How's My Driving?

[peoplesprincess]

Anon commenting is ON, and I'm not going to take your crit any less seriously if you decide to take advantage of this (or if you're just a lurker or something)- unless, of course, your purpose for remaining anonymous is to simply bash and offer no advice on how to improve. Concrit isn't trolling in my mind; "LOL GTFO U SUXX0R" is. Also, please

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[peoplesprincess]

... Would you believe me if I said that I've actually been thinking about this myself? XD After the Ozai thing I wasn't really planning on doing anything specific, but then Lylith came up for the idea for the Eris thing and then right after that Yue asked me if I wanted to do something with Tenenbaum and dasdfjk. Yeah. And that's not even counting the comm-wide viruses, haha. So I completely get what you're saying and I promise that I'm not going to be getting into the whole "SOMETHING BIG ALWAYS HAS TO BE GOING ON OMFG" mindset. If someone comes up with something that they want me to participate in after the Tenenbaum thing is over (which I'm thinking will only last for a few days), I'm... probably going to say no, or ask if we could hold off a bit. :P

But as for the "insanity on a weekly basis" thing... I'm kind of playing her mindset as similar to how she after the canon episode "The Boiling Rock" (if you've seen the show; if you haven't, that reference won't make any sense DX), so she's not just going to clear up and go back to normal any time soon-- that is, even if the Eris plot and the Tenenbaum plot hadn't happened, she'd still be stuck in this mode. If that's one of the things that you have a problem with, I'd love to hear some crit on that, too! <3

you get a scary icon in return :|

[angledtwat777]

Hmm...sounds a little like...I don't know, maybe people are just wanting your character to get involved with them so much because crazy!Azula is a shitton of fun to mock, degrade, or otherwise try to ruin any good mood she actually may be able to achieve were she not going through more stress than a Burger King worker during a hurricane evacuation (lol yes I totally had to do that and I thought I was going to die because I couldn't keep up as much as I usually could 8B). I mean, sure, it's fun to have fun with the crazies, but really, all I've seen of her in my time here is drama and angst and the like. No, I don't know the episode you're talking about...but don't you think you've been given a good opportunity in game to make her more than constantly dramatic and up in arms? I think someone said something like this IC about how (maybe Karen, idk) she was spreading her family drama all over the place so much that it couldn't be ignored? I mean, I love reading your posts and your comments and tags and the like-otherwise I wouldn't be here baw-but it's like...drama is fun, angst is fun, I know that firsthand. (Lol Vanessa hopping worlds so she doesn't have to deal with Wesker out for her blood baw). I know, canonly, she's a bitch and a looney, but uh...maybe you could explore a bit of a different, deeper part of her as opposed to just being put through shit on a regular basis? It would be more than nice to see to see a post from her that wasn't always something like...just being cursed, you know?

Yeah, I know. I've been approached a few times about how this person has an idea for a curse, something to throw a wrench in her gears-Birkin's daughter, Sherry, is now on the community, which means Vanessa's reached critical mass and doesn't know what to do-but...am I making sense here? She's a lot of fun to play with, but I think that you're like...giving into her insane side too much, and eventually, if you keep doing that, you may just lose her voice, be at a complete loss of what to do with her, etc., etc.

JUST LET ME USE MY DEFAULT IN PEACE BAWWW

[peoplesprincess]

Eh, that's possible, but I think it's just people wanting to get their characters involved. The thing with Ozai (though actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure which thing you mean with Ozai-- are you referring to the initial plot where he tried to have her assassinated, or the one where Eris had him brainwashed and Azula started going back to the Fire Nation?) happened more because we wanted to further our sort of AU-esque canon a bit, and because Ozai's reaction to the whole community and his and Azula's headbutting over it just seemed like the IC thing to do. And as for the plot with Tenenbaum, she was just apped, so I totally understand Yue wanting to do something with her.

As for toning down the insanity, I'm... kind of at a loss as to how to normalize her from this so quickly without veering into OOC territory? Now, a lot of that might be because I'm still getting used to playing her after the whole "lol my entire world fell apart around me yay" thing that started after Ozai kicked her out of the Fire Nation, and so I'm hoping that that'll seem to come more naturally after I've been doing it for a little while longer (seriously, you should have seen the way I played her when I first picked her up; OH MY GOD I was awful, and no that was not an invitation to go back and look DX) But yeah, I'm really hesitant to just make her come out of it so easily and be "normal" again (either normal the way she was before, or ~*healed*~ normal), because viruses and events or not, she's an incredibly intense character who is obsessed with winning/being the best/etc. to the point where it's unnatural, ridiculous, and incredibly unhealthy-- and losing not only that, but pretty much her entire life as well, is such an epically huge blow. I guess I've just read too many fanfics where it only takes her a few months post-war for her to be all, "oh, okay, I guess I'm just going to accept the fact that I lost the war and my brother (or in this case, father) took over for me; I'll just have to accept my new role as a 'peasant'!", and that sort of reaction personally seems off to me. I know that's not necessarily what you're suggesting I do, but I'm still really hesitant to have her "just get over it".

But I'm not planning on constant OMG DRAMA, and I'm definitely going to be exploring reactions to things besides just being angry all the time (though for a little while she probably... will be angry pretty much all the time, but not always in the same antagonistic way-- er, if that makes sense).

TL;DR: Most of the stress she's going through now would have been there whether all the other stuff would have happened or not, because nothing that's happened even comes close to comparing to the whole "loss of life as she knows it" thing. So, uh. If you have more crit on that I'll definitely read and consider it the way I have with the rest of this, but the "crazy" (or whatever you want to call it) isn't just going to all go away once the events have played through. (The tonnage of drama will, though; I promise. ;D)

... I hope I'm making sense. XD If there's anything you want to contest or something you want me to explain better, please tell me! <3

NO.

[angledtwat777]

Yeah, I understand how she wouldn't just "get over it" in a week or so. I'm just afraid you'll end up losing her and she'll just slip into...kind of a stereotypical villain who just hates losing and the like? I really like her, I just don't want to see her getting...to whatever. I don't even know, I'm so tried myself, Jesus Christ.

tl;dr keep rocking, but hold off on more curses and stuff?

Re: NO.

[angledtwat777]

Lol tired. Not tried. WTF.

Re: NO.

[peoplesprincess]

I KNEW WHAT YOU MEANT XD

:|

[peoplesprincess]

Will do! 8) We have the Fear Toxin plot in August, but other than that I'm going to make a plan to stay out of being "affected" by potentially traumatic things, and hopefully I'll stick to it. I do try to participate in all the viruses that sound interesting because you never know when they're going to roll around again but asdfsjfk.

Considering how much I hate stereotypical villains and "evil" characters, I really hope I don't slip in that. XD If anything, I'm not playing her as "crazy" as she was by canon's end (she was having HALLUCINATIONS AND SHIT fasdfjk), because there are a few ways in which her DDD!life has gotten better than her canon!life. But, yeah. I'm going to try my best to reconcile canon with character development, and if it seems flat at first, I hope I'll improve as I get used to playing her in a semi-post-canon mindset.

ALSO DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW AWESOME YOU ARE? Srsly. Srsly.

OKAY FINE DIFFERENT ICON

[peoplesprincess]

You're the only person who's ever used my crit post in like... a year and two months, and I seriously, seriously doubt that you're the only person who's ever had any sort of issue with my play. :P

IT'S A SHRUG, DON'T COMPLAIN

[peoplesprincess]

You're awesome in other ways too, obviously, but that's the one that's jumping out at me most right now. XD