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My oldest character in Box and my dive back into RP after months away, though she's been there... fuck, like, almost six months now? Man, she has seen it all. I actually think it's super interesting how differently she's developing here than she did in the last game she was in for the long haul - her canonpoint is an entire game later, her crew is smaller, and what crew she has all has their own reason to doubt her, so it's beating her down a little harder and faster than I'm used to. It's really fun to explore, but I've kind of been itching for her to get back in the saddle, which this vines plot is letting her do.
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MUSE STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
Much higher than it was when I did this a couple of months ago. Still could do for a replay, but I'm not lost on her voice like I was before. I wish she were one of those characters I can just hear in my head when I write them, like Clementine, but I actually have to sit back and think some about the shit that comes out of her mouth, or which decisions she'd make. Still, she's kind of back in the swing of things with the recent event - or she's trying to be. At the very least, she no longer needs an alcoholic coma so badly, so she can stop pushing that boulder uphill. And since at least three of her current threads are giving me heartache emotions of the best kind, that's kind of a sure sign that I'm really feeling her, if that even makes sense? |
CAST STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ □ □
CR STRENGTH: ■ □ □ □ □
The cast is fabulous, seriously. I mean, we've kind of had a hard time getting on the same page, but at the same time, everyone is actually around and trying to do shit and that's pretty neat. I need to do more threads with her squad during and after this event. Especially considering we've got hella reserves, let me-... Yeah, Javik, Kaidan, and EDI. EDI is the only one I know for sure is coming in - oh, and Kal! Can't forget Kal, I love our incoming Kal - but still, that's great. On the other hand, her cross-canon CR is failing. Like, right now it's just Mia and then Party and he's kind of a glorious fuck-up. :'D It makes sense, what with her mindframe this last month or so, but she's kind of better now so I really need to focus on branching her out this next month. Expanding her squad, maybe. |
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PLOTTING CAPABILITIES: ■ ■ ■ □ □
TAGGING PRIORITY: ■ ■ ■ □ □
About average on both of these. See, the thing is, I feel like she has a ton of plotting capabilities but I'm not quite firm on how to reach out and grab them. It was so easy, in the last game she was in. She was practically running the place. ...Maybe I'm at such a loss because I don't want her to be quite so influential here? Either way, I'll definitely get her out and doing more stuff. Stuff besides drinking and training people to fight. Yeah, I'm going hard-mode on this shit. As for tagging priority, depending on who she's threading with, she's anywhere from top priority to third. Lately she's second, but Clementine's been undead, soooo that kind of took Clem out of the running. |
GENERAL FUN LEVEL: ■ ■ ■ □ □
LIKELIHOOD OF DROP: □ □ □ □ □
As it is now, she's not going anywhere, and I can't foresee that changing. Her cast is growing, she's finally dragging herself out of her rut, and she has plenty of potential for awesome shit to go down if I just get off my ass and do it. Like I said already, the threads I'm in right now with her (both from the pheromones event and the vines one) are fun as hell, and it's been a long time since I've had a ton of fun with her in any threads that Party Poison didn't wipe his essence all over, so this is a great sign. Pretty sure it only gets better and better from here. |
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Tom was kind of an interesting choice from the start. I wanted a character who was warm, who'd take people under their wing, who'd genuinely care without being tsun as fuck about it. I also wanted a dude on my roster. I have the hardest time keeping men in games for some reason. I think my longest was either Angel (the vampire) in... fuck, I forget where, or else Snow Villiers in Route. Both of those were like... six months? IDEK. Point is, I wanted to expand my CR-reaching to people who Shepard would want nothing to do with. And it worked, he adopted like ten people within the first month, but then it kind of all went downhill because basically all of them dropped and his kid dropped and his not-wife dropped and his kid's girlfriend dropped and Tom was pretty alone for a bit. Annie and Hal came back, but nothing has quite been the same. His canon-update was weird too, I crammed it in this little tiny timeframe by necessity and never really played out the effects of it.
