How many threads do you take at once?

[chronicle_tenko]

Fifteen is too many. I'd never be able to keep up with that. I sometimes worry that I'm writing the same characters repeatedly when I have about 7 threads.

I find my characters are vastly dissimilar in nature.

Honestly I currently have
-A paramedic with too many romantic notions
-A lawyer who is too bored with life
-A jittery and tired barkeep
-A sadistic boxer who worries about his abilities

and a tempermental, arrogant god.

I'm safe.

 

[DarkWarrioress]

Fifteen is too many. I'd never be able to keep up with that. I sometimes worry that I'm writing the same characters repeatedly when I have about 7 threads.

*plays hooky and peeks in*

I never worry about that, but then, I have dozens of people, all with their own quirks, that live in my head.

Schizophrenic, much? Quite possibly. I like to think of it as creative. I hate taking pills.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

I find my characters are vastly dissimilar in nature.

Honestly I currently have
-A paramedic with too many romantic notions
-A lawyer who is too bored with life
-A jittery and tired barkeep
-A sadistic boxer who worries about his abilities

and a tempermental, arrogant god.

I'm safe.

And what the HELL happened to your knight? Did you decide that the queen could just go on without you?

 

[chronicle_tenko]

And what the HELL happened to your knight? Did you decide that the queen could just go on without you?

He is too special to list here. But he is a simple man. A simple man in love with things far beyond his own ken.

Punish him properly.

 

[Se7en_]

Fifteen is too many. I'd never be able to keep up with that. I sometimes worry that I'm writing the same characters repeatedly when I have about 7 threads.

Indeed, there is just so many characters you can keep track of before they blend into each others.

I find my characters are vastly dissimilar in nature.

Honestly I currently have
-A paramedic with too many romantic notions
-A lawyer who is too bored with life
-A jittery and tired barkeep
-A sadistic boxer who worries about his abilities

and a tempermental, arrogant god.

I'm safe.

That's only five characters, you probably will not be safe anymore if that number jumps to fifteen!!!

*plays hooky and peeks in*

I never worry about that, but then, I have dozens of people, all with their own quirks, that live in my head.

Schizophrenic, much? Quite possibly. I like to think of it as creative. I hate taking pills.

Yeah keep that thought!!!

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

I can write up to 10 different threads at a time, depending on my partner(s) and the story line.

Luckily for me, most of my RP co-writers are very particular about the way they craft their posts, otherwise I might run into problems. As is~ I am currently writing~

An Angel
A Seelie Fae
An UnSeeelie Fae Queen
A Werewolf Alpha
An Alien (T'So)
A 40 something seductress
A Hoo-doo/Faery Wiccan

*thinks*

Oh and
a Vampire
a Malkavian Vampire's Ghoul.

and a partridge in a pear tree

Shoot...I am ALSO...writing with the Wenchlette...but that isn't a character really. That is just me.

 

[Mister J]

Ya know, the title of this thread sounds vaguely sexual...

Anywho, I can't handle many at a time. I write so slow sometimes that it takes me forever to get a post up. (I know! I'm writing it! I swear!)

So I'm in the, what, 2-3 range then?

Currently I think I'm only playing a few...

Pithos, a shadow demon
Vergil, a melancholy vampire

And probably going to start a cocky firebender here soon.

So yeah, I'm at my limit pretty much.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

I usually only have a couple going. I'm obnoxiously snobby about what I write about and who I write with.
(this isn't counting Garrote or Intersect City)

 

[Noon_Shadow]

I usually only have a couple going. I'm obnoxiously snobby about what I write about and who I write with.
(this isn't counting Garrote or Intersect City)

Yeah, someone might almost say that you're picky, or something.

Chuckles.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

Yeah, someone might almost say that you're picky, or something.

Chuckles.

I r what I r

 

[Mister J]

I r what I r

I'll get you yet!

 

[Vail_Indigo]

I'll get you yet!

Top 5 answers on the board....survey SAYS.....


X!

Awww, its ok, its ok, you have two more strikes left.

