Questions Meme

[bibliofilo]

Questions Meme

This is a meme in which you TALK FOREVER. How it goes:

1. Make a thread for yourself in this post, listing the characters you play and your own name.
2. Go find someone's thread to jump and ask them A QUESTION. The question can be anything, RP related is common, of course, but not necessary. Who do you want to app most? What does Character A think about Character B? What's your favorite flavor of icecream?
3. Answer all questions asked of you! Once you have answered, end your response with a question for the person who first questioned you. This is important to keep the discussion going and going.
4. This goes back and forth indefinitely until someone gets tired and can't reply anymore.
5. Have a lot of fun! ♥

This game is a fun way to get to talk to people, headcanon, and learn things you didn't know before! Because it involves gives and take, it can go quite a while and everyone can participate and possibly make friends.

Here is an example.

Comments

[destinedforrock]

Blue of Anthony Janvier and Cinderarity here - have at it!

[poisonousflame]

Favorite thing about playing a talking unicorn!

[destinedforrock]

I sort of really do love combining Rarity's sociability with factors created by her position in the setting as Cinderella in a way that brings out her excitability and not-so-much-hedonism-as-frivolity to play with - she can go and attempt to make small talk on the most inconsequential and probably-innocuous things, leap to conclusions that you are judging her, aren't you? Well, hmph! when whoever she's talking to definitely isn't, and get giddily excited about doing even fairly small things. In turn it makes her all the more fun to try to play off just about everyone~

Whose voice do you have more fun with between Axel's and Alistair's, and what about it makes it the more fun to write?

[poisonousflame]

Well, she certainly is fun to play with! I'm looking forward to tossing Alistair at her, actually, just because he's more :D about things than Axel. xD;;

As for whose voice I have more fun with: I think it depends on my mood, really. I can more or less do Axel tags in my sleep — unless he's in a situation that's completely unfamiliar ground, in which case it becomes more difficult. (Log tags are a different story, because what is braining words sometimes.) Axel's tags are the most fun when he's manipulating someone, or he's backed them into a corner somehow. He uses his words as a weapon, and I enjoy situations where I'm actually able to use that.

Alistair, on the other hand, is just ... such an adorable guy. He's not as guarded as Axel is (even in this setting), so his reactions are more genuine. He's a more honest character in general. While it's fairly easy to get CR with both of them, Axel's meaningful CR tends to take longer to develop, whereas Alistair kinda ... latches onto people like a lost puppy.

TL;DR: When I'm in the mood for quick gratification: Alistair. When I'm in the mood to settle down and really dig into a conversation: Axel.

PHEW. Okay, now to you.

Anthony has definitely changed a lot, physically, since he started getting pulses. What have been your favorite (and, optionally, least favorite) parts of playing that out?

[scramasax]

This is going to sound rather oddball but I love thinking about the implications of it. And that is probably the only part of it I can say I'm allowed to "love" but aye all the same. 8| But haa to be even sillier for a moment zombies've been my favorite type of monster for ages, and his bit of Eternal Darkness (which for the record is only about half an hour long if you're slow and has barely any dialogue but it is part of what appears to be regarded by people who've played ED as the creepiest set of chapters in the game) is either where I decided that I found them actually very creepy if done jussst so or where I decided I found them that interesting. XD Playing out the re-zombification of the second coming of Derpy Messenger Boy Anthony I s'pose has sort of been my tribute of sorts to both.

Which was quite a lot of convoluted words for "I like zombies" but alas.

Least favorite part is I s'pose naturally is the limitation of IC mobility! He cannot stumble into the same things someone who can actually safely go outside and any intent he could ICly have to partake in tasks and the like is easily also-ICly vetoed. XD

That said I pass the puck and asssk~ How did you choose in what ways to make Axel and Alistair differ from their past selves? Or did you not actively work toward the differences and they simply naturally came up as you figured their backgrounds?

[poisonousflame]

For Axel, I had a basic outline of his life that I wanted to work with: an AU where he was a very successful actor who decided to become a director. Since there'd be no reason for that particular AU to stay in Locke City, I removed the success, and stuck him as a struggling actor. (The acting part itself was born from how much Axel acts in canon, especially in Chain of Memories.) Then, it was a matter of figuring out where his life took him. If he never had friends, how many people would he trample as he fought for his own agenda? If he only cared about what he could get in life, how emotionally stunted or shallow would he become? How bitter would his failures make him? What I ended up with was ... basically a sociopath. He's arguably even less redeemable than he was in his previous life; after all, most (if not all) of canon!Axel's betrayals were driven by his (sometimes twisted) loyalty to his friends — something that reincarnated Axel absolutely lacks.

