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Jan. 18th, 2006 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akeyoftimePhysically speaking, I am feeling better. Not great, but better. The weights and elastic band are gone, though the pressure point pain is lingering in the backdrop. Fortunatly, it has nothing on yesterday and is barely above the general achiness I deal with most days. It's been humid anyway, so it's no shock that I'd be sore. Last night was just really out of hand :(
I've finally cemented my Dragon-Blooded concept, so I can finish moving forward with character creation now. I am going to play a DB with an inferiority complex! That is why she continued on in Thaumaturgy when she could have branched out into Sorcery.
The youngest of six, which I figure that is feasible, as her parents are mortal patricians and not Dragon-Bloods, she suffered from that "I want to make something of myself, but my siblings have already done it all." problem. She began training as a thaumaturge partially because none of her siblings had done that (even if other members of House Nellens undoubtedly had). When she very, very unexpectedly Exalts at age thirteen, she is delighted and actually feels like she's going to be able to make something of herself, like the Dragons might actually have something more than a life of mediocre accomplishments in store for her. She has certainly done something different from her siblings! But she quickly comes to realize that her own House looks down on her for being Dragon-Blooded, though they would never come out and say it. It would be heretic to come out and say that she is no better than a mortal! The rest of her society is no better: she is a House Nellens Dragon-Blood with no particular breeding. Her parents are fairly well respected patricians, but they are still mortals, after all. No one in her family line has Exalted in quite a while.
By the time she starts secondary school, her sense of self-worth is lower than ever. Instead of pushing herself and trying to branch out into Sorcery, she continues in the more mundane and familiar. She does learn a lot and will be good at what she does, but she's had a lot of her spirit beaten out of her by now. Fast-foward a bit and here we are in the present day. She is in her early twenties or late teens, relatively fresh out of school and she's about to be thrown into an adventure that she is probably going to feel is way over her head.
This is going to be so much fun! =D
I've finally cemented my Dragon-Blooded concept, so I can finish moving forward with character creation now. I am going to play a DB with an inferiority complex! That is why she continued on in Thaumaturgy when she could have branched out into Sorcery.
The youngest of six, which I figure that is feasible, as her parents are mortal patricians and not Dragon-Bloods, she suffered from that "I want to make something of myself, but my siblings have already done it all." problem. She began training as a thaumaturge partially because none of her siblings had done that (even if other members of House Nellens undoubtedly had). When she very, very unexpectedly Exalts at age thirteen, she is delighted and actually feels like she's going to be able to make something of herself, like the Dragons might actually have something more than a life of mediocre accomplishments in store for her. She has certainly done something different from her siblings! But she quickly comes to realize that her own House looks down on her for being Dragon-Blooded, though they would never come out and say it. It would be heretic to come out and say that she is no better than a mortal! The rest of her society is no better: she is a House Nellens Dragon-Blood with no particular breeding. Her parents are fairly well respected patricians, but they are still mortals, after all. No one in her family line has Exalted in quite a while.
By the time she starts secondary school, her sense of self-worth is lower than ever. Instead of pushing herself and trying to branch out into Sorcery, she continues in the more mundane and familiar. She does learn a lot and will be good at what she does, but she's had a lot of her spirit beaten out of her by now. Fast-foward a bit and here we are in the present day. She is in her early twenties or late teens, relatively fresh out of school and she's about to be thrown into an adventure that she is probably going to feel is way over her head.
This is going to be so much fun! =D
