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.

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[eternaldaisy]

I'm Laine, and I play:

Katniss Everdeen | vocalfuel | The Hunger Games
Molly Stearns | losttheright | The Ides of March
Driver | fiveminutewindow | Drive
Jacob Palmer | tryingtobuyit | Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Eduardo Saverin | pointzerothree | The Social Network
Lucy Carrigan | radicalize | Across the Universe
Brendan Conlon | theunderdog | Warrior
Jenny Mellor | notverywise | An Education
Elvis Moreau | wasblindbefore | Elvis and Anabelle
Summer Roberts | littlemissvixen | The O.C.
T.J. Hammond | inablur | Political Animals
Jerry Wooters | thelongdormantcop | Gangster Squad
Jason Cankam | callinghimback | The Place Beyond the Pines
Sansa Stark | onlyabird | A Song of Ice and Fire
Don Keefer | fuckingnewsman | The Newsroom
Chuck Hansen | hadtheshot | Pacific Rim
Carla Jean Moss | refusedtocall | No Country for Old Men
Emmett Forrest | driven_as_hell | Legally Blonde
Anna of Arendelle | anopendoor | Frozen

And coming soon:

Sam Flynn | improvises | Tron: Legacy

[spirit_of_vitriol]

What made you choose Sansa over any other Ice and Fire characters?

[eternaldaisy]

I think it was the show, actually, that got her in my head. I'd considered a couple other characters from the series at various points — I even had Daenerys on reserve for a while at TR — but while I'd always loved her in the books, Sophie Turner played her so, so fantastically that she just stuck with me. And she's always been a character I've been very defensive of. I just... I don't know, man, I really, really love her. I love how real she is as a adolescent girl, one who fights with her sister and is blinded by what she wants, and I love the journey she goes on, how she starts the series so painfully naïve and becomes one of the best players of the game, and I love that she goes through hell and never loses her heart, her compassion. That, I think, is what really drew me to her.

[b_radwick]

Tell me about Brendan Conlon please?

[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.

[warmandsad]

If you could only rescue one of your pups from their canon, who would it be and why?

[eternaldaisy]

My gut instinct is to say Sansa, because she's been through hell and it doesn't look like things will get better for her any time soon, but at the same time, she's actually one I feel kind of bad about taking away from canon, because I want her to keep becoming stronger and take back what's hers and become Queen in the goddamn North. I considered Molly, too, but I don't know that I'd honestly want to, because she has so much agency, and as tragic as her story ends, her choices are all hers. So I actually kind of want to say T.J. Which is weird, because he has a privileged life and a family that does love him, but the thing that kills me about his canon and how abruptly it ends is that we never really find out what happens to him, and I find it hard to imagine him actually ever staying sober in that setting. He'd probably just keep turning to old habits and eventually probably die of an overdose or something. So... he's probably the one I'd most want to rescue.

[di]

Is there a character (or couple of characters) whose growth and development in Darrow you have been the most proud of?

[eternaldaisy]

T.J., definitely. Which probably has a lot to do with having a clear arc for him in my head, a story I'm really committed to telling, which has obviously culminated in making him virtually unplayable for three months, but I feel pretty pleased with the way everything's come about, and he's really come a long, long way from where he was in canon.

[intheenditslove]

WHERE DO I BEGIN? goddammit, I love all your characters.

How has Molly progressed since Patrick's attack in the summer? What's helped her? What definitely hasn't?

Is T.J. going to fall off the wagon at all? I promise Lily won't be a bad influence on him!

Would Chuck talk much about having died or is he just ignoring it?

How's Carla Jean settling in general? She's had a lot thrown at her in recent months just with other people and their drama, how's she dealing with that?

Can I thread with Emmett/who should I thread with Emmett? :D

SAM FLYNN, WHAT ARE YOU?

[eternaldaisy]

Oh man. With Molly, it's still very much a work in progress, though she's come a long way. Andrea teaching her to shoot has helped. Trying to have sex just as soon as she was physically capable definitely did not help, which was really strange for her, because she thought that was all she'd need to get some of her own back, as it were. Anything related to Tiffany Charlotte doesn't help. The media dying down about it does help. I haven't actually threaded it yet because I suck, but seeing a therapist helps. For her, acting like everything's okay tends to... make things seem okay, so when she's in a position to do that, it's easier. And just time, I think, helps.

