meme: reverse questions

[not_acute]

HOW ABOUT A FRIDAY NIGHT MEME?

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

[effseedee]

TURN DOWN FOR SCOTT, playing:

Katherine Pierce | selfmadevamp
Ellie | and_survive
Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman | herownway

and the queue, which is officialy a vague and formless maybe thing at all times:

Judge Anderson from DREDD
Harry Dresden from The Dresden Files

[andrealyn]

I will not lie, I have always wanted to know; what was the biggest pull for Katherine, for you?

[effseedee]

Several factors! For one, I wanted to play a villain/antagonist, which I hadn't really done, and I find Katherine's complete and utter focus on her own self-interest kind of refreshing. There was also a factor in that because she doesn't really build connections in the same way characters that aren't obsessively self-interested do, she struck me as sort of low maintenance, in that she can be imagined to be in the background, scheming and creating infinite fallback schemes in case someone comes after her.

(It's funny that I say villain, I do prefer antagonist for her because my position on TVD is that pretty much everyone's Bad People it's just that we're meant to root for the ones all the same side. But now I mostly just want Katherine to live forever.)

mostly it's that she's fabulous

[merridia]

playing spaceys in the arvo

[effseedee]

TRANSLATION FROM THE KIWI:

"playing videogames (oft. arcade, can be generalized) in the afternoon"

[merridia]

striving for complete fluency one day

[fuelforthefire]

What drew you (ha) to Jessica, and how do you think she'd deal with Earth 616 Jessica?

[effseedee]

I just found the concept of the inside of her head completely fascinating -- having all of someone else's memories and trying to forge her own identity and path from there on out, which sort of serves as the blown-up comic book version of how everyone has trouble figuring out how to define themselves as an individual and with respect to others. And then I just got kind of more and more obsessed, especially when she started appearing more frequently in the Miles-era USM.

haha nnnnot well, she already has copy-issues with regards to Peter Parker, there suddenly being an alternate universe Jessica Drew who was an original/not a clone of anyone and an adult with (she would assume, since she's young enough to still assume that of older people) her shit together, it'd majorly blow up her inadequacy issues.

[fuelforthefire]

I've only read the first six or so of the Miles era USM (I NEED TO FIX THIS) but I always loved her in the Peter era so very much. I really enjoy how you play her.

Hahaha then I should definitely do this >.> Someday. When I have my shit together again.

[thetidebreaks]

Actually, I am going to steal a question from Manda I think. Why did you decide to app Ellie? What was it about her that made you go 'YES, I MUST PLAY THIS BADASS.'

[effseedee]

It's funny, actually, when I first played The Last of Us my reaction to Ellie kind of mirrored Joel's, like I thought the opening was kind of manipulative and was like 'yeah and now they're gonna try and trick me into liking the girl' and then she was, you know... Ellie with the whistling and the jokes and the Ellie and it was impossible not to.

And then it's just- she's so bright and hopeful, sometimes, but at the same time she accumulates such damage and darkness and it's just fascinating to me how it all mixes together? So there's that, and then there was the way she's always so curious about past stuff, so having the opportunity to throw her at all of that was irresistable.

True story, I thought about Joel, because I just love the game so much and wanted someone from it, and he's also fascinating, but I figured he'd just be a hermit grump and wouldn't be as fun if there wasn't an Ellie, whereas Ellie would have all sorts of stuff even if she never got canonmates. And then she did anyway and it is amaaaaaaze.

[b_radwick]

Did you know the Dresden Files is my favorite series ever?

Also, do you think you'd ever canon update Jessica?

[effseedee]

I did not! is this a warning or a request or a requesting warning

And I might! Her exit point is fairly recent, so it depends what happens coming up in USM and All-New Ultimates - at the moment there isn't anything in either that I necessarily need, kind of? There's nothing I don't sort of have an equivalent for except maybe the change to being Black Widow, and that still hasn't been explained enough for me to want to bring it in. So maybe down the line once they explain the reasonings and stuff, and if something happens that I particularly want to use. But for the moment she's not far enough separate that it'd be worth it.

[b_radwick]

I'm just very excited you're bringing him so long as you don't screw him up. So don't screw him up, Scott! What canon exit point will you use?

And then she can grow her hair back, right?

