I got stuck for 6 months RP-wise because I tried to force a story on him, so I don’t sweat it now. He’ll let me know if there’s something he wants said.

Actually, reading this has also helped to isolate one of my problems: Every time I write something about Durkon it seems to me like self-insertion fanfic, like I’m trying to write about myself in the third person instead of writing about my character. This is I think because the name of my character is the same as the name I post under. I think I’ve made a mistake identifying myself with my main character’s name.

Thanks for the post, Pike!

Like yourself, I too, feel that Wulf is a slight extension of my persona to a point, as all of my WoW toons or even cartoons I create are. Just one of the fun things about being a cartoonist, professional or not

I don’t roleplay in game, but I will roleplay in my personal journal/stories and illustrations of my toons.

With the introduction of Worgen to the game, I have my own inner conflicts of changing from a Night Elf to a Worgen.

Great post, and very inspiring. <3

So, again, thank you for enough of a thought provoking article to spawn another.

All of my characters have personalities and tidbits of stories, but in the same way I’m not an actress, I’m not really a roleplayer, it seems. But that’s okay, and I decided I like the roleplaying server anyway, even if I’m one of the shy residents.

Honestly the main reason I don’t think Tawyn did it in her backstory, isn’t so much because she thought it was wrong, so much as because I don’t see her as the type of person who has done many “quests” in the first place. She walks alone– she doesn’t do many favors for people.

Klinderas evolved all on his own though: all I did was provide a skeleton. He eventually fleshed out to be arrogant, a bit racist, and heavily vindictive at times.

But he also managed to earn a very accurate moral compass, have a powerful sense of what was just, and to put aside his faults when it really mattered in order to get the job properly done. He was a good guy, but an asshole.

His character was something I really enjoyed playing with: and like you said, the WoW questing is only an outline. Tawyn may not have done the torture quest, but Klinderas sure as hell did, and with relish since he hated what the Blue dragonflight had done to the area by murdering scores of innocent tuskar and nearly killing him a few times.

I wouldn’t ever torture, but I can imagine that Klinderas would have. It’s something about him that would never be me.

Klinderas, the character I’m not, is the reason why I find it hard to quit WoW.

I will never forget Llyrra’s emotional and mental anguish when sent to the Nexus to free Keristrasza… and when she finally faced Malygos, a rage so violent, so intense rose to the surface, I did not recognized her. Her disgust at the Blood is Thicker fishing quest… the comfort she finds in the sound of the mechanical Yeti running around Everlook.

Little things revealed that start to complete a picture. I don’t role play either but my toons all have a reason for finding me. Overtime, they’ll let me know just what that reason is.