Meme: Reverse Questions

[not_acute]

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 MUNS.

Comments

[adifferentlife]

What is it that first drew you to Helen? Would you ever consider restarting her story?

[thetinydemon]

survival

Oh shit, after initially attempting to bang him, I think Brian would really like the guy, unless he felt too threatened by their similarities (which is always a possibility). Are you tagging anyone into the Mardi Gras thingie? Brian has an open toplevel, TAG THAT.

[adifferentlife]

What made you like Eep? How did Finnick get into your head?

[thetinydemon]

ROFLLLL Oh shit, I play two cannibals and I didn't even really notice.

[meredevachon]

Magic wielding.

Goddess.

Badass.

Mother.

And on a shallow note: Rene Russo.

Also, her fridging should not stand. That's probably when I went from "Frigga is such a me-character," to "I must play her somewhere eventually."

[adifferentlife]

What's your favourite thing about Donald's story so far?

[b_radwick]

Might as well add Shia Labeouf to your queue!

[adifferentlife]

What has surprised you the most about yours?

[thetinydemon]

Insanity.

That there are so many of them? Seriously. And unfortunately, their voices kind of come in waves, depending upon my mood, which can make my tagging a little inconsistent.

[thetinydemon]

No.

[adifferentlife]

Those sorts of jokes are the worst. She's a great character. I've been rereading the earlier USM run again. I love when she shows up.

[adifferentlife]

It was a coin flip between Gale and Peeta, actually. Peeta won, barely.

[thetidebreaks]

Right now I need to reply to Dawn about Warehouse stuff, LOL. If the plot we have planning gets approved, it's going to be interesting juggling it, since it's not like Claudia and he can make 'being a Warehouse Agent' a proper job in the city. But he does take his cop job seriously, even if it isn't exactly what he used to do back home, even before the agent job. He likes helping people, and I generally plan on getting him more involved when crime plots crop up.

[warmandsad]

Finnick's at Mardi Gras but only bumping into Saffron and asking WTF it is all about. I WANT TO TAG BRIAN but I'm trying to figure out how that would come about.

[thetinydemon]

If he's bumping into Saffron, couldn't he bump into Brian too?

[warmandsad]

I initially went to see The Croods in support of Emma, no surprise there, but was struck by how goddamn interesting I found her to be. I would love to say that I relate to her, but the fact is she is so much braver than I could ever be. I think overall I do relate to the journey they go on, overcoming fear and working towards a tomorrow. I just love Eep a lot, I think she's delightful and would make Darrow a lot of fun.

HAHA. By fucking accident. Shane tagged Johanna into a TD, I tagged in Finnick for kicks and the rest is history. He's stuck. I'm not really sure how, or why, but he's there.

[thetidebreaks]

Probably Jennifer the most, but mostly because she misses Duke and is worried about everyone. Steve wouldn't mind going back, but he also wouldn't want to go unless Claudia went with him, so he's decently okay with the situation, as weird as it is.

The rest come from hell realities, two of which involve zombies, one of which involves an insane religious cult and a giant robot bird, so yeah, they're good here. LOL.

[warmandsad]

I wasn't sure at what point Brian was partaking in the festivities, since he bumped into Saffron on her way there, but I'll figure something out.

[thetinydemon]

You're welcome to find him coming or going, if you can't think of a reason to actually get Finnick in there.

COME INSIDE, BUDDY, IT'S FUN.

[warmandsad]

HE THINKS IT'S SO CAPITOL.

[di]

Rukia won't ask Steve about the chain unless there's another trigger that comes up somehow in that regard. While she's definitely curious, she doesn't yet have a reason to think that it would get in the way of her job, and people's relationships with death are so personal and nuanced that she doesn't want to impose on someone else's life in that way. It would require some kind of impetus to get her asking — really easy to arrange if ever desired~ maybe he attracts more ghosts or spirits, which could have a tangible effect on him, so on and so forth. Or if Steve started asking about her own background and seems curious about learning on the whole, she might ask him in turn. But she's definitely too careful about treading into another person's space to come out with that out of nowhere.

AGREED WE NEED ANOTHER THREAD

Faye probably won't ever trust Booker to an extent that she is personally comfortable with. I think she could come to trust him to some degree, and certainly the more predictability that she perceives there, the better, but even who he is in general isn't the sort of personality type that she would completely trust. The interesting thing is that there are certain parallels between how she gets things done and how Booker does, but even then, Faye wouldn't trust someone like herself either. So, yeah. Not for the foreseeable future.

InuYasha likes the fact that Jennifer seems pretty upfront and open-minded. The latter is really what drew his interest to begin with, because he's so unaccustomed to having people be welcoming of him or really trying to learn what he is. He doesn't want to be treated as the same as a human, but he also doesn't want to be immediately alienated on all fronts and to be seen as something entirely foreign and without commonalities. Jennifer has been one of the best at balancing both of those fronts, and the fact that her mannerism is just generally positive and pretty direct is the icing on the cake.

