[✐meme] roleplay ramble meme

[made_in_wonder]

Rounding off the day's posting glut with a meme. Your flists shall be spared me come Monday, I promise. ^_^;

1. Go to my character list. Which is already outdated but w/e. IF YOU KNOW I PLAY THEM, YOU CAN REQUEST THEM and those who don't RP with me, if they'd like to do the meme, can pick from the list. There's plenty. <3 <3

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MALI

[made_in_wonder]

Mali has the most I haven't written anywhere so.

Mali gets her yami because her father finally manages to marry Isis to Rishid and then gets all SO HOWSABOUT YOU TWO MAKE AN HEIR NOW AND WE CAN FORGET THIS EVER HAPPENED....and during that night lectures Mali about how This Is Right For The Family until the hypocrisy and the pain and the feeling of losing the only person she cares about (Isis) to someone about whom she feels ambivalently (Rishid) just makes her snap and patricide results.

She runs away alone that night, still in the dark about what happens, and nearly dies since it's been a while since she went to the surface so she doesn't quiiiite remember the way to town. She gets there, though, and out of desperation for somewhere to belong Rods herself into a family so that they think she's a relative come to live with them and treats her like their daughter.

This becomes her Rodding modus operandi, all the way until she's the adopted daughter of an American crime kingpin and picks her Ghouls from his unwitting ranks. Upon seeing that a boy wearing a Puzzle won Duelist Kingdom, she "convinces" her father that the family really should branch out into Japanese operations and they all move over. Mali ends up in school with the others, monitoring and waiting for a time to strike, packing two decks: a cute yet poignant one for her act (she plays Unhappy Girl and other such cards) and then a Ghouls one (I'm almost tempted to make her run zombies in addition to Ra because of the "turn into zombies and then resurrect on her side of the field" mechanic.)

While in school she manages to strike up all kinds of interesting relationships with the gang and ends up in a love triangle between herself, Yami Bakura (who knows from the start exactly what she's after) and Jounouchi, who to her represents the warm caring family she never had because of his own attitude towards his sister. It doesn't stop her from Rodding him though. ;A; And that's as far as you get right now~

From a feminist standpoint Mali perplexes me. On the one hand she's clearly a headstrong young lady who knows a way to get exactly what she wants/ thinks she wants out of life. But on the other hand she gets that by manipulating other people, not doing things herself. I'm really interested where her development will go in the DR about what she can and can't do as a girl. :333

Secret origins are very very boring. I wanted a kid character and doodled her "I found a shiny" icon. She just stared at me adorably until I made her. That may have soaked into her personality somewhat.

....this was mostly all stuff with no bearing on her in the DR but heeey! Backstory! (Future-story?)

/actually had popcorn

[free_for_a_phee]

Indeed... that is a lot previously unknown!

I was wondering how Mali might get her dark half, and that's much more stable than anything I presumed. =3 Particularly the post-patricide death transition into the real world. Is her new mafia daddy a former partner of Gozaburo?

And woot on the unused high school drama tapped there (seeing how the school scene namely disappeared DK on). And now I want to know if that OT3 has a name... Either way, the expo on why there'd be irateshipping leaning here makes good sense.

But yes, it wouldn't be near as fun if there was an easy answer on the feminist approach to her character! And it'll indeed be interesting... I dunno how many older girls we have in the DR for her to take a view of besides Pythia, but there's chance for observation.

awwww

[made_in_wonder]

Yep, Mali just family-hops. She wants to be the center of some family's universe, but she also needs them to do things for her. So she does have a cold Marlicky bit to her in that she will leave one family if another seems to position her better in the world....she uses the Rod to gain the social status within a family that she never had since she was born as a girl instead of the heir, basically. Oh, you know it. Wasn't everyone?

