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

[originaloddcouple]

WHY THANK YOU *ego is stroked*

The Mrs. Harvent thing was a concept that came out of coming up with an AU for these dorks. I don't recall if it was before or after my first app rejection, but it was around a time when I was trying really trying to figure out what differences between their canon counterparts would take place. At some point, my brain flashed back to a recurring theme in the couple's character: we know jack-shit about their past. In canon, they appeared out of nowhere on the police's radar as their crime spree began. The light novels give a few hints here and there that basically leads me to believe a) Isaac is not on speaking terms with his family and b) he saved her from a ~MYSTERIOUS PAST~.

A couple more ideas came together after that first app rejection when I remembered how miserable the two were without each other in canon. So I got to thinking "what would their lives had been like if Isaac had never saved Miria? What if that incident really saved him from a different lifestyle?" And more and more ideas came together about how people would react to these quirks they have if they didn't have each other to support them. I basically flipped a coin for which one of them would have the parents that actively encouraged them to repress any desires to be weird. I developed that trait a little more until the concept of Mrs. Harvent, horrible parent extraordinaire popped into being.

Once I got into the game, I became more fascinated with playing up that background in order to develop both Dians as fuller, more interesting characters. Then I thought that Thanksgiving and Christmas would be a logical time for her to show up and VOILA! Instant horrible person introduced.

I'm a little reluctant for her to return though, because I feel like it would eventually lead to a confrontation and an eventual smack-down on the Dians' part. While I would love to do that, it sort of feels like it might lean on playercest. So I'm gonna have to figure out how to balance that, as well as some other borderline playercest ideas, in the future.

I haven't seen much mention of it, but did you have to do a lot of research for Kanti's background? Religion, culture, and so on?

[vetala]

Most of the research I did ended up being useless when I chickened out on making a lot of it overt. I have plenty of notes about specific religious stuff, which I mentioned in another question thing on here, and some notes on cultural things, primarily on Northern India, since I decided that was where her parents are from.

Religion might factor into what she does later, especially since her mother is a practicing Hindu, but i need to flesh out exactly what and how it will effect her. It's either got opportunity to be a good or bad thing in her life. Either way, the interaction will probably be kept mostly between her and her parents so there isn't much I can do to share that other than write some narration I suppose, or have her discuss it with someone at some point in the future.

Most of the research I did was on how Indian culture meshes with American to build up how she would be raised to act, end even that was a little played by ear. The most I've done in recent memory was in her post where she returned from LA and discussed the placement of her family with Ravi, because for that I had to study regions in India and how they're divided, as well as population distribution for Indians in the US.

Short answer? I did a fair amount, but I'm too nervous about messing up to use some of it.

Okay let's break somea this up with SILLY QUESTION TIME! If you could turn into any kind of animal, what would it be and why?

[originaloddcouple]

Hmmmmmm... Either a bird or a cat... Birds can fly and that'd be all sorts of awesome. But as a cat I could be a lazy asshole and people would just have to deal with it.

Uh... yourself?

[vetala]

ALLIGATOR! ...or a shark. Apex predators who are so perfect that they've barely even evolved from the original concept. Yessssss

You're given a choice between a hoverboard and a jetpack. Which do you choose and why?

[originaloddcouple]

Oh, hoverboard. I don't want jets of fire that close to my legs.

If you could be in any canon world, which would you want to be in?

[vetala]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Out of all the canons I ingest, it seems the least likely to kill me. And if it does, at least Death is a pretty stand-up guy.

Likewise for you! Which canon?