I think I’m kin of a character, but the problem is that it’s a background character that gets about 3 lines of dialogue and barely has any canon personality and has NO backstory. How can I tell if this is the right person?
Ouch, anon, I can sympathize. Unfortunately, I don’t have any good advice for you. However, my fiancee who recently went through this herself, may.
@nagathewhiteserpent can you please answer this? ^^
“I think I’m kin of a character, but the problem is that it’s a background character that gets about 3 lines of dialogue and barely has any canon personality and has NO backstory. How can I tell if this is the right person?”
Hiya Anon! Lemme ask you a question. Have you ever heard of Anna Korsokova from Digimon? Probably not. But that’s who I am. I know your pain. I appear in the background of two episodes of Digimon 02. My only lines are ‘Anna’ and ‘Borscht’ in a broken Russian accent. No backstory. No canon personality aside from being a Russian who is also a digidestined.
It can be damn hard to figure out. Because you have so little to go on. Nothing to go on really. But that isn’t to say there isn’t a way to tell.
When it first started for me, I drew a picture of a girl. A girl who looked so familiar to me. Endlessly familiar. It felt like me. I got the sense she was digidestined. What little clues my own memories/thoughts/canon gave me helped me understand. I saw her in canon, that young lady with the short haircut and big goofy coat, and it felt like me. I felt a tug.
The thing is, no matter how minor someone is, there are clues. Look at connections the character has. (Anna had two friends in Russia, I felt the familiar tug of kin feelings, of friendship for Sonya and Yuri. I could bring up the feelings and thoughts of what they were like outside of canon). Look for the few little clues they give you. Do they match up with your feelings? Things like .. What food is eaten, the situation, the scenery. Is it familiar? Do you feel that tug of ‘that’s me’ when you see this minor character?
Do you remember anything that isn’t shown? Because as a minor character , much of your life isn’t shown on screen. After all. You don’t hear anything about Anna moving to Japan with her father. Or her becoming a cop. Or trying to force merge the digital and human world. Or anything aside from how I helped the Japanese digidestained take down their enemy.
The thing is… It can be difficult. And it all comes down to looking closely at the details, and judging your feelings on them , how connected you feel both to this particular character and the setting.
Good luck Anon. It’s a difficult road (one I still falter down now and then with questioning and worry) but I know you can do it. Sorry for the rambling answer ^^
