How I Made Redd~
So, today I was asked in chat as to how and why I made Redd and so, instead of making some bull-crap right on the spot, I decided to voluntarily write 1,000+ words as to how and why I made my character, Redd. As is follows~
Redd was made for many specific reasons, but she was only born from two main ones. I had a strong liking for wolves, in fact I was going through a craze where I would watch or fan-girl, so to speak, over wolf images. So I wanted a character that could shift into a wolf. After much procrastinating, because I couldn’t actual decide as to whether I wanted to be a ghost or a kelvic, I chose kelvic. Why did I choose to be a kelvic? Because not only could they shift into animals, but they bonded with an actual bond which made them very unique in their own right. I also liked the fact that they were always seeking for some kind of connection because of this urge to bond, to find this person where they would instantly be able to connect with. Their aging process worried me a little because I wanted a character that would last for a while, but I now know that the chances of someone actually threading for more than six years is pretty slim. However! I hope to still be threading in six years, if I can manage to keep people around for Redd to thread with.
Now, I know that I mentioned in chat, that I also chose Redd to be kelvic because I have a deep seated love for animals. While it is true that I could have chosen Animal Husbandry as a skill for a normal character, I also had an affinity for trying to think as to why an animal may or may not do the things they do. I liked to try and get inside their minds, to see things from their point of view, to experiences things and question it, to show curiousity and possibly get burned from it, or injured from that type of curiousity. I also liked the idea of trying to show things, to try and describe to people as to how someone who has a human mind and body, may react when all they have really known is the life of an animal. That idea really popped up inside my mind and it struck me to the core, so I wanted to try and do this. To build a character, that experienced life as an animal, only to be thrust into the world of human beings, of people that live in the cities. To be someone, who knows how to be more of an animal than man. To be a stranger to civilization and to question every move that a human may make, to be someone, who doesn’t understand why material objects are so important to some people when a simple life could be had instead.
So after-wards, I had to develop a history that would not only make Redd run into the wilds, but also have a dis-trust of humans and their motives. So I came up with the idea of Redd having a human mother who couldn’t understand at first that her own daughter was kelvic, that Redd’s father had been a kelvic. So when Redd had first shifted into her wolf form, which she was only a pup in appearance, her mother freaked and had literally kicked the child that she did not understand, out the door. Now while that could have been a simple enough cause to have distrust of humans and their activities develop there, I also wanted to have the fact that Redd was also chased out of the city by children, also planting the seed of hate and anger there as well. A cause that would keep her away from the cities and from away humans long enough until she hit the three year mark. She would have also been young enough where, her doubting mother probably wouldn’t have named her, until she was sure that the child she had birth was not some creation of evil. Which is why Redd had disappeared into the wilds and named herself after her coat colour, as Redd. I was thinking that seeing as she couldn’t read or write, that adding an extra ‘d’ or something would make her feel as though that is what her name should look like when written. I don’t know, I haven’t exactly gotten that far down the written path of her life.
Her skills, well they were fairly simple to choose really, seeing as being as a wolf, she did need to have some kind of wilderness survival, some hunting which she would have learned from the pack of wolves that she joined. Foraging for when she was a pup and she would have had to have eaten something for her teeth wouldn’t have been fully developed at the age of two months, so she would have had to of eaten something like berries. While although wolves are primarily meat eaters, they have also been known to eat other things such as berries, especially when they cannot find a great deal in the way of meat. I also threw in tracking because she would have helped and learned a little bit in these skills for when she went hunting with the pack. Indeed! She was apart of a pack for a while. I wanted her to be in that pack so then she could settle into a more animalistic mind-frame, where she would see things more from an animal’s point of view, than that of a human’s, especially when she suddenly found herself in her world. In fact, her previous master found it easier for him to use the pack of wolves as reference in many of his explanations while trying to describe civilization.
In truth, I absolutely adore this character, because she is constantly questioning things and I made her so then, when she finds herself in trouble, she could always fall back onto the more primal instincts, which is survival. She had to survive as a pup on her own for so long and she almost perished because of it, almost died of starvation because she hadn’t experienced that until then. So when she suddenly finds that her master has left her behind with no food in a thread, she is able to recognize the signs of hunger, the familiar hollow feeling within her stomach and the strength that would soon leave her body. She knew that one thing would lead after another and eventually she would find herself back in the same position that she had once found herself in during a winter season. Half starving, cold and barely able to keep conscious. Which led to her attacking a human because he wouldn’t give her the food to survive, so she fell back onto the familiar and basic knowledge of, “Survival of the fittest.”
All of this, her basic instincts, her lack of a pack and lack of knowledge, made her become some-what a lone wolf, she sees herself as a lone wolf and that is what I wanted. A kelvic denied to truly become a part of a pack because she is also human, even though she considers herself more wolf than human. Not only that, but she is also denied from ever truly fitting in with the human civilization because she does not understand it and also because of her kelvic nature. Hench the catch phrase, ‘The Lone Wolf’ Now, with Redd, I also wanted her to be loyal in nature, not just because of the bonding thing, but because she wants to serve those that she trusts, she wants to serve those that deserves her loyalties. So after every time that she finds herself in a situation where her loyalties were mis-placed, a sense of loneliness also comes into play and she struggles with that fact. She feels like she cannot find some place, to call home, to find someone that she can truly trust in, to find someone, that will just simply accept her for who she truly is. All she wants, is to be accepted and that, is her over-all wish.
