MEME: Reverse Questions

[citycouncil]

Muns: Post here listing all of the characters you play (you might want to list journals, too, just for reference) or are thinking of playing.

Everyone: Ask the MUNS anything about the GAME or THEIR PUPS, because we all know the muns will answer when the characters won't. They can be specific questions ("How does he feel about her?") or general questions ("Why did you choose this pup?", "How do you channel them?", etc.) You can even have pups ask the questions, but ANSWERS are coming from the PLAYERS.

For the last time we did this one, check out the tag.

Comments

[campraeden]

I don't think that's a cop-out at all, actually. That's an insight I hadn't considered (being further set from the canon as I am), but it makes perfect sense. She deserves that chance to learn who she wants to be and who she can be.

I'll admit, it's been a long time since I've seen the movies, and I've never read the books, so I'm curious: 'lipsticks and nylons and invitations' thing?

[discojolras]

Okay so the reason a lot of people are Mad About What C.S. Lewis Did To Susan is that there's a bit in the last book where everyone who had once traveled to Narnia returns there, except for Susan. We are then informed that Susan is "no longer a friend of Narnia" and so cannot return, that she insists it was just a game they made up when they were children, and that she has grown up to be a very silly young woman who only cares about lipstick and nylons and invitations. It's a very blatant Christian allegory about denying Christ and caring about the physical world over the spiritual world and so on and so forth; it has also, understandably, made a lot of feminists Big Mad. (For the record: I, too, am Big Mad about it.)

Anyway C.S. Lewis is an unreliable narrator (no, really, he genuinely is) and so are the people relaying the information about what Susan's like now, and I want to dropkick all three of them to the moon and then go explore why Susan's so interested in fashion and boys and parties and all that jazz. I think there are good reasons for it! I just think that those reasons are... not what Lewis probably intended for them to be.

[campraeden]

Oooooh, I see, I see. I think I would also be Big Mad about it tbh bc that seems like BOOSHEET.

I really like that you want to explore it in a more (probably) feminist and logical slant. I feel like she and Larita would get along if they ever ended up meeting, not least of all bc they're from the same period but also because Lari is also interested in fashion and boys and parties and all that jazz (and just also cars). I'd love to see that exploration in action tbh so I hope you end up bringing her :D

[discojolras]

I went and looked up the synopsis for Easy Virtue last time you had Lari in TD, and I also feel like they'd get along pretty well! I'd be bringing Susan from before she got fully into all of that, but if they ran into each other after she'd been in Darrow for a bit, it would be great.

tbh part of whether I wind up bringing Susan is going to be dependent on whether Kat winds up bringing Edmund, just because I do feel like Susan's one of those characters who would do better if she had canonmates around, but she's very loud and has a lot of potential in Darrow, so she's at the top of my queue right now!

[campraeden]

It's a very silly movie but I enjoy it a lot and recommend it if you want just a low-stakes petty romp through the 20s/30s English countryside. (Also it has Ben Barnes so.)

That makes sense, too tbh. Sometimes Lone Canon Warriors are easier, but sometimes a character just does BETTER with canon mates.