If I were to go dormant today, I would think the common answer if people said "Hey remember Rinzai" would be something to the effect of "Oh yeah, nice guy, quiet, and wish I had gotten to know him better"
Once I was leading a backstab gank, and one of the Naga in my group told me they wouldn't do it. I was like 'Why the hell not?' and then they started pulling honor on me. Then, as is the custom of some people (we all know one), they decided the best way to continue the argument was to start using OOC tags.
It culminated in being lectured on 'being a serpent doesn't define me'. That's true, but your House does define you to some extent. 'Sir' Soujirou really messed up the Knights of Hashan in that respect.
Military intelligence. Friendly fire. Honourable serpent.
It's an interesting question, since a big part of what I consider to be
Zenui's mindset is his desire to have some kind of legacy. He wants to be remembered as a teacher/philosopher of the East, and maybe have family of his own to pass things onto.
But primarily his identity is/was defined in terms of the organizations he's in. About 50 IC
years ago, that would have been primarily in terms of the Church, and the belief
that it would endure as an institution even if his own legacy was fairly paltry. Then the
Church went *poof*, and with it Zenui lost a great deal of his identity
but moreover that projected legacy. So the years since then have mostly
been about him trying to find some way (successfully or not) to
somehow reconstitute those things on different terms.
I'm completely fine with Yezrit being forgotten and overlooked by history.
Just go dormant for one rl year and see if anyone can remember you. If
they can, they either have a good memory or you have some kind of
legacy, which are good things either way. Done
"Faded away like the stars in the morning, Losing their light in the glorious sun, Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling, Only remembered for what we have done."
People remembered -me-, though I suppose I was gone less than a year. My greatest legacy was probably designing the House pipe and city vials, and nobody even knew that.
________________________ The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
I'm actually a fairly competent writer IRL, but my style tends to be limited slightly by local tastes. I like writing in the context of Achaea RP specifically because I'm able to work with topics and stylistic elements that would come off as corny in any other context.
I'd like to leave something of significance to the community while I'm playing.
@Krypton: Not saying we started it! But I distinctly remember coordinating mountain zones with Kaiya et al. (And then they had to nerf the blueberry growth rate, and we all felt kind of sheepish.)
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But primarily his identity is/was defined in terms of the organizations he's in. About 50 IC years ago, that would have been primarily in terms of the Church, and the belief that it would endure as an institution even if his own legacy was fairly paltry. Then the Church went *poof*, and with it Zenui lost a great deal of his identity but moreover that projected legacy. So the years since then have mostly been about him trying to find some way (successfully or not) to somehow reconstitute those things on different terms.
Just go dormant for one rl year and see if anyone can remember you. If they can, they either have a good memory or you have some kind of legacy, which are good things either way. Done
Losing their light in the glorious sun,
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling,
Only remembered for what we have done."
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important