Questions Meme

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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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I meet TL;DR with TL;DR.

[scramasax]

Ohh-ho I can't even say that this is the key so much as plain what I do - I try to hear their voice responding to a tag or idea for a post before and/or as I type it out, and other than that don't fret too much.

I have fretted a bit in the past that they do bleed together a bit on the points that they do have in common - both Anthony and Cinderarity are persnickety worrywarts, Cinderarity and Walter/Bill have a bit of sass on 'em, and Anthony and Walter/Bill are both a bit phobic - but their voices are more than different enough that while I'm writing them, I don't especially think about it at all! This is even taking into account the fact that Anthony strictly-canonically says less than fifty words and four of them are "Charlemagne".

Movin' onto the second part of the question I've wanted to try Anthony for years - the characters in Eternal Darkness are weirdly endearing for how short their roles last (the game is divvied into twelve chapters, getting progressively longer through the game from about ten minutes to two and a half hours - Anthony's chapter is only third - to be honest I think the fact that their personalities are given or hinted at in smallish ways during their chapters make them especially fun to think about playing), and he grabbed me the hardest. What can be gleaned from his character during his part of the game are things I really love in characters, and on top o' that he's my favorite type of zombie - one with whom the horror's not in the idea of being monster-mauled by one but in the idea of being forced to be one. I would've tried him somewhere sooner if it wasn't for the fact that he'd not be very appable from any canon point during which he would be appable as a zombie, also with the fact that I wasn't all that confident in my ability to brush up on the right areas of history to keep the fact that "by the way, he's a kid from the 9th Century" there properly. I was one of the ones who eyed StE for its premise while it was in the works - and I admit I somewhat impulse-apped him when reading up further on the plot caused it to ping me for ED, the mechanics would make apping from it simpler, and reading about the way Echoes worked locked it in that it'd be the perfect first place to play him. I hashed out an app and sent it in the same afternoon as perusing the game info, and alas, here I am!

Rarity was also a bit of a whim. At the time, I-believe-that the idea of apping a sentient animal or human slated to mutate into an animal was only in play with Stella/Romsca and Julien/Yuuya respectively, and I figured the idea of playing either one would be enjoyable - I leaned toward apping a My Little Pony character partly because the canon's plain ol' fun and partly because the Mane Six themselves are pretty "normal", if a bit especially quote-unquote vivid and obviously horses, and thus wherever they started off their Echoes would leave them a fairly normal person who happens to be a horse. I anonymously inquired whether people would think it'd be more fun to see/interact with a human woman turning into a horse or another sentient animal, and the latter won. Rarity's my favorite and I thought her voice would be the most fun to write, hence her!

As for Walter/William, he was the most blatant well-why-not. He's another favorite character of mine who I first played a few years ago off a canonmate - and I've been looking for other games for him ever since off and on. Once StE seemed rather set as my new home game, I thought on apping him in plain because I missed it, but couldn't settle on a reincarnation. I got a vague idea of what his profession could be, and shortly after that, Bookie put up a Plurk mentioning she'd be interested in Phillip having PC family - I went and offered up the character I had on the brain, and that seemed to serendipetously settle it!

What kinds of characters are you most drawn to? Which to you most like writing, yourself; what characters do you enjoy nabbing CR with; and what character types are you most fond of in fiction in general?