» Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:43 am
She's always gotten short shrift compared to some of my other female characters, and did again today when she was one of the ones I sort of grudgingly chose not to post on the Hot or Not thread, so here's http://i49.tinypic.com/xcrfo7.jpg.....
She was actually my first female character. She was the one (inspired in large part by Acadian and Buffy) that opened me up to roleplaying, or at least roleplaying in the way I look at it now. Before her, I'd always played more or less myself in games (well-- obviously a buffer, more handsome and more terrifying version of myself), but with her, I learned how to create a character wholly separate from myself and just follow along while she did wanted to do, which required figuring out who she was and what she'd want to do.
Probably not surprisingly, she sort of wandered to and fro, trying on this and that as I tried to get a handle on this whole idea of playing an entirely separate person with her own personality. But that actually worked out fine (and that's a part of this whole thing-- if you just let the character have its own way, it always works out fine-- whoever they turn out to be is who they turn out to be). It just became a part of her personality that she really http://img20.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=92101_claudiasmilinginbravil_122_578lo.jpg, and is almost always willing to do what she can to help them out, but she also has a sort of short attention span and is http://i49.tinypic.com/2n6x9mu.jpg. Luckily, she has an extremely slow build. At this point, she really only has two majors that she uses at all, though she has a couple of others that she could choose to use if she wanted to. The upshot of that is that over 120 hours into the game, she's only level 10. She's done most of the obvious side quests, all of the MG recommendations, has gone into Shivering Isles and wandered around a bit, decided she didn't really like it and left again, wandered around some more. Then, one day, sort of at loose ends, she happened on a really nice set of http://i50.tinypic.com/nbpzx3.jpg and just from that alone, decided to try her hand at the Thieves Guild. She donned the new outfit, switched her war axe for a heavily enchanted dagger and set about a life of.... well.... crime. Sort of. She wasn't particularly comfortable with the thieving part of it, so she just limited herself to stealing from jerks (like that despicable Alval Uvani), so she was okay with it all in all. And she was extremely http://i50.tinypic.com/28wie4x.jpg.
She was especially thrilled with the happy ending of the Thieves Guild story, but was immediately dismayed to discover that somehow people knew what she'd been doing and they were suspicious of her, or even downright mean to her. Crushed, she decided she had to do something to win back their love and trust. And it was while she was wandering disconsolately over the land, trying to find a way to redeem herself, that she heard about an attack on a chapel, and found herself on the path to recover the http://img230.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=92100_claudiainrelics_122_127lo.jpg and redeem not only herself, but the Knights of the Nine.
At the moment, she's saved outside the door of the Priory of the Nine, ready to form up the knights and go to battle.