I really wanted the high school to be a part of it and for everyone to interact with Mali because she doesn't have Rishid to hide behind, just a Namuish-persona. Since Mali is the sanest of my Marlicks I kind of wanted her story to be like a young adult coming of age novel in much the same way that Candy's is a magical girl TV show: make Malik the star of the show and it really is a story about growing up and figuring out who you are, even if "who you are" is "a horrible murderer but someone who can fix that". And young adult coming of age novels demand Symbolic Love Triangles. So Mali gets her bad boy and her fambly boy. XP

Even the boys in the DR thus far have been helping Mali see anything the boys can do, she can do for herself better...there's been some really adorable IRC conversations where she's listened to the wise words of Yasu, or gotten Patu to start teaching her martial arts. <3 <3 So she's already thinking about "well up here, maybe girls can do more", which is a very appealing notion to her since she likes to, well, run the show. -_-; I highly doubt she'll stop trying to get all the little boy kidlets to do things for her/play with her anytime soon, however. It's touching when they come to save her! It means they will do what she wants. >:D

.....Mali is the worst princess ever.

[free_for_a_phee]

Now where oh where could she have picked up this idea that one sister family is as good as the next??

It's cool that you kind of assign an overarching genre to the character, since that must be a help in setting up her direction and development plans. And approval for her triangle setup. x3

But d'awww, I gotta say I love the simpler activities that spring up in the DR, especially for the kids. =3 Particularly since so many of them aren't that exposed to normalesque situations too often. And come on, how's Mali to learn to get what she likes out of peeps back home if she doesn't have her hero boys to practice on here? Buuut, now you've got me "worried" about Upwords-taken-advantage of! x3 Not that he'd mind that much because. Look. Friend!

Thanks for the info~

[made_in_wonder]

Yeah, I try to make sure all my characters have a 'tone' to make them distinctive despite all being Malik. So based on what I pick to be their "core", thematically, that's the side of them I stress most. It does help a lot. :3

Oh, I love the kiddie interactions. They sometimes have the best adventures despite being the smallest. <3 Mali's going to indeed take advantage of Upwords once she realizes she can, but I promise for now it'll be benign manipulation. <3 She does like all her friends. She just likes when she's in charge the very, very most! besides, what else are young yuugis for

No problem! I hope it was fun to read; I think a lot about all my characters and am prone to rambling in any situation. ~_^

[free_for_a_phee]

Indeed, we should have like a mundane events event just to take advantage of with the kidlets. "Mali and co. go [Gasp!] grocery shopping~" And how did you know the secret agenda of babyyuugidom?

Definitely~ Character infodump feels like canon analysis of the fandom. Only more personal & with development possibilities.

Ramble all you like!

[made_in_wonder]

...I just got a mental image of Mali leading Upwords, Jig, and Saw around the DR like some sort of Mutou-parade. MALI: THE BEST AVENGER, LOOK AT ALL THE PHARAOHS AND VESSELS SHE HAS UNDER HER SWAY. :D

I have been trying to figure out what I want to do with Mali next in-DR so I guess I'll get to brainstorming everyday stuff that for her would be an adventure. >3

If you'd still like to hear far too much about Brunch and Linner I can provide those but it might take a while; I have plotbunnies and homework and chores, sigh. -_-; And there'd be a lot to say.

[free_for_a_phee]

This is an image worth having. Or at least snapshoting. She'd have to win over the jigsaw first, since their own marlick's already been meaaan, but it shouldn't be hard. Stare with envy, you doubles you.

I'm always open to hearing more about the meal-marlicks! But, I'll be patient. x3 Promise.

LINNER AND BRUNCH [1/2]

[made_in_wonder]

Linner's a much easier case to discuss than Brunch: he's denied himself all emotion for two and a half years, and now is coming to terms with the fact that in his world, he's about to die. So although he's still detached from his emotions he's adopted a very "what the hell" attitude about life and turned into a huge troll, doing things only to make himself happy. Although he does want Brunch to do things with more emotion than he did them, since he's dissatisfied, he really hates this reminder of the utter failure (in his eyes) he used to be. That Brunch seems to be getting worse doesn't help. I had no idea he was going to turn into such a humorous character, with the trolling and the distant wit, but I hope that he still seems Marlicky.