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MUSE STRENGTH: ■ □ □ □ □
I'm not gonna lie, the situation's pretty grim. Like, I can still tag in his voice perfectly fine, and I love him to death as a character, but that drive I used to have to put him out there and do shit with him has kind of.... faded in a big way. I kind of just do what his CR wants me to do with him, anymore. I'm not sure how to fix that, how to make myself excited again. |
CAST STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
CR STRENGTH: ■ ■ □ □ □
Man, as rare as FS casts are, even having one canonmate is like hitting the jackpot. Meanwhile, the castmate I do have is phenomenal, more active than me by far and super excited about plotting and way IC and fun to thread with and augh it's just so good. And he has all of like one friend (cough Annie cough) and I love my threads with her, too. They're fantastic, super emotional, just... akdhasdaks. Still, I clearly haven't been keeping up my end of getting him out and around. Idk. I have no good excuse. |
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PLOTTING CAPABILITIES: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
TAGGING PRIORITY: ■ □ □ □ □
Tom is the kind of guy who has so much potential for shit to get involved in. He is curious, leaderly, fatherly, all of these other awesome traits, and yet I have basically no drive to seek out those things. I feel awful, because his tags constantly get shafted to the bottom of the pile even though I adore his CR. It just... It's hard, because I'm doing all of these threads that are super fun and I'm way into them and then I have to stop and be Tom again, idk how else to put it. But that makes it sound like I don't love his guts, which I do. Ugh. :c |
GENERAL FUN LEVEL: ■ □ □ □ □
LIKELIHOOD OF DROP: ■ ■ ■ □ □
Man I'm gonna be honest, if I hadn't just gotten the most amazing castmate I could've asked for, I'd probably let Tom go. It's just so hard to find the want to do his tags, and I have no idea where that passion went. I feel like when I tried to app him outside of my usual character type, I kind of made a mistake because whenever I do that, I come in with this set of awesome ideas I want to dig into (for Tom it was the concept of figuring out why the Skitters etc wanted Earth + the adopting of wayward teens) but once those options are exhausted, I don't have that underlying passion for the character to drive me forward to more stuff. I'm gonna hang in there because I owe it to a couple of people to keep trying, |
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Clementine is kind of my go-to character for horror games, apparently. This is her second, after Haven. That might sound kind of cruel, that I keep sending the nine-year-old to games with increasingly low levels of happiness (actually, in Haven she wasn't even 9 yet, #canonpoints), but it actually has nothing to do with enjoying writing a child in trouble or in distress and everything to do with the fact that she's this fuckin' amazing ray of sunshine in the lives of people she gets close to, and god, they need that. I'm not lost on the irony that the mod who helps inflict so much suffering plays a character largely to ease it, but hey, even I don't think everyone needs to suffer all the time. It's the little okay moments that make shit tolerable, even just barely. That's a huge theme in her canon, finding those little pockets of happiness when the world goes to shit, and I love playing with it in RPs, too. I'm also kind of amused by how she's one of the only season one Clementines left in games - how everyone else seems to have canon-updated to season two. While my S2 Clementine voice comes easier by the week, I'm just not quite ready to let her grow up yet. I want to max out her potential as a kid, first. I also want to wait for a few more episodes of season two to come out, for the sake of not canon-updating a million different times. So yeah, it'll probably be at least six months before I canon-update her at all.
