MEME: Reverse Questions

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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.

For the last time we did this one, check out the tag.

Comments

[di]

Ooh, good question. Let's see...

Jack Newsome

• Favorite: I love that this kid gives me an opportunity to explore aspects of the world almost fresh and largely unbiased. He's incredibly optimistic and curious, and he's got so much love in him, and to unleash that on a brand new world makes every interaction of his really dynamic and often unexpected. I think Jack, more than basically any other character that I've played, has really given me the opportunity to step in shows vastly unlike my own. It's actually taught me a lot.
  
• Frustrating: The frustrating parts of playing Jack are much more tactical than they are an issue with him as a character. I think the top of the list probably is the fact that he's a minor (and not even slightly under the age of majority; he won't be legal for over another decade, eesh) and can't really justifiably be on his own as much, which makes it hard for me to get him out and about as much as I'd like. I'm not great at asking for private threads regularly either, so yeah. XD He feels like he gets stifled a lot for that reason.

Jessica Huang

• Favorite: Oh man, this is going to sound incredibly cliché, but it's got to be the opportunity to play out certain aspects of my own lived experience. The whole reason why I got into Fresh Off the Boat is because I identified so well with so much of what played out on screen. And it's funny because I never quite realized what was off before, because American sitcoms were always so 'shrug' to me, but then FotB kind of highlighted that there's a uniqueness to being raised as a first generation Chinese-American. Your home life isn't necessarily the same as the family that's been in the country for generations. And it's not the same as the longer history of your family in their native country, either.
  
• Frustrating: Not having her family! So much of what matters to Jessica is her family. And I think that's something that isn't necessarily unique to Jessica, either — I feel like a lot of first-generation immigrant families, or certainly at least the parents, try to really ground this notion of family. Essentially, the immigrant family is its own island in this brand new country and culture; my own mother expressed that she never felt close to her family before moving to the US, but ever since, she's worked harder to maintain those relationships and her appreciation for her parents and siblings has grown. So I think that's certainly a huge part of Jessica's identity, and I wish I could harass someone into bringing her some of her folks to make her feel more settled. (I've considered asking to see if I can bring her youngest son in, but the issue is that all of the kids have pretty defined personalities, so it might be harder to ask for NPC status.)

Cindy Moon

• Favorite: I think the most interesting part (and hence, most enjoyable for me) of playing Cindy so far has been the fact that she's truly a character who is, in every way, trying to find her identity. I've had other characters that are in the midst of trying to create a new identity for themselves, but there are usually specific issues that they've been musing over, or certain forks in the road that they're trying to decide between. Less so for Cindy. She's just been sequestered for an entire decade, and suddenly she gets thrust into the middle of society again, and she really isn't sure where to start. So how Cindy's experience plays out depends so heavily on every single interaction she has, which is pretty neat. She's also pretty impulsive to begin with, which is just fun to play. I feel less pressure to take her in one direction or another.
  
• Frustrating: The flip side to the above is the frustrating part, which is that Cindy doesn't necessarily have any starting point or person that she can turn to. She doesn't have any mentor in Darrow that she can take at their word, unlike in her canon, where she has Peter Parker (whose experience is pretty deeply shared with her own), Jessica Drew, and so forth. Granted, back in canon she was also starting from practically nothing and all the aforementioned were relationships that she built over the span of less than a year, but sometimes I think that if nothing else, it's weird to her to not even have those people she can look up to in the abstract (the only two people from Marvel-616 are people she doesn't even know of particularly well). But honestly, she's too new to have anything about her that's deeply frustrating yet.