MEME: Reverse Questions

[girlalmighty]

Hey, before I forget and pass out, here's your Monday meme!

Tag in with all the characters you play. Then ask each other questions. Questions may be from the player or the characters themselves, but answers must come from the player, since of course, you can't really trust a character always to answer truthfully. Anything goes, whether they're questions about specific tags, plots, feelings, characters, or just general gameplay questions.

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[girlalmighty]

KATIE
FAVORITE: What I love most about Katie is how rich a character she is. While on the outside, she seems very sweet and pleasant and bright, there's a lot of shadow under the surface, and that isn't native to her, it's not who she was growing up, but it's unshakable now. She's exactly the kind of character I always wanted to write myself, honestly, because I feel like female characters tend to be extremely limited in the media. You can be the victim or the aggressor, the weak woman or the strong one. We don't get enough multidimensional women like Katie, who is incredibly flawed and can easily be perceived as weak in the way she's constantly going back to a man who abuses her physically and emotionally and who cheats on her, but there's a strength to the way she deals with it all and her plans to escape, and she's more than a victim. She's flawed, too, and becomes a little bent herself, and I like being able to play a character type usually perceived as sort of feeble and foolish and delve into how it's a lot more complicated than that. It's definitely something I've never played before and I find her really exciting.

LEAST FAVORITE: Man, this is kind of awkward to say. My least favorite thing about Katie is actually about me, and it's how easily I can put myself in her shoes and understand what it's like to be emotionally abused in that way and to love your attacker and to make those excuses and try to stick it out, and then to plan desperately for escape. That I can empathize so fully with her (and the same goes for Harley at TR) is a fact that, when it hits me all over again, can be devastating to sit with, because it's not something you want to know about yourself.

HANNAH
FAVORITE: Ironically, my favorite thing about Hannah is probably the same as my least favorite about Katie -- that I find her incredibly easy to connect with and understand. We're at sort of similar places in our lives, at least emotionally. We're in our late 20s, at that point where we're trying to differentiate between what we think we're supposed to be and who we really are, and to accept that real self and be that person. She really is a coming of age story, despite being 28 now and engaged and in a nice career; she's still figuring herself out. And it's fun for me to write that story and it's kind of comforting, too. I feel like, of all my characters, she's actually the one I'm most like, and it's nice because she's a very hopeful version of that. She has flaws and foibles, but she's ultimately an optimistic vision of what that point in life is.

LEAST FAVORITE: In a lot of ways, Hannah is so incredibly ordinary that she's not necessarily the most exciting character or the kind that makes people want to tag her, so it's very easy for her to fall behind and get less attention. I worry that, between that and the route she wants to take in life, she's one that could get stagnant very easily.

EDEN
FAVORITE: What I love most about Eden is her heart. She had a really rough childhood and she went through some awful things, and she grew up and she abused her powers and drank too much, and basically she was in bad shape, but she's never been a bad person. Her heart has always been good, and she took all the bad and turned it into compassion. She's adaptable and loving, and what she took from her life wasn't to become tough, it was that everyone deserves another chance. I really admire that.

LEAST FAVORITE: It is sometimes frustrating, because I went a long time feeling like she was just stuck and I'd have to drop her, but now she's opened out a little more, so that's not so bad.

OLIVE
FAVORITE: Oh, god, I don't even know. Everything. I guess it's that she's likewise so adaptable and full of love, so even when she's down, she's optimistic and trying to endure and see everything as an adventure and learn as much as she can and make others happy. She has such a big heart, and so everything I do with her makes me feel good. It can be the toughest, saddest thread, and I still walk away feeling better because she's just such a kind soul.

LEAST FAVORITE: Because she makes me the happiest, I pin so much importance on her that I'm liable to take things involving her unnecessarily personally and be a crazy person about them. Like, I've gotten a lot better over the years about bleed and kind of letting things go, but I can be crazy sensitive and protective about her, because that kind of a source of happiness is really precious to me.

CAMERON
FAVORITE: He's so genuine and sweet and completely freaking oblivious. Like, he's this incredibly honorable guy who takes offense at the idea of using his wealth and all to get ahead and he gives others the benefit of the doubt, and at the same time, he's got his arrogant streak and this sense of pride and he doesn't really get that he always gets special treatment by virtue of being rich and handsome and connected. And I'm enjoying playing him in places where he doesn't have those advantages and he can kind of learn how different things really are.

LEAST FAVORITE: Cameron is the kind of guy who can be politely charming and get along well with people, but he's not as social as his brother. It's harder for him to make real connections. As a result, he really doesn't know anyone but his girlfriend and he's not necessarily the kind of person that draws the most tags because his niceness isn't, like, super exciting, so it can be a drag, not knowing what to do with him.