I have this insatiable love of the undead, and have had it since I was about 8 years old. The first time I had any experience with the undead was in soul reaver. The game piqued my interest and I couldnt quite place what about it did so, but I began searching.
I scoured games purely with the intent of discovering what it was that captivated me at that young age, and ive since discovered it. Undead. Any and all of them. We're talking so much love for the undead that at my young age I used to fantasize about being a lich! I used my stuff animals, and would pretend that my beanie monkey was a necromancer. And that my stuffed bears were soldiers who couldnt withstand the onslaught of his necromantic powers. They did however, fight valiantly.
Over time my stuffed animals even took an undead turn. One year my dogs ripped the face of my beanie cat off and tore all the beans out. I took that cat, sewed the eye of a much bigger stuffed animal into it's face, and left huge stitches visible though I had the skill to do it cleanly. That cat was an undead, cyclops, who could shoot lasers from his eyes and levitate. He was the first general of my monkeys armies and had been given a minute amount of independent thought so that he could be effective.
These incidents were only a few of the occasions where I expressed my inate love of undeath. Diablo 2, Guildwars 1, DnD, pathfinder, playing pretend, favorite characters, books, movies, and any other case where the undead has been, ive taken part in or wished that I could have.
Even with this love there've been some things that I couldn't bring myself to enjoy. Some of the things done to modern vampires, such as removing their grotesque appearance, have been a little disappointing, but i suppose that I like the popularity it has given them(fuck sparkling though). During WoW's highest point I felt as though the undead, though potrayed in a nice physical manner, were second class when it came to the attention given to them. Why the fuck were all of the undead human? Lazy bastards.
Even with their faults though, my attraction to the undead has never diminished and it has been a golden era for undead fanatics like myself. Every game in a fantasy setting seems to have some sort of access to the undead and the only thing missing is a lich. I fantasize about a game that has a lich, or better yet a game where you play a necro evolving into a Lich.
Anyway, a lot of people are made uncomfortable by the undead. I however am a bit overly comfortable, and hell i'd still turn myself into a lich if possible. I'd graft some extra limbs onto myself, preserve only a few portions of myself so that I'd maintain a grotesque rather than clean appearance. (Do my cheekbones look bloated with this pallid skin?) I'd even work on making a nice society of undead...
I wonder if this and my feelings on playing the anti-hero in RP are related... I dont really see necromancy or the undead as inherently evil. Though I am who I am I guess.
Tl;dr: I have an obsession with the undead.
That was a lot to type on the phone...
I scoured games purely with the intent of discovering what it was that captivated me at that young age, and ive since discovered it. Undead. Any and all of them. We're talking so much love for the undead that at my young age I used to fantasize about being a lich! I used my stuff animals, and would pretend that my beanie monkey was a necromancer. And that my stuffed bears were soldiers who couldnt withstand the onslaught of his necromantic powers. They did however, fight valiantly.
Over time my stuffed animals even took an undead turn. One year my dogs ripped the face of my beanie cat off and tore all the beans out. I took that cat, sewed the eye of a much bigger stuffed animal into it's face, and left huge stitches visible though I had the skill to do it cleanly. That cat was an undead, cyclops, who could shoot lasers from his eyes and levitate. He was the first general of my monkeys armies and had been given a minute amount of independent thought so that he could be effective.
These incidents were only a few of the occasions where I expressed my inate love of undeath. Diablo 2, Guildwars 1, DnD, pathfinder, playing pretend, favorite characters, books, movies, and any other case where the undead has been, ive taken part in or wished that I could have.
Even with this love there've been some things that I couldn't bring myself to enjoy. Some of the things done to modern vampires, such as removing their grotesque appearance, have been a little disappointing, but i suppose that I like the popularity it has given them(fuck sparkling though). During WoW's highest point I felt as though the undead, though potrayed in a nice physical manner, were second class when it came to the attention given to them. Why the fuck were all of the undead human? Lazy bastards.
Even with their faults though, my attraction to the undead has never diminished and it has been a golden era for undead fanatics like myself. Every game in a fantasy setting seems to have some sort of access to the undead and the only thing missing is a lich. I fantasize about a game that has a lich, or better yet a game where you play a necro evolving into a Lich.
Anyway, a lot of people are made uncomfortable by the undead. I however am a bit overly comfortable, and hell i'd still turn myself into a lich if possible. I'd graft some extra limbs onto myself, preserve only a few portions of myself so that I'd maintain a grotesque rather than clean appearance. (Do my cheekbones look bloated with this pallid skin?) I'd even work on making a nice society of undead...
I wonder if this and my feelings on playing the anti-hero in RP are related... I dont really see necromancy or the undead as inherently evil. Though I am who I am I guess.
Tl;dr: I have an obsession with the undead.
That was a lot to type on the phone...
? The thought of being interested in inanimate corpses has never so much as crossed my mind. Im as curious and clueless about your interest as some may be about mine.