Post by Bethany on Dec 27, 2008 8:30:25 GMT -5
IN "REAL LIFE"
Real Name: Claire McMannis
Age: 42
Birth Date: April 15
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian
Occupation: Housewife
Country: USA
IN ETERNAL LAND
Name: Bethany (Beth for short – don’t call her ‘bessie’ That never ends well)
Gender: Female
Race: Half-beast (Bovine)
Orientation: Lesbian
Height: 5’9”
Hair: Honey blonde, mid-back length, unruly but not messy
Eyes: Teal
General Appearance:
A bit heavier than she would like to be in the real world, Claire never the less embraces a fuller figure in her game avatar; its her way of flipping off all the perfect 10 Barbie-esque impossible figures running around the game. Bethany is, to quote Claire, ‘fat in all the right places’ as befitting her bovine blood. Her face has soft, almost cherubic look hovering on the cute side of chubby that sets the tone of what one might expect from the rest of her body. Her chest look disproportionally large on her shorter frame, but fits in size with the rest of her, especially her rounded, voluptuous hips and thighs, and calves. A pair of tiny white hors peek out from her honey blond hair, and she has thin, furry, and fully prehensile tail that reaches almost to her knees when still, which it almost never is.
Picture: (Beth is on the right)
Personality:
Given the solo nature of her character build, people often mistake Bethany for a loner at first. In truth, she very superficially friendly, in that she is generally kind and helpful to other players who haven’t pissed her off, and is found of giving and receiving hugs and pecks on the cheek (ever been huggleglomped by a charging cow-girl?) but rarely allows her friendship with others to grow past a platonic phase. Those that have tried only to hit some kind of emotional wall from the charming bovine find this confusing; as she can frequently be found working at the House of Earthy Delights, and is a member of The Sisterhood of the Crystal Rose guild (see below). There is an explanation for the incongruity however…
That aside, Bethany is a consummate player, always looking for a new way to enhance her somewhat eclectic character build. She cares less about the artificial ‘story’ behind the game, preferring the kind of living breathing social story that tends to grow of from the games’s community. Though built for solo play, she’s usually up to join a party, provided she has time: her real life responsibilities limit her on-line play time, which is why she created a character that could advance on their own. She loves to fight, PvP, PvE, anything to stretch her muscles, test her strength, and put those who would refer to her size as a negative in their place
Background:
Claire married right out of high school and started popping out kinds right away because… well that was what good girls did, right? By the time she began to realize that this was not the kind of life she wanted for herself, she was trapped. With no formal education, she was completely dependant on her husbands income, likewise she was the sole caretaker of her many children. What was worse, she was finally beginning to admit she was never really attached to her husband… or any man.
It might have been easy for her to break free, get a fresh start if her husband had been cruel, or absent, or if he had ever cheated on her. But he was honestly a wonderful husband and father, available to his children no matter what, an attentive ear to his wife, and never said a word when she started complaining of a headache night after night. And she did love him, even if she had come to realize she was never in love with him. So, she was trapped. By love.
The release of Eternal Land was something of a god send for her. Games had long been a way for her to escape the pressure of keeping up her charade of a life, but the level of immersion offered by this new game was as close to a true escape for her reality as she could ever hope for. Her desire for excitement and adventure was answered through her avatar, Bethany. As for her… other itch? For that, she joined the Sisterhood…
Level: 55
Primary Class: Brawler
Secondary Class: White Night
Weapons:
Fancying herself as a marital arts expert, Beth’s hands and feet serve as her weapons. She’ll augment her physical might with gauntlets and/or claws, with a preference for ones that add elemental damage or de-buffing status aliments to her strikes. Prone to mixing and matching it not uncommon for her to have a fire gauntlet on one hand while brandishing a poisons claw with the other.
Armor:
Though her secondary class enables to wear heavier armor, Beth eschews it in favor of any simpler clothing or lighter armor that enhances her speed and evasion. The heaviest items she typical wears are bracers on her arm for defense and boots on her feet for offense. She considers it a personal challenge to find new ways to increase her defensive and evasion stats with as little armor/clothing as possible, opting indeed to make of the difference with various enchanted accessories
Character build:
A somewhat eclectic mix of the Berserker and Paladin skill trees, Beth’s build is centered around solo play. She uses her considerable hand-to-hand attack skills of the former class to leave her enemies bodies broken at her feet as fast as possible while counting on the buffing and regenerating skills of the latter class to keep her alive long enough to do it. It a very difficult balance to strike, and one that might have been impossible if not for the natural defensive boost granted by her bovine half-beast blood. Even so, she is greatly dependant on items to keep her mana, and therefore her buffs, up. The natural conclusion of this build is that she will never be as strong as a player who focuses on one class or the other, and it takes her longer to level because of the incongruity of her play style. When backed up by a party, however, she can forgo buffing herself and focus on what she loves most, making mobs bleed with her bare hands and looking cool as she does it.
Pet: N/A
Guild: Sisterhood of the Crystal Rose
Motto: Feel the Love, and Love the Feeling!
