User:Livi en Rose/Sandbox/Character Planning


 * a place to develop and plan characters


 * a reminder to self: connect histories to personality. go all nature-nurture for them.

doormat

 * i'm ??? at her rn bc has literally no personality other than being nice lol
 * sommeil fit her though
 * like you can say that because she had literally nothing going on for her and she's basically useless that she got depressed
 * no offense but she's my hinata char LMAOOOO
 * except that hinata had desire to become stronger as a character because of her father's rejection of her
 * iliana literally only had her mother
 * though due to the death of her mother, iliana had to step up and become a second mother to her younger siblings
 * especially due to parental emotional abandonment for awhile due to sokratis going into a deep depression after jinhee's death.
 * sokratis went ahead and pulled the katniss' mom card
 * she's like a primrose having to be a katniss
 * but tbh she does her job well
 * i would say that the michelakakis family only stayed together emotionally because of iliana's efforts to keep them together
 * for example, during the whole dimitris/sokratis drama over his engagement, iliana helped mediate the relationship between the two
 * she is calm, level-headed during negotiations and arguments.
 * you must've really fucked up if you get iliana michelakakis angry
 * beyond that i'm ??? at her
 * she must be pretty charming in order to have eight fellow stubborn michelakakises c: at her no matter what
 * also her voice is sweet, kinda like joy of red velvet's.
 * a reminder that she was also sent to live with kae grandparents and that she attended mahoutokoro.
 * she's the best korean speaker out of the nine michelakakis children.
 * i feel like iliana might feel kinda different from the resr of her family is that regard honestly.
 * the dynamics of the michelakakis family really makes her...lonely.
 * her psudo-role of second mother means that her younger siblings regard her as just that
 * even dimitris kinda treats her as if she was his mother in the way she does things for him
 * and i feel that her mother role is really the one that made me relate her to Sommeil.
 * iliana definitely isn't appreciated enough for the shit she pulls for her family and she had to be thrust into the mother role which she has never exited since
 * like her younger siblings are totally "you're not my mom" when she worries and goes against them and it toally hurts because she really isn't but they have no one else and she can't help but put that role on as the eldest daughter
 * and she clings to it because she was never really allowed to pursue anything else
 * and she was put into the same 'manage household' position by her grandparents like they did to jinhee
 * i don't think anyone really expected much out of iliana
 * me included, even as her own roleplayer
 * iliana is sweet by nature.
 * and i think i'm doing wrong by putting her in a box just like everyone else did.
 * i think that sommeil stood out to me as iliana's song because it talks about a man that has everything but can't sleep because of depression.
 * iliana is seen as dependable because she really is. she's an expert at managing things to a t. however she's also a big people pleaser and that totally brings her down because she strives to make others happy even at the expense of her own happiness.
 * iliana in reality suffers from depression and minor insomnia. she constantly feels useless due to her lack of any skills or hobbies. not only is she keot busy by her own children, she still feels the need to worry about her siblings even though they can totally take care of themselves.
 * her minor insomnia is brought on by the fact that she constantly overthinks all of her issues and genuinely hates herself.
 * she stays silent about these matters because she feels that her feelings aren't important enough to be discussed and because she feels guilty about feeling this way in the first place.
 * in fact, iliana wears a mask that hides her true feelings about everything and just smiles and say that she's all good.
 * but her depression is serious enough to warrant suicide because she feels that fucking useless to the world.
 * she seriously wants to die because she feels that she serves no purpose in this world and that even if she does try that she is never appreciated for her efforts and is ignored.
 * the way she cares about what other people think also means that she also feels shitty if she tries taking up a hobby - she will constantly compare herself to others and hate herself for being shit at what she's doing.
 * her intense feelings of guilt also tug at her violently. on one hand, she is guilty for feeling her depression because she feels that with everything that she has, she is not allowed to feel depressed when others are going through much worse. on the other hand, she is guilty that she wants to commit suicide because she is useless despite everything.
 * from a ooc point of view i feel like this is rly the best course of action for me to take as a roleplayer because i geninuely understand her as a characarer enough for her to stay. her depression also means that I don't really need to hc that many hobbies/skills because she simply isn't interested. her personality can also be scarse because of her depression and grow when she eventually lets it out and starts recovering.
 * iliana's hair is short because it is easier to take care of than long hair - a testament to her growing depression as diminished self-care is a sign of it.
 * basically iliana's depression is a direct cause of being denied the chance to create her own distince role during her formulative years and being fit into the box her mother occupied. therfore, she has no personal identity and feels useless as a result.
 * okay pretty much got personality done just gotta do her mahoutokoro history and stuff

