What is YOUR personal Story Arc?

[Flamjetxx]

So, many of us create their characters with some sort of an idea behind it, right? I know that every one of my characters have some sort of an idea behind it to make our character have a purpose. Sometimes we attain that goal through keeping active enough and maybe finding some suckers to push the plot along, but many of us let that story Arc fade away until we finally get bored of our character and Archive it.

One of the biggest issue we may run into with getting our personal story Arcs off the ground or even completed is a lack of being able to find dedicated enough RPers willing to stick with the story before disapearing off the site -like what happens with those New to the site that write off of new RPer hype; And when that hype wears off, they just quit the site without a word. Well, like in real life, we need to pitch our ideas to other people with similar interests and give incentive for them to participate in Our Story Arc as much as we participate in Their Story Arc. The ultimate point I am trying to convey here is that we can all work together to combine our story Arcs (if possible) so that we can actually accomplish our goals!

So, I ask you, "What is YOUR story Arc?"

I ask you this in hopes that your personal story Arc can somehow link up with mine, and we can all get what we want out of this.

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Now, I too have a story Arc, and it would be foolish of me to keep it to myself while at the same time I am asking others to share their ideas; So, here we go!

My newest Indie Character, Artello Kulfar, is a Noble from Ord Cantrell (K-6) who has fallen in love with a girl, impregnated her, and lost her to an overprotective family that he is currently at odds against (Romeo and Juliet Story-esque).

There are a lot of motives behind the story and a rather lengthy back story, but here are the basics:
- Artello uses the Sith-Jedi War to conquer his home planet to unify it the hard way.
- Artello also uses this as an excuse to get in touch with the only person that would know where his love and child reside and Force them to reveal their location to him.
- Finally, this will detail his fall to the Dark side and joining the Sith ultimately.

 

[Talon maara]

Well il start the response i guess. Well my first character to mention is Sal. To make it short and sweet, hes a selonian whos come from noble blood and was betrayed by his bestfriend and was exiled to roam the galaxy alone from his people. Well over the years he finally cleared his name by revealing the true nature of the incident but by that time the damage was already done so now he roams around as a mercinary trying to find a place to fit in.

My next is Tic, a jawa. He is a mixed role of sorts. Id say most of all a smuggler of sorts. He has a passion for science and discovery of ancient worlds and artifacts, as well as scavanging and junking anything he can find which in turn this is where the smuggling comes into play. He is usually paid alot of money to go find and discover items he comes across on his journey throughout the galaxy. He is a bit of a scrooge but my intentions are to find him a "crew" aboard his ship that he RPs with over time and he changes throughout their journey. Kinda like an indiana jones/guardians of the galaxy/han solo type of story (ideally anyways)

Now my final is Kip, my neti jedi master. He started off as a powerful sith lord and over the centuries he became very well known and feared by even his peers. But soon he under estimated one of his opponents and was defeated. But the one who defeated him didnt kill him, and infact spared him and turned him to the light side. Now centuries later he became a jedi master and now actually is extremely peaceful and tries to resort to a peaceful means of confrontation first but if and when needed he will not backdown or run from a fight. He currently is one of the jedi swordmasters/blademasters and teaches countless jedi younglings and padawans the art of the saber and how to utilize it simultaneously alongside the force. He takes his trainees to heart and cares for them as if they were his own blood. And yes like stated hes a few centuries old. Lol

 

[Dmitri]

My suggestion is to weave it into the war when you can, when you do war-related things. Rather than "a Sith and Jedi walk into a bar", consider how the thread could possibly impact your personal arc.

 

[Undine]

Personally I don't always have a story arc in mind for a character, but one tends to fall into place as I RP with said character. It stems from how I go about creating new characters. There are only really two ways I do this, I either find a picture or image that inspires me and I build a character around that image, such is how my sith Sarisa came to be, or I see something in the RP's story that inspires an idea, such as it was with Hensar. Akasha is a little different, as I knew I wanted to RP a Jedi, chances are I will always have a Jedi PC, but I wanted to go with a Jedi that was as different as possible from my Jedi last timeline. Thus, Emerald was born.

