For days now I just feel so uninspired. I dream about failing and falling short of expectations; helplessness, however, is a state of mind. My real life is pretty much a garbage, but I have accepted that long ago and am content with it. Thing is, I just can't seem to get things straight, no matter how much I want to. I'm gonna be quite busy for the next few weeks because I'm supposed to graduate this October, and no later than that. I've got people waiting in on my last stretch in college. But, I'm a really big procrastinator, and sometimes I get overwhelmed by the feeling of dread - of having accomplished too little and having the direction of a loose cannonball - it just, well, eats me up. Then I feel helpless, then I don't do anything about it anymore.
It's an attitude I'm really disgusted at, so I try my best to be Miss Sunshine as much as I can. Being positive in life actually helps, and there is no greater motivator than my own self. Basically, I don't want to be such a stagnant person. So like the smart girl I am, I'm gonna do something about it.
I'm gonna start now.
Anytime now.
I can be really lazy but I know if I want I can become really productive.
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A lot of people I come across say that Mizahar is really awesome, but you know, that's just paying lip service if you've only gone through the lore. The challenging thing about Mizahar is that it has its own originality and complexity that you can squeeze yourself into. But, you can't really say it's awesome until you're knee-deep into it. Lately I've been having trouble channeling my PC because of some technical issues with being a Nuit and being a sociable Nuit. It's hard, it's f* hard, I tell you. Try playing a Nuit, imagine having no emotion. What else do you have left to bank on? Your opinion, thoughts, - but those can only take you to a good length, and then you run out of things to do.
It's boring, dreadful, and you need to have really good guts to push yourself and not suicide. But I digress. When I came to Mizahar I was totally unsuspecting, and I loved playing Warcraft back then (had time on my hands like I was a free man) so I easily chose the undead class. Cosette, who has retired, was also a Nuit. I thought we could just come together and play happily back then. But then I created something even I am amazed of. You guys may have known me and my writing style as Jili, but damn before this I was your next young adult anime-sucker-fan. The kind of characters I wrote about are characters present in your beloved RPGs and highschool shoujo or shonen anime. If you haven't noticed, there's a certain disconnect to my "typical character" to the one I currently have. It's that big of a deal for me. If you need examples, I do maidRPGs and StrikeWitches. I roleplay moe characters. Not to boast, but I'm pretty good at it.
I roleplay moe-moe-kun characters like this. Which is why I'm really thankful for Mizahar. It has helped me change the way I write, and forced me to think out of the box. But you can't of course, always think outside of a box. I write as a hobby, and I'm not really big on spamming plots on the fly. I require thinking and planning and panicking. As I said, it's not easy being a Nuit, I'm twice on a handicap if you think about my play-safe character stereotype, and playing as Jili makes me darn proud of myself and Mizahar. Sometimes though it just doesn't happen. The challenge becomes too great to bear and I slink away to play other things, like Roiworld, where all you have to do is dress up dollies.
I'm thankful for the lucky times I catch GP on chat, because he is a good source of inspiration and ideas for my Nuit(plus he created the race after all.)
He described Nuits/Jil as obsessive, socially inept, and driven.
The insight was a really big help, because I'm at a point in time where my human-society exposed Sahovan Nuit is searching for life's meaning. So, I'm once again using this scrapbook to recollect what I have with this PC so far.
1. In a thread, the Voider Aelobius told Jilitse that she did not deserve to join Project Sahova. Sagallius hand picked the members who joined, and despite being a volunteer, she got accepted somehow. Jilitse was Mashaen's apprentice, and she followed him out of love and loyalty. Pretty interesting combination if you ask me.
2. She learned from her father, who was a world mage. Her mother was a Voider, who died/disappeared. Although I never meant it to be that way, it seems that I could somehow connect her "half-baked" "one-sidedness" by saying that she only learned world magic from her father; personal magic which she could have learned from her mother; incomplete childhood, incomplete magic.
I never really saw Jil more than an apprentice - that old witch who never really got far, doesn't have it in her to excel, doesn't really aspire for greater things in life.
3. Jilitse knew what Drainira was to Mashaen. The golem's betrayal ignited a sense of fury in her. Connecting Qiao's usurping of power from the Archwizard as an effect of Drainira's betrayal, she got slammed with reality. The Archwizard was no longer the life infused man she knew (and loved), and she could not bear to see Qiao lead Sahova - her ineptitude as a mage would probably not be tolerated. "This is all Drainira's fault" is actually "Her rebellion made me realize what we've been doing wrong".
4. Jilitse offered Mashaen redemption. In doing so, Mashaen gave her the "opportunity" to liberate them both - He from his grand oath and Her from her eternal servitude.
5. My Nuit draws strength and inspiration from her loyalty to Mashaen - the one thing that never changed. The mission he gave her is her "purpose in life". Find the Supervisors, find and defeat Drainira, defeat Sagallius - possibly in that order. Which also entails being the best animator since Mashaen - and that speaks a lot.
6. It would be nice if the quest was something that could be done within four corners of the room. Jilitse, however, needs to interact with other people. And here is where it becomes terrible. So terrible that I had to devote one whole season meeting and talking with other PCs just to figure out how my Nuit is supposed to behave. My Nuit has the emotional measure of about a teaspoon.
7. My Nuit is honest and sincere, does not lie (but circumnavigates around the truth sometimes) or cheat. For all intents and purposes, she does not seem to exude these qualities outwardly.
8. Curiosity killed the cat, not Jilitse. She asks and asks and asks questions. She is thirsty for knowledge, loves books, loves researching. She is v. curious about the organic society of humans, their relationships with deities. She interrogates when she can. Thing is, she's lived for too long to be able to "relate" to life. She finds humans interesting in that aspect - the fact that they live in such a short span of time. She lived in Sahova without any need for any deity. She knows the gods, acknowledges them, but is otherwise uncaring except for Priskil, whose help she need, and Sagallius, who must be killed.
9. Studying humans became a deterrent to her quest. She's getting attached to the kids at the Welcome Home, she's talking to strangers, she's trying her best to socialize with people. This was not exactly productive, and nothing she had done caused her to find anything noteworthy to her quest. Waste of time! Sheesh...
10. She is scared of dying before accomplishing her quest. Once her quest is over, she will probably lose "her life's meaning" and finally agree to meet Lhex.
I get really fired up fleshing Jilitse sometimes.
Anyway, the list is tl;dr now, but I've got the jive back. I can't say I'll start posting faster now, I'm still quite busy with life and school at the moment - so expect sporadic activity from me