" What is a character?
To me a character is a piece of you. The character is some part of your deep subconscious mind begging to be it's own person. You are fascinated with that character, you make up stories and give it life in your mind, and your greatest joy is when you draw or write that character to life for everyone to see. Because the more people”know” your character, the more real he or she is. Characters, your “official” ones, travel with you everywhere and grow and evolve as you do. They mature, they get older as you get older. I wonder if they die with you too. "


Very wise words from

Her journal also prompted me to make on myself. I have more characters than there are stars, so for your attention spans' sake i'll only use Gabriel, and the main characters from "Redeamable".






Gabriel :

Obviously my favorite and most prized character. I draw him the most and include him in the most stories. I worry about how many people will react to this if they never heard me say it in the last journal, but "Gabriel" is also a sort of manifestation of emotions and insecurities inside me.

Or rather that's what i'm calling him for lack of a textbook definition. An easier to understand but not quite accurate label would be "A Multiple Personality". Though the traits he has and the traits to that particular ailment are not the same at all. It's complicated.

Simple to say Gabriel is my most personal character because he is my biggest secret. Only my close friends know about him.
In stories and pictures I feel alive when I involve him. I can invoke emotions and feelings that are not only mine, but his. He's incredibly personal to me as you can tell, and as a character he represents to me the part of him in my head I can't show the world outside of art.





Kaitlynn :


To me Kaitlynn is hard to really pinpoint. She's a bit of a ditz, but I really wouldn't call her stupid. In the re-do of Redeamable I made her more down to earth and a bit smarter. She's more reckless than she is thoughtless. For me I put a lot of the things I can't have, and the things i'm not into her.

I don't have lots of money or nice things, I don't live alone or have a father. For Kaitlynn, she has plenty of financial assistance from her crazy aunt, she lives alone, and her father was her only parent for a long while before her death.

I try and make her everything I used to hate, but a nice version of it. I used to hate blonde girls who were pretty, or had money. I gave those traits to Kaitlynn, along with a nice personality as a way to prove not all blonde girls are naturally mean.




Azriel :


The typical grouch. I usually go for the loner-type for the main male character, but in Az's case I went more for the cranky type. I didn't want to make him depressed or needy either, so instead he's more of a tactless, blunt jerk.
Yet for his case he doesn't really understand when he's being mean.

For him as a character I wanted a older seeming person, and aimed for a guy who looks pretty young, but acts like an older man. Kind of like a father/older brother type.




Writ :

Writ was my first attempt at a mopey male character. I had tried at depressing, but Writ was my first sorrowful romantic.

He's a bit of a pushover, but can do decent damage when pushed far enough. If human I can see him being the dorky kid in the AV club that even the nerds pick on. He simply has no spine against bad people.

Especially post-Natallie, because he doesn't feel any desire to stand up for himself after what uh..."happens" with her.



Sparks :


You know that friend that snorts pixie sticks, talks too fast, and does the really stupid things "just cause"? Yeah, that's what I aimed to make Sparks.
He's the typical nice-guy with a raver's taste in style and fashion. I wanted to give him a carefree attitude, though he's so oblivious he tends to come out and say things that can be offensive or egg people on.

All in all he's really strong, but you wouldn't really expect it since he's such a careless goofball.



Raith :

Originally Raith was meant to be the main bad guy. But I ended up liking him so much he joined the crew as a regular character.

He's a totally pervert, but knows where to draw the line with things. He's cunning, an next to Azriel the strongest of them all. He has a huge distaste for Az that gets in the way of things.

Although he likes Kaitlynn he's so much of a womanizer no one takes his real emotions seriously. For Raith I wanted a perv character with a heart. I didn't really pour much of myself into him, but I do try and let go of a bit of my perverted side a bit when I write about him.




I would talk about Artemis, the Gabe in Redeamable (two completely different characters) and even Rent some, but my fingers hurt and i'm dead tired.

I know this wasn't really like Vivid's journal at all ( xD; Oops ) but I still enjoyed it. I want to try and add more of myself into those characters now, to. -nod nod-



But first I wanna go finish the book I bought. ^^