26 Jun 2015

when your plot is over...

My former character Mia Kelly (@mk_matches) has a very tragical background, starting with living in an orphanage, ending in hospital, because her former husband freaked out completely. She's more of a survivor than a fighter and her motif is "keep on breathing, no matter what happens to you" - because breathing will always be the least thing one can do to keep oneself alive.
She went through a lot of psychological treatment, of course. While I was playing her, I even put her into clinical treatment (... because I was RL-busy around christmas-time). Mia had some issues while interacting socially. Does not like to be touched, does not like to show skin, does not like if somebody is walking or standing in her back, being dyslexic... several more. Although she knows herself very well and knows how to avoid those situations, I always wondered: What if there was a psychiatrist who could treat her? Not a passive NPC, but a real player-character. Would it be fun? Or rather hard to handle? Maybe the Mia-Character could have evolved in a different way? Maybe faster into a socially acceptable direction? I always love to go into details deeply with