MORE QUESTIONS
It's serious poll is serious time again, C&C. This time I have an inquiry of a more metatastical nature than usual. And I am anxious to hear your answers, double spaced or no!
What do you like best about playing your characters? What do you like least, or find most challenging? As always this is mostly just an opportunity to indulge tl;dr ( Read more... )
What do you like best about playing your characters? What do you like least, or find most challenging? As always this is mostly just an opportunity to indulge tl;dr ( Read more... )
Like best: I love the power of paper mastery and I love playing a bad ass superhero who can also be so very vulnerable in many ways. I love that, like many R.O.D characters, context from her canon is well provided that I know how she's going to act and what she's going to do whether she's on a shopping trip or eating ice cream with friends or defending herself against 50 laser beam shooting robots. I love that I get to show off my own literary nerdery (which is still nothing compared to Maggie's). I love that she's got some cool canon points that help make her interested in various plots going on in the game (e.g., the brainwash plot last year). In summary: I love being a nerd moeblob who can kill you with an index card.
Like least: She's shy. And she talks. Like an Ernest Hemingway Novel. While dying in the rain. (Also, another thing I hate about playing Maggie? The fact that I fucking hate fucking Ernest Fucking Hemingway with a fucking passion.) Posts I write for Maggie tend to be in my TL;DR style and then edited down to where it actually sounds like something she'd say. These traits can actually be fun to play out, but it is VERY hard to develop CR with her because of these things. If I play her well, she is not going to come up with scintillating things to say in many situations, and if all I get people tagging back to me are "Oh?" and "Do you like cheese?" and "I agree" she will have NOTHING, if I am being IC, to say. I have to hope (sometimes) people will give her something interesting to talk about. Once she gets to know people and opens up more, or when she is in a crisis situation where her fear disappears and her talents shine, she can do and say some fun things, but creating the opportunities for her to do that is extremely difficult. It takes a lot of dogged tagging and the ever-present fear that most people are going to think Maggie is boring--which is honestly a fair assessment, given how she is going to come off to certain people realistically. If you've ever seen R.O.D the TV and heard her talk and didn't see the adorable parts where she's blushing profusely over a book autograph, you'd think she was a dull character. But when the challenge of playing her pays off? It's a fantastic feeling. :) ETA: Because I also want to be clear, this is not "waaaaaah no one will taaaaaag meeeeeee"--I just accept there are a lot of hurdles to getting CR with this kind of character--but it's WORTH it.
Most Challenging: The fact that when I stop playing her for whatever reason, she climbs out of my skull and stares at me with huge puppy dog eyes until I find the time and energy to app her again.
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