GGaD » The trash pile in which I dump my character ideas

Marsh · March 22, 2021 11:47:46

Welcome, welcome, to my trash pile of character ideas which will mostly be just me, blurting out random things I think of then coming back and realizing that's a terrible idea three hours later.

Marsh · March 22, 2021 11:48:04

...ok but what if I made a yandere

Marsh · March 22, 2021 11:49:58

it didn't even take me an hour to realize that's a terrible idea uhhhhhhhhhh

Marsh · March 22, 2021 11:51:02

part of me wants to go off on Elaine for being a selfish controlling douche, but also part of me lowkey wishes to project my slight god complex on her

Marsh · March 22, 2021 11:55:23

ok... so I'm thinking... I finally make a normal character, like a normal human, just normal. No major childhood trauma y'know, like a normal human being.

Marsh · March 22, 2021 12:00:07

ok but what if Elaine started a deity war

Marsh · March 22, 2021 13:12:00

bullying Frances is my favorite pastime

SpecterTheGreat · March 22, 2021 13:13:00

nooooo

Marsh · March 22, 2021 13:14:55

jsfshfgjhsfg a little detail that probably won't ever be relevant but I still wanna share anyways. Elaine knows Fran likes her, and Fran knows that she knows but either is ever going to talk it out because they're well...they're not like that. So everything Elaine does, she does it with the knowledge that Frances likes her, she knows exactly what she'd doing to him, she knows she's destroying him but she doesn't care. Bullying my ocs is my favorite thing to do

Marsh · March 22, 2021 13:16:36

I want to kill off Fran eventually, as perhaps a lesson for Elli. I want angst, pain, anger, I want chaos and sadness

Marsh · March 22, 2021 13:18:34

ok but on the more fluffy side, elaine always carries around an umbrella to keep Fran from the sun whenever they're outside.

Marsh · March 22, 2021 13:50:56

I want to dump one of my already made ocs in here but I also don't want to change anything in his design to fit GGaD's environment lmao

Marsh · March 22, 2021 14:06:36

oh Frances and Elaine definitely T-poses over Marsh while chanting "short, short, short" over and over again

Marsh · March 22, 2021 14:06:46

dam I gotta draw that now

Marsh · March 22, 2021 20:52:41

I am once again considering: Yandere

Marsh · March 22, 2021 22:18:54

Elaine most definitely suffered from the golden child syndrome

Time · March 23, 2021 13:28:41

Silverphoenix580 wrote:
oh Frances and Elaine definitely T-poses over Marsh while chanting "short, short, short" over and over again

Isn't Marsh an inch or two shorter than Elaine?

Marsh · March 23, 2021 14:25:45

yes, which is exactly why elaine does it

Time · March 23, 2021 17:13:06

Bruh

Marsh · March 23, 2021 17:16:02

Half the time I wanna make the trio (elli, fran, mar) just have pure chaotic bestie energy but the other half of the time also wants to dive more seriously into the cracks of their relationship and exploit all the things that make them fall apart because angst and pain

Marsh · March 23, 2021 17:17:10

Look, Frances dying might actually trigger Elaine's character development, see I have an actual reason for wanting fran to die other than just pain and destruction and angst...

Marsh · March 23, 2021 17:24:12

Idk if I should write elli and fran's relationship a little more on the softer side or if I should just dive fully into the sort of master servant relationship they have on the outside. It's complicated cause they are soft to each other, just not in public, so in the rp they're gonna be a bit less soft than I'd like them to be. For them, their care and affection is through all the little things, which will be a bit hard to express.

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Marsh · March 24, 2021 11:24:34

Originally Elaine was supposed to be a more stern and sharp character who's so infatuated with the idea of power that it drives her to the most extreme lengths to get what she wants. She was supposed to be like purely 100% confident in everything she does, basically the textbook definition of an absolute monarchy, but as I got to thinking about her backstory I thought it'd be more fun to make her like a naive child if that makes sense. Tbh she's just a kid who thinks she wants the crown, she's still just a kid who's doing what she's taught to do, thinking she's in the right. She knows she should be confident so she tries to be, she knows she should act like a queen but she doesn't even know what that really means, a lot of her is uncertain steps masked by the guise of confidence, she has no idea what she's doing. She's honestly just a huge mess

Marsh · March 24, 2021 12:10:29

ok ok I've finally decided on character's birthdays:

Elaine - Feb 14 (look how can I not make it the 14th of february)
Frances - March 17th
Marsh - unknown but they used to celebrate it at around oct 15th, it's been centuries since she's done anything for her birthday though

Marsh · March 24, 2021 12:34:41

I wanna draw hanahaki disease Elli but I also have no idea how to draw gore of any sort...time to go watch some vids and learn stuff

Marsh · March 26, 2021 21:30:41

Every single one of my ocs are little pieces of disgusting leftover guacamole... except for my two babies. pfffffffft me? Biased? Never.... why would you ever think I have a bias lmao

(and no, the two ocs I treat like my babies are not in the rp at all, perhaps they might make an appearance in my gallery at some point, who knows)

Marsh · March 26, 2021 21:31:42

I'm gonna want to punch elaine so much until her character development comes

Marsh · March 27, 2021 17:08:33

OK, TIME TO FINALLY TACKLE THIS!!!

Elaine's Character Development Map:
(aka. me talking to myself about how her character development will go because I suck at planning character development in my head which is why I must write it all down)

So, first thing's first. The A to B of her character development, where she is right now versus where I want her to be eventually. Right now she's, arrogant, egotistical, and very very prideful, she really only cares about two people and that's Marsh and Fran. Eventually I want her to end up being a decent human being, of course I want to keep her confidence but just have it lose that arrogant edge. Now how do I get from A to B...

Ok so uh step one, the first major step I want her to take is to be able to see someone as her equal because that's her finally admitting to herself that maybe she's not above everyone else, that perhaps she's... not better than everyone and that it's ok to not be the best. As for how to make her see this...perhaps a duel? Or maybe I dunno a friendship?? I'm not quite sure yet.

Step two, apologizing. She needs to learn how to apologize and admit she's wrong, to shove her pride and ego down in order to properly admit her wrongdoings. As for how this will happen... well I think there will be many things she has to apologize for but I believe first apologies must go to Marsh and Fran just because they've taken the blunt of her damage for about a decade now.

Step three, normalizing both the first steps. It won't be enough if she just does it once, she needs to get used to not being above everyone and get used to admitting her mistakes, she needs to truly understand she can't keep thinking the way she's thinking right now and she must realize what she's doing is hurting the people around her. It's going to take time of course, but well..the first step is always the hardest.

So far that is all I really have planned for her character development, though I lowkey might kill off fran just to see how off the rails Elaine's character development might go... because once fran dies there's like two ways her character can go. One is the vengeful route where she blames everyone she can and tries to get revenge or two, she finally realizes her issues and attempts to become a better person. Personally I think the first route is more fun because that'll give me a reason to play a slightly more villainous role and who doesn't love to be a villain?

Last edited by Silverphoenix580 (March 27, 2021 17:09:12)

Time · March 27, 2021 18:23:55

Yeah ngl a negative character arc would be pretty epic but unfortunately, there are too many powerful good-aligned characters. Looking at Elaine's domains I would think it would be fairly hard for her to go toe to toe with them. :/ However a bad character is cool always

Good characters are still cool, however. Though atm I can't really see anyone (specifically a deity) who she would see as an equal and also be good-aligned.

Last edited by Time (March 27, 2021 18:24:20)

Marsh · March 27, 2021 19:31:03

ok but what if her equal...isn't good-aligned

ngl I would lowkey love to see her get played by one of the more manipulative deities