MEME: Do I have a type?

[l1ttle_billy]

All this talk of whether or not certain players have a type in terms of their characters has made me curious. Do I have a type? How about the rest of you? Ping here with a list of the characters you've played and then maybe someone will ping and tell us if they can spot the common thread amongst them.

Me I've got: Robin the Frog (The Muppet Show), Billy Kessler (G.I. Joe), Tim Desmond (Gnome Man's Land), Clark Kent (Superman The Movie), Leo (That 70's Show), Leda (Bordertown), Tully Mars (A Salty Piece of Land). And that's not counting the various guest stars I've played at the Fandom Conventions.

Comments

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

I don't see a common thread with your guys. You're pretty evenly split with powered vs non-powered. And your fandoms are pretty diverse.

As for me, going by my overall character choices (not just my FH ones), I have a thing for snarky blonde girls with parental issues (mostly daddy) and a thing for guys who like to emo.

[spiritandsword]

I don't know if I have a type as all four of my girls are completely different types of characters.

Phoebe Halliwell
Gwynn Hood
Savannah Levine
Annja Creed

The one thing I guess they may have in common is they all have some sort of Daddy Issues?

Phoebe's dad walked out on her and her sisters when she was a baby.
Gwynn's dad wants her to be something she can never be.
Savannah accidentally killed her dad.
Annja... raised in an orphanage and her father figure is... Roux. Not the best guy for the job.

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Millie (Chrestomanci Series)
Helen Haras-Uquara (Homeward Bounders)
Peyton Sawyer (One Tree Hill)
Lana Lang (Smallville)

Three are effectively orphans, one lost her mother at a young age... Beyond that... I'm not sure.

[intraspective]

Ino
Hinata
Viki
Juli Mizrahi
Makoto (and because I realized there's only about a million Makoto's in animanga fandoms, this is Amano Makoto, from W Juliet)

I know I tend to wind up with characters who, in some way, lack some level of basic empathy for other people/things. Makoto was kinda the exception, which is probably... why he didn't last long. *facepalms*

[withoutverona]

Chronologically...

* Angela Chase
* Dream of the Endless
* Tyler Durden
* Elliot Reid
* Melody Valentine
* Romeo Montague
* Ella of Frell
* Claire Fisher
* Sarah Walker
* Jack Priest
* Temperance Brennan

I've never played anyone with powers for very long, not counting Dream, who was adopted when the game was very young. Other than that and the fact Sarah and Brennan's dads are the same kind of character (Max Keenan is a better person than Jack Burton, but not by much), Iiiiii do not think I have a type. Complicated backstories, maybe? Angst? Talent? All of those things are true for a lot of characters at FH.

I think I got nothin'.

[bitchprince]

Well, mine's pretty easy. Barring Ray and Jeff, all of mine so far have been types with, um, ginormous responsibility complexes. And often a military background. But mostly the responsibility.

And contrasts, of course. I love characters with major personality contrasts all bundled up in 'em.

[weetuskenraider]

Aside from the obvious physical characteristics and general tendency toward talkiness of my current students, I . . . don't know. Katchoo and Tahiri are both damaged in different ways, Gabrielle isn't yet. Jen has repression issues, Lacey has self-esteem issues, Anders and Conner are both mostly confident jock boys (though Anders had to grow into that) but Conner has more of a protector complex. Past characters include Anne Shirley, Archie Kennedy, Janice Covington (who fits in with the wee yappy blondes), Sakura Nishihori, and Yitzhak.

Hrm. There does seem to be some tendency toward repressive behavior of some sort or another with most of those. But it manifests in different ways.

Or maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong angle. I dunno.

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

I think it's good for the world that Jeff doesn't really fit into a "type".

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

I MISS ARCHIE.

That is all.

[bitchprince]

Jeff is just special. And precious. And... special.

Weirdly enough, I predict he'll do better in alumniland than he has for me the past couple of months.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Annette Hargrove
Johnny Storm
George M. Bluth
Amber Atkins
Penelope Wilhern
Prince Edward

Hm. I love playing the hyper crazy. The d'uhhhhh. The heroic. The ego? I've learned through playing Johnny that it was fun for me at the beginning, but I've never felt right with it. I don't know. Drama is good too. Sometimes. Being bitchy (when I can get away with it) is fun. So is the quietly sweet. I don't know. I guess I got nothing here. Mine seem all different. Yet the same in some ways. Um. Hi. I'm high on Benadryl.

[withoutverona]

If we set Johnny off to the side (carefully, he's hot), it seems like all of your others are naive in some ways, though they express it very differently. You don't go for the worldweary angsty kids.

I dunno. This is hard!

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Well, Dream, Romeo, and even Sarah are romantics, though Dream and Sarah would probably both deny it. Dream, Tyler, and Brennan are authority figures, Dream and Brennan are both a little bit full of themselves (deservedly so). Ella and Tyler are both agents of change.

[tyler_gone]

Oh, yeah, there are threads of similarity between them -- Claire and Angela are both emo redheads, albeit in very different ways -- but I'm not sure it's any more similarities than you could find by going to Wiki and clicking until you got a list of 10 random characters.

I dunno. It's a good question!

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Also Arthur and Jeff both have parent issues.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

I think you are right! I've never gone for the angsty kids. An angsty little vampire child, yes. But.. uh, yep. I do innocent better because I'm easy like that. I think.

It is hard!

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

I'd say that even if the repressive behavior manifests itself in different ways, it still counts towards that.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

GOB and Johnny are similar character types, cocky, can seem irresponsible and caustic but are capable of more. I'd say that Prince Edward, Penelope and Annette also fall into the same category as each other. All three are rather sweet. Amber would seem most likely to fall in with the last three too.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Your answer is better than mine though. But wait! Johnny seemed a bit naive to me as well, if not about the world. About himself and how he affects those around him.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

George Michael Bluth, not GOB. Hee. Great big difference. But yeah, I can see that for the rest, definitely.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Brennan has her emo moments too, but she's capable of covering it.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

You know looking over my own list, I think I might have to go with the fish out of water archetype. Robin's smaller than most Muppets so is often overlooked and underestimated, Billy (and Leda) are just rebelling against their upbringing, feeling they don't belong in the world their parents want them in, Clark's an Alien, Tim's an ordinary guy thrown into a cracked out situation, Tully's a cowboy turned sailor, and Leo...well he doesn't know what's going on.

I have noticed a few things with my characters in other instances: My OC's tend to have some kind of trauma in their past. Usually a childhood one. The characters I take from other fandoms either for RPG's or if I think (I could play that guy (from an acting standpoint)) tend to have that fish out of water thing.

And at an acting workshop I did a survey thing that revealed that the three adjectives that total strangers would associate with me the most are: Royal, All American, and Leader. And when I think back, some variation or combination of those do seem to be found in the character's I've portrayed.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Oh! Sorry. Yeah I don't know the canon, I only know from what I saw in Fandom. So...I don't know GMB.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

I had George Michael Bluth here, running the banana stand. Quiet nervous kid. Except when shouting at the seagulls. *snerk* He was also engaged to Mary. Awwww, misses that!

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Best I can come up with for mine (Angela, Shawn, Mac and now Effy) is that they're all from TV shows. They're sucha mixed bag.