LINNER AND BRUNCH [2/2]

[made_in_wonder]

Brunch. Brunch is a mess. Brunch's core keyword is "transition": from child to adult, but since he's a Marlick it's also "from oppressed to oppressor". Right now that's manifesting itself as a desire to be a horrible person more than the chops for true horribleness himself: if given the power, he could very easily right now order people to do terrible things in his service, but he doesn't have the power yet. He's not comfortable enough with his own self-image to have any force of will behind influencing others'.

Add to that that he's a teenager, with teenage distrust of authority, so he can actually sound like a Thief King at times, equating "destroy Pharaoh" with "overthrow the tyrannical status quo, being a rebel is cool, who are you to tell me what is right and wrong", etc etc etc. Since he's so sensitive he hyperinterprets, too: "Hi, Brunch, how are you today, kiddo?" from someone might be met with the thought "Don't look down on me!!!", though he'd probably snark in reply.

The DR is one part torment, one part temptation: he's terrified of not being in control, since he's only just getting control of his life back via founding the Ghouls, and the fact that the DR gets in his head and messes with him really frustrates him, though with time he's sort of adopted a "put up with it" attitude against his better judgment. Yet this Hell is also full of all sorts of things he's read about and seen on TV - plus things that haven't been invented yet - and he's enough of an opportunist to also think "well, I don't know when next I'll get the chance to do [x]...". But that Interferes With the Plan, he Cannot Afford Distractions, etc. Brunch wants everything and spends so long frustrated about it he gets nothing. :( Dying - and, what's more, dying by an unknown hand - has also shaken him to the core. He's trying hard not to be afraid. But he doesn't know what to do, and that in and of itself is terrifying.

Out of all my characters Brunch's voice comes the most naturally to me; I don't know if that's because I spent the longest working on him before using him as my DR premiere, if I'm more comfortable with a character whose powers I've nerfed, or if the particular ways he's messed-up just click best. I love doing horrible things to him, in part because he always reacts with such fervor and in part because there's something weirdly admirable in the way he always gets back on his feet and snipes as best he can. Also, it's just plain funny to have as a running joke "and now the hypocritical little kiddie derp gets eaten by vampires for the 9001st time".

I created him with the idea of maybe doing a "fall story" and have him becoming a worse and worse person over time until he's the Marik who can stick a poison pill between doll!Anzu's lips - Brunch, if sufficiently angered, is capable of such things but lacks the means - but just watching him develop into someone who is less and less sure of himself, not more and more like I imagine must have happened in canon for him to end up such a slick bastard, is also really fun. I was initially super-resistant to him finding out what happened to his dad while in the DR - I didn't want to be That Person who makes villains just to redeem them - but I think now it's more important to just let Brunch be a person. A jerk, sure, who admires all the wrong people and who sometimes denies the things he wants most, but also somebody who struggles with a heavy amount of self-doubt. I don't want him to be a woobie. I don't want to wrap him in a blanket and feed him cookies. But I feel happy for him when Seiran does the equivalent, and I'm rooting for him to sort out his life in some matter that brings him peace of mind even as I toss the worst things I can think of at him.

He's still going to come out of it a self-serving little brat. But maybe he'll be a self-serving little brat who believes in himself out of more than just I Am Heir arrogance.

The fact he thinks talking like a stock villain makes him "cool" will stay forever, though. The delusions, I love 'em.

messaging. at mcdonalds. fails.

[free_for_a_phee]

That, sounds like Linner alright! Though to me the funnest part of his unflappableness is the amusing "ohwait I still feel something how about that" self-amusement. x3

Course hearing dead man makes me "aaaanooo" a bit. in a hypocritical manner.

And I wouldn't worry about him. In a lot of ways he's the MOST-canon-like in my eyes. Can't describe it really, other than half-the time he makes me mentally pull up the pier-arrival scene... Not that canon!marlick was too funny, but tongue-in-cheek/sarcastic/troolish humor still seems very fitting. maybe it's the overabundance of 'keh keh keh' everywhere. he apparently finds a lot funny.