I'll start the story arc breakdown off with Emerald, or Akasha, as she's the most simple of them to explain. In short, there is no story arc in mind, although one is quickly developing as I've begone RPing her. So far she's either been in or currently being put into a position where she helps troubled young Jedi come to terms with various things, emotional burdens, loss of a loved one, inner darkness. I can see Emerald taking a similar role as An'ya Kuro, taking the most stubborn or most troublesome students under her wing to forge them anew into proper Jedi Knights, all the while, dealing with her own inner darkness. I've only just completed my first thread with Emerald last night yet I feel like I need to revamp her profile already since as it is, it doesn't quite fit the direction Emerald seems to be headed. It's more than possible that I might age her up and eventually seek to get her promoted to master after a few of her students make it to knighthood.

Hensar is the only one of my characters that I have a detailed vision of where I'd like to take him. Where Sarisa was inspired by an image and Emerald inspired by my desire to RP a different type of Jedi, Hensar was inspired by the state of the Mandalorian Dominion. Having just recently conquered the Bothan homeworld, Bothawui, Hensar is an attempt to fill the gap between human mandos and Bothan spies. As a former intelligence officer for the Bothan government, Hensar was in a position to secure a place of good will with the new Mando government by selling out his former comrades. He also admires the Mandalorians, viewing the fall of Bothawui more as the fault of himself and his people then the success of the Mandalorians. In this regard, he seeks to emulate Mandalorian culture, taking it's best aspects to heart and wants to see his people grow and prosper.

Hensar's story arc is simple, he wants to rise in power within his clan, Clan Kana, eventually using his position at the head of this clan to influence Bothan society by improving overall relations between Bothans and Mandalorians. He also wants to change the culture of his clan to be more like that of Mandalorian culture, seeking to become a Mandalorian himself in the process.

Sarisa, as stated multiple times, was inspired by an image, but also by music. My character creation process has three basic steps, first find an image that inspires me, next find music that expresses the character I envision within the image, lastly write that character out, finding the best way to fit that character into the current atmosphere of the timeline. There are a few surprises with Sarisa, which I'd rather reveal via RPing then mentioning here, but she's more of a flavor character then having any true character arc, at least for now. What I mean by flavor character is that while I don't have a plotted out storyline for her, I do have an idea of where I want her to go, it's gonna be a long and traumatic road for her, but again, secrets shall be revealed via RP. I just hope I didn't make her profile to unsettling that no one will want to RP with her.​

 

[Arcangel]

Nunnya business.

 

[Talon maara]

Nunnya business.

"Take over the galaxy" - @Arclight

Its true ive heard him say it

 

[Vinn Esper]

My personal story arc for The Nameless One begins with eating a PC force sensitive character. I have this really awesome idea and I'm hoping to defEAT @Narsi to get it going

 

[Billbo Swaggins]

Hmm - well my up and coming character Anri Astora is a business woman who is currently selling weapons and secure a fortune for her and her family. The plan is to strike a protection deal with every faction out there so she's basically invulnerable while making a shit load of $$$.

Athena Jurir is a mando who lost her clan and is currently trying to rebuild it.

Solaire Thyria is a scrub working for the leader of the Paladins of Mortis - he's probably going to request leave for self-improvement at some point and experience the wide galaxy.

Artorias Ul (archiving him soon unfortunately) is just a GAR trooper. He really doesn't have a purpose nor do I feel that I can easily give him one so i'm archiving him.

 

[Adore To Nowhere]

Although it sort of sounds stupid when I summarize it so shortly, Zisria's goal is simply to kill as many Force-sensitives as she can. (Yep, that's it.)

Obviously there's a lot of motive behind it, of which can be read in my character's profile by clicking on the link in my 'signature,' but to put it in a sort of TL;DR form: Zisria Asama started out training as a Jedi with possibly unlimited potential, but after her mentor was killed she went down a path of "unfortunate events" (like super unfortunate). She came to the conclusion that the Force itself is the embodiment of evil and as a Jedi must destroy it as much as she can. She does this by becoming an assassin that's willing to kill Force-sensitives (Jedi, Sith, etc.) for a pretty hefty price, but she kills them anyways during her free time, so paying her is essentially just pointing her in a certain direction for money. So if you need a Jedi / Sith killed, she's your gal.

