General Character Discussion

Post by **Thunder11** » Sat May 17, 2014 8:15 pm #6528

Bottom post of the previous page:

Props to one Kayle Malcovich then. Anyway, Jazmin's got a sorta mixed Scottish/Russian accent, ayes and the occasional nyet/da.

Kraso · Post by **Kraso** » Sat May 17, 2014 8:47 pm #6531

rosello wrote:Do you imagine your characters having a specific accent, even if you don't bother to type it out? And if you do bother, what exact accent is it meant to be?

Swiss.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Sat May 17, 2014 10:25 pm #6537

I thought volker was a nazi wtf

Pandarsenic · Post by **Pandarsenic** » Sat May 17, 2014 10:35 pm #6540

Bonnie MacDougall, whom I REALLY need to play again, is Belligerently Scottish(TM)

Selene Avery does not accent.

Mat13295 · Post by **Mat13295** » Sun May 18, 2014 5:00 am #6622

Slight Russian accent, not much, but it's noticeable.

Tokiko2 · Post by **Tokiko2** » Sun May 18, 2014 5:28 am #6626

rosello wrote:Do you imagine your characters having a specific accent, even if you don't bother to type it out? And if you do bother, what exact accent is it meant to be?

Saiga has a heavy chinese accent. Very broken english speakings too.

Mechoid · Post by **Mechoid** » Sun May 18, 2014 5:50 am #6630

Both Acheron and Hades pronounce all N's as if there were two of them. Hades has a hiss to its voice, while Acheron is monotone when sec, female in tune when medical or janitor, and slightly similar to Robi the robot when engineering. Service is relatively boring in voice, sounding like the robotics fabricator voice.

Knaive · Post by **Knaive** » Sun May 18, 2014 6:25 am #6631

Ty has a New Yorker accent, stemming from living on colonial ships all his life. The different amount of people from all across the galaxy led to most of those ships being cultural mixing pots of accents not unlike the Old New York.

AseaHeru · Post by **AseaHeru** » Mon May 19, 2014 12:09 pm #6983

Swiss isint a particular accent...
Mostly because there is no "Swiss" language...

But I do understand what you mean.

For my part, Owen has a generic Bostonian accent. And a speech impediment that makes him sound vaguely British...

Kocoa · Post by **Kocoa** » Mon May 19, 2014 2:06 pm #7017

Oddly enough I have no idea what Kaine sounds like. But I wouldn't imagine him having a distinct cultural accent.

Do any of your characters have any quirks or unique and distinct characteristics that could allow the crew to realize that changling impersonating you /isn't/ your lovable character?

AseaHeru · Post by **AseaHeru** » Mon May 19, 2014 2:50 pm #7032

Besides Owen's constant yelling about SOPs, Space Law and his dislike of killing, or even harming people (most of the time), nope.
Well, except that he smokes alot, uses his PDA with the ID in it and asks for mead at the bar...

420goslingboy69 · Mon May 19, 2014 3:00 pm

rosello wrote:Do you imagine your characters having a specific accent, even if you don't bother to type it out? And if you do bother, what exact accent is it meant to be?

yo

Kocoa wrote:Oddly enough I have no idea what Kaine sounds like. But I wouldn't imagine him having a distinct cultural accent.

Do any of your characters have any quirks or unique and distinct characteristics that could allow the crew to realize that changling impersonating you /isn't/ your lovable character?

autumn is facetious about everything, cant compromise about anything, and will take insults very lightly, but at the same time will get uppity about certain things so basically me

Tokiko2 wrote:
rosello wrote:Do you imagine your characters having a specific accent, even if you don't bother to type it out? And if you do bother, what exact accent is it meant to be?
Saiga has a heavy chinese accent. Very broken english speakings too.

in my head she speaks perfect english

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Mon May 19, 2014 4:44 pm #7059

Kocoa wrote:Do any of your characters have any quirks or unique and distinct characteristics that could allow the crew to realize that changling impersonating you /isn't/ your lovable character?

If you ever see an August Finster as a Head of Personnel/Captain wearing Head of Personnel/Captain clothes, it isn't me.

Knaive · Post by **Knaive** » Mon May 19, 2014 7:16 pm #7088

Kocoa wrote:Do any of your characters have any quirks or unique and distinct characteristics that could allow the crew to realize that changling impersonating you /isn't/ your lovable character?

If I'm not wearing any sunglasses then that's not me. I will go out of my way to find me some shades, even going so far as to break into sec for them. I NEED THEM.

Smoking is also something Ty likes to do 24/7. Gotta quell that oral fixation somehow.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Mon May 19, 2014 9:22 pm #7111

Chrys smokes, or complains about being in the process of quitting.

