Apping pings meme
Admittedly I did it a little differently! I like italics and formatting don't judge me. Overall, my big pings basically seem to be badassery, competence, and vocal quirks. And Ferdinand hits like almost none of my pings, which probably explains why I've never been bothered at the idea of dropping him, even if I currently have no real desire to. Edit: Oh, and every single character I've ever played is either chaotic good or chaotic neutral. Go me?
Characters played:
Present: Cielo (Digital Devil Saga), Ferdinand (Absolute Obedience), Rika (Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni)
Past: Cordelia Vorkosigan (The Vorkosigan Saga), Nanny Ogg (Discworld) (Dropped almost immediately because her accent had too many points of similarity to Cielo's for me to play them both, so I'll probably count her), Zoe (Old Man's War) (Dropped almost immediately because I just wasn't interested in playing her, so probably won't count her)
Male: Cielo, Ferdinand
Female: Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Tends to perform their gender: Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Tends to trangress expected gender norms: Cielo, Ferdinand, Cordelia and Nanny both have instances of this but it's not as big for them
Mostly het, but I'd be a little surprised if they'd never had any experience with women: Nanny, Cordelia
Pansexual: Cielo,
Gay: Ferdinand
Prepubertal: Rika (complicated though), ....sorta Cielo?
Books: Cordelia, Nanny
Video Game: Cielo
Visual Novel: Ferdinand, Rika (Well technically she's also from anime and manga and her icons are anime, but while I'm not going to say the anime and manga haven't influenced me, I prefer the games.)
Speech quirks: Cielo (Jamaican accent), Rika (childish, repeats words and appends nonsense words), Nanny Ogg (rural accent), Ferdinand (purple prose)
Badass/competent: Cielo, Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Chronologically young, mentally adult: Cielo, Rika
Older: Cordelia, Nanny
Teenage: Ferdinand
Protagonist: Cordelia (in 2 books, usually a side character), Rika (....surprisingly, she's the protagonist for exactly two arcs in the series. SURPRISE PROTAGONIST PATTERN)
Side characters: Nanny, Cielo, Ferdinand
Nakama: Cielo, Rika
Matriarch of clan: Nanny, Cordelia
Desperately lonely: Ferdinand
Codependent in some ways: Cielo, Rika, Ferdinand
Booksmart: Cordelia, Rika
Smart in practical ways: Cordelia, Rika, Nanny, Cielo sometimes
Smarter than they look: Nanny, Rika, Cielo
Specialized intelligence: Cielo, Ferdinand? (DOES PURPLE PROSE COUNT AS INTELLIGENT?)
Dumb as a bag of rocks: Ferdinand
Finished canon: Cielo, Ferdinand
Where do ongoing book series count in ongoing versus finished series?: Nanny, Cordelia
Finished for most practical purposes, but the good forms are incompletely translated, and I mildly suspect I might be jossed if only because Umineko is made of mindfuck: Rika
Family is important: Cielo, Rika, Ferdinand, Cordelia, Nanny
Dies in canon: Cielo, ...does Rika count?
Highly socially competent: Rika, Cordelia, Nanny, ...Cielo considering his circumstances sometimes
Accustomed to tragedy: Cielo, Rika, Cordelia, Nanny in her role of midwife
Used to killing: Cielo
Would kill without hesitation for a good reason, but don't do it very often: Cordelia, Rika, Nanny
Derp: Ferdinand
Philosophical: Cordelia, Rika, Cielo, sometimes Nanny
Really likes alcohol: Rika, Nanny
Toppy: Cordelia, Nanny, Rika
Bottoms: Cielo, Ferdinand
Jesuses: Cordelia, Rika, Cielo on rare occasions
Mentions of cannibalism in canon: Cielo, Rika, and Nanny if only because I would place money on there being a footnote somewhere involving it. And probably also mentioning Dibbler's pies.