I'm not sure how to put this exactly, but let's just say she's a semi-psychotic "femme fatale" berserker that utilizes brutal methods but seems to keep a mostly 'charming' attitude despite her terrible actions and dark past. Oh, and she also has a "second personality" that's the equivalent of a sort of strike of non-thought.

However she also shows signs of both sympathy and maternal nature that I'd like to use to further her development. So that'll probably lead to her coming super close to killing a padawan, or perhaps a Sith apprentice, but ultimately give in to mercy, likely keeping in touch with them as a sort of "guardian."

EDIT: A lot has changed, aspects of this no longer applies and there's a lot more complexity now. I suppose that's unavoidable in character development...

 

[Undine]

So, I finally found inspiration to think up a story arc for my sith, Sarisa, honestly people should be worried.

I intend on doing a write up on Vjun, as it is there is basically nothing about it that is canon, so a lot of room to grow. Since most of it's history in the EU happens during or after the Clone Wars, it shouldn't be to hard to get it approved for use on the site. My goal is to have Sarisa build a sith temple on the planet, dominate the locals, and eventually become the Moff and Queen of Vjun. Afterwards, I plan on starting a sith cult that has it's headquarters in the sith temple/Sarisa's palace.
Then, Sarisa will challenge someone on the Dark Council to a duel to the death, and assuming she survives, she'll be renamed either Darth Arbitra or Darth Vesanu, Dark Witness and Dark Insane respectivly. At the moment, I like Darth Vesanu better. As a Darth I see Sarisa becoming more of a sorceress but not abandoning the inquisitor she already is. I have a few other ideas here and there that would definitely help flesh out this story arc, but alas I must keep them a secret, it wouldn't be right to reveal the surprise(s).

Once I get around to writing up the Vjun planet profile and it's approved, I'll get to work on the story arc to build the temple. Until then, pray Malon denies the planet write up, I intend to do great and horrible things to and with the planet once it's approved.​

 

[Adore To Nowhere]

Sarisa​

Since I saw that you posted because I forgot to unwatch the thread, and the fact that you liked my post earlier, I decided to take a look at your character's profile...

Never. Again.

That was the stuff of nightmares, and I thought my character was "dark." Like seriously, if Slenderman and an actual beast from a night-terror had a baby who was delivered by the satanic version of Virgin Mary, and then that baby grew up to reproduce with the Blair Witch who would later become pregnant with a pair of malnourished creepy twins, your character would be the twin to kill her sister in the womb and then break out like a baby xenomorph from aliens!

>.< I want my character to meet yours so badly but I'm pretty sure they're already traumatized enough...

 

[Undine]

@Adore To Nowhere One of the locations I plan on having at the temple of Vjun once it's built is called the Witnessing Grounds, is a area just outside the temple grounds. It serves as a form of punishment and defensive barrier to keep out unwanted individuals. Those who are deemed unworthy or simply find themselves not in Sarisa's good graces are put there, while others who wish to join Sarisa's cult are put there for a shorter time. Chained at the neck to a rock, the individual is left out in the open, no water, no food, and sooner or later the acidic rains will wash them clean of impurities like lies, clothing, free will, hair, individual thought, and a few layers of skin. These individuals are called Witnesses, they will serve Sarisa and her alone, all other members of her cult will just be thralls, as I intend on turning Sarisa into an Arkanian Energy Vampire. Dark side rituals are fun, yes?

I pull inspiration from many areas for Sarisa, here's one I think you'll like.

As I believe all forms of storytelling are made better with a little, or a lot, of tragedy, I also believe the horror genre is at it's best when it slowly builds, unnerving and unsettling the viewer/reader, even if there is nothing on screen to tell the viewer to be scared they know to, through ambiance, through keywords, and so on. I'm not one for jump scares or gruesome imagery, though both can be used effectively. I've always prefered to build an eerie ambiance around my attempts at horror writing, and while I've never showcased such skills on this site, I have a lengthy history with the genre elsewhere.​