Who are you?
I have question for the members in this collective. My question is why do you make their muse like that.
What makes you give them that personality, back story, little habits?
Did everybody get inspired by something and improvised from there?
And how does everybody feel about their current muses?
The whole idea that helped me find my character D’zyátian was more of a motivation than anything else. I know that EXO is a very popular group in the KRP community and I wanted to make something different. I wanted to create someone that was nearly impossible to interact with, someone that would make people frustrated and annoyed all within the general idea of his story. I wanted to choose a member that was popular as well, I wanted to take the idea of someone well-known and well-liked and I wanted to make a challenge out of that.
As you might have already noticed each persona that D’zyátian takes on sums up all of his quirks and behaviours. I used something simple and complicated at the same time. The Myers Briggs Personality Assessment test.
A lot of us- if not all of us can relate and easily understand the test as well as attributes like Inversion or Extroversion. I wanted him to be able to relate to people in the every day setting, like you and me or some random stranger.
There are things that D’zyátian never loses though, in his whole stages of maturing and growing up, he never lost bits and pieces of himself. He often looks at the world with wonder and wide eyes, a simple sort of curiosity that develops strongly in all of his faces. He is more interested in touch, rather than the other senses we strongly thrive on. He has a sort of absent air about him, as if the world continues to pass him by, as though nothing could catch up to him. He is in his own mindset and has his own ideals.
I was honestly inspired by the KRP community. I know that everyone is probably tired of seeing EXO muses but that ultimately made my decision for me. Someone popular, someone strong and well liked, someone with a lot of character. I wanted to take everything everyone knew about Park Chanyeol and mess it up. I wanted to erase all of that. And make his image new.
D’zyátian is a really hard character for me to balance. He is very strong and his contrasting personalities is almost like running a multi-muse account. It is exhausting.
There are times when I want to give up, throw the idea away and quit, pretend it never existed. And at the same time. I feel a little kinship. I receive messages more often than not speaking of people telling me they enjoy the idea of my muse and that he’s so complex and detailed and that they love that. And bit by bit that motivates me to continue to develop him and design him in a way that might make it easier for everyone around.