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MUSE STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Like, seriously, she is the strongest muse I've got as a general rule and that doesn't seem ready to change. The great thing about Clem is, I never have to canon-review. Her tags just come so fuckin' easy to me, it's a breath of fresh air. It's interesting, though, to see how much Box is changing her. You never really get time to see how Lee's death changed her in canon (unless season 2 is an indication, and jfc is she hardened there), so working through that plus everything going down in Box is something that seems to be changing her a lot more than I realized. I mean, I like it, but she's hardening more than I realized she would. More than she did in canon at her age. This place has that effect on people, I guess. She's dying in a thread dated yesterday, and when she comes back from that, she's going to have more Serious Shit to work through than she's ever had to deal with thus far. Existential shit, murder shit, being undead and perma-killing your buddy shit... It's going to be a process, and it's kind of uncharted waters in my playing of her, so that makes me a little nervous in the best way. Either way, the muse is still going strong - I'm looking forward to all of the future shit she gets into! And I'm also looking forward to watching her pseudo-family grow. |
CAST STRENGTH: □ □ □ □ □
CR STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Well, I mean. She kind of has no cast, so there's that. We might have a Duck incoming, so that'll be really interesting to play out. She'll have such a strong protective instinct with him, even to the point of getting herself in danger over it if she has to, because he already died once and she needs to keep him safe. For Kenny and Katjaa. Even if they're dead, too. Other than Duck, I would cry actual tears for a Ben, because she'd adopt him too, and their friendship is way cute basically all through canon. I'd also love to have people from the Walking Dead show to throw her at, especially a Carl, because they've kind of got something in common in a big way. Aaaand then there's Lee. Man, Lee is a really complicated case. I would love a Lee if one app'd, but I'm not out hunting for one, because that's kind of a complicated mess where Clem's at right now. If we got a Lee, the mun would have to be ready for her not to flock to him and cling to his side forever like she did in canon. Oh, don't get me wrong, she'd be thrilled out of her mind to see him, but he's such a sore spot for her and that's just getting worse, not better. She misses the shit out of her first real partner, and she'd give almost anything to see him alive again, but soon she'll have been with her new pseudo-family as long as she was with Lee, and his death only made her that much more fiercely loyal to the people who're still alive. Which brings me to her CR. Which is fucking amazing. She has her new partner Ghoul, whom she's on her way to dying for as we speak, plus she has so so many people she's really starting to care about. Amery, Raph, Jesse, Teej, the list goes on. I want to start to drag more of them into her definition of 'family', and I want to find her people to take under her own wing. Other kids, maybe, or more innocent grown-ups.
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PLOTTING CAPABILITIES: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
TAGGING PRIORITY: ■ ■ ■ □ □
At this exact point in time, her tags aren't as high in priority, but mostly because writing engaging tags as a zombie is way harder than I gave it credit for. (Props to Camille for doing that shit all the time, wow.) I really liked the developments and threads that came from her time as a zombie, but I'm honestly super glad it's coming to a close. I miss playing Clementine, even if I still had undead-Clem. I guess that's how her CR must feel - they miss the living Clem, even though semi-living Clem is right there. When she's human again, her tags are gonna spike in priority I'm sure. As for plotting capabilities, man, there is so much she can do. She can't get super involved in the politics of the place or anything, but she can still explore, get into trouble, meet people, help people... She finds a way to make friends with some of the most unconventional people, and I love it. I'm going to keep her out of many huge plots in the future, to give her a break and to give Ghoul a break and to focus on doing the bigger shit with Shepard and Sally for now, but I'll definitely still be throwing her around wherever I see an opportunity. |
GENERAL FUN LEVEL: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
LIKELIHOOD OF DROP: □ □ □ □ □
The missing dot on 'fun' is owed exclusively to how much I am ready for her not to be a zombie anymore, aaaaa. Fortunately that's a thing now, so it's all uphill from here! Really though, I've had such a blast with Clementine the entire time she's been in Box, almost every single thread she's been in has been wonderful and beautiful and ugh perfect. So obviously, there's a zero percent chance of me dropping her anytime soon. Hooraaaaay. Like I said already, she's not gonna have anything huge going on for a couple of months to give her time to breathe a little from everything this past month and to give the people who worry about her a much-needed break, so I hope to spend that time strengthening her bonds with people and having her help others out instead of vice-versa. I want to use her being a child to do cute fun stuff and drag others into it, like blanket forts and shit like that, but she's not in the right mindframe for it anytime super soon, so that'll have to wait a little bit too. |
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Sally is my newest character, and I almost didn't app her. Like, I tried to send her to Ax, I tried to send her to Som, I tried to send her into fabulous casts in quite a few places before but for some reason, her voice just didn't stick. I didn't ~sound like Sally~. I guess all I had to do was APP THAT SHIT ANYWAY, because now that I'm in Box with her and playing her regularly, it comes easy as pie. She is a first for me in a whole bunch of ways. For one, I'm so used to playing badass tsun women (shepard, lightning) that playing someone now who expresses her feelings about people easily, who isn't afraid to love people, who thrives in physical contact... It's all so weird, I feel like I'm pushing her on people just having her act like her normal self. Ditto for how she flirts into eternity - I'm totally not used to writing that, my characters are so idek what that this last event was the first time I've even had a chance to RP making out in like three years. Not even exaggerating. On top of that, though, this is the first time I've had a character stuck in any kind of a death-based cycle. ...Wait, hmm, fuck, Lightning kind of counts (she turned into a Cie'th every apprx 8 months or so when her timer ran out and people had to kill her), but not like this. Sally is basically stuck in a perpetual cycle of reanimated corpse → invisible ghost → find a way to be visible ghost → exorcised/shredded ghost (game-dead) → respawn as reanimated corpse. Lather, rinse, repeat. Maybe someday she'll find a way to halt the rotting process and, y'know, stay alive. Maybe. Who even knows.