Crappy life: Cielo, Rika, ...Cordelia sometimes
High gore level: Cielo, Rika
Strong sense of them being part of a culture: Cielo, Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Close to their god: Cielo, Rika
Very vague powers: Cielo, Rika, Nanny
Unchildish children: Cielo, Rika
Power beside the throne: Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Chaotic Good: Cielo, Cordelia, Nanny, Ferdinand
Chaotic Neutral: Rika
Series themes:
Cordelia: Surpassing oneself, growing up, being a good person, atonement, family, what it means to kill, the will to shape your destiny
Nanny: ...God the Discworld's covered almost every theme at some point
Ferdinand: PORN IS AWESOME AND RAPE WILL MAKE THEM FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU sob
Rika: Atonement, sin, trust and secrets, what it means to kill, fate and odds, the will to shape your destiny, the role of god
Cielo: The nature of identity and what it means to be human, the role of god, atonement, love and trust, what it means to kill, the will to shape your destiny, law vs chaos
Characters played:
Present: Cielo (Digital Devil Saga), Ferdinand (Absolute Obedience), Rika (Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni)
Past: Cordelia Vorkosigan (The Vorkosigan Saga), Nanny Ogg (Discworld) (Dropped almost immediately because her accent had too many points of similarity to Cielo's for me to play them both, so I'll probably count her), Zoe (Old Man's War) (Dropped almost immediately because I just wasn't interested in playing her, so probably won't count her)
Male: Cielo, Ferdinand
Female: Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Tends to perform their gender: Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Tends to trangress expected gender norms: Cielo, Ferdinand, Cordelia and Nanny both have instances of this but it's not as big for them
Mostly het, but I'd be a little surprised if they'd never had any experience with women: Nanny, Cordelia
Pansexual: Cielo,
Gay: Ferdinand
Prepubertal: Rika (complicated though), ....sorta Cielo?
Books: Cordelia, Nanny
Video Game: Cielo
Visual Novel: Ferdinand, Rika (Well technically she's also from anime and manga and her icons are anime, but while I'm not going to say the anime and manga haven't influenced me, I prefer the games.)
Speech quirks: Cielo (Jamaican accent), Rika (childish, repeats words and appends nonsense words), Nanny Ogg (rural accent), Ferdinand (purple prose)
Badass/competent: Cielo, Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Chronologically young, mentally adult: Cielo, Rika
Older: Cordelia, Nanny
Teenage: Ferdinand
Protagonist: Cordelia (in 2 books, usually a side character), Rika (....surprisingly, she's the protagonist for exactly two arcs in the series. SURPRISE PROTAGONIST PATTERN)
Side characters: Nanny, Cielo, Ferdinand
Nakama: Cielo, Rika
Matriarch of clan: Nanny, Cordelia
Desperately lonely: Ferdinand
Codependent in some ways: Cielo, Rika, Ferdinand
Booksmart: Cordelia, Rika
Smart in practical ways: Cordelia, Rika, Nanny, Cielo sometimes
Smarter than they look: Nanny, Rika, Cielo
Specialized intelligence: Cielo, Ferdinand? (DOES PURPLE PROSE COUNT AS INTELLIGENT?)
Dumb as a bag of rocks: Ferdinand
Finished canon: Cielo, Ferdinand
Where do ongoing book series count in ongoing versus finished series?: Nanny, Cordelia
Finished for most practical purposes, but the good forms are incompletely translated, and I mildly suspect I might be jossed if only because Umineko is made of mindfuck: Rika
Family is important: Cielo, Rika, Ferdinand, Cordelia, Nanny
Dies in canon: Cielo, ...does Rika count?
Highly socially competent: Rika, Cordelia, Nanny, ...Cielo considering his circumstances sometimes
Accustomed to tragedy: Cielo, Rika, Cordelia, Nanny in her role of midwife
Used to killing: Cielo
Would kill without hesitation for a good reason, but don't do it very often: Cordelia, Rika, Nanny
Derp: Ferdinand
Philosophical: Cordelia, Rika, Cielo, sometimes Nanny
Really likes alcohol: Rika, Nanny
Toppy: Cordelia, Nanny, Rika
Bottoms: Cielo, Ferdinand
Jesuses: Cordelia, Rika, Cielo on rare occasions
Mentions of cannibalism in canon: Cielo, Rika, and Nanny if only because I would place money on there being a footnote somewhere involving it. And probably also mentioning Dibbler's pies.
Crappy life: Cielo, Rika, ...Cordelia sometimes
High gore level: Cielo, Rika
Strong sense of them being part of a culture: Cielo, Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Close to their god: Cielo, Rika
Very vague powers: Cielo, Rika, Nanny
Unchildish children: Cielo, Rika
Power beside the throne: Rika, Cordelia, Nanny
Chaotic Good: Cielo, Cordelia, Nanny, Ferdinand
Chaotic Neutral: Rika
Series themes:
Cordelia: Surpassing oneself, growing up, being a good person, atonement, family, what it means to kill, the will to shape your destiny
Nanny: ...God the Discworld's covered almost every theme at some point
Ferdinand: PORN IS AWESOME AND RAPE WILL MAKE THEM FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU sob
Rika: Atonement, sin, trust and secrets, what it means to kill, fate and odds, the will to shape your destiny, the role of god
Cielo: The nature of identity and what it means to be human, the role of god, atonement, love and trust, what it means to kill, the will to shape your destiny, law vs chaos