#danceofdragonstask

[danceofdragonsrphq]

OPTIONAL TASK 002: CHARACTER INSPIRATIONS

with the new year on its way, we wanted to bring back this optional task from 2 years ago for everyone to take part in! this task would be to let us know what inspires your characters! who gives you muse. this could be other characters in tv/movies/books/etc or common archetypes or tropes or even real life historical people! there is no limit to this so you can have as many or as few as you would like to have. it’s up to you how you want to showcase them off. it could be a list or maybe put it into a graphic! whatever way you want to show off your inspirations! this could also be a fun way to show how your character has grown from the last time we did this task! some examples of previous tasks are HERE, HERE and HERE and as i mentioned earlier this is an option task so you can do it for all your characters or just some or none at all if you aren’t up for it right now!

tag them with danceofdragonstask so we can see them

[xialigreenleaf]

"...that’s the paradox here: vulnerability is the last thing i want you to see in me, but the first thing i look for in you..."

• xia-li greenleaf • esfp • bold, impulsive, outgoing, witty, ego-driven, observant •

influences:

• summer roberts (the o.c)

• kenna de poitiers (reign)

• drea torres (do revenge)

• ty lee (avatar: the last airbender)

[mourningblood]

♔ character inspo ♔

for Aerea Velaryon 

the obvious

A dash of Rhaenyra Targaryen, though less than what I think people assume given the face claim. I was inspired by Targaryen women in general, but the ones who went into Aerea the most are the original Aerea (obviously) who was brave enough to claim Balerion and received madness and suffering as a result, Daena the Defiant, locked in the Maidenvault but always herself, and Baela, daughter of Daemon and Laena, rebellious and spirited enough to take on an impossible battle. There is so much tragedy within the Targaryen women, but so much potential too, and Aerea is very much a woman molded after them. 

madness, greatness, and the coin flip 

What is madness? How much does blood play into the conception of madness, and how much does gender? Why is it when a woman craves more, she is immediately slandered and labelled as mad, while a man must do so much more? I wanted a character who played with that idea. 

always an angel, never a god

What is it like to lose everything, including your very faith in the world that has molded you and shaped you into what you are? What is it like to have the ground move beneath your feet, to live in mourning and in blood, and to always know you were left behind? What is it like to want more ?

this is a man's world

Gender, rebellion, learning to love your skin in a world that does not have the language to convey what you are. Skin that itches, that will never fit right because there are no words or no poetry, because your own are inadequate and you are not an artist. The role you are expected to play and the one you want, what you push away and the cost of that- and how to form yourself out of all that, the firmament of sexism that is the structure of all you know.