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[igpayatinlay]

Question:

When you're creating a character/writing an app/starting a game, do you consider how they might grow over the course of the game? Not necessarily pre-plotting, or establishing relationships in advance, but maybe more like, establishing where they are in their life at the start, and how they'll grow if things go a certain way? There's no way to control the other characters, so obviously this can change as things happen, but I'm curious - do you apply the idea of a character arc to roleplay, or do you make a character to have fun with and then wing it? Sometimes one or the other? A mix of both?

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[mumkin.insanejournal.com]

Ahahaha! No, I'm pretty sure that was exactly the sort of thing she needed. XD

Also, to elaborate: I don't necessarily always have a specific arc in mind, but I usually set my characters up for growth of some kind. And I really like to see them follow through with it. A favorite of mine is the middle aged woman who gets her groove back, one way or another, so.

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess this might be more what I do too, because it's not that I have a set series of things that need to happen; but I usually kind of write a character with an awareness of wanting them to grow/change in the game.

[mumkin.insanejournal.com]

I mean, also I guess I approach life that way, with the expectation that people are changing constantly, if only because I am.

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

Right? I'm in a slump right now, and that happens too, but like... new experiences, new growth. It doesn't make you a new person, but it enriches the scope of your life and can change your thinking on things.

[mumkin.insanejournal.com]

Tell me about it. But even in a slump, I feel like I'm not the same person I was even at the beginning of the summer. Maybe not new person entirely, but I have vastly different opinions on somethings and I act differently in certain situations.

Possibly this is also because I am a twenty-something and still trying to figure out ~who I am~

But there's always room for character growth, I think, and maybe I let their environment have more of an impact on my characters than some people because I expect it to give them an opportunity to learn something about themselves and what they really want.