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MUSE STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ □
Man, it's like I said - as soon as I got in and got going with her, she has been amazing. Her voice is a lot more normal than most characters-... Okay, no, that's a lie, she's kind of ridiculous and says shit like WE GONNA TEAR IT UP TONIIIIGHT and HOLLA AT YO BOY, and also shamelessly talks about "tapping that ass", but! What I was trying to say was that her voice is regular-person enough that it actually comes out decently easy. I am totally in love with how she interacts with people, the way that even with relative strangers she jumps right into a sort of familiarity and connection. It's super fun to write that. Idk, this section is basically entitled 'The Joys of RPing Someone Emotionally-Adjusted For Once'. Even though she's pretty much a hot mess on the best of days. Oh well. You win some, you lose some. |
CAST STRENGTH: ■ ■ □ □ □
CR STRENGTH: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
I've got a fuckin' fantastic Josh to bounce her off of and it is amazing, but I will not be satisfied until Aidan is a thing (looking at you, Abby) and the trio are reunited again. I'd also sacrifice goats for basically anyone else from Being Human, even though none of the ones coming to mind are in Sally's corner. Nora, god, that'd be amazing. Rebecca, Henry, Kenny. Y'know, vampires who fuck shit up? We need more of those. But I'll settle for just Aidan tbh, I want one in Box some kind of bad. As for her CR, due to the aforementioned way she basically butts into your life whether you like it or not, she actually has a ton of friends right now. Enough that I kind of really want to start a CR chart. Whoops. Man though, I'm just kind of in awe of how many people already consider her their 'only real friend here'. I knew she had that effect on people, but I didn't know if it'd roll that same way in RP. |
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PLOTTING CAPABILITIES: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
TAGGING PRIORITY: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Congrats, you have located the top of my tag-priority totem pole. This is in part because she's the newest and in part because Bangarang '14 was kind of big for her, but... yeah. It's definitely going to even out some over this next month, with Clem getting more attention and Shepard getting out there more. As for plotting capabilities, man, she has a million and they're all completely ridiculous. Her entire network presence thus far has been to fail to take things seriously (ghost stories and drinking games, sob), though these vines are gonna calm her shit down for a bit. Aside from Sally being Sally (and making more light-hearted fun shit happen), over the next month sometime is when she's really going to start struggling with the fact that it's kind of becoming 'eat humans or die'. I don't have plans for her to die until the end of April-ish, so it'll probably be closer to the end of March that that particular issue gets pressing, but... yeah, it's a thing. |
GENERAL FUN LEVEL: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
LIKELIHOOD OF DROP: □ □ □ □ □
Yooooo, so I am having a blast, that's all there is to it. All of her friends and CR, the few people she bitches back and forth at (ASH WILLIAMS, YOU'RE KIND OF A DOUCHE), the open-ended network posts that lure in new CR, all of it, I just love it, ugh. She is absolutely sticking around, no question. It's going to be fantastic.
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