seunghyun

 * IDK HE'S HARD TOO
 * like his history is fine and i can explain the impact people such as sena had on his personality
 * and why england was such a good place for him to develop
 * but me trying to write his personality is hell lmao
 * he really likes peaches though
 * and he's a rly laid back auror considering that levi is his best friend and he's literally in the kkangpae
 * he also fucked feli even though feli was underage
 * but then again, feli asked to be fucked and has enormous daddy issues
 * also he's oblivious to haru's feelings for him and is lowkey amused by naga's antics to try and date him
 * you can say he's oblivious because he was actually a rly good kid at heart and wants to ignore the bad to focus on the good which he never really got except from his mother
 * it's just that the way his parents each favored a twin and hated each other rly fucked up the family environment
 * a mixed product of nature and nurture

rich dick

 * fammmmm
 * you're easily super fucking complex and i never even showcase that
 * let's go
 * theofanis michelakakis's personality was born and shaped
 * there are traits of his that are:
 * his since birth - he can't ever change them, he's just like that (his natural charm, extroverted self, and mischievous tendencies)
 * traits he used to have but grew out of or someone/some event helped it grow out of him
 * traits that he still has but its influence on him has decreased (example: he's still a rash and stubborn person, but through dating yoon-oh he has learned to control each trait)
 * traits that he gained through experience and through interactions with other people
 * there are three key things that transformed his life and made him the person he is today
 * being born wealthy: theo was born into a high-class, wealthy family. from the start, he was living a life of luxury. homes across the globe, designer baby clothes, the highest of technology - theo has it all. however, his parents were no princess diana. he legitimately never really interacted with normal people until he entered beauxbatons, and even then all of his friends come from high-class backgrounds. he has the mentality of a european king - that he was entitled to all of this because it's just how life is. he was born rich, he should wear it as a badge of honor.
 * another note I'd like to make on to this is that although Jinhee is a sweetheart, she totally isn't the type of mother Princess Diana was. She was a sheltered maknae daughter that just happened to have the sweetest of hearts. She was totally clueless and would've been unaccustomed to any sort of lifestyle that wasn't the wealthy one she had grown up in. I'm totally going to diss Jinhee here - I always said she was really sweet, not really smart. She was seriously totally clueless to things normal people did and probably would've had major culture shock if she ever went to somewhere like Disneyland where she had to wait in line like everyone else. This is due to her own growing up in a wealthy lifestyle, but the fact that her father really appreciated having another girl to marry off for good connections. A lot of the efficiency that she was known for as the Michelakakis wife was because she was very good at managing a household because that was expected of her. Sure, she was an extremely kind madame but she knew that her servants were servants and that they were there to help her. And a wealthy woman with nine children - that easily meant a team of nannies. The reason the Michelakakis children were fluent in English and French yet are shit in Korean was because their nannies were British and French and that's a testament to how little time Jinhee actually spent with them. Sure, she took a way more active role than other mothers because she genuinely was interested in actually mothering them - but she also had to juggle that with being the queen of her household.
 * I'd even argue that Sokratis was the more 'accepting' one of the duo. He's totally more of the Princess Diana type of parent, but he never really had the chance to showcase that. His father's premature death meant that he was thrust into a role that he ideally should've had more time to prepare for. A lot of the time, he was away because he fucked up something due to inexperience and he had to fix it. Sokratis was someone who was always dealing with something and he didn't want to but he did it because he's You see him being the more attentive parent he should've been raising poly/lavri/sara.
 * dating gwynfor blair: damn
 * dating ahn yoon-oh: AHN YOON-OH CHOSE TO DATE THEO EVEN WHEN HE'S FUCKED UP NUMEROUS TIMES AND NEARLY LEFT HIM TO GO BACK TO GWYNFOR OF ALL OF PEOPLE. also you can say that theo wanting to go back to gwynfor was a cue for him wanting to go back to his old ways and that by staying with yoon-oh, he finally accepted that the past is the past and that'll only look ahead at the future and his new growth.
 * note to self: theo dated gwynfor from the time he was fifteen to the time he was seventeen. theo dated yoon-oh from the time he was seventeen (oooo you see that overlap with gwynfor right there? theo's not all that innocent!) to the time he was nineteen. i would even go as to say that in present-date easm time, theo and yoon-oh's break up is as recent as a few weeks ago.
 * note to self: remember that gwynfor, theo, and yoon-oh's favorite alcoholic drinks are the same: an Old Fashioned. also that they all have to deal with split identities - gwynfor and theo through mixed-race/nationalities and yoon-oh being raised in a high-class environment despite being an outsider to that environment. and they all have at least one parent deceased.
 * i would even hc that they've all met each other at the same time.
 * theo has famously dated men that have parallels with each other, as discussed above. the fact that vasi is vastly different from all of his previous baes symbolizes the fact of Komorebi being a new beginning for him. it's also the first test of a relationship with someone since the completion of his personality kinks.
 * another note to self: Getaway Car by Taylor Swift is important.
 * actually Taylor Swift is insanely important to my understanding of Theo as a character. No joke, a lot of his personality comes from things I've heard in songs that relate insanely well to Theo. i'm fully convinced that taylor swift is the female ver. of theo.
 * theo being rash conflicts with his tendencies to be cautious.
 * THEO IS HIGHLY IDEALISTIC OMG and he thinks wayyy too much