KingLouisXIV · Post by **KingLouisXIV** » Tue May 20, 2014 1:43 am #7162

I'd like to think it's noticeable if somebody isn't Valerie, but people haven't batted an eye before when a changeling walked around as me typing in lowcaps constantly.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Tue May 20, 2014 1:47 am #7166

You need more metafriends

ThoughtSynapsis · Tue May 20, 2014 1:54 am

There's alotta quirks you could pick out with Rigel, But if you ever see him with a cigar/cigarette then you should start being suspicious.

Fuzzeldorf · Post by **Fuzzeldorf** » Tue May 20, 2014 2:31 am #7183

Kocoa wrote: Do any of your characters have any quirks or unique and distinct characteristics that could allow the crew to realize that changling impersonating you /isn't/ your lovable character?

Ellise and Elliot will both refer to God as Mercy, going so far as to include it in their last whispers
and this whole question was so you/anyone reading this could pull off the act better as a ling, probably

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Tue May 20, 2014 2:49 am #7191

Dora never smokes or drinks. She uses lots of exclamation points. She rarely swears.
Ryker is the exact opposite. If he isn't smoking, drinking, swearing, or stating everything he says, there's something wrong.
If you ever see either of my characters typing in all lowercase and making really shitty spelling mistakes that aren't past the believable mistake threshold, it's either a ling or I'm having a stroke at my computer.

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Tue May 20, 2014 3:01 am #7199

If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

August would just be a CEO of a construction company/industrial megacorporation/successful restaurant chain, same as he is in the future.
Some things don't need changing I guess.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Tue May 20, 2014 3:14 am #7202

ryker would be a surgeon
dora would be a rentacop or something

Mechoid · Post by **Mechoid** » Tue May 20, 2014 3:41 am #7211

Kocoa wrote:Do any of your characters have any quirks or unique and distinct characteristics that could allow the crew to realize that changling impersonating you /isn't/ your lovable character?

Acheron has a small welded heart on the side of its head when using the engineering module, as well as realigning panels and parts of plating every so often in any module. Hades is philosophical and refers to its laws as chains.

Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

Jamie would be an aeronautic weapons designer. Acheron and Hades would also work in the field of weapon design or some form of political position in the USA.

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Tue May 20, 2014 3:45 am #7212

Mechoid wrote:Acheron and Hades would also work in the field of weapon design or some form of political position in the USA.

August would have won that election, you know.

Fuzzeldorf · Post by **Fuzzeldorf** » Tue May 20, 2014 3:52 am #7214

Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

Ellise would be a musician, while Elliot would be a forensics specialist

And since I am bored as all hell, ask me anything about either of my characters

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Tue May 20, 2014 6:18 am #7245

i forgot things about my characters after not playing on a serious RP server in so long
dora is a musician as well
i forgot this

Psyentific · Post by **Psyentific** » Tue May 20, 2014 6:36 am #7253

Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

Kocoa wrote:Do any of your characters have any quirks or unique and distinct characteristics that could allow the crew to realize that changling impersonating you /isn't/ your lovable character?

Remember the cigar. Always tancap, unless blue beret is available.
Remember the cigar.

Neerti · Post by **Neerti** » Tue May 20, 2014 7:18 am #7264

Andrew wouldn't fit anywhere since he's a flat stand-in character that's stood in for far too long.

Ryan would be in an asylum.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Tue May 20, 2014 7:38 am #7271

Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

Retired stripper

AseaHeru · Post by **AseaHeru** » Tue May 20, 2014 12:36 pm #7377

Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

Probably a miner or a medic.
Or perhaps one of those poor sods who clean reactor equipment.

Mandurrrh · Post by **Mandurrrh** » Tue May 20, 2014 12:44 pm #7381

Modern day Kenzie would probably be a quirky science teacher at a local high school and the coach for the robotics club.

Kocoa · Post by **Kocoa** » Tue May 20, 2014 2:39 pm #7416

Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

Toooough... Er... Hm, Kaine would be the modern day equivalent of Oppenheimer. An impressive theoretical physicist or lead Geneticist, either overseeing the research of Amgen or Novo Nordisk, or possibly a professor at John Hopkins or Harvard Med... at age 28.

Post by **Thunder11** » Tue May 20, 2014 2:43 pm #7418

Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

Jazmin would be working for a PMC, most likely. Gotta be a PMC, traditional militaries have these awful things called rules of engagement.

AseaHeru · Post by **AseaHeru** » Tue May 20, 2014 2:58 pm #7421

Not to mention even worse things called Geneva conventions, and the chance of getting sued.

rosello · Post by **rosello** » Tue May 20, 2014 5:11 pm #7444

Kocoa wrote: Do any of your characters have any quirks or unique and distinct characteristics that could allow the crew to realize that changling impersonating you /isn't/ your lovable character?

If Marshall is consistantly not doing her accent, that's not Marshall.

