Questions Meme

[destinedforrock]

Questions Meme

As first posted here by Emely!:

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! ♥

Season 2 begins tomorrow, all, and there've been plenty of developments and new blood since the first round - get the words flowin', get to know/re-know some of your gamemates, and/or simply shoot the breeze~

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[seriallylucky]

/almost replies with entirely the wrong account

I'm KD, and I have Fred Vandenberg, seriallylucky, the once and future Felix.

[vetala]

Did you have any difficulty at all when it came to figuring out some things in The Lost Age?

[seriallylucky]

Not that I remember, apart from the specific locations of Iron and Petra. But that was somewhere around ten years ago now, and during a time in my life that I defaulted to navigating by walkthroughs, so that answer may not be entirely indicative.

Which would you prefer to drive: a Model T, or a modern car designed to look like a stegosaurus?

[vetala]

if i absolutely had to pick one, stegosaurus. especially if it's the size of an actual stegosaurus. if i could pick a third option? neither. i can't get behind the wheel of a car. it scares the hell out of me.

Favorite animals? Land, air and sea!

[seriallylucky]

Land, I would definitely say cats. For air... owl. Sea... possibly starfish.

(Fred's answers: deer, albatross, orca.)

If you could only watch/read/listen to the works of one director/author/band/whatever for the next year, which would you pick and why?

[vetala]

Guillermo del Toro for Director, because that means I can just watch Pacific Rim and both the animated and live action Hellboy movies for the next year, as well as Pan's Labyrinth and a few other things. Dude never makes bad movies.

Author would have to be A. Lee Martinez. He's written some of my most recent favorites, not limited to The Automatic Detective and Emperor Mollusk VS The Sinister Brain.

Band is a little harder, but I'm gonna have to go with The Fratellis. It would have been The Wombats, but they only have two albums out and that is just not enough music. Fratellis recently released a third one I like a fair amount, and with their other songs that should be enough to tide me for a year.

What made you decide to pick up Felix/bring him back?

[seriallylucky]

Most concisely? StE's premise. There's something about it that really attracts me. And Felix is my default character, the one I've never done a journal RP without, so that was an easy choice.

Now, if you meant more along the lines of why Felix in the first place... I first became interested in RP via milliways_bar back when it was on LJ. (Amusingly, I can trace the links back from there to a Google search for Golden Sun news.) Somehow I became fixated on the idea that I could play a Golden Sun character. My first choice was Isaac, but he was already taken, so I decided to give Felix a try... and never looked back.

Along similar lines... if StE had already had a Kanaya, would you have brought in someone else? If so, who?

[vetala]

See, here's the part where you might expect another Homestuck, but honestly? Probably Hellboy from the Dark Horse comics, or Tucker from Red vs Blue. They're both really prominent muses for me. Hellboy because he just reacts to well to everything, and Tucker because he's just hilarious and kind of completely awful. I already had ideas for apping Hellboy to the setting before I realized how much effort it was to keep up with two characters in this game.

What's your least favorite narrative trope? Like something that, when it happens in a story, just makes you go 'no why would you do this'.

[seriallylucky]

Most and least favorites are intensely variable, but at the moment that'd be Poor Communication Kills. Just... when there's so much the characters could solve or be ready for if they talked to each other, and they don't, for nothing that strikes me as a good reason...

How long have you been RPing, and are there any games you'd particularly recommend?

[vetala]

man I think I've been RPing since I was like 15 or sommat? I actually have a bit of trouble separating my life into years, and with time in general.

If Singularity was still around, I'd recommend it. It was pretty much the game where i gained my confidence and it had a pretty welcoming atmosphere and fun premise IMO. I apped to Beastly Roses this round. I have pretty high hopes for it. It looks like a very interesting game.

Favorite movie? Either of all time or of certain genres?

[seriallylucky]

Probably WALL-E, though the Temple Grandin biopic deserves mention.

What's your single favorite type of fiction? Interpret "type" however you want, from genre or medium all the way down to stuff like "brainchildren of dead French women who're known to have worn green shoes".

[vetala]

Slice-of-life horror-comedy. So like a girl finds a monster in her basement and has to deal with it and her real life at the same time, with hilarious results.

On a less specific note, comedy-fantasy. I really like my media to be funny in some way is what I'm saying.

If you could have any object from a canon you follow, what would it be?

[seriallylucky]

I'm not sure it counts as a canon I follow, since I haven't seen the third movie, but I would love to have JARVIS. Or more specifically, his "touch"-sensitive holographic interface so prominent in Iron Man 2.

If that doesn't count, then a bead of lerasium.

Is there anyone you'd like to RP, but you haven't been able to pick up the voice?

[vetala]

I WOULD really like to RP Marcus Bell from Elementary, but I find it hard to pick up characters from settings that normal and who are that obviously professional. :c

Which canon you're involved in would you say has changed your outlook on something the most?

[seriallylucky]

At risk of sounding like a broken record, Golden Sun. It was my first fandom, and influenced my ideas of what elements and elemental traits are to such a degree that it altered my self-image.

Do you have any real-life superpowers? (As examples of what I mean by that: any username I seriously consider is available; my brother can hear what's playing on headphones other people are wearing.)

[vetala]

I can cook any red meat well on the first try. I can also finagle a pun into just about anything.

why 'seriallylucky' as a username?

[seriallylucky]

You can thank TVTropes for that one. The Golden Sun character page notes that "felix" means "lucky", and Felix manages to survive a whole bunch of deadly events (the storm, the fall from the lighthouse, Karst and Agatio, etc.). Additionally, I wanted something that would fit his reincarnated background, which this slightly does - I noted in the application that Fred likes to wander around and find new places, and had avoided being mugged or attacked entirely by luck.

Do you have any particular plans for Kanti's Echoes, any misleading direction you want to take them or some you intend to prioritize?

[vetala]

I'm actually wrapping up the first segment of what I had planned for her Echoes in this upcoming plot. The only priority I had was for her to get her teeth back, and I plan on giving her them in the upcoming event. What she's been getting recently are Echoes to give her the misconception that she was basically a chainsaw wielding murderer in her past life. I've pretty much completed that. I wanted to bring her to a low point in her life so I could have her start building herself up again. Karson and Avery's death sort of helped in that.

Now I'm going to start giving her ones that flesh out her relationships, maybe give her some heartwarming moments from her past so she realizes that maybe she didn't used to be such a bad person after all. I HAD A PLAN EVERYONE AND NOW YOU KNOW IT.

What are Felix's favorite subjects as far as school goes? Does he lean heavily towards any, or is he a sort of general good student?

[seriallylucky]

Felix's, or Fred's? No, that's not my question.

I have a hard time with the combination of the ideas of Felix and school. Which is a little odd, considering I have a version of him founding one elsegame. In any case, if he were in some manner of schooling I feel like he'd prefer language classes, especially ancient languages. (Possibly this would be more like the education systems in the British novels I read growing up than modern American stuff.)

As for Fred, while I haven't gone into much detail about his school experiences I feel like he's got a talent for math but a preference for shop classes (though not enough to focus his life in that direction). He's a decent student, probably about a B average, but with no particular direction, unlike his sister (who wants to go into biotech).

Is there any particular significance to Kanti's name, apart from being somewhat reminiscent of her preincarnation's?

[vetala]

HERP I meant Fred's but A+ on turning my blunder into a fun information drop! c:

Kanti's name actually required a fair bit of messing around, because I wanted something in Sanskrit or Hindi, and while they both use the same script, they aren't the same language. Though they have similarities. I spent a while on baby name sites before finding something I liked, and then I dug into the name meaning to get more out of it.

Kanti means 'lovely' or 'graceful' in essence, but that isn't why I chose the name. Kanti is another name for Hindu goddess Lakshmi, and what mostly got me on that was less the whole "beautiful, sinless goddess" thing, and more the idea that she protects her followers from misfortune. Kanaya seeks to that in her canon, evidenced by the fact that she doesn't mind dirtying her hands so that others don't have to.

Do you have any plans for Fred as far as echos and plot involvement in the future?

[seriallylucky]

Not specifically, which actually somewhat annoys me. I'd like for him to go to Las Vegas, as I'm pretty sure I could get a few Echoes out of the trip itself, but I can't figure out a way to justify it on the available information thus far. There are a few specific Echoes I'd like to get soon - his cape and Briggs' escape, in particular - but beyond that I have no real plans. Which is probably why I keep messing around with giving him names and no context for them. This is a thing that was nice about playing Sarah, when I did; there was a clear direction I wanted to take things.

Are there any canons you've been introduced to by RP, that you're particularly glad about finding?

[vetala]

I tend to give a go at watching some of the stuff I see people RPing from, but that doesn't usually go well, since I'm pretty bad at watching stuff. More often than not, I get introduced to a completely new fandom by other RPers, and end up picking up characters from it together with them.

I will say though, that I was looking at a post recently and our Wrex (don't get me started on how Wrex is basically the perfect man in Mass Effect and not being able to romance him was a TRAGEDY) has icons from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which was my breaking point. I am now on episode 7 of the show. I regret nothing.

How many 5th graders do you think Fred could reasonably take in a fight, were he to lose his moral handicap of 'unwilling to beat up a child'?

[seriallylucky]

Mmmm. With his sword, and his rocks, and his recent level-up... I'd say three, maybe four, simultaneously. Add one if he manages to Echo back Quake, even powered-down like Spire is.

What's your favorite piece of cross-canon CR, here or elsewhere, either your own or that you've only witnessed?

[vetala]

oh my god i'm so ashamed. a lot of my fave cross-canon CR happened back when I was in Singularity. Like I feel really bad talking about it because STE IS FUN AND GOOD AND I LOVE IT I REALLY DO but I have played some absurd shit man...

At one point in Singularity, Agent York from Red vs Blue, my rule 63! version Tucker from the same series, her alien kid, Sarah Connor from Terminator, and a My Fair Lady version of Raptor Red were all living in the same house. It was the weirdest and most heartwarming display of domesticity I have ever played out in my life.

Kanaya in Singularity talked sass with a giant robot, grew to hate all robots in general, adopted a baby nightmare thing, and grew a ton of weed for RED Pyro. Shit was so cash.

Canon Tucker in Amat was pretty okay too. Between starting a relationship with a humanized Sheila (who is a tank) and accidentally knocking up Sunstreaker from the IDW Transformers comics (who is an alien robot) and then ending with dying via hotboxing and antifreeze ingestion with RED Pyro in a shack in the woods (it seemed like a good idea at the time), I think I did a pretty good job.

In STE, I'm really fond of her relationship with Banagher Links because they make good friends and I love me some friendship. I also like her weird fascination with Hajime's terrifying bug form because she thinks it's SO COOL. ALSO her relationship with the Dians, who she really needs to finally have a successful outing with where they feed her ice cream and stuff. ALSO I've loved her interactions with Karl Aurion ever since she vomited on his shoes.

I CAN'T PICK JUST ONE WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO MEeeeeeee

Likewise for you! What's your fave piece of CR, canon or cross-canon in any game with any character?

[seriallylucky]

Bwahaha! I mean.

Nobody seems interested in playing from Golden Sun, it seems like (except at Animus, whose premise I don't like), so I don't get a whole lot of same-canon CR. And for cross-canon, a lot of it is Karkat.

But let's start at the beginning. One of my most fondly-remembered conversations over at Milliways was between Felix and Enzo Matrix, from ReBoot, on climate and how it happens. ReBoot, in case you don't know, takes place inside computers, so these are neither of them characters from standard spherical worlds.

Now Karkat is a delight to watch, wherever he shows up. And the one at Milliways gets along fantastically well with ponies. Possibly it's related to his theory that they're Equius' legacy the way humans are his own. But in any case, it all started when he met Twilight Sparkle (not mine) and ended up insulting Applejack by proxy. I don't remember most of the details, but they reconciled and he used the mane six to test the stripped-down version of Trollian that has since become the closest thing Milliways has to a network. (There was relevant alchemization that also produced a pony-shaped computer, which was eventually given to Alyx Vance.)

Then along came pony canon advancement, and Discorded!Fluttershy (mine) tried to antagonize him. This did not turn out anything like I expected, but it was nevertheless hilarious. But things got even better when Princess Luna (also not mine) showed up and got into a shouting match with him.

Also deserving of mention is a thread here, between Fred and Danielle, which I liked enough to plurk about and invite the other mun to view it. It could probably be best described as "a magic knight and a future half-ghost talk about Star Trek and its applicability to their situation".

Are you good at finding and selecting PBs? If so, what are some of your tricks? If not, what do you see as the biggest obstacles?