~So, now you know my reasoning and such behind Redd, feel free to drop any more questions down below. Once I have enough questions, I'll do up another post and I shall answer them as best as I possible can.
~Zebra
Redd was made for many specific reasons, but she was only born from two main ones. I had a strong liking for wolves, in fact I was going through a craze where I would watch or fan-girl, so to speak, over wolf images. So I wanted a character that could shift into a wolf. After much procrastinating, because I couldn’t actual decide as to whether I wanted to be a ghost or a kelvic, I chose kelvic. Why did I choose to be a kelvic? Because not only could they shift into animals, but they bonded with an actual bond which made them very unique in their own right. I also liked the fact that they were always seeking for some kind of connection because of this urge to bond, to find this person where they would instantly be able to connect with. Their aging process worried me a little because I wanted a character that would last for a while, but I now know that the chances of someone actually threading for more than six years is pretty slim. However! I hope to still be threading in six years, if I can manage to keep people around for Redd to thread with.
Now, I know that I mentioned in chat, that I also chose Redd to be kelvic because I have a deep seated love for animals. While it is true that I could have chosen Animal Husbandry as a skill for a normal character, I also had an affinity for trying to think as to why an animal may or may not do the things they do. I liked to try and get inside their minds, to see things from their point of view, to experiences things and question it, to show curiousity and possibly get burned from it, or injured from that type of curiousity. I also liked the idea of trying to show things, to try and describe to people as to how someone who has a human mind and body, may react when all they have really known is the life of an animal. That idea really popped up inside my mind and it struck me to the core, so I wanted to try and do this. To build a character, that experienced life as an animal, only to be thrust into the world of human beings, of people that live in the cities. To be someone, who knows how to be more of an animal than man. To be a stranger to civilization and to question every move that a human may make, to be someone, who doesn’t understand why material objects are so important to some people when a simple life could be had instead.
So after-wards, I had to develop a history that would not only make Redd run into the wilds, but also have a dis-trust of humans and their motives. So I came up with the idea of Redd having a human mother who couldn’t understand at first that her own daughter was kelvic, that Redd’s father had been a kelvic. So when Redd had first shifted into her wolf form, which she was only a pup in appearance, her mother freaked and had literally kicked the child that she did not understand, out the door. Now while that could have been a simple enough cause to have distrust of humans and their activities develop there, I also wanted to have the fact that Redd was also chased out of the city by children, also planting the seed of hate and anger there as well. A cause that would keep her away from the cities and from away humans long enough until she hit the three year mark. She would have also been young enough where, her doubting mother probably wouldn’t have named her, until she was sure that the child she had birth was not some creation of evil. Which is why Redd had disappeared into the wilds and named herself after her coat colour, as Redd. I was thinking that seeing as she couldn’t read or write, that adding an extra ‘d’ or something would make her feel as though that is what her name should look like when written. I don’t know, I haven’t exactly gotten that far down the written path of her life.
Her skills, well they were fairly simple to choose really, seeing as being as a wolf, she did need to have some kind of wilderness survival, some hunting which she would have learned from the pack of wolves that she joined. Foraging for when she was a pup and she would have had to have eaten something for her teeth wouldn’t have been fully developed at the age of two months, so she would have had to of eaten something like berries. While although wolves are primarily meat eaters, they have also been known to eat other things such as berries, especially when they cannot find a great deal in the way of meat. I also threw in tracking because she would have helped and learned a little bit in these skills for when she went hunting with the pack. Indeed! She was apart of a pack for a while. I wanted her to be in that pack so then she could settle into a more animalistic mind-frame, where she would see things more from an animal’s point of view, than that of a human’s, especially when she suddenly found herself in her world. In fact, her previous master found it easier for him to use the pack of wolves as reference in many of his explanations while trying to describe civilization.
In truth, I absolutely adore this character, because she is constantly questioning things and I made her so then, when she finds herself in trouble, she could always fall back onto the more primal instincts, which is survival. She had to survive as a pup on her own for so long and she almost perished because of it, almost died of starvation because she hadn’t experienced that until then. So when she suddenly finds that her master has left her behind with no food in a thread, she is able to recognize the signs of hunger, the familiar hollow feeling within her stomach and the strength that would soon leave her body. She knew that one thing would lead after another and eventually she would find herself back in the same position that she had once found herself in during a winter season. Half starving, cold and barely able to keep conscious. Which led to her attacking a human because he wouldn’t give her the food to survive, so she fell back onto the familiar and basic knowledge of, “Survival of the fittest.”
All of this, her basic instincts, her lack of a pack and lack of knowledge, made her become some-what a lone wolf, she sees herself as a lone wolf and that is what I wanted. A kelvic denied to truly become a part of a pack because she is also human, even though she considers herself more wolf than human. Not only that, but she is also denied from ever truly fitting in with the human civilization because she does not understand it and also because of her kelvic nature. Hench the catch phrase, ‘The Lone Wolf’ Now, with Redd, I also wanted her to be loyal in nature, not just because of the bonding thing, but because she wants to serve those that she trusts, she wants to serve those that deserves her loyalties. So after every time that she finds herself in a situation where her loyalties were mis-placed, a sense of loneliness also comes into play and she struggles with that fact. She feels like she cannot find some place, to call home, to find someone that she can truly trust in, to find someone, that will just simply accept her for who she truly is. All she wants, is to be accepted and that, is her over-all wish.
~So, now you know my reasoning and such behind Redd, feel free to drop any more questions down below. Once I have enough questions, I'll do up another post and I shall answer them as best as I possible can.
~Zebra