If we want to go into private school night mares - I've got ye all whupped!! I'm probably the most sheltered, naive, inexperienced sap you'd ever meet . . .
but bet ye coud never tell from me posts! (see, clever lead in to the topic. I DID pay attention in Writing class? Impressive! )
Okay - I bet ye all couldn't guess, but I'm not really a Mercenary! Shocking, I know. However, I have a character in a book I am writing that is one, and this character, in her behaviour, attitude and life outlook is everything I want to be - Sarcastic, witty, just a little scary when she wants to be, and able to survive come all odds. So, in essence, I am MercenaryWench. But I don't actually go around and take commissions to fight wars or books myself out for assasinations. I don't shoot seagulls for fun and if surrounded by a group of thugs, I couldn't save myself worth shit. Half the time I don't even speak as if from her experience, but my own, filtered through her identity. It's almost like, I was Tudor Smith in a previous existance or like I am her, trapped in a time warp, applying the same personality traits and dogma to the 21st century I am sadly trapped in.
I think to some extent, that's what most of us are like. We put something of ourselves into our personas, or perhaps our personas put something in us. I know, that if I could be just a little more like Tudor Smith - a little stronger, a little wiser - I might be able to handle life a bit better.
Just as a note of interest; the word 'Personna' comes from the greek theatre. They were the masks the actors wore. These masks usually had unproportionaly large features, so the actor's faces and their emotions could be seen at the back of the amphitheatres. Maybe that's behind this double personality question . . . our faces, only bigger . . .