... maybe one day I'll get up the nerve to play Adoullah properly somewhere, but the line between doing him justice and coming off as a stupid clueless white chick appropriating the cultural background of a Lebanese-American author is a fine one and I want to do my research first. And possibly see what the sequel to his canon is like. The only ones I've played as gay were Arcade and Thalestris. Medic I treat as bisexual with a strong tendency to not make that fact known because it's the 1960s and he doesn't need the hassle. Hektor I treat as not understanding this distinction of which you speak because hello, Bronze Age Hellenic sphere of influence. Varric will hit on or flirt with anything that moves if he thinks it's funny and not likely to get him killed (see: Qunari, demons, Knight-Commander Meredith). Not sure how far he'd actually go with that but let's put him in the 'I do not understand this distinction of which you speak' category since Dragon Age dwarves are depicted as vastly more lusty and polyamorous than Papa Tolkien's dwarves. I'm lumping him in with the humans because he's close enough to human to make no real difference, as opposed to canons where people point to nonhuman characters and go "Look! Green dude with tentacles! That totally counts for racial/sexual/social diversity!".
One ace, unless you want to count Father, which I don't because Father is a) on Prosium and b) a plot-specific character rather than an ongoing RP attempt. Fawkes doesn't count either, he's a Vault 87 supermutant and the virus basically makes them giant green terrifying Ken dolls. (As opposed to the FEV strain used at Mariposa; Marcus still has the anatomy, the ability and the interest required to get it up, according to a comment he makes in Fallout 2.) Mordin, the Librarian, and Vergil are not being counted because again, they're so far from human that using them as orientation/gender diversity data points would be insulting.
One differently abled character, Whistler.
Lotta video game and movie pups. The Brig and Admiral Zhao are the only ones I can find who were TV characters. Sergeant Preston is from the radio series only. I tried watching an episode of the TV series, decided their 'Yukon' looked too much like Colorado, and ejected the DVD.
The vast majority of them are supporting characters rather than the main characters of their canon. That doesn't surprise me much. I've always preferred the candidates for the Best Supporting Actor/Actress slot to the Best Lead ones.
Most of them are anything but young, either by human standards or by their own species'. A human would consider Mordin middle-aged right up until they found out that he's thirty-five and his species generally dies by age forty. I think Thalestris was the youngest of the bunch thanks to the requirements of the Cretan bull-dance in her world. Bumblebee is the youngest of his race (I have trouble calling non-biological organisms a species, but Optimus Prime uses 'race' so why not), but he's at least thirty thousand years old if not more- and he's more mature than Thalestris anyway. I think Ellen probably clocks in second after Thalestris in terms of age; she was nineteen when I started her and will be twenty-one soonish. Darius may be in the same age range. I never figured that part out.
Not sure what to make of all that, just interesting to see some of the patterns.
Sgt. Detritus of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (Discworld)
Ray Stantz (Ghostbusters)
Jah-lila the unicorn magicker and midwife (Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer Trilogy)
Gimli son of Gloin (Lord of the Rings)
John Constantine (Hellblazer)
Finrod Felagund (very briefly) (The Silmarillion)
Sergeant Harry Wells (Dog Soldiers)
Annie Wells (mentioned in Dog Soldiers)
Sergeant Frank William Preston, RCMP (Sergeant Preston of the Yukon)
Quinn Abercromby (Reign of Fire)
Ironhide (Transformers)
Bumblebee (Transformers)
Vergil the Huragok (Halo 3 ODST)
Gordon Freeman (Half-Life)
Ambassador Calyn of the elcor (Mass Effect)
Fawkes the supermutant (Fallout 3)
Corporal Adrian Shephard (Half-Life: Opposing Force)
Ecto-1
Katma Stantz (these two are both fandom OCs; Ecto-1 achieved sentience through the intervention of the Knight Foundation, and Katma is Ray and Romanadvortrelundar's daughter)
Grimlock (Transformers)
Darius, the Prince of Persia (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time)
BLU Medic (Team Fortress 2)
Captain Roger Maxson, later High Elder Roger Maxson (Fallout)
Ellen Park, the Vault 101 Dweller/Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3)
Kate Shephard
Dan Shephard (also fandom OCs; Kate is Adrian's mother, Dan is Shephard's younger brother, more or less)
Arcade Gannon (Fallout: New Vegas)
Varric Tethras (Dragon Age 2)
Dr. Mordin Solus (Mass Effect 2 and 3)
Thalestris (The King Must Die)
Hektor of Troy (general legend; I used Mary Renault's version of the Age of Heroes for his setting)
Hua Mulan (historical edition, not Disney or OUAT edition)
Doctor Adoulla Makhslood (Throne of the Crescent Moon)
Zira (Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes)
Stacker Pentecost (Pacific Rim)
Belar (The Belgariad and The Malloreon)
El Santo (soooooooooo many lucha libre movies)
The Great Librarian of Pnakotus (Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth)
Admiral Zhao (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
The Silver Corporal (two stories by pulp writer Lester Dent)
Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart (Doctor Who)
Erwin 'Whistler' Emory (Sneakers)
Father (Equilibrium)
Carcer (Discworld)
I'm not counting characters that I only played once at a sandbox unless I was seriously considering playing them more often after that, like Darius there.
