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.

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[nobleplatypus]

I'm Carrie and I currently manages this motley crew:

Greta Baker | andhiswife | Into the Woods
Jonathan Sims | statement_ends | The Magnus Archives
Abbie Douglas | celery_cool | Unwell

And possibly, perhaps, one day...

Rose Marshall | roadside_rose | Sparrow Hill Road

[trigeekgirl]

Your group is playing The Sims. Who meets the Grim Reaper and do they try to romance Grimmy?

[nobleplatypus]

Abbie takes a non-traditional approach to the Sims, which mostly involves sampling Simlish and turning it into a club banger that they will listen to for their own amusement and probably never show anyone else.

John and Greta ABSOLUTELY meet the Grim Reaper. Greta ends up romancing him by accident because she doesn't quite get the game's mechanics; she's really just trying to ingratiate herself to him so he doesn't kill her, and is both appalled and reluctantly amused that romancing him is even an option. John makes no attempt to romance Grimmy, but the guy does kinda... follow him around. Is the game glitched? He tries starting a new game, but it just keeps happening.

Rose isn't super interested in keeping up with technological advances beyond the extent that she has to in order to be passably alive, but if you asked her about the Grim Reaper, she'd have Strong Opinions about the idea of romancing him. She's a bit of a buzzkill for monsterfuckers.

[campraeden]

Through a filing mishap, your pups' canons have accidentally been swapped! What role does John get in Unwell, who is Greta's patron in The Magnus Archives, and what does Abbie do in Into the Woods, and why?

[nobleplatypus]

OH MAN OH MAN.

I think John would end up in Rudy's role. In addition to vibing with Norah, they've both got that winning (losing?) combination of being ostensibly into science and reason while also having a fatal vulnerability to more supernatural ideas. They both have a drive to Do the Right Thing that can supersede interpersonal loyalty and alienate their own allies. Plus, you KNOW John would absolutely pursue his suspicions about how the town works into a dangerous situation alone and with zero backup.

Greta's patron would probably be the Vast. Not just because of how she kicks it in her original canon (rip), but because I think it dials into both her wants (more freedom, more opportunities, more status, more and bigger and more) and her fears (being subsumed by a society that is so much bigger than she is, and that has already decided how much freedom to allot her, and it's not much). She is simultaneously at the mercy of and in hot pursuit of things that are so much larger than she is herself. And I think maybe she should be able to fly about it.

Abbie is the Narrator, at one remove from the rest of the characters. They observe and cannot always resist passing judgment, but they're not really part of it all, and their interest in the others (and their assorted interpersonal foibles) is more academic than personal. Until it's suddenly very personal, and they realize that they have, perhaps, been a little too cavalier with their own presumed ability to stay out of serious trouble.

[campraeden]

Ohhhhh I love these so much.

[bsafemydeers]

Because I am loving the hypothetical situations/AUs, your crew runs a restaurant. How's it going, on a scale of 10 Michelin stars to being on Kitchen Nightmares, and why?

[nobleplatypus]

I think they could just about manage a bakery by leaning on Greta's prowess and charm. The kicker is that they'd really need her in the back doing the actual baking, and nobody else has any real skill with the public-facing side of things.

John is aesthetically off-putting and has no interest in or knack for sales, though he'd probably be okay in a back office doing admin, placing orders, and managing deliveries. He'd pad out his admin work by being fastidious about cleanliness due to corruption-related trauma, so they'd at least be in good shape from a health and safety perspective.

Abbie does have some experience waiting tables, so they could muddle along behind the counter and ring people up. But this would definitely be the kind of place where people show up for the food and not the service.

If Rose is involved, she might actually the second most valuable employee because she can actually handle people. As long as she's got some borrowed outwear, she'd be able to turn on the charm and move a lot of baked goods. Her real passion is eating the product, though, and she loses too much time to be anything like reliable.

Final summary: it does well enough to get some positive attention and develop a small but loyal following. Then Greta burns out and decides she'd rather try publishing, and John and Abbie are both like 'oh thank god'.

[woodironbone]

Each of your pups has to come up with a Smartypants-style power point presentation. What are their subjects and how compellingly (or absurdly) do they make their cases?

[shelightsupwell]

How would Jonathan react to Daisy being friends with a vampire, if she weren't keeping it secret or Shion gave himself away or some such? Is that something he'd also be able to sense if he met Shion? Is there a particular plot you're hoping to do with him someday?

I know zip about Abbie's canon, so tell me, please, what about them really drew you to playing them? What was it that made you go "Okay, yes, them, yep"?

Two of your characters, possibilities included, have to trade canons for a day. Which pair is the funniest?