Backstory (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Tuesday, September 02, 2014, 11:09 (3742 days ago) @ GrimBrotherIII

Someone I chat with in IRC is into the role-playing thing and got me to think about it seriously, instead of or more like in addition to just having my Guardian(s) be me. For my main Guardian, I was set on a human, because I don't know what I'd be getting into with the Awoken and Exos, and male, because I am one, and a Hunter, because they seem, or they seemed, balanced between the other two classes, and they have cool traits.

I came up with:
- doesn't believe the Traveler is a god or worthy of worship, same for any "machine gods" that might be around
- pragmatic sense of morality and pragmatic and practical in general (willing to cross moral event horizons for the greater good for the most part)
- tying into the last item, he's a Hunter because it seems like the logical, practical path, and because it doesn't rely on "magic" or anything "mystical" so much, and because it goes with his preferred style(s) of combat
- some conflict of being grateful to be alive with some underlying worry that he's not the same person that you were before death
- no discernible memory of his previous life, at this time (kind of waiting to see what canon says, and kind of can't be bothered and don't to have my Guardian tied down to anything)
- a loner, who nonetheless can enjoy the company of others, just doesn't enjoy company all the time or possibly even most of the time

That's largely just a copy of me, but it's a basis for a personality and there are some differences. I was thinking about having some other characters and this got me to consider what I'd do for them. I have an idea about my Warlock, maybe he or she would be more strongly and deeply moral, and also reverent of the power they can use.

I guess that doesn't really go into backstory; if Guardians keep the personality they had before, it would, otherwise not so much; it is kind of a starting point though.