I'm currently working on an urban fantasy story. My main character ends up working for a very old character. I'm not sure exactly what he's going to be yet (vampire seems way too cliche), but I already know that he is hundreds or thousands of years old, maybe immortal or just incredibly long lived. Over all of those years, he has managed to amass a considerable amount of wealth and power.
My question is, what do you think someone who has lived for centuries would be like? I'm imagining this character as very cultured and worldly, but would they be able to continuously adapt to new technology? I'm not sure if it would be more realistic to have a thousand year old character using cell phones and social media, or to have him become kind of "stuck" in the past and unwilling to adapt to any more change after a while.
I also think that someone who has lived through centuries would become very jaded after a while, and no longer allow themselves to care about the people around themselves - since everyone else is just going to die, of course. Is it reasonable to expect that someone like this would have gradually decaying morals over the centuries, and eventually become evil?
I've seen a lot of writers try to do the whole immortal character thing before and not do a very good job at it. (Cough cough Twilight.) I know that the character is completely up to me, of course, but I'd like the character to be somewhat realistic. Well, as realistic as an incredibly long-lived fantasy character can be, of course.
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