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

[smiles_on]

No. I don't remember. I mean .... be more specific. And of course lesbianism. :)

[somuchsuffering]

She really does have at least moderately strong aspirations towards open world, or at least city, domination. Not immediately, but I think she has, like, a five-year plan. Gosh, the things you discover about your characters. So: acknowledged vampiric reign of terror, humans as snacks, with Vanessa (in her plan Vanessa has fangs) at her side. It's really quite romantic.

[smiles_on]

That IS romantic! I think Vanessa might not be down with it, but she wouldn't be able to deny it's quite romantic. Another question. We know what Vanessa thought of Mina when they were little. What did Mina think of Vanessa? Specifically.

[somuchsuffering]

Oh, GOD, ask me a hard one, why don't you.

* I think that for quite a long time they were as close as Vanessa remembers them being, to the point of very nearly thinking of themselves as the same person -- at that age one almost doesn't have an opinion about someone who's just been there, being part of you, for your entire life.

* I think that from quite an early age Mina was pretty good at getting Vanessa to take responsibility whenever they got into trouble.

* I think that the crack between them, or at least the beginning of Mina's ability to think critically about Vanessa, came before the Hedge Maze Incident, and involved Mina realizing that Vanessa was a wee tiny bit fixated on Malcolm (and Mina has almost always known a bit more about him than most people would suspect). It didn't make her stop loving and needing Vanessa, because nothing could, but it was a loss of innocence to some degree.

* I think Mina fell in love, in a more or less adult fashion, with her somewhat after that.

* I think Mina HATES Vanessa for trying to put her in the same position her (Mina's) mother was in all those years. Mina really really despises her mother, actually, because she was pathetically devoted to Malcolm and just put up with everything -- including Claire being VERY VERY KIND to her all the time -- and Mina quite accurately feels that the entire world was conspiring to make sure she herself followed in exactly the same footsteps. And as visibly miserable as Vanessa was about Mina's getting engaged, she accepted it as the way things were naturally bound to go. (And by that point, I'm fairly sure Mina could FEEL Vanessa defining her as something she wasn't, or wasn't entirely, in order to define herself against it. Because that is a thing one can feel when someone is doing it.)

I'm not sure how much of this was conscious at the time, but it was definitely subtext.

[smiles_on]

God DAMN it, woman. You give me tingles. Like for real legit tingles. I want to ask you like a million follow-up questions but I don't want you to get annoyed at me.

[somuchsuffering]

Ask away! I need to verbalize this shit!

[smiles_on]

Ok. First question is what did Mina think about Vanessa's fixation on Malcolm? You said she recognized that Vanessa was, but not how she felt about it. Also, more on Gladys. I assume Mina never let her contempt show, but maybe I'm wrong? How did Mina feel about Peter? Did she REALLY think Vanessa would marry him someday? Finally, did Mina realize (even on a subconscious level) what a piece of crap Branson was when she went after him? Was that WHY she wanted him?

[somuchsuffering]

1. Betrayed, scared, contemptuous, amused, and I believe Shan and I may need to talk some before I form a further answer.

2. Yes, for the most part she never let her contempt show -- she was good at not letting things show, and as a young girl she was much more guilty and conflicted about hating her mother than she is now. She tended to overcompensate.

3. More or less the same way Vanessa did, minus the ill-fated attempt to jump him in the hedge maze (that part I'm quite sure of): she loved him very much and recognized that he was flawed at the heart. And hell no -- if you listen to tiny Mina's tone of voice when she says "but then you're going to marry Peter," she is blatantly sending up a test balloon to see how they both react. She always knew that wasn't happening.

4. She wanted him because, at first, he was exciting and he made her feel beautiful and desirable. But I think that by the time shit blew up, she'd seen him looking sideways at Vanessa and had the thought o god I'm going to turn into my mother, and she'd probably also seen (on some level) that he didn't even have the strength of personality to him that Malcolm does.

[smiles_on]

I'm losing my mind over here about all of this, tbh. And I want to poke (1) with the biggest stick EVER. I WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING.

(4) Is brilliance. You're so right. She was becoming her mother, picking a charismatic man who would have cheated on her constantly. I'm kind of glad she met a nice vampire master rather than settling for THAT life. ;) But yeah, he must have seemed like her father in the good ways until he seemed like him in the bad ways.

[somuchsuffering]

I'm still picking (1) apart. I'll keep you updated!

Really, yes. The daddy issues were -- considerable.

[smiles_on]

Aren't they always. <3 And you BETTER. I need to nom all your thoughts on that.