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Yes, I can see how keeping a villain unredeemed is Extra Hard with Brunch (or any marlick) in the DR, simply because marlick villainy is so tied in a misunderstanding of his past, given how even poison-pill giving, suicide-pushing manga-canon!Marik made a redemptive transformation once the truth came out. And given there are lots of people that know The Truth running around the DR, it'd be a tough, even limiting thing to dodge in the long run. Though maybe the villainy could be kept with other, expanded points. Blue & the underground make me think that sometimes.

But then that's why we've got the truly un-redemptive ynmarlicks - give us an unredemptive alternative. x3 And maybe it's just me but I keep thinking if a marlick found out about his dark side, and managed a canon-ish banishment, the spirit would still hang about the DR. Causing trouble without another brain to stop him. Maybe with his own body and stealing the Rod from his dominant.

...I don't like imagining unlikely to happen problems what.

My point being it's a conundrum of the DR with all its distractions and truth-in-your-face opportunities would naturally get in the way of canon-developing marlicks. And I oh so helpfully leave the solution to your figuring. x3

But he better stay stockish! Delusions of brattish grandeur should never die~!

awww~ np <3

[made_in_wonder]

Oh, I love that too: those moments where Linner suddenly realizes I JUST HAD A FEELING. .....COOL. XD In my head, he had a moment of realization after Seiran vanished. "I....I think I'm mourning. Huh." And then the moping began.

Sadly I just don't see any other ending for Linner's story other than eventual (or immediate) death at Yami no Bakura's hands. He destroyed the Millennium Puzzle, and now there must be real life consequences. :( So unless he manages to survive that last blow but it knocks Yami Linner out into the open....I haven't quite planned out what will happen to him, since what's more important to me is that Linner believes he's going to die. He'll still be open to hearing about God Cards or ways to defeat Ring Spirits - he's a Marlick, Marlicks manage to combine KILL ME with NEVER SAY DIE quite interestingly - but he's also rational enough to know when the opponent has got the jump on him.

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I don't want Brunch to end up too much like Dawn (I don't want to plagiarize ideas), but if he does ever find out about Yami Brunch he'll do his best to switch gears and set about trying to find a way to extract this thing from his head. A lot of his mental processes will stay the same, even: except instead of WELL, NO ONE ELSE BEAT THE PHARAOH, BUT I'LL SHOW THEM it'll become WELL, NO ONE ELSE I KNOW GOT THIS THING OUT OF THEIR HEAD.....

It'll take him a while to be calm enough to do that, however, since it'll shake everything he thinks he is to the core to discover he wasn't different, he wasn't special, he wasn't the only innocent Marlick. Even if that's mostly just defense mechanism and not actual belief at this point. And that's even before the "I KILLED MY FATHER ;A;" self-hatred is addressed.

The grandeur may even be ratcheted up a notch. It'll be all he has. ;_;

ty----

[free_for_a_phee]

...thou shall not make a The Grinch jab. thou shall not...

Fwa~ Well Seiran doesn't like to cause moping even if I like it. x3 but thankfully she's sitting tight this time, no matter other problems.

wah. Yes, while huge whether he dies or not is oddly an outside issue, huh? so I can see how'd that get back-burner to how he deals with the reality and vaguely exploring "is there a way out" possibilities... though the mere idea of yami linner 'saving the day' in a twisted sense makes me want to giggle... in a twisted sense.

But yes. I doubt Brunch could ever end up too Dawnish even if, given their differing backgrounds. =) Those variations tends to salvage issues like that. Though if any Marlick around here manages to get into an awareness and conscious hostility with their yami I will be popcorning that development. How does one deal with that when you can't banish him away??

But I like how Brunch, even if it went something like that, keeps his "I'm better than you doubles!" air. xD Even if the recovery period would be rough. a-and suddenly very glad dr kills self-destruction ability. darkthoughtsyay.

...and I'd poke for a prompt at you sofast but I'll be nice and realize there's I've filled my back order. ^~^