 

[chronicle_tenko]

That's only five characters, you probably will not be safe anymore if that number jumps to fifteen!!!

No I had 18 at one point. A few of them hordes. Where I had a central character, and then 10 or twenty faceless minions to use and work through.

But I had a puppet master.
Three sadists of varying integrity, and varying levels of bad.
An ax crazy
Two Stunt Cocks. (who yes would have been about the same character except for names)
Two superheroes. (Though one was the main villain of the piece, and the other was becoming him.)
And a host of other assorted run of the mill every day people. With different stories backgrounds, and kinks. It was hard but doable.

Though at that point I was stretched very thin. I think two more and my head would have exploded.

 

[Annisthyrienne]

Diversity of characters does help, but it's important that the characters move me to want to play them. I've had some stories where I was lukewarm about the character, and they didn't last long. Funny, but some of those stories were semi autobiographical too.

Currently I have a centaur warrioress, a Drow princess in a band of elves, Another Drow princess in the hands of an oil rig paramedic, An elvish healer (if that thread ever gets going), and a modern woman who has taken in a homeless teen.

 

[Mister J]

Top 5 answers on the board....survey SAYS.....


X!

Awww, its ok, its ok, you have two more strikes left.

Hrm, have to make them count then.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

Hrm, have to make them count then.

I totally should have been a game show host

 

[Mister J]

I totally should have been a game show host

Well yeah, but then none of the gals would want to play the game.. they'd want to play the host!

 

[Mephistophelily]

Well yeah, but then none of the gals would want to play the game.. they'd want to play the host!

He has point.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

Well yeah, but then none of the gals would want to play the game.. they'd want to play the host!

He has point.

Hey, I know what makes for good TV

 

[Se7en_]

Ya know, the title of this thread sounds vaguely sexual...

How is that?

Anywho, I can't handle many at a time. I write so slow sometimes that it takes me forever to get a post up. (I know! I'm writing it! I swear!)

So I'm in the, what, 2-3 range then?

Currently I think I'm only playing a few...

Pithos, a shadow demon
Vergil, a melancholy vampire

And probably going to start a cocky firebender here soon.

So yeah, I'm at my limit pretty much.

No I had 18 at one point. A few of them hordes. Where I had a central character, and then 10 or twenty faceless minions to use and work through.

But I had a puppet master.
Three sadists of varying integrity, and varying levels of bad.
An ax crazy
Two Stunt Cocks. (who yes would have been about the same character except for names)
Two superheroes. (Though one was the main villain of the piece, and the other was becoming him.)
And a host of other assorted run of the mill every day people. With different stories backgrounds, and kinks. It was hard but doable.

Though at that point I was stretched very thin. I think two more and my head would have exploded.

Diversity of characters does help, but it's important that the characters move me to want to play them. I've had some stories where I was lukewarm about the character, and they didn't last long. Funny, but some of those stories were semi autobiographical too.

Currently I have a centaur warrioress, a Drow princess in a band of elves, Another Drow princess in the hands of an oil rig paramedic, An elvish healer (if that thread ever gets going), and a modern woman who has taken in a homeless teen.

I am starting to think my characters are kind of boring

So let's expand the topic and ask about the number of threads and characters in them.

For me I have:

- An extremely rich man with Dominant tendencies.
- An escaped convict with several mutations due to 'scientific' experiments.
- A proud young man who has a split personality and gets rejected by a girl.
- A gang leader in the middle ages. He is also the owner of a breeding facility.
- A medieval nobility young man (A bit similar to the first character)
- A crazy sadist living the dream in an apocalyptic setting.
- An Incubus who hooked up with an uptight vampire wanting to rule the world with his help.

 

[chronicle_tenko]

Don't sound boring to me. It sounds like you have four dominant characters, and I will admit sometimes my Dominants can run together a bit too. Not horribly, but certainly a touch.

It is interesting as a topic though. Who are you playing? I'll do one.

