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mayfield_ooc2012-07-10 06:39 pm
velesdonnersen) wrote in mayfield_ooc2012-07-10 06:39 pm
Character Update, Tarvek Sturmvoraus
Tarvek's updating to fill in the events of the past year. He'll be up to date to at least tonight's page, and possibly a couple pages beyond: till the end of this developmental arc in the canon.
Here is the update request I posted, with the general sense of what's intended:
Name: Peg
Character Name: Tarvek Sturmvoraus
Canon: Girl Genius
Housing Change: I want him to stay where I am (1126 Taylor) and while I'm at it, Granny Weatherwax has asked to come in as his not!wife. YES!!! Just in case you were concerned, she's entirely, totally welcome.
Reason for Canon Update: Tarvek's in-canon line has clarified more fully that my original sense of the character is sound. But it's also added layers of character development I'd like to bring in. Further, the last event (Alternate Universe Mayfield) wove in a layer of associated canon (the Tarvek from the actual writers' side canonical time travel, Othar's Twitter) that were useful and provoked some interesting material. I want to integrate the new stuff, the Twitter memories of Future Tarvek, and make some use of the events and shifts that have occurred in-canon.
Updated Background: Tarvek entered Mayfield over a year ago. In the year since, Tarvek's been more firmly established as leaning toward "good," he's come further in rebuilding his relationship with his old friend Gil, he's accepted apparent rejection from the girl of his dreams. He's been proven to be almost obsessively protective of the people he cares about. He's learned more about the background of the people around him, and explored more of his own feelings toward them. This is all pretty much in keeping with what I had projected for him: indeed, it's been a happy year for me, as my sense of who the character "really" was have mostly played out. But I'd like to be able to have him draw on those memories and *know* what's happened over the year, and I'd like to play with his emotional reaction to being given the memories of that time.
I'd also like to legitimately find a way to weave in memories of a fully canonical future him. The Foglios have written an associated semi-series, Othar's Twitter, that uses a future Tarvek: one who's seen his world die, and who's lived alone for approximately 30 years. I played that Older Tarvek in the AU Mayfield, and he generated some truly interesting play opportunities. I'm hoping to keep the memory and the "ghost" of him around in Tarvek's mind.
Updated Personality: Very little personality change. If anything, Tarvek will be more committed to his Mayfield relationships and the Mayfield world. He will be a bit more secure in the changes he's experienced in Mayfield, because he will have seen similar changes in his "new memories" of his own canon experience, and will have seen those changes justified by much of what's happened to him. He'll still be information obsessed, slow to violence, loyal to his friends, ironic, capable of fighting but not quick to wade in. He's growing some, and he's likely to be more outgoing, and more sure of himself. But the take-away from the changes in-canon are that I got the first cut reasonably well, and can keep playing him as a snarky, loyal, over-intellectual sweetie pie who can kill you if he must, but who'd rather make an alliance with you if possible.
Updated Abilities: I'm mainly more sure he can fight, he can invent as a spark but is strongly inclined toward very controlled, elegant designs, and he's very controlled himself about using those talents.
He's probably going to want a weasel of his own in one of the regains. Canon has just given him one. But that can wait. (grin) Weasels are worth waiting for.
Here is the update request I posted, with the general sense of what's intended:
Name: Peg
Character Name: Tarvek Sturmvoraus
Canon: Girl Genius
Housing Change: I want him to stay where I am (1126 Taylor) and while I'm at it, Granny Weatherwax has asked to come in as his not!wife. YES!!! Just in case you were concerned, she's entirely, totally welcome.
Reason for Canon Update: Tarvek's in-canon line has clarified more fully that my original sense of the character is sound. But it's also added layers of character development I'd like to bring in. Further, the last event (Alternate Universe Mayfield) wove in a layer of associated canon (the Tarvek from the actual writers' side canonical time travel, Othar's Twitter) that were useful and provoked some interesting material. I want to integrate the new stuff, the Twitter memories of Future Tarvek, and make some use of the events and shifts that have occurred in-canon.
Updated Background: Tarvek entered Mayfield over a year ago. In the year since, Tarvek's been more firmly established as leaning toward "good," he's come further in rebuilding his relationship with his old friend Gil, he's accepted apparent rejection from the girl of his dreams. He's been proven to be almost obsessively protective of the people he cares about. He's learned more about the background of the people around him, and explored more of his own feelings toward them. This is all pretty much in keeping with what I had projected for him: indeed, it's been a happy year for me, as my sense of who the character "really" was have mostly played out. But I'd like to be able to have him draw on those memories and *know* what's happened over the year, and I'd like to play with his emotional reaction to being given the memories of that time.
I'd also like to legitimately find a way to weave in memories of a fully canonical future him. The Foglios have written an associated semi-series, Othar's Twitter, that uses a future Tarvek: one who's seen his world die, and who's lived alone for approximately 30 years. I played that Older Tarvek in the AU Mayfield, and he generated some truly interesting play opportunities. I'm hoping to keep the memory and the "ghost" of him around in Tarvek's mind.
Updated Personality: Very little personality change. If anything, Tarvek will be more committed to his Mayfield relationships and the Mayfield world. He will be a bit more secure in the changes he's experienced in Mayfield, because he will have seen similar changes in his "new memories" of his own canon experience, and will have seen those changes justified by much of what's happened to him. He'll still be information obsessed, slow to violence, loyal to his friends, ironic, capable of fighting but not quick to wade in. He's growing some, and he's likely to be more outgoing, and more sure of himself. But the take-away from the changes in-canon are that I got the first cut reasonably well, and can keep playing him as a snarky, loyal, over-intellectual sweetie pie who can kill you if he must, but who'd rather make an alliance with you if possible.
Updated Abilities: I'm mainly more sure he can fight, he can invent as a spark but is strongly inclined toward very controlled, elegant designs, and he's very controlled himself about using those talents.
He's probably going to want a weasel of his own in one of the regains. Canon has just given him one. But that can wait. (grin) Weasels are worth waiting for.