That is actually exactly what I meant! And I'm the one who prattled in my response there, that was four paragraphs and they were not small. 8|a
Anyhoo~ In Anthony's case Eternal Darkness has been my favorite video game for ages - I'd always wanted to give RPing from it a shot, and I would've gravitated towards trying Anthony as his chapter of the game (all thirty minutes of it if you're slow, admittedly) always stuck out to me the most. Reading on the premise of StE it seemed like the perfect place to finally try - in both the scenario of being about ordinary people using knowledge from times gone by to fend off an extradimensional hostile takeover but and the modern AU aspect which I figured would be a fun one in which to play with and make the most of the use of extrapolation and headcanoning that playing anyone from ED would warrant (the characters and that they come across rather well using mainly little details like their voice acting and the way they carry themselves/attack/etc. is a thing I always loved, but it is mostly detail - almost all of their respective roles only last a little while in canon). Apparently 'twasn't exactly coincidence, either - in a note to my Anthony app's acceptance notice, the original head mod of the game stated that he originally got the seed of the idea watching an LP for Eternal Darkness.
Reading about the Echo mechanic cranked it up from "This would be perfect" to "I cannot resist", since again I would've probably wanted to play Anthony more than anyone else - canonically, Anthony does zombify in distinct, progressive stages (except in his case it takes, again, all of thirty minutes) and picturing that well I figured a load could be done with him indeed.
Rarity meanwhile was totally a whim - I hadn't actually played or even so much as voice-tested a My Little Pony before but just sort of pictured it and thought that either a human-born woman receiving misleading/ambiguous snippets of a past life before unexpectedly making a transformation into a horse or a horse attaining sentience and acting fairly human while still being a horse would be equally fun, and poked around and received anonymous encouragement toward the second use, since at the time Romsca's mun had been the only one who'd made use of the sentient-animals-route possibility. I picked Rarity because she's my personal favorite and because she's got such a colorful voice and speech patterns I thought she'd be a joy to write.
Was there a specific sort of contrast you wanted in coming up with Xander as opposed to San, or did Xander as he is just sort of come about in thinking up what an alternative persona for San could be like?
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Anyhoo~ In Anthony's case Eternal Darkness has been my favorite video game for ages - I'd always wanted to give RPing from it a shot, and I would've gravitated towards trying Anthony as his chapter of the game (all thirty minutes of it if you're slow, admittedly) always stuck out to me the most. Reading on the premise of StE it seemed like the perfect place to finally try - in both the scenario of being about ordinary people using knowledge from times gone by to fend off an extradimensional hostile takeover but and the modern AU aspect which I figured would be a fun one in which to play with and make the most of the use of extrapolation and headcanoning that playing anyone from ED would warrant (the characters and that they come across rather well using mainly little details like their voice acting and the way they carry themselves/attack/etc. is a thing I always loved, but it is mostly detail - almost all of their respective roles only last a little while in canon). Apparently 'twasn't exactly coincidence, either - in a note to my Anthony app's acceptance notice, the original head mod of the game stated that he originally got the seed of the idea watching an LP for Eternal Darkness.
Reading about the Echo mechanic cranked it up from "This would be perfect" to "I cannot resist", since again I would've probably wanted to play Anthony more than anyone else - canonically, Anthony does zombify in distinct, progressive stages (except in his case it takes, again, all of thirty minutes) and picturing that well I figured a load could be done with him indeed.
Rarity meanwhile was totally a whim - I hadn't actually played or even so much as voice-tested a My Little Pony before but just sort of pictured it and thought that either a human-born woman receiving misleading/ambiguous snippets of a past life before unexpectedly making a transformation into a horse or a horse attaining sentience and acting fairly human while still being a horse would be equally fun, and poked around and received anonymous encouragement toward the second use, since at the time Romsca's mun had been the only one who'd made use of the sentient-animals-route possibility. I picked Rarity because she's my personal favorite and because she's got such a colorful voice and speech patterns I thought she'd be a joy to write.
Was there a specific sort of contrast you wanted in coming up with Xander as opposed to San, or did Xander as he is just sort of come about in thinking up what an alternative persona for San could be like?