“To create a
truly immersive game experience with a compelling fantasy world, you
have to populate that world with real characters. Not just characters
that behave realistically on the screen, but characters that ARE real
to you, the game’s creator. The more you know your own characters,
the more real they will become, and the more they will help draw the
player into your game’s imaginary word. It’s not enough for your
characters to have distinctive speech patterns and tics. They need
actual histories, motives, dreams, and secrets. Then they will have
real depth with which pull the player in, and your fantasy world will
be come a real place that the player loves to visit, and can't wait
to get back to when they leave.” - Tim Schafer
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There
are many characters out in the world that I have watched and read
through books, TV and films even games. But expanding the feel of
characters outside of games there are some very influential
characters that I have watch on TV. There is one show in particular
called “True Blood”. The HBO series is based on the series of
books written by Charlaine Harris. Charlaine Harris started writing
the True Blood series a while back, and I remember reading one of the
books but then put it down to never pick it back up, until one
holiday. I wanted a book to read and remembered that I wanted to
start reading the books again. I started reading and was instantly
hooked. It's a sexy, dark, magical book with mythical creatures and
endless amount of dilemmas, twists and turns. It a roller-coaster of
a book that always keeps you on edge. It's all based around the main
character Sookie Stackhouse who lives in Bon Temps Louisiana. She is
just a normal waitress in the local bar in a small town, however she
has a gift. She is telepathic. She can hear peoples thoughts. She has
to continuously block other peoples thoughts out to not invade
privacy. Recently Vampires had come out into the open after many
centuries of being hidden. Vampires wanted to mingle with humans, and
the Japanese had created synthetic blood to quench the vampires
thirst for blood. This is called “True Blood”. One night in the
bar a vampire walks into Merlottes where Sookie works. She realises
she isn't normal because she can not read a vampires mind. This meant
peace and quiet for her. Thus she becomes thoroughly attached to this
vampire called Bill Compton. He has many secrets that Sookie does not
know, and will slowly begin to find out as their relationship
progresses. Within America, the vampire community have sheriffs for
areas of America. In Louisiana there is one vampire in particular
that I adore. He is area 5 sheriff of Louisiana called Eric Northman.
He is a Swedish vampire who was turned centuries ago and is over
1,000 years old.
Eric
Northman who is played by Alexander Skasgard is a Swedish actor. He
plays a very good role as a vampire. He has a strong physique, blonde
and quite pale naturally plus very tall. As a strong vampire this is
what you would see and this is what you get. He is a gentleman at
times but very aggressive and possessive all at the same time, and
takes a liking to Sookie very quickly. This becomes an obsession with
Eric as he wants Sookie, or in terms of vampire he wants her to be
his. His property. But the way he acts, the scripture of how he
talks, how he sounds and looks so emotionless adds emphasis on how
powerful and old he is. He is a reliable vampire and keeps what he
says. He may not go about doing good deeds in the right way but has a
heart. Every now and then some of his lines are sexual and deviant,
as well as funny and humerus.
In
one part of the series he loses his memory and becomes very lost and
childlike. When you see him in that state you start to feel sorry for
him despite the bad things he has done in the past. He also becomes a
very good lover and emotionally attached to Sookie. That side of Eric
is very warming and over time I have grown more and more to this
wonder of a vampire. Plus, he is very good looking.
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| Carefree Eric |
To
make Eric who he is a lot is dependent on the script. His anger, the
way he talks, how he reacts to things, how he plans, how he feels
towards others. His acting as well. He has to stand tall, has to
muscular and strong, he has to look like a leader and someone to be
afraid of. This is all very realistic and warming to the heart and
you can really connect with him through the TV screen. This is the
case for me and I’ve warmed to Eric more than I have with a lot of
the other characters.
Stories
that I find irresistible are ones with suspense and magical hints,
such as vampires and telepathy. It makes me think of the world much
more differently, wondering if there could be such things as vampires
or even werewolves or fairies. Anything. It could be out there, the
vampires in True Blood took centuries to come out into the open. Who
knows. Some history may be lost. A missing piece of the puzzle. It
gets my mind going, all the thoughts and the possibilities are
endless! It's just exciting, the suspense, the action, the love and
intimacy. The True Blood book series and TV series are AMAZING!
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| Oh Eric! |
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