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cityarcade2014-03-07 03:50 pm
not_acute) wrote in cityarcade2014-03-07 03:50 pm
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Meme: Reverse Questions
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.
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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ELSA. Oh, god, I love her so much, Scott, I just love her so much. Okay, so number one priority for CR is Anna. They're the kind of best friends that bounce back after years apart, but that's still a huge gap of time and they haven't been sisters in this way in THIRTEEN YEARS, so that plus being somewhere new and sharing an apartment that's smaller than Elsa's private living quarters in Arendelle is a new challenge, and they have a lot to learn about each other. And that's just really exciting for me, because, I mean, you know how I feel about this, this is one of the biggest things in the movie for me, because her relationship with Anna so closely echoes my own with Meg, and it's not something I've ever gotten to play with in writing before.
I'm looking forward to seeing how she interacts with Jack, because he's a mythical being in her culture, but here he's also the guy who knows how to do what she does, but way better, and she wants to learn so much and be able to be safe with what she does. And Zuko because fire powers. Beyond that, it's totally a idk LET'S SEE WHAT DOES DOWN thing. I don't do a whole lot of planning? There are always personality traits I'm especially interested in and things I want to look at and I do know one small bit of plot I want to do with her later in the year, but mostly I just see what happens with those, very que sera sera.
I'm very excited to see how she deals with relations of any kind, though. She's been so isolated and the only person she's 100% comfortable with is still Anna, and I think there's a part of her that is still definitely afraid that people are going to be suspicious of her at best when they find out what she can do. So she's still kind of wary and she still has her anxiety to deal with, and she needs more time and experience to work past that instinct to keep people at arm's length, because she has more practice at subduing the instinct to be warm and friendly instead. Like, when we see her as a kid, she is so warm and open and mischievous and enthusiastic and confident, and I very much think those aspects of her are still there, but they just need to be... thawed out, so to speak. We see bits of that in the movie as she embraces her abilities, but now she needs to deal with embracing it in the way of not being afraid how other people will deal with.
And I think the opinions of others are VERY important to her. She was raised to be queen. She's had all this expectation on her from day one (she alludes to this in "We Know Better," of all things, which... I love that song, but Elsa, you're three, how are you forming these sentences). She's been under a lot of pressure, and it's clearly very important to her to do right by her country. Like, it bugs me because I've seen people read her as selfish for running away, in which case, I don't think they saw the same movie I saw. Because to me, Elsa is dangerously selfless. Her guiding principles are duty and devotion to others. I think at the point when she's crowned, she basically sees her lot in life as being the absolute best queen she knows how to be, and that's it. With her abilities, she's not planning on going out among the people, and she's not planning to be, like, a super loved monarch (even though it seems that she is, which makes me think her parents must have been, so their example is one more thing she has to live up to). She's certainly not expecting to get married; I mean, she can't touch anybody, doesn't think she can, and can't tell anyone, so how could she get married? How could she have heirs? She's just gonna be alone and do the best she can and one day Anna will take over, or her children will. So all she really has is, can I be a good queen? What do people think of me? How well will I serve my people? And add to that her fear of being seen as a monster, and she has a lot to deal with in terms of self-image and how she reacts to other people's opinions of her.
So in a way not being queen will be good for her, because that's a lot of pressure off of her. On the other hand, she really does not know what to do with herself. It's literally the only job she's ever prepared for. We know she's a gifted scholar, but she's educated about as far as the 19th century, and she's not equipped to work for someone else. I mean, she's good-hearted and devoted, but the girl's a queen, make no mistake. She gives the orders. She doesn't take them. She fences. She's a poet. None of this is very useful in the modern world, so I have no idea what she's going to pursue for work. I just know she will work, because she's too responsible to do anything else. She likes math, so she's probably handling all the finances. Actually, you know, she's really good at geometry and shit, maybe she'll become an architect. She clearly has a gift for design. But that's all natural talent with no training, so she'd have to go to school to figure out how to do that with, you know, stuff that isn't ice. Maybe fashion design. She has a very distinctive sense of style (ELIE SAAB ELIE SAAB ELIE SAAB), if she can replicate it with fabric that, y'know, other people can wear that isn't made of ice.
We do see that Arendelle is a fairly progressive monarchy, at least. Oaken may or may not be gay, and Anna doesn't bat an eye at that. There are definitely people of color among the courtiers. (Like, I agree that neither of these makes for real representation, but it does tell me a lot about the society Elsa was raised in.) She's obviously very different herself. So in that sense, I think she'll step into modern society pretty well. It's just a matter of figuring out technology, coming to terms with not being able to go back right away and rule Arendelle, and determining how to provide for herself Anna.
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For the record, that is a perfect summation of my general reaction when people point that out. It's a start towards something better. <3
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That said, the reason I love Elsa so much is that I read her as a metaphor for my own depression. She can be more than one thing to all kinds of people. The fact that Demi Lovato, who also has a history of the depression, did the pop version of Let It Go made it so much more powerful to me.
Also I saw it again today and pretty much sat there going I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.
AND YEAH. The fact that I get to play Elsa in one game and play WITH your Elsa in this one is the best of everything.
And I think Oaken is my favorite character. So goofy and cute.
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I'm making about a billion icons, by the way, so if you need any for your other game, I'll point you their way when I finish. XD
HOO HOO. I wish they would make all the Disney people use that as the new official park greeting.
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There needs to be some kind of wacky winter plot with him. Somehow.
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