I've toyed with the idea of having him relapse at some point, but if he does, it will be a one-time thing, probably, and he'll feel really bad about it. I don't know, I don't want to have too much set in stone on that front, so I'm just kind of taking it as it comes. But with his history, it's highly probable that it will happen at some point.

IGNORING IT!!!!! YAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

I think she actually deals a lot better when she has other people's drama to focus on. She's good at taking care of people, in an almost maternal sense, strange as it is for someone so young, I think in part because she was taking care of her grandmother from such an early age. So all of that gives her something to kind of throw herself into, which makes it easier to deal with her own shit (namely having killed someone), which makes settling overall a lot easier.

YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN THREAD WITH EMMETT. I really need to get him out and meeting people and all that. Annnnd I'm kind of tempted to say Andrea, actually, they can bond over lawyer shit. XD

I. DO. NOT. EVEN. KNOW.

[herocop]

I have another question that won't leave me alone.

Do YOU think that Jason is ever capable of forgiving Avery, or at least understanding that his intention was never malicious?

[eternaldaisy]

I think he could, one day, understand that his intention wasn't malicious. I mean, on some level, he has to know that already, because Avery's a cop and Luke was a bank robber and the official story was that Luke shot first (AVERY U LIAR), but he carries around too much resentment to really see it that way. If he could ever get past it at all, this is definitely the place for it, since Luke is here, but I'm not sure if he'd ever let himself. I guess we'll have to see~~~

[thetidebreaks]

How do you think Anna is going to like the city? Do you have any plans for her yet beyond getting her situated?

KATNISS AND RILEY SOON Y/Y?

Is Sam going to remember things from the island?

[eternaldaisy]

I think it's going to be really strange for her, but then she's going to love it. She'll be so excited to learn about everything and meet everyone. It'll have its rough moments, since she's used to having a lot that isn't accessible to her here, but it will ultimately be worth it. As for plans, I know I want to age her down at some point, but that's a ways off yet. Other than that, nothing definitive.

Y E S ABSOLUTELY.

Yep! He's coming with island memories and his infant daughter. 8D

[andrealyn]

For all of them, if applicable. Who is your most wanted canonmate for each pup?

[eternaldaisy]

Katniss: Gale Hawthorne.
Molly: ...I don't know, actually.
Driver: Bernie and Nino as temps would be amazing.
Jacob: Cal Weaver.
Eduardo: I'd kind of love to see someone try their hand at Sean Parker.
Lucy: There's a possible Jude coming, but apart from that, Prudence.
Brendan: Tess Conlon.
Jenny: I can't think of anyone.
Elvis: Anabelle Leigh.
Summer: Sandy or Kirsten Cohen.
T.J.: Doug Hammond. But really, anyone.
Jerry: John O'Mara.
Jason: Romina Gutierrez Cankam.
Sansa: ANY OF THE STARKS. Tyrion Lannister.
Don: Anyone.
Chuck: Herc Hansen. Mako Mori.
Carla Jean: Llewelyn Moss.
Emmett: n/a.
Anna: Kristoff Bjorgman.

[adifferentlife]

How do you manage the differences in your pups?

What made you realise you had to play Don?

[eternaldaisy]

I have no idea.

And I'm actually not sure. When I first started thinking about Don, I had already been planning on bringing Maggie, so there wasn't much of an I absolutely had to play him moment. I just realized as the first season went on that I was kind of torn between the two. And then season two was pretty much... exactly what I wanted, as far as he was concerned. If there was a moment then that did it, it was the second episode, when the guy whose story he's been following is about to be executed.

[norelief]

Do you think Katniss would, under any circumstances, tell Finnick of his fate?

That his cappa was detated?

From his head?

[eternaldaisy]

CRYING

Um, it's doubtful. I think the only thing that would make her do so would be if his survival in Darrow somehow depended on it, and I can't think of a situation where that would be the case, so.

[alltheircrimesarejust]

Because it was an interaction that I always wanted and never got to see through at TR. What would Katniss think of Shuya from Battle Royale?

[eternaldaisy]

Ooh, oh man. I think she'd probably be really wary for a long while — she is with most people anyway, but the idea of there being another world where something like the Games happened, if she ever found out about that, would definitely have her guard up even more than usual. But then if she got to know him, it would probably make her more inclined to see him as a potential ally, because most people do not get what that was like.

[jianhuo]

Is there anyone that any of your pups would not, under any circumstances, want to see in Darrow?

[alltheircrimesarejust]

So, gonna ask this of all three of you because I love to know: What are your headcanons about how Frozen and Tangled and how their stories coexist?