... To answer your actual question: I had the basic differences in Axel's personality worked out when I began. The rest came as I shaped his background.

ALISTAIR, on the other hand, was a very different story. I built his background first, and I tried my best to make it a plausible modern-day reflection of his preincarnation's (pre and early Origins) story. His time in the Chantry was replaced by after-school activities and football. The Grey Wardens were replaced by special operations — specifically Pararescue, because they're who's called when spec ops needs rescuing. The defeat at Ostagar became the mission in which his team was captured, and he was the only survivor. The differences came primarily from the people who weren't there: namely, Duncan and the Warden. So, for Alistair, it was background first, differences second.

YOUR TURN!

What do "Cinderarity" and Anthony do during their free, completely non-numbers-associated time?

[wonk]

does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard

[destinedforrock]

YES.

But unsure if it's better than yours. )8

Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?

[wonk]

unknown, but preliminary evidence suggests that they long to be close to me.

are you going to scarborough fair

[destinedforrock]

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.

How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? (Note: The ants are my friends, and they're blowing in the wind.)

[wonk]

like ten roads shit no better answer ask mac the answer is blowing in him

legitimate question: do you think cinderarity approaches any of the big philosophical questions of life significantly differently than a human might?

[bibliofilo]

Hello Blue! We are plurk frands but haven't talked too much, so tell me about yourself :D What kinda things are you interested in?

[destinedforrock]

"Well... my favorite color is... light tan... and my favorite animal is... puppies..."

Ah-haa I've got unexciting to goofy interests. XD In the realm of canons I tend to hang onto long- or long-ish-favorite old things, with Eternal Darkness one among other miscellaneous things including Legend of Zelda and Paper Mario games, Psychonauts, Silent Hill, the film 9, and I would say "and such and such" except that there's no clear pattern of things there. XD As for more recent things though I s'pose it's fairly obvious I like MLP, and I also recently finally listened to Welcome to Night Vale.

Moving back to broader things I enjoy horror- and horror-ish media and love video games - other miscellaneous hobbies would be writing, drawing/painting, and cooking! Primarily baking, and when it comes to competency in that area I'm a few-trick-pony who can most confidently make just about anything that involves meringue. 8|b

What are some of your favorites in various categories? (Book, film, song, character, etc.?)

[bibliofilo]

Ooh Psychonauts, yes, good. Such a gem. For myself I'm also pretty big into videogames with a lot of my favorites being Super Nintendo classics like Secret of Mana 1+2, Chrono Trigger, Illusion of Gaia, Mother series. Other ones I like are Ace Attorney, LoZ throughout the ages, blah blah.

Favorite books? Books are...too hard for me to decide. Movies: Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, Summer Wars, Brazil, to name a few. Characters my all time favorite forever is Winry Rockbell from FMA.

What has Cinderella's development been here? What was it like gaining sentience (or did she always have it?) and how does she feel about herself and everything that is going on?

[destinedforrock]

Cinderella's been sentient since she wasn't even two years old and the only thing that kept her from trying to speak during all that time was that it was the revelation that it'd be a very bad idea (witnessing Paul's murder via network) that gave her the mouth for it - in truth she's been thinking about the danger aspect of it minimally so long as her family and their kids are safe, and her first exposure to the non-dangerous aspects were an enormous breath of fresh air and have been one big thing she's been no less than thrilled about - she's got a society she can actually be a person with!

And she thinks she's been doing a smashing job indeed actually establishing herself as a person doing things that people can actually do - making friends, milestones such as having parties, etc. - and doesn't give much thought to or miss the idea of being an ordinary horse, her period of such she's got little memory of. But, ah course, being part of a society that collectively is acknowledging the dangerous and uncomfortable and not-quite-human aspects of what they are does require that she does get used to doing the same, as is getting all the more obvious as more and more things occur.

A related question in kind~ How are you looking forward to/hoping for Maggie developing?

[bibliofilo]

Aww, Cinderella. What a position to be in. I can see why the network would be such a great thing for her.

For Maggie I have some vague ideas in mind, but nothing too concrete since I feel a lot of it will be very dependent on the kind of CR she gets. As more of her memories come back I think it'll make her less sweet and extroverted and a lot more bitter and angry. Memories of the failed revolution will likely make her a lot less optimistic about the Numbers Group's success so more than anything I can see her just giving up on that front and trying to distance herself from others. Not too sure though.

What is Cinderella's family like by the way, and how does she get along with them while having to hide so much?