Colors: White, red, and green
Guild Emblem: A red crystal rose with a green stem, laid against an black velvet background
Description: A newer guild that only accepts female half-bloods. Officially they’re supposedly a union of sorts, where more exotic half-blood characters can gather to agree on prices charged or their services at the House of Earthy delights. In reality, it’s a safe zone for players who are ‘real life’ women forced into the closet for whatever reason to meet others like them discreetly for companionship, friendship, and more. With its wide variety of members it often places in various guild competitions, but rarely higher than 20th place
Real Name: Claire McMannis
Age: 42
Birth Date: April 15
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian
Occupation: Housewife
Country: USA
IN ETERNAL LAND
Name: Bethany (Beth for short – don’t call her ‘bessie’ That never ends well)
Gender: Female
Race: Half-beast (Bovine)
Orientation: Lesbian
Height: 5’9”
Hair: Honey blonde, mid-back length, unruly but not messy
Eyes: Teal
General Appearance:
A bit heavier than she would like to be in the real world, Claire never the less embraces a fuller figure in her game avatar; its her way of flipping off all the perfect 10 Barbie-esque impossible figures running around the game. Bethany is, to quote Claire, ‘fat in all the right places’ as befitting her bovine blood. Her face has soft, almost cherubic look hovering on the cute side of chubby that sets the tone of what one might expect from the rest of her body. Her chest look disproportionally large on her shorter frame, but fits in size with the rest of her, especially her rounded, voluptuous hips and thighs, and calves. A pair of tiny white hors peek out from her honey blond hair, and she has thin, furry, and fully prehensile tail that reaches almost to her knees when still, which it almost never is.
Picture: (Beth is on the right)
Personality:
Given the solo nature of her character build, people often mistake Bethany for a loner at first. In truth, she very superficially friendly, in that she is generally kind and helpful to other players who haven’t pissed her off, and is found of giving and receiving hugs and pecks on the cheek (ever been huggleglomped by a charging cow-girl?) but rarely allows her friendship with others to grow past a platonic phase. Those that have tried only to hit some kind of emotional wall from the charming bovine find this confusing; as she can frequently be found working at the House of Earthy Delights, and is a member of The Sisterhood of the Crystal Rose guild (see below). There is an explanation for the incongruity however…
That aside, Bethany is a consummate player, always looking for a new way to enhance her somewhat eclectic character build. She cares less about the artificial ‘story’ behind the game, preferring the kind of living breathing social story that tends to grow of from the games’s community. Though built for solo play, she’s usually up to join a party, provided she has time: her real life responsibilities limit her on-line play time, which is why she created a character that could advance on their own. She loves to fight, PvP, PvE, anything to stretch her muscles, test her strength, and put those who would refer to her size as a negative in their place
Background:
Claire married right out of high school and started popping out kinds right away because… well that was what good girls did, right? By the time she began to realize that this was not the kind of life she wanted for herself, she was trapped. With no formal education, she was completely dependant on her husbands income, likewise she was the sole caretaker of her many children. What was worse, she was finally beginning to admit she was never really attached to her husband… or any man.
It might have been easy for her to break free, get a fresh start if her husband had been cruel, or absent, or if he had ever cheated on her. But he was honestly a wonderful husband and father, available to his children no matter what, an attentive ear to his wife, and never said a word when she started complaining of a headache night after night. And she did love him, even if she had come to realize she was never in love with him. So, she was trapped. By love.
The release of Eternal Land was something of a god send for her. Games had long been a way for her to escape the pressure of keeping up her charade of a life, but the level of immersion offered by this new game was as close to a true escape for her reality as she could ever hope for. Her desire for excitement and adventure was answered through her avatar, Bethany. As for her… other itch? For that, she joined the Sisterhood…
Level: 55
Primary Class: Brawler
Secondary Class: White Night
Weapons:
Fancying herself as a marital arts expert, Beth’s hands and feet serve as her weapons. She’ll augment her physical might with gauntlets and/or claws, with a preference for ones that add elemental damage or de-buffing status aliments to her strikes. Prone to mixing and matching it not uncommon for her to have a fire gauntlet on one hand while brandishing a poisons claw with the other.
Armor:
Though her secondary class enables to wear heavier armor, Beth eschews it in favor of any simpler clothing or lighter armor that enhances her speed and evasion. The heaviest items she typical wears are bracers on her arm for defense and boots on her feet for offense. She considers it a personal challenge to find new ways to increase her defensive and evasion stats with as little armor/clothing as possible, opting indeed to make of the difference with various enchanted accessories
Character build:
A somewhat eclectic mix of the Berserker and Paladin skill trees, Beth’s build is centered around solo play. She uses her considerable hand-to-hand attack skills of the former class to leave her enemies bodies broken at her feet as fast as possible while counting on the buffing and regenerating skills of the latter class to keep her alive long enough to do it. It a very difficult balance to strike, and one that might have been impossible if not for the natural defensive boost granted by her bovine half-beast blood. Even so, she is greatly dependant on items to keep her mana, and therefore her buffs, up. The natural conclusion of this build is that she will never be as strong as a player who focuses on one class or the other, and it takes her longer to level because of the incongruity of her play style. When backed up by a party, however, she can forgo buffing herself and focus on what she loves most, making mobs bleed with her bare hands and looking cool as she does it.
Pet: N/A
Guild: Sisterhood of the Crystal Rose
Motto: Feel the Love, and Love the Feeling!
Colors: White, red, and green
Guild Emblem: A red crystal rose with a green stem, laid against an black velvet background
Description: A newer guild that only accepts female half-bloods. Officially they’re supposedly a union of sorts, where more exotic half-blood characters can gather to agree on prices charged or their services at the House of Earthy delights. In reality, it’s a safe zone for players who are ‘real life’ women forced into the closet for whatever reason to meet others like them discreetly for companionship, friendship, and more. With its wide variety of members it often places in various guild competitions, but rarely higher than 20th place