If Clementine reached out to Yukio, he definitely would have started training with her right away. The first thing that he would do is try to assess her skills along the standard Exorcist disciplines in his world — does she have good aim (this would be ideal in his view), does she have a good memory, does she have brute force, etc., and then align the training to that. So definitely some bookwork to begin with so that she knows the basic foundational knowledge, before then taking her into a specific practice. Sharpshooting would be his preference just because it's what he specializes most in, so he'd feel best equipped to teach her that, but he's great at teaching beginner level knowledge on the whole (to the point of being a teacher in canon). Also yes, we should totally thread this out, I would really really enjoy that!

[eternaldaisy]

Oh man, okay. I'm not gonna do this justice because my head's all weird right now and I can barely think straight, but I'll try. :D I mean, in a lot of ways, to talk about Brendan Conlon is to talk about me, so, here goes.

The thing that really struck me about Warrior, when I first watched it, was not just how well it portrayed a (recovering) alcoholic — a good few movies have done that — but how well it depicted the effect that disease has on the family members of someone who has it as well. That, I'd never seen before. It made me sympathize with all the characters, as well as giving the story a lot of gray areas, which is also something I really like in movies.

Probably the prime example of that, and the first moment that really hit me, was a scene about halfway through the movie, maybe a little sooner, when Brendan's dad goes to his house, a thousand days sober, and Brendan turns him away, saying, "I forgive you, but I do not trust you." That's word for word something that I'd said to my mother after she'd finished a stint in rehab when I was in high school, during a similar conversation. He's continually hoped, continually given chances, and continually been let down, and he's reached the end of his rope, so to speak. There's nothing more there to give, and that shutting down as a self-preservation tactic — and not only, in Brendan's case, to protect himself but also to protect his family — is something I'm very well acquainted with.

That kind of hope, we know, is why he stayed when he was a kid, too. To Tommy, he says that he fell in love, and a lot of it was about Tess (more on that in a bit), but as he says to his dad, it was also about finally wanting to have his love and attention. To be enough. And maybe he never expressly says so, but I think it's pretty easy to extrapolate that that wanting to be enough would also involve wanting to be enough for Paddy to get sober. Which he never was, because that's not how it works, but it's a very easy line of thought to fall into.

And when it comes to Tess, and his wanting to stay for her, I think, obviously, that it was because he was in love with her, but also in love with what she represented to him. It's a really unpredictable, really unstable life, having a parent like Brendan's dad, and at least the way I see it, Tess probably came from a very normal, very stable family. The allure of that is just... impossible to describe. (For comparison, I moved in with a friend of mine for a month in high school after my mom had just gotten out of rehab. I moved home when she went back again for a more long-term treatment.) So it would have been a choice between staying and having a refuge of sorts, a pinnacle of normalcy, or an even more unstable life driving to some unknown destination and having very little way of staying supported once there. He picked the possible stability — and, in his defense, I think it's important to note that he had no idea that doing so would mean losing all presence of his mother and brother in his life. He thought there would still be some kind of contact. Instead, he doesn't even get to find out about his mother dying until after the fact.

I think a lot of that is his driving force as an adult, as well. His own childhood was so rocky that he doesn't want his own kids to have to experience that, he wants them to have something steady, something reliable, because he never did. And there's a marked difference between him and Tess in that regard. She says they could give up the house and move back to an apartment; he refuses. He's a stubborn, arrogant jackass, but it all comes from such real places, and he's this guy who'd do absolutely anything to give his family the best life possible, and I love that about him.

[andrealyn]

I'm really pleased he's back in a more civilized situation where he can sort of enjoy life again without knowing what's going to happen. Things got very predictable for him at TR, so I'm loving that he gets to be a bit brighter and madcap again.

[godless_son]

Which part of you do you think Danny springs from?

[di]

There are two that I would say have surprised me the most in ways that are difficult to compare, so I will overshare. XD

The first is Nuriko; she's probably the most accurate answer to this question. I've had a really solid view of her personality for years and years, just because her series is the first comic I ever read and fell in love with, so I've obsessively gone back many times to revisit and had her personality down in my head for the past few years especially. I'm genuinely surprised by how well she's managed to fit herself in around others in Darrow; she's kind of in-your-face and relentlessly teasing in a way that can be aggravating, and layer that on top of how she's from such a different time, a different culture, and her identity isn't one that everyone knows how to treat off the bat. In spite of all of these things, she has so many connections now (especially recently now that I've just chucked her at more people) that are warm and constantly exploring. It makes me happy, since her life has honestly been one of the rougher ones of my characters.

The other is Ishiah, kind of. Less in plot exactly, but more in development. I've played Ishiah at four different games now, and honestly, my take on him keeps on shifting in a way that makes me doubt myself a little (more than a little, really), but I think in Darrow, I've finally locked onto the true way that I want to play him, and I'm pleasantly surprised by how well I've stuck to it. He's really not a 'nice' guy, and is pretty harsh and strict on all fronts. That I've stuck to my guns in playing him with that cool calm, punctuated by sometimes blazing anger, feels good. I'm glad I've had an opportunity to kind of reset how I play him here.