that status report meme
STATE OF THE CHARACTERS:
R-right, Di = mindtwin. I've been thinking about doing this so I can get organized in time for the upcoming HMD so I can consider the feedback I receive with my thoughts all sorted out for my characters already.
YUUSUKE "BOSSUN" FUJISAKI :: SKET DANCE :: sketdanchou@polychromatic
& why i apped him: Crack. Pure undiluted crack. I... don't even remember what made me pick up Sket Dance in the first place but by the end of the first chapter I was sure I needed to play Bossun somewhere. I found him to be a hilarious and refreshing character. The fourth wall/meta humor, the immense fail and the sincere desire to help people were all very appealing to me. Also I had so many ideas of things he could do; he's a very project-y character and I'd almost always have an in for him to start conversations with random people about (Sket-Dan recruitment, what else?) So! Fun and stress-free character! At least that was the plan.
& the 411: HIGHS AND LOWS! I think I started out in really high gear with him, throwing him around, tossing up SD events all willy-nilly. I haven't really pushed his boundaries with the curses much because I uh worry about OOCness and slipping into a pattern of LOL CRAZY 'CAUSE OF CURSE' and then orz sorry about that gaiz my bad. For the most part even if he's been affected, he hasn't deviated too much from his canon personality. He's developed a few friendships outside of the SD crew which I really should put more work into maintaining. I've been trying to get like mini-event arcs started but uh. Yeah.
& what's in the works? the long-put off Sket-Dan help hotline which still needs tweaking honestly because uh. My brainstorms? Are often stupid and not actually feasible but my stupid brain has latched onto like a chatroom set-up and never letting go. Also! Needs mod permission but cosplay contest!
& why do you build me up buttercup? I think I have a fairly strong voice for him. The Sket Dance humor comes pretty easily to me though I do worry that I might be making him too much a caricature? I also think I've got some pretty good ideas for his curses and events.
& ur doin' it wrong: ACTIVITY. Not just the post frequency but I've been dropping tags and dropping 'plots'. Also all the ideas I mentioned? I'm pretty sure the last event the SD was even involved in was the police picnic. And this was in March. So all ideas, practically zero follow through. Even if the SD's low on manpower, I take responsibility for my own activity and hey, if I was able to get around when I had one castmate, I should still be able to do it right? I guess I burned out energy-wise. He should be in the personal space of all the new people, recruiting for members and cases to an OBNOXIOUS extent. But I also want to keep him doing this creatively so as long as I couldn't come up with a new idea to pimp the SD with, I just put it off and put it off and put it off. Also, my canon clustering? Pretty OOC for him I'd say. He's rude and talks about people tactlessly right in front of them so my OOC fears of him getting aggravating is just...
& what can i do about it?
1.) get over my fear of throwing him at other characters that I haven't regularly comment-spammed with/know OOC. I'm paranoid enough that at the slightest hint of a character/mun getting ticked off I can back him off quickly.
2.) TAG MOAR.
3.) Every time I sign on for him, I need to find a non-crew/non-ooc-circle post for him to tag.
4.) GET TO WORK ON RECRUITMENT POSTS.
5.) SUCK LESS AT LIFE.
6.) QUALITY NOT QUANTITY = instead of brainstorming for moar events, just work on the ones I've already come up with ne?
YOITE :: NABARI no OU :: undocreation@polychromatic
& why i apped him: My all-consuming love of Nabari no Ou means that there are so many characters I've been pinged by (ironically enough, I started off wanting to app Raikou) but two finally emerged as the characters I feel I could do the most with. Still intend to app Kouichi somewhere if someone else takes him at Poly. Yoite though. I wanted to try a different character? I'm usually drawn to the more outspoken and over-the-top personalities who repress their emo under layers of LMAO ^_^ so Yoite (and actually even Kouichi when you think about it) is me stepping out of my comfort zone. I find his story to be very intriguing and there just so much I could write about and as uh recent chapters have shown, there's even more to his backstory than previously assumed. LOL SPOILER WHAT IS HE I want to write about it, I want to get into that mindset. Also YAY FINALLY A CHARACTER I CAN SRS BZNZ WITH.
& the 411: Um, almost a month in and well. He hasn't been affected by a single curse (except for the weather one). Let me see, failed escape attempt, rescued Miharu from the mirror!city but his daily activities consist of stalking Miharu and reminding Miharu and co. not to mention things of Nabari to the citizens of the front world. Also emo'd in the rain and was rescued by Lucy.
& what's in the works? Well the escape attempt was a failure but that doesn't mean he's given up on finding a way out, just that he knows he can't take the direct route to it. Uh srs bznz plot is also in the works, just need to have my brain function for more than like five minutes at a time.
& why do you build me up buttercup? ...I know lots of canon information about him and am determined to be the best Yoite roleplayer I can be?! I have nice icons? I format his posts nicely?
& ur doin' it wrong: Easier for me to list what I'm not doing wrong. I worry about him pretty much constantly because I can't seem to get a grasp of his voice. While I have my worries that my writing for my characters may be off or possibly be a more extreme version than it should be, I usually have a distinct voice for them to base my evaluation on. Uh for Yoite? Not so much. I'm constantly... recalibrating his language register and the formality/informality I give him. I have mental notes but these are more... boundaries, the lines I have to color between but... I can't seem to pick the right hue? LMAO LAME METAPHOR IS LAME. His voice just hasn't clicked in my head with the canon so and there's a lot of paring down I have to do of what I reasonably think he'd conclude on his own without saying it. :[ Other than that? Oh well there's my worry that he's already getting into a rut with his interactions with other people in his canon, getting him to interact with people outside his canon (coming up with UNFILTERED material for his posts? next to impossible in my thought process. because he's in mission-mode and he DOESN'T SAY A LOT in canon and the one character he's already let his guard down a bit isn't in the City)
& what can i do about it? More interactions with Miharu? He does get to a point where he and Miharu have a more doable dynamic to their interaction (like lol after eight volumes) Actually take advantage of certain curses to force him outside of his walls but... as canon has shown HE TENDS TO REACT TO THAT VIOLENTLY. Canon update? STOP WHINING AND START PLAYING?
So uh YEAH TL;DR. I felt like doing one for FUSHIGI MYSTERY APP TOO but that'd be too telling and would remove the mystery of it... for like the two people who don't already know who it is I'm apping.
ANYWAY OVERALL MY PROBLEMS? ACTIVITY, CANON CLUSTERING, GENERALLY SUCKING AT THIS.