Psyentific · Post by **Psyentific** » Tue May 20, 2014 6:37 pm #7463

Thunder11 wrote:
Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?
Jazmin would be working for a PMC, most likely. Gotta be a PMC, traditional militaries have these awful things called rules of engagement.

They're not war crimes if you're not at war!
They're not crimes against humanity if they're not human!

420goslingboy69 · Tue May 20, 2014 6:46 pm

Lovecraft wrote:If you had to place your character in the modern day, and give them a modern day job, what would it be?

With zero education, Autumn couldn't really get a meaningful job, despite knowing how to do basic surgery, medicine, and the ins and outs of drugs. So, she'd basically be a criminal, most likely or that therapist she always wanted to be.

danno · Post by **danno** » Tue May 20, 2014 7:39 pm #7481

grouch would be a loose cannon detective or more realistically a super villain
jane west would be CMO in some place still

ThoughtSynapsis · Wed May 21, 2014 1:12 am

Here's a question, What's your sphessmens's financial standing? Are the filthy rich like Finster? Or do they struggle to make it by?

Rigel's actually fairly wealthy, But he hate's to consider himself rich. He earned a large constant sum of cash off of the creation and maintenance of a few A.I''s, Along with a few smaller contributions.

420goslingboy69 · Wed May 21, 2014 1:20 am

ThoughtSynapsis wrote:Here's a question, What's your sphessmens's financial standing? Are the filthy rich like Finster? Or do they struggle to make it by?

Rigel's actually fairly wealthy, But he hate's to consider himself rich. He earned a large constant sum of cash off of the creation and maintenance of a few A.I''s, Along with a few smaller contributions.

poor as the dirt she was born in

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Wed May 21, 2014 1:34 am #7587

ThoughtSynapsis wrote:Here's a question, What's your sphessmens's financial standing? Are the filthy rich like Finster? Or do they struggle to make it by?

In the stories I wrote as a kid, August owned an entire solar system directly and over half the galaxy indirectly.
His businesses produced everything. He was nearly unstoppable, had it not been for those pesky McCoy twins foiling his evil schemes!
Though in the Spessmen lore August is just a trillionaire with a few successful companies, nothing special.

Neerti · Post by **Neerti** » Wed May 21, 2014 1:35 am #7588

AIs have little use for human currency.

Pandarsenic · Post by **Pandarsenic** » Wed May 21, 2014 2:01 am #7594

ThoughtSynapsis wrote:Here's a question, What's your sphessmens's financial standing? Are the filthy rich like Finster? Or do they struggle to make it by?

Rigel's actually fairly wealthy, But he hate's to consider himself rich. He earned a large constant sum of cash off of the creation and maintenance of a few A.I''s, Along with a few smaller contributions like blackmailing Selene Avery, you monster.

Selene Avery is reasonably well-off, save for the debts she racks up to the Spider Clan, which she pays off by working for the Syndicate, etc., and the hush money she pays to Johnathan Rigel.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Wed May 21, 2014 3:01 am #7611

How old is Rigel again I've seen arguments icly about his medical records being wrong like 50 times.

ThoughtSynapsis · Wed May 21, 2014 3:24 am

Pandarsenic wrote: and the hush money she pays to Johnathan Rigel.

This is now cannon, I am going to have fun with this.

paprika wrote:How old is Rigel again I've seen arguments icly about his medical records being wrong like 50 times.

He's Thirty years old.

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paprika · Post by **paprika** » Wed May 21, 2014 3:30 am #7627

Mat13295 · Post by **Mat13295** » Wed May 21, 2014 5:35 am #7665

Ashlyn would work as a general surgeon in a local hospital.

Money wise she doesn't spend much and lives in a small, cheap apartment and mostly lives like a college student but with an actual income

If she isn't moping about or muttering in Russian to herself/screaming obscenities in Ruskie at someone, lynch she

Mandurrrh · Post by **Mandurrrh** » Wed May 21, 2014 5:40 am #7666

ThoughtSynapsis wrote:Here's a question, What's your sphessmens's financial standing? Are the filthy rich like Finster? Or do they struggle to make it by?

Kenzie would be what would be considered modernday upper middle class. She makes good money with robotics and works a lot to support herself and her son. But shes definitely not rich by any means.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Wed May 21, 2014 5:59 am #7669

ThoughtSynapsis wrote:Here's a question, What's your sphessmens's financial standing? Are the filthy rich like Finster? Or do they struggle to make it by?

Molly is pretty much a penny pinching, ramen eating hippie so he tries to sneak meals/supplies off of NT space stations to bring back home to his residence on a poor colony junker almost every shift. He will never be able to afford a wedding.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Wed May 21, 2014 6:07 am #7674

who would he get married to

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Wed May 21, 2014 6:11 am #7679

That's none of your business.

Spoiler: