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~

Comments

[seriallylucky]

Do you enjoy doing research for RP purposes? Is there anything specific about such research that you particularly like or dislike?

[soulsborderline]

Haha fun story I'm actually really lazy about doing research for RP. In terms of how I play characters I usually just watch the show, read the character wiki page (and try to parse out real information from headcanon) to see if I missed anything, then wing it. StE provides a lot of opportunities to research the real world setting I take no advantage of whatsoever. I've got a pretty limited RP time and a very...I'm going to say one-track-minded personality, so even if I did research it'd probably go off in some weird direction of whatever I find interesting for ten minutes and then I'd have to go do something else.

I'm far more likely to research dumb meta stuff like a character's voice actor's other roles, or name meanings, or behind the scenes stuff I can make a joke or a minor bit of headcanon out of, as opposed to things that help flesh out the character directly. As an example, I picked out Asuka's favorite video game (which has never been brought up) by looking at Yuuko Miyamura's other roles and noticing she voiced Chun Li, like, once.

I'll also apply things I learn for other reasons to RP if they seem applicable; I happen to have picked up a bit about analytical psychiatry half out of my other fandoms (it's the thing Persona comes from) and half out of curiosity, and I think having any kind of psychoanalysis in mind really helps explain the incredibly messed up people from Asuka's show.

EDIT: Ah, I forgot a question! What do you think about Golden Sun's sequels? I played the first a long time ago but never got to play the others.

[seriallylucky]

Well, for starters Felix here is the protagonist of the second game, so that may give you a hint about one of them. Lost Age is a lot like the first one, to the extent that some call it the second half rather than the first sequel. They claim it was split due to cartridge capacity issues, though I'm not really sure how the story would have worked if they hadn't split it. Anyway. Sequel 1: Quite good, a worthy continuation.

Dark Dawn, though... Well. I could say it was seven and a half years in coming, and expectations built over that time, and leave it at that. But even if we take out that element, it's disappointing. One thing I always point to is a puzzle near the end of the first game, where you have to get five colored statues onto five floor tiles, and mind-reading the statues tells you their relative positions. And I feel like if that puzzle had been in Dark Dawn, the floor would have been color-coded to tell you which statue went where; that's how much it was dumbed down. And Felix and his implicit girlfriend are barely-if-at-all mentioned, and most of the other party members from the first two games are just mentioned a few times and never seen. (Particularly infuriating in the case of Piers, Lost Age's water-guy, whom you almost meet up with twice over the course of the game. There's even some reason to believe you're using his old ship.) And that's not even getting into the whole "more sequel hooks than party members, but no plans for a sequel" thing, or the way the advertising focused on a plot that disappeared about a third of the way through.

So. Uh. I have some issues with Dark Dawn. Generally I go AU, and use bits and pieces of its worldbuilding and backstory, where that's feasible.

Anyway! While we're on the subject of respective canons, tell me about Evangelion? I've heard a little of its reputation, and I think the director had some connection with Hayao Miyazaki, but beyond that I'm pretty much blind.

[soulsborderline]

Hideaki Anno worked for Studio Ghibli for a while and took over briefly as director on I believe the Nausicaa TV series. Needless to say, shit got weird during that arc.

Anyway, Evangelion is similar to every other original anime by Studio Gainax in that it's fundamentally a story about being an adolescent growing into an adult and how much that sucks balls, wrapped up in a story built out of all the stuff the staff thought was cool when they were kids: giant robots, dudes in rubber suits fighting other dudes in rubber suits, etc.

Hideaki Anno, the series creator, was famously recovering from some serious psychological breakdown during the show, and put a fair amount of himself into the work, as well as focusing on characters' psychological development more than any other aspect of the show. Part of the reason it's considered so trippy/pretentious is how much it delves into the main character's mind, even to the point where the TV series finale is more or less a dream sequence of him coming to grips with his issues.

The other parts are that they threw in a whole lot of random Western mysticism and religious imagery they didn't really understand and ran out of money due to a severely troubled production throughout. On the plus side, that lack of budget gave us some really beautiful long stills and amazing uses of public domain music, and in spite of it Evangelion's gone on to be one of if not the most financially successful single anime in history, largely due to merchandising. Plus, it's not like the show's unwatchable. Lack of budget aside it's exceptionally solid as both a character study and a "thinking man's action show". Mostly. It gets really weird the longer it goes on, both in the psychoanalysis and the apropos-of-nothing symbolism.



And then there's End of Evangelion, which can be summarized as "everybody dies whilst I play inappropriate music."



And then there's Rebuild which I don't even know.