Apparently I'm not very fond of bad guys/villains. I count maybe three, maybe four- depends on whether Medic counts as a villain or not, given the nature of his canon. Possibly five, depending on how you view the Great Race of Yith. I don't really play very many female characters either, I admit, although I have somewhat more of those than of villains- and it has long been my headcanon that Gimli son of Gloin as represented in the Peter Jackson movies is in fact female, and that the scene where Gimli rattles off the Appendices' information on dwarven women to Eowyn was a thinly veiled way of saying 'sister, you ain't the only chick in this movie'.
Lot of military and police types, with the scales weighted more towards noncoms than anything else. Roger is a little bit of an aberration, starting off as a commissioned officer the way he does, but given that within ten days of the first canon we see from him he winds up Head Man In Charge (see: Stacker Pentecost, Admiral Zhao, the Brig) he's probably not all that far out of pattern.
Among the humans: Not nearly as many characters of color as there probably ought to be, although I'm working on that... maybe one day I'll get up the nerve to play Adoullah properly somewhere, but the line between doing him justice and coming off as a stupid clueless white chick appropriating the cultural background of a Lebanese-American author is a fine one and I want to do my research first. And possibly see what the sequel to his canon is like. The only ones I've played as gay were Arcade and Thalestris. Medic I treat as bisexual with a strong tendency to not make that fact known because it's the 1960s and he doesn't need the hassle. Hektor I treat as not understanding this distinction of which you speak because hello, Bronze Age Hellenic sphere of influence. Varric will hit on or flirt with anything that moves if he thinks it's funny and not likely to get him killed (see: Qunari, demons, Knight-Commander Meredith). Not sure how far he'd actually go with that but let's put him in the 'I do not understand this distinction of which you speak' category since Dragon Age dwarves are depicted as vastly more lusty and polyamorous than Papa Tolkien's dwarves. I'm lumping him in with the humans because he's close enough to human to make no real difference, as opposed to canons where people point to nonhuman characters and go "Look! Green dude with tentacles! That totally counts for racial/sexual/social diversity!".
One ace, unless you want to count Father, which I don't because Father is a) on Prosium and b) a plot-specific character rather than an ongoing RP attempt. Fawkes doesn't count either, he's a Vault 87 supermutant and the virus basically makes them giant green terrifying Ken dolls. (As opposed to the FEV strain used at Mariposa; Marcus still has the anatomy, the ability and the interest required to get it up, according to a comment he makes in Fallout 2.) Mordin, the Librarian, and Vergil are not being counted because again, they're so far from human that using them as orientation/gender diversity data points would be insulting.
One differently abled character, Whistler.
Lotta video game and movie pups. The Brig and Admiral Zhao are the only ones I can find who were TV characters. Sergeant Preston is from the radio series only. I tried watching an episode of the TV series, decided their 'Yukon' looked too much like Colorado, and ejected the DVD.
The vast majority of them are supporting characters rather than the main characters of their canon. That doesn't surprise me much. I've always preferred the candidates for the Best Supporting Actor/Actress slot to the Best Lead ones.
Most of them are anything but young, either by human standards or by their own species'. A human would consider Mordin middle-aged right up until they found out that he's thirty-five and his species generally dies by age forty. I think Thalestris was the youngest of the bunch thanks to the requirements of the Cretan bull-dance in her world. Bumblebee is the youngest of his race (I have trouble calling non-biological organisms a species, but Optimus Prime uses 'race' so why not), but he's at least thirty thousand years old if not more- and he's more mature than Thalestris anyway. I think Ellen probably clocks in second after Thalestris in terms of age; she was nineteen when I started her and will be twenty-one soonish. Darius may be in the same age range. I never figured that part out.
Not sure what to make of all that, just interesting to see some of the patterns.
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Date: 2013-10-07 11:40 pm (UTC)Also, I giggled over Gimli being female. I like it, but it kinda screws my head up over my favorite m/m pairing of both the movie and the books, Gimli/Legolas. So that's not a m/m pairing anymore? But that would make his crush on Gladrial femmeslash, wouldn't it. Hm. I like having my headcanon screwed with. ;)
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Date: 2013-10-07 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-08 01:04 am (UTC)Also, for some reason I thought you were the Genghis Khan we had for a brief bit.
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Date: 2013-10-08 01:08 am (UTC)Never played Genghis Khan nor the Attila the Hun we had, either, alas. If I were ever to play Genghis, though, I'd need to rewatch Mongol and any sequelae I can get my hands on.
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Date: 2013-10-08 01:11 am (UTC)And I thought I remembered a different person playing Constantine within Bar. My memory has flaws but is vaguely right at times. =0
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Date: 2013-10-08 02:21 am (UTC)