Things that inspired your character's role in the MxO.

iceman6074

Sykin wrote:
The past entries here have been great to read. I especially like your story, Iceman (Or Treil, heh). Smith needs some love, too!

Dangit, I just noticed I spelled my own name wrong.

"BANG", Triel shoots himself

**Croyez1**

Quite simply put the life of Croyez inside The Matrix is basically myself.
I lead a normal life in The Matrix until the age of 20 when I was given the choice and therefore was released from The Matrix.

Since that day every action I have taken inside The Matrix has been an extension of my life.

Basically when I'm jacked in and am operating in The Matrix I remember many things.
The war, the false reality, the lies, Neo's sacrifice, the current truce, who can I trust and who can't I trust... As well as many other things.

Then every action I take is drawn from my own personal reaction to the questions above.
Always asking myself...

What shall I do?
What can I do?
Where is this going?
Where will it end?

Fygment

Oh, good topic.

Well, the name Fygment came about because, honestly, I couldn't use the name Figment. My base concept way back in March was to have her be a Master Shadow and I thought the handle would be appropriate. Over time, though, as my thing with the Masked blossomed someone had asked if it was a contraction of an appropriate phrase that'd describe what I was doing: F***YourGovernMENT. I only wish I was that witty way back when!

As for character concept I wanted to create something a little different than the other player characters I had come across. I knew I didn't want to be an average redpill, and I knew that I didn't want an 'Uber' character either, so after a bit of thinking I came up with the idea that I wanted a character that blended the then Three Organizations. That is, someone who combined Machine, Merovingian, and Zion, and also someone that had a bit of history as an observer from the last instance of the Matrix as shown in my posts One-Four.

Some of Fygments personality traits I derived from myself, namely the desire to be heard and to leave a lasting imprint, her fear of losing friends, somewhat bitchy attitude, and self consciousness.

To balance and set myself apart from other people who had some biomechanics, I decided that I wanted something a bit more realistic and something of duality so I made her incredibly frail, failing, and fragile (dying), in the real. Could you live when over half of your flesh had been replaced by somewhat alien technology? I thought it'd be more realistic if you couldn't and every moment spent in the Real would be a hellish experience. So I doomed my character a couple months after playing, 'cause I thought it was interesting :robottongue:

I don't know what my other inspirations were, as its 5:30 in the morning at the moment and I want to sleep.

Sykin

Hehe, good post, Fygment!

...It's interesting to see you back. Now there's tons of conspiracy theories on whether or not you are just logging in to email your stuff to an alt or... Something more...

SMILEY

jofaty2000 · 01/25/2006 05:28:10

Mesa is the remainder of the sum of an equation which in fact led you to this thread. Ergo, he cannot be described in one simple sentence:

I wanted a character who blended what I thought made myself unique, including weakness, as well as what I thought a series of my "heroes" would be like if they were in a similar situation. From myself I drew the fact that Mesa can adapt and be fully confident in whatever he is doing. He can change on a dime and in at least his eyes, justify it. However, as you can obviously tell this could also be a drawback. I also took from myself the skill I (pretend) to have in dealing with every type of person you can think of. Some people don't like Mesa, but he is approachable by all.

I didn't really take any personality traits from other persons. I figured that if I was going to be playing as Mesa, I would end up acting like myself anyway. With that said though, I do tend to throw in actions based on how I think a character would act in my situation. Sort of a...WWXD... kind of idea. Those influences include: my all time hero Jake Burton (if you know who he is then..YES believe it or not I have included him), James Bond, Any character from The Sting, and plenty of others. I try to keep away from being someone else though, what you see is pretty much what I am.

I also like to toss in reference to religions, because I myself am not very religious. Mesa you could say, has that taste for religion for a little bit of irony.

If you ever get a chance to find the ONE back story I ever posted, almost everything is drawn from real life experience also...

Message Edited by Mesajeri on 01-25-200605:28 AM