Basics
Name: Brynhilda the Pocket Viking, Purveyor of Souls and Destroyer of Men. Rian.
Age: 21. That's right; I can now legally destroy my liver.
Location: Dis. I should think that was obvious.
Occupation: They say I'm a student, but I've yet to see a paycheck for it.
Roleplaying
Experience: A little over a year. I started in *MUs in late December, 2006, and moved into journal RPing in February of 2007. I still pretty much suck, but hey, it's a learning experience.
Statistics: XX women, XX men. It's almost shameful, really, how severely one sex outnumbers the other. I generally prefer playing women to men, if only because I find their voices easier to access quickly; being female myself, this is unsurprising, and considering the ridiculous size of my roster, I find it comforting to have character voices I don't need to meditate at length to write.
Character Archetypes: The "wounded mother" and the "charming rogue." I find myself at fault with sliding into these two archetypes more and more often, but they're my most comfortable to distort and shift for new characters. More generally speaking: the female character often put into a take-charge situation without really wanting to be there, who sacrifices herself in some capacity for the benefit of those close to her (or, as in some cases, those hardly affiliated with her at all); and the male character with a chip on his shoulder and a grin on his lips, usually involved in some sort of illegal enterprise, and practically oozing with easy-going charm. I've also recently started playing more mentally damaged characters: borderline sociopaths most notably.
Prefers to Play: My character archetypes. Yes, I like to rest on my laurels. On the whole, though, I generally prefer to play women, usually tough women or nice/damaged women; I rarely combine the two (not that I won't, but it's a hard dynamic to carry off). Intelligent, charming men, either decidedly self-reliant and vaguely evil, or firmly on the side of Good. Very rare ambiguity. Crack characters with ~depth~. Plotwise, I'm a sucker for a good romance or even just one character breaking down another's walls, and have a tendency to buddy myself with Julie or Nat's characters with alarming regularity. It's not always on purpose, I swear. Action is always fun, too.
Does Not Play: Homosexual characters, generally speaking. I've seen it done so poorly so many times, that it's just become a realm I do not want to delve into. More over, I don't think I have the capacity to play a homosexual character with any degree of realism and finesse, like I've seen others do. Detective and law enforcement types are beyond my reach, and I have a very difficult time playing characters who aren't in control of something, to some degree, even if it's just of a school team or a small group of people.
Plans to Play at Some Point: SUPERNATURAL STUFF. Not from the show, just supernatural things in general. I had a demon in a very short-lived Supernatural game that I adored, and that universe really, really appeals to me.
