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[terra]

Because I am a never-ending fount of curiousity!!

What is your character's pullpoint? What made you pick this canon point? Are there any special challenges that come with it? Do you let other canon timeperiods influence your characterization

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[dontknowgray]

Severus Snape: Snape really had to come from the end of the books, because otherwise if you take him from earlier points he's in the dark as much as the other characters, and B, hasn't been slapped with Albus' death and told by the world, "time to man up and grow up". He still has to play a death eater role, but as you look at how he acts-- desperation building (begging Voldemort to let him go find Harry Potter, etc) so he can keep his promises to so many...well, dead people. :|

Coming from this pull point, we have Snape at a transitional period, who is growing into, MAYBE, what he could have been-- if a lot too late. But the potential (and the conflict that rises from it, as he fails to reach it, a lot of them time) is engaging.

Also, when there's a Harry about, bring up some nice weirdness and ultimately, allows Snape to bury the hatchet if the Harry is willing. If not, well, Snape lapses into his old ways and remains a huge dick even if he's sort of tired of playing that role, it's comfortable and familiar and Snape's not real huge about personal growth because it's scary and in his estimation, doesn't work r get him anywhere except continually spat on, so why bother?

Raphael: Actually, Bing picked our pull point because we'd been playing the boys from a couple years later in canon, wanted them on the same page, and wanted them before the Christmas Baggage. They're younger and in Raph's case, a LOT less cynical and bitter, and a lot less deep into the bipolar swings. It's actually been a challenge to play because he's .. just not as prone to being moody.

We'll see if we canon update them, etc- a Leo or Don coming in would greatly affect us in that direction, though.

Garrus: end of game -- because it's the simplest. The rest leaves confusion about who might beon what missions, etc-- and since there's some nebulousness about who Shepard might be -- male, female, paragon, renegade -- it's best to keep it tight and simple: end of game, and which ending. (Paragon choice, in Garrus.) It's just the cleanest option all around.