Pretty self explanatory.How did you think of their personality,the way they act, all that stuff.
Jimmy Him was originally and still is somewhat, Iggy Pop.I was actually gonna name him Jimmy Pop until I remembered there's already a musician named that (he's the singer for a band called the Bloodhound Gang) but I did give him Iggy's real first name which is James.He's always topless (or actually naked, Iggy was and is always shirtless, I took it a step further), he's a hopeless drug addict/alcoholic,loud,violent,good stage performer, the only thing that isn't Iggy is is stature which is from Alexi Laiho or originally Kurt Cobain who actually isn't very short.
I don't really have a basis for Davey but Kit would be Keith Moon, his ability,alcoholism,wildness,and his obnoxiousness are all traits from Keith.That's about it.

I usually fluctuate between the age of The Nimrods at them moment Jimmy will be 25 on my birthday August 10th and Davey will be 25 some time in March I think

ok.Well I already can assume Bikki is you um....Mikki and the Firecracker twins

For me the main character has always been Tim Dunn. There have been auxiliary characters (like Mike in Axiom or Ryan in The Electric Experiment) but my rp's have always focused on Tim's story. He started out as a college kid who was just playing music for fun. He formed jazz-metal band The Electric Experiment and dropped out of college to pursue the band. After a legal battle with the band Souless Corporate Drones At Play! over the title of TEE's second album he began to work on what he would consider his masterpiece.

At this point in his career he became much more focused on songwriting and the craft of making compelling music instead of just playing for fun. He ended up creating The Electric Experiment's magnum opus (in game it was my first set of 100 rated albums), the double album "Feelings" made up of "Vengeance" and "Forgiveness." These albums were based off of Opeth's "Deliverance" and "Damnation" specifically one album was the really heavy album while the other was a softer progressive rock inspired album with lot of acoustic work.

After releasing these albums Tim abruptly left TEE before the next tour. His reason was because he felt he had done all he could to musically with the band and wanted to get back to playing music for fun. He then formed the jazz fusion trio Groove Machine. They released one album, the critically acclaimed "You Can Never Have Too Much Funk In Your Trunk." At this stage he was back to doing a lot of live shows and playing music that was fun to play for him.

It was during this time that Dunn founded his label Souled Out Records Inc. Eventually this label was bought by M/M and part of the once massive M/M family. During this time Tim began to really focus on the business aspect of the industry. What had once been all about the music slowly became about financial reports, earnings estimates, revenue streams, sales figures, and so on. During this time he tried to work with newer, less established artists to help them move up to the higher tiers of the M/M family.

During this time he also tried to work on the now mystic Groove Machine sophomore release "Knockout." Rumor has it that the album is complete and has set unreleased for all this time (I had the songs done just needed to click the release album button, but never did. Now I let it sit as a lost album).

Finally after the ending of M/M Tim took time off before returning now with Mike in Axiom.

All of these things have led Tim to become someone who likes to experiment and play with music. He experiments with sounds, chords, rhythm, instrument composition, and so on. However he has always placed a high priority on melody, giving even his most experimental pieces some structural basis. His personality has developed so that he is very sensitive to criticism (he has only really tasted failure once or twice, including recently with Axiom because I felt it would help make him more compelling if he is indeed flawed). He is also very mindful of the business aspect of this industry, sometimes even too mindful, because of what he has seen from the other side.

Strange, I remember a topic just like this some time ago.

Shadows of the Knight:

Selem Cannonball
Looks: I Based his looks off of Matt Tuck (Bullet for my Valentine). I have no idea why to this date.
Personality: His personality has some similarities to mine. Laid back, but insane when high. He has self esteem issues, and often questions where or not he deserves to be in the band, let alone be lead singer. He is 25.
Musicality: Chris Barnes (Six Feet Under), Jonny Davy (Job For a Cowboy), and Steve Marois (Despised Icon) all jumbled into one growling, pig squeeling voice.

Kobra Knight
Looks: My friend Tanner and Travis Barker
Personality: Crazy and hyper. He's the pill popping, heavy drinker of the group. He is 23.
Musicality: Syu, only less powery.

David Pharoh
Looks: Eh, I don't remember what I based him off of.
Personality: Cool but a little annoying after a while. He is 20.
Musicality: Slap bass master.

Aaron Bokken
Looks: My friend Evan and Claudio Sanchez.
Personality: A kind, conciderate person, but he WILL NOT be proven wrong
Musicality: A brilliant drummer and singer, with a King Diamond type singing voice.

Elsewhere:
Elsewhere are based on Peaceable Jones and the spirit of Death metal. Eh.

I developed mine by throwing them off a cliff. The best kind of character development imo.

Doesn't matter how often it's done. It's character building.

All members of my bands have been based on friends of mine, save for Sugarcane Liars but they lasted all of two minutes.

Nick, Clint and Stephen are the main guys in the group because they are in my closest circle of friends but weren't in my original band on this, Benedict. The characters all started off based on those guys and have kind of developed into their own thing. Clint Walkingshaw most of all because he's like a hippy now where as my mate Clint is more of a goof. Stephen is probably the closest to what he was originally based on because the actual Stephen is a guy who can bit a bit mouthy and also drinks like it's going out of fashion (he used to go home and drink every night when we were in high school, even brought booze to school and got hammered in class on occassion).

Jay and Tristan were original members of Pilot but as I've lost contact with them I kicked them out and replaced them with Murray and Liam, also based on friends of mine. Then Liam actually did move to the US so his character did too. I decided since Benedict wasn't active anymore I'd bring in a character based on me. But I've let him take a back seat whereas he was the frontman in Benedict. Clint, Nick and Stephen can continue to lead the show.

Hey everyone, I just got to wondering last night about character building, and how different people do it on here. What I mean, I suppose, is what is the thought process behind your characters?

I ask because I started thinking about it for my own characters. So are yours just total works of fiction that you plucked out of nowhere, and just created in your imagination, or do they have a deeper meaning?

I'll go first: When I started here, I RP'd as Blood Of Wecz. They were the death metal band that I so wanted to be a part of at the time. I was listening to a lot of metal, playing guitar all the time, and dreaming of a life on the road lol. It was no coincidence that the frontman of the band (now deceased) shared my name (although I am not deceased).

Moving on, I brought Cassie Bitch, obviously, into the game, and she was probably my most fictional character to date. I just wanted to have a character who was loud, brash, memorable etc.

Now I have only Katie left, and I just realised something funny this morning. Obviously, I am not a woman, nor a lesbian, or a psychpathic nutjob like Katie is, but the mood she is in at any time pretty much reflects mine lol. When Katie is loving life and stuff, I'm generally in a good mood. But when she is having a hard time, it's normally when I'm pissed off, or just generally feeling like crap lol. Best part is, I only just realised I was doing it, how weird.
I should say that I don't take drugs, break my arm, party all night in LA, or any other things that Katie does....she is merely a highly overblown exaggeration of my mood LMAO.

So what's your characters stories?

When I start a new character I usually have a general idea of what kind of personality they will have but I just sort of play it out and see what sort of personality forms itself. With Stacey I decided that I wanted someone quite different from Alicia. But there's no deep theory behind any of my characters, I don't know if my personality forms itself in any of my characters, I guess I'd let you people decide that one.