Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170608180817/@comment-24534644-20170608181604

Since this is my thread and all, and some of ya'll might still be confused, I'll be the first to put up a post.

The OC I'm picking is one Rosie Ashburn. And she has a quite a few issues going on. In short, she has lingering mental trauma from seeing her mother murdered as a child. As a result, she has some disturbing behavioral quirks, causing her to sometimes come off as a bit unhinged, even though she's still able to function as a member of society and even trains as a Huntress. So her Shadow's personality? Imagine...a complete psychopath, who enjoys carnage and seeing the looks of revulsion on other people's faces, with a slasher smile and a maniacal laugh to boot. Throw in a Killer Nurse aesthetic as well, taunting her(self?) by playing the part of a psychiatrist. Part of Rosie's character is trying to keep a lid on this sort of behaviour and acting like a semi-normal person, so that others aren't overtly put off by her, even though she only marginally succeeds and still comes off as a creepy dark girl. Even her usual dissonant serenity demeanor is partly a defense mechanism. She knows that this side of her exists deep down, but refuses to ever fully acknowledge it out of fear for what she herself would turn into. Thus, on seeing it for herself, she'd probably go into a Heroic B.S.O.D. for a time. As for Shadow-Rosie's monster form... well, on rejection I imagine something akin to an eldritch horror creature, vaguely trying to still look like a nurse and instead coming off as something from Silent Hill on steroids after taking a dip in tar. Keeping the giant slasher smile though.



Now bear in mind, this character I chose already behaves in a disturbing fashion. Being creepy and morbid is a large part of her basic archetype, which lends itself largely to the nature of this Shadow. Thus, not all Shadows will act like crazy serial killer psychopaths. An important thing to remember: a Shadow isn't necessarily the opposite of how a person normally acts, it's just their most severe and mentally-repressed character flaws and insecurities, personified and extremified. All so that the person in question is forced to confront their own darkest traits and either come to terms with them, or...die, usually. It's down to the individual what their inner demons are and how they'll respond to them.