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Oct. 3rd, 2014 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynNote to self: next time you give an RP character a vehicle in his or her backstory, check its price at the time first.
(I gave Adrian Shephard a motorcycle as a teenager and said that he bought it used from a man in the next town over with what money he earned at his after school job at a sporting good store, and then spent the better part of a year restoring the bike to genuinely usable condition. I wound up selecting Buell as the manufacturer because I wanted to avoid overused marques and because the 1989 Buell I saw on an image search looked pretty awesome; I went with the RS1200 model because that was the one in the picture. Didn't realize at the time how expensive they were, even though he'd have bought his when it was about six years old. I have said the specific make and model too many times to feel comfortable retconning, so now I'm handwaving that the bike was half-wrecked and the guy he bought it from had personal financial troubles and was selling stuff off before the repo man showed up for anything else, which has led to the image of Shephard's mom being torn between 'motorcycles aren't even remotely safe' and 'well, he's spending most of his non-school time working extra hours to earn the money to spend extra time working on fixing the thing instead of taking it out on the road, he's not in any danger'. Which I can see, I just hadn't counted on it when I picked the original make and model, is all.)
(I gave Adrian Shephard a motorcycle as a teenager and said that he bought it used from a man in the next town over with what money he earned at his after school job at a sporting good store, and then spent the better part of a year restoring the bike to genuinely usable condition. I wound up selecting Buell as the manufacturer because I wanted to avoid overused marques and because the 1989 Buell I saw on an image search looked pretty awesome; I went with the RS1200 model because that was the one in the picture. Didn't realize at the time how expensive they were, even though he'd have bought his when it was about six years old. I have said the specific make and model too many times to feel comfortable retconning, so now I'm handwaving that the bike was half-wrecked and the guy he bought it from had personal financial troubles and was selling stuff off before the repo man showed up for anything else, which has led to the image of Shephard's mom being torn between 'motorcycles aren't even remotely safe' and 'well, he's spending most of his non-school time working extra hours to earn the money to spend extra time working on fixing the thing instead of taking it out on the road, he's not in any danger'. Which I can see, I just hadn't counted on it when I picked the original make and model, is all.)