'Lucky' Louis/Lugh The Bright One - 'Lucky' Louis is an orphan in 1879 Ireland. He is working to become his villages brew-master and Innkeeper, due to the rapidly declining health (and sobriety) of the former brew-master; Dagda.

The nickname 'lucky' is a misnomer, as for the most part he is anything but. His life is a particular shambles and the addition of some uppity bitch of a noble lady from the kingdoms does not improve his lot. Worse is that she's the most beautiful thing he's ever set eyes on.

Louis has a secret though. He is no mortal man. He is a god trapped and unremembered. Lugh The Bright One, the object of this lady's infatuation and obsession. Come to see his revenge upon those who murdered him. And to learn of the new secrets man has created without gods.

 

[Perplexia]

Don't sound boring to me. It sounds like you have four dominant characters, and I will admit sometimes my Dominants can run together a bit too. Not horribly, but certainly a touch.

It is interesting as a topic though. Who are you playing? I'll do one.

'Lucky' Louis/Lugh The Bright One - 'Lucky' Louis is an orphan in 1879 Ireland. He is working to become his villages brew-master and Innkeeper, due to the rapidly declining health (and sobriety) of the former brew-master; Dagda.

The nickname 'lucky' is a misnomer, as for the most part he is anything but. His life is a particular shambles and the addition of some uppity bitch of a noble lady from the kingdoms does not improve his lot. Worse is that she's the most beautiful thing he's ever set eyes on.

Louis has a secret though. He is no mortal man. He is a god trapped and unremembered. Lugh The Bright One, the object of this lady's infatuation and obsession. Come to see his revenge upon those who murdered him. And to learn of the new secrets man has created without gods.

i'm a particular fan of this one

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

*thinks*

My Unseelie Queen is hot blooded. A sadistic bitch with a deep abiding love for her knight.

My Seelie Fae is naive. Innocent. Unused to human foibles and unaware of the bad things that can happen to women who are far from home.

They are both Fae (or elves if you will) but the situations they find themselves in would garner quite DIFFERENT reactions. My Seelie Fae would NEVER be able to break her knight's bones...and my Unseelie Queen would never put herself in a position where she would have to trust an unknown mortal male.

I have never really understood why one writes the same sorts of characters over and over. Quite frankly, I write to learn new things about myself. Why would I invent a character that is more myself than not?

And those are just the first two that I can think of...because they are both based on an idea for a Female Fae.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

Well, until recently I was playing Aella, the last in a long line of genetically planned agents, born and bred to deal with supernatural threats, along with her sisters. Her particular skill was her ability to read the world, see tiny things that no one else could, the slightest hints of otherness. The way muscles tense, the change in the air, information information information. My beautiful whirlwind.

I'm currently playing Feather...or Strike...or Tara. Depending. A super-hero, maybe the best, who has been sucked into madness by her nemesis.
Though its entirely possible Lily will disagree with who sucked who in.

 

[DarkWarrioress]

I am starting to think my characters are kind of boring

So let's expand the topic and ask about the number of threads and characters in them.

For me I have:

- An extremely rich man with Dominant tendencies.
- An escaped convict with several mutations due to 'scientific' experiments.
- A proud young man who has a split personality and gets rejected by a girl.
- A gang leader in the middle ages. He is also the owner of a breeding facility.
- A medieval nobility young man (A bit similar to the first character)
- A crazy sadist living the dream in an apocalyptic setting.
- An Incubus.

Let's see...

* a captive fighting elf seeking revenge on her power hungry brother.

* A college student/part time teacher who finds a man whose company she enjoys. A lot.

*a curator of a museum who was sent on a mission to acquire the golden phallus of Osiris.

*A female survivor of a apocalyptic catastrophe whose father dies,leaving her alone to survive and she desires to learn the way of the sword.

*A female detective who runs over a man from the future with her car.

*A female warrior who leaves her family to avoid her father having to deal out severe punishment to his only daughter.

*A ballet dancer who has lost her dream due to an accident and now must show an athlete that life is not over for him either.

*A feisty female bar owner who is having pressure applied to her so she'll sell her property, in this case, a bar.


Those are my active ones for now.