 * so it's gonna be forever, or it's gonna go down in flames - theo legits goes into relationships thinking they're going to get married a la gwynfor or it'll all turn to shit in the end a la yoon-oh
 * also as you can see he's totally sokratis' son okay. the whole mess with gwynfor/yoon-oh was his version of sokratis' dumping galatea for jinhee
 * he'll never admit to taeyang that he lowkey hated him at first because he thought that taeyang was gonna steal away yoon-oh

luca

 * boi if nature vs nurture is an argument that needs to be proved, then luca is the poster child for nature.
 * with how fucked up his life was, he still smiles

feli

 * the twins are structured as good vs bad
 * in reality this stems from luca being my soft, idealistic side and feli being my more shitty side
 * being good is rly tiring actually
 * this is why feli is my favorite oops
 * i like being able to bring out my darker side through him and he's much more exciting as a character than luca
 * also he's cute so
 * anyway feli is totally the poster child for nurture
 * his personality has taken a major change due to the big events in his life.
 * legit losing his dad was the Worst Thing Ever
 * he's petty af
 * also song: taylor swift - wildest dreams

darae

 * bi darae is highkey inspirted by the aesthetic that i wanna give off
 * oof ouch
 * anyway i love darae a lottt
 * like she's hella confident and aesthetic af
 * she's part of the art club
 * probably also part of the newspaper club

poly

 * i legit forgot you exist.
 * oops

lavri

 * above, I'm talking about how the michelakakis children are fluent in English and French because their nannies came from there. i can say for lavri that he adjusted better than his older siblings to no jinhee because to him, the nannies basically are his mother and he never really got the chance to actually bond with jinhee.
 * another reason to why lavri is closer to his father than his older siblings was because he couldn't remember his father not being there.
 * Sokratis was more of an active parent to Poly/Lavri/Sara because they're young enough from the other Michelakakis children that he was really able to bond with them closely while his older children were away at their magical school - as well as young enough to not harbor resentment because of his emotional breakdown.
 * this is totally also why he's not fluent at all in korean aside from words and phrases. jinhee wasn't there to teach him and his siblings used other languages more in their conversations.

hyeji

 * song: welcome to new york - taylor swift
 * in the great gatsby, nyc stood as a symbol of the city corrupting ppl's morals. (tom's affair, also the whole scene that happened on nick's birthday) so as the daughter of a kkangpae member, it makes sense that hyeji's song is welcome to new york - welcome to a city that deprives u of morals
 * her reputation is different from lavrentios because her legacy is dirty, unlike his
 * okay tae hyeji and lavrentios michelakakis are parallel characters
 * they're also lowkey related because hyeji is a kae from her mother's side

samuel

 * basically how samuel changed due to his relationship with mingyu's persona char