[and_survive]

NO PRESSURE THEN

I usually like to go as late as possible but given CERTAIN FACTORS I'm thinking before Changes/Cold Days, since idk if the Winter Knight thing'd apply in Darrow? I mean I could say it did but it'd be kinda weird with no Mab or co. to boss him around and make being the Winter Knight a whole Thing. And obviously if he was from post-Changes and lost that mantle that's kinda difficult given what happens to his physical condition if he loses it. Interesting, but I dunno if that's the direction I wanna go/what I want to deal with. So post White Night, so no Lasciel, probably Turn Coat-ish?

although as anyone who has ever thought about apping harry dresden has, i did have a long tempting look at Dead Beat, because... riding a zombie dinosaur

But heck, I haven't read Skin Game yet, so maybe there'll be something in there I super want, who knows!

And idk, do canon updates change characters' appearances? honestly if her hair's gonna go short I'd rather have her cut it as a whole thing. and then grow it back over the course of... what. years? It's to the small of her back, that's gotta be fuckin' years, right?

[dsneyvoice]

I can confirm on the hair growing taking years, I recently had 8-9 inches chopped off mine but before that I could just about sit on it, and it took me like 4-5 years to get it that long.

[effseedee]

confirmation canon jess is never getting it back then D: MICHEL FIFFE YOU'RE A MONSTER

[b_radwick]

I would suggest reading Skin Game first because there's kind of some big stuff that happens that explains things going on in previous books that would have eventual implications for him in the city.

Oh, right, I forget that here they don't. Never mind, carry on, as you were!

[effseedee]

I intend to! And oh man, the parasite stuff? Don't answer that. But it does remind me that that's also a thing to take into account. DRESDEN YOU GOT TOO MUCH STUFF GOING ON

[b_radwick]

I will say that Skin Game doesn't add anymore loose threads, really? It feels a lot like the earlier books in terms of a more relatively confined plot arc.

[intheenditslove]

CAN I HAVE ELEVEN THOUSAND MORE THREADS WITH ELLIE?????

How does she deal with not having Joel around?

[effseedee]

A L W A Y S

oh man

Living in constant incipient terror of everyone around her dying and her being alone in the world again because Joel is the only person she trusts not to up and die on her? Basically.

Because- I mean, she's from just before the end, so she has very mixed feelings on Joel. The creative director for TLOU said in one interview that his take on it is that at the very end he thinks she kind of hates Joel but that it's open to interpretation, and that her voice actress probably has a different answer. Now, me, I think of it as both, she loves him and she hates him at the same time. On some level she knows, she says what she says but she still knows and she's choosing to accept it and to accept Joel, for a million reasons and because... he'll do whatever horrible brutal awful thing he has to in order to survive and be there for her. But at the same time he doesn't entirely see her, he doesn't give her the choice at the very end, and there's those bits where he's chatting away about how she'd like Sarah or how he'll teach her the guitar and not entirely getting that she's not all there any more.

So even though in some ways she should be... I don't know, relieved? Despite all that, it's still like she's missing a part of herself, they went through all that and now he's not even here to explain everything to her and provide a home. He was meant to be the thing that never left and he's not here. So she'll never ever live with anyone else or accept anyone else in that role, like maybe Andrea to a degree but sort of because Andrea's a woman, so it's more that she's rad? Joel's foundational, she is forever on shaky ground without him, for all that he's a terrible influence.

Like, I don't know if she's actually said his name aloud in a thread? If so, not often. She thinks about him all the time but talking about it would be opening up the wounds.

i don't know if this mass of words answers the question i have a lot of complicated thoughts about ellie and joel

also she should meet beth and beth should totally teach her to play the guitar

[dsneyvoice]

What's your biggest challenge with each of your ladies?

[effseedee]

Katherine is sort of an unpleasant person, which is delightful and all but means she's not great at just chatting, so much, or she's just less likely to... care, and all, which can make threads hard to maintain? And also she should have in theory... many schemes. Some of it I can handwave as going on off-screen, esp. contingencies, but yeah, gettin' the scheming.

Ellie it's... I have LOTS OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS about Ellie and I'm constantly trying to balance all the sides of her, there's the sort of light-hearted Ellie but then there's remembering that as the game goes on that comes out less and there's damaged Ellie. But still with moments, y'know? So it's trying to find a balance that feels right, which changes thread to thread and moment to moment. She's very complicated. Or deep, or both. But at the same time I like to keep some of it under the surface, so, tricksy balancing act.

jessica it is a challenge not having enough hours in the day to always be tagging

And logistics of action plots! Figuring out how to do all that, esp. with a whole group, it'll be a thing.