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Interestingly enough, on this site and a few others I've visited before settling here, there are many people that aspire to RP as Jedi. At the same time, the complexity of the issue arises when folks realize they really don't know how to RP as Jedi (or are at least unsure how they want to). This often results in people making the somewhat stale, rigid or dogmatic "Hero of Tython" esque Jedi, which can be fantasy-fulfilling for a time, but can just as easily - not to mention quickly - become boring, predictable and unengaging.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, some try to go against the current in creating a more avenging and edgy Anakin-like Jedi, but all too often fall into the snare of acting more Sith (or at best, amoral) than Jedi. This creates an obvious conflict, as the Jedi are very morally centered and fortified, with a strict code of beliefs, conduct and tenets that form the principals that govern their actions in their day-to-day life and activities.
Some try to find the balance, but end up making their Jedi seem like they have bipolarity or even multiple-personality disorder. There's even the attempt at making one's Jedi seem more like an "average Joe" to make them more relatable, only to have that indistinguishably make them not even seem like Jedi at all, just cool dudes with lightsabers. It's easy to play most other archetypes, even the many personality types of Sith (the superdy-duperdy evil Sith, the cunning sneaky Sith, the intellectual amoral Sith, etc.), but Jedi stand out as one of the hardest ones around.
This are plenty more variables, but this basically covers why I firmly believe that Jedi are some of the most difficult characters to portray, at least for those trying to "get the right feel" or really get into the little kid fantasy of playing a Jedi. I've not really done Jedi myself, but in my future approach, I'm trying to (if this makes sense) explicitly not create a Jedi from any of the molds, but build their personalities from the ground up, specifically regarding their interpretation of the Jedi Code. That's really suppose to be a pillar of their lives, but most Jedi seem to seldom reference or even think about it. I'm going for the devout crusader, one that might seem like an extreme zealot to strangers or outsiders, but is just very tempered in what the Code itself motivates Jedi to be.
I know that probably seems vague as hell, but I'm personally finding the defining of a "from the ground up" Jedi personality to be challenging... which is why that's going to be one of my main characters.
Cheers!
On the opposite side of the spectrum, some try to go against the current in creating a more avenging and edgy Anakin-like Jedi, but all too often fall into the snare of acting more Sith (or at best, amoral) than Jedi. This creates an obvious conflict, as the Jedi are very morally centered and fortified, with a strict code of beliefs, conduct and tenets that form the principals that govern their actions in their day-to-day life and activities.
Some try to find the balance, but end up making their Jedi seem like they have bipolarity or even multiple-personality disorder. There's even the attempt at making one's Jedi seem more like an "average Joe" to make them more relatable, only to have that indistinguishably make them not even seem like Jedi at all, just cool dudes with lightsabers. It's easy to play most other archetypes, even the many personality types of Sith (the superdy-duperdy evil Sith, the cunning sneaky Sith, the intellectual amoral Sith, etc.), but Jedi stand out as one of the hardest ones around.
This are plenty more variables, but this basically covers why I firmly believe that Jedi are some of the most difficult characters to portray, at least for those trying to "get the right feel" or really get into the little kid fantasy of playing a Jedi. I've not really done Jedi myself, but in my future approach, I'm trying to (if this makes sense) explicitly not create a Jedi from any of the molds, but build their personalities from the ground up, specifically regarding their interpretation of the Jedi Code. That's really suppose to be a pillar of their lives, but most Jedi seem to seldom reference or even think about it. I'm going for the devout crusader, one that might seem like an extreme zealot to strangers or outsiders, but is just very tempered in what the Code itself motivates Jedi to be.
I know that probably seems vague as hell, but I'm personally finding the defining of a "from the ground up" Jedi personality to be challenging... which is why that's going to be one of my main characters.
Cheers!
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