Post June SOTP
State of Me
I'm still managing fairly well, but I'm definitely going to have to learn to manage what pups I'm playing when. I've had a harder go of evenly distributing pup play this month and I definitely haven't been sticking to my plot timetables. -_- Some pups that I didn't anticipate getting a lot of play this month ended up having a lot more to do and there was no way to get around playing them a lot. I don't know, I still need to figure out the balance, I think. I'm falling a bit behind, so the only way I'll be able to manage here is definitely sticking to a schedule. At this point, I don't anticipate dropping anyone any time soon, and I don't want to be forced to drop anyone because of time constraints. Like, you know how sometimes there's that one pup that you think "oh, if I had to drop I could drop so-and-so?" I don't have one of those at this point. It's a good thing, but definitely an off thing. If you notice, I'm mentioning little to nothing about rapture in this SOTP, mostly because I haven't had a chance to read through and thoroughly ingest everything pertaining to that plot. I'll probably toss up a separate post once I've done that, but feel free to let me know if your pup is going to be a part of that.
George Sands
Voice/Status: I rewatched some Being Human the other day and immediately wanted to play George, so I know not to be worried even if he's had a quiet couple of months, at least when it comes to being able to write George. I'm a bit worried that I'm fucking up when it comes to characterization though, so I'm going to try and push myself back on track. IDK, I just feel like I've said some things pertaining to George recently that weren't necessarily in character. I guess it has to do with the stark difference between season 1 George (where my George comes from) and season 3 George, and season 3 George is clearer in my head. Like, I was thinking as I watched last night about how George was the one clueless about women in season 1, and in season 3, he's giving Mitchell advice about reading ~signals. I guess my George is somewhere in between the two? I've got a lot of thinking to do on this.
Character Development and Plot: I was torn for a while on whether or not I wanted to give George his item that's not an item this month or next month, but ultimately decided to do it this month. There's the possibility that it'll push things forward a bit when it comes to Kat and Mitchell as well, so I can pretend it's not just me being horrible to my pup. In canon, George got a lot of closure from this, but island!George is going to get none whatsoever, at least until which time the BH pups get canon punctured (which I'm not too keen on happening just yet.) I think I'm just an awful mun by default these days. This is all basically the same as last month, I suppose, but come July, there'll be more to talk about.
Looking Ahead: Mitchell's birthday is next month, and I'm not exactly sure what's happening there besides George potentially trying to get the Winchester for a private party, and a cake with about a hundred candles on it. xD I need to send out an email just to check with everyone as well, but if all of George's friends and canonmates are okay with it, then he'll be a baby for ageswap. I should probably think it through some though. It might be a better thing he was a toddler maybe? Either way, it'd be easier for me to write if he can actually speak.
Thread requests: The usuals, Wolf, Spike, maybe Buffy? I'm always open to suggestions for both plot and people to thread with. George is a pup who works best when he's shoved out of his comfort zone, so if anyone has any ideas, I'll welcome them.
Fred Burkle
Voice/Status: In desperate need of a rewatch, if only just Fredless so that I've got Amy Acker's Fred cadence in my head while I write. I've fallen behind a lot when it comes to Fred, but I know that it's only because some of my others have had shitloads of plot. She's got to become a priority soon or IDK what's going to happen. Maybe I'll just rewatch the entirety of Angel seasons 3 and 4 soon.
Character Development and Plot: I think I've been doing an okay job of doing a nice gradual recovery for Fred, even if it's not a complete mental recovery at this point. She's out and about at least, even if she's making excuses to stay in as much as she can. She won sword lessons from Alistair in the casino night auction, and I think it'll be a great character thing for her, if only because learning how to defend herself a bit will help her out psychologically. I'll tell you one thing that I've found interesting though: that Fred seems to attract male friends more than female ones, just as she mostly had guy friends in canon. It's just neat how these things work out sometimes. I just love that back home AND on the island, Fred has her boys looking out for her. xD Last, but certainly not least, I think Jason Stackhouse might be developing a bit of a crush on Fred, which I think is absolutely adorable, if only because she has no idea that he's a ho. xD Either way, it'll be a while, I think, before Fred is ready for something like that, if only because she's the type to have to really get to know someone first. Or, you know, get saved from some horrifyingly dangerous situation. She's got a knight in shining armor complex, I think.
Looking Ahead: If I get Hank, I might leave a lot of the sciency rapture stuff for him, but I'm sure I won't be able to get through a month of new stuff like that without tossing Fred in somewhere. Then there are the aforementioned sword lessons that she won in the auction, so that's something as well. I think I'm going to post her in July continuing her efforts on trying to open a portal home, because she definitely hasn't given up on it yet. This is the girl who was stranded somewhere for five years, remember? She hasn't been on the island nearly that long. At some point in the near future, I WOULD like someone to find out she's been scribbling equations and formulas on her wall in the compound, though, because she's been keeping that a secret.
Thread Requests: More Buffy and Spike always, Jason Stackhouse, maybe Sookie Stackhouse, Sawyer and all the other regulars, of course. Olivia and Walter. Jane.
Chris Miles
Voice/Status: Back to being good. Not that Chris was ever in danger of being dropped or anything, but he did have a quieter month or two not long ago that made me wonder whether or not I'd burned out on him quickly. Thank god, that's not the case.
Character Development and Plot: Oh, so much happened to my poor Monkey Man this month. Truthplot or dare turned out more awesome than I ever imagined it would be, you guys. The DRAMA. For Chris, it meant being truthed and finally admitting some of his secrets to Claire. So now she knows he died back home, it was a genetic disorder that his brother also had aaaand that both of his parents abandoned him. It was really rough on him, and to be honest, he's going to try his best not to bring it up ever again. Though, it does mean that he and Claire made out AGAIN, and while they're not exactly dating, they're closer now than they've ever been, and Chris is kind of falling head over heels. Of course, the problem there is that she's much more traditional than he is when it comes to these kinds of things, AND the fact that he's still being self-destructive, despite it all. I figure if Claire asks him to hold back a bit, he'll probably try, but as I've said before, he does have a psychological addiction to all of it. (I make the distinction between psychological and physical, because it's not like Chris is going to go into some kind of a painful withdrawal if he doesn't have an MDMA pill for a week) So there's some definite conflict there. Not to mention that Chris came out of truthplot with one big secret still intact. It's gonna be a long while, I think, before he can mention Jal and the baby to anyone (unless Jal shows up before then), just because I feel like that was the moment that really broke him in canon. Little fact: after everything that goes wrong with Chris, the only time we actually see him cry (and even then we don't SEE it) is after Jal has told him she's getting rid of the baby. It's a whole abandonment/desire for a family thing and it's one of Chris's true issues. But I'm rambling here, I think.
Looking Ahead: Lots of stuff on the horizon for both Chris and for his friends. When it comes to his friends, Cassie's gotten her item, and he doesn't know about it (of course), but I figure if Claire gets him to cut down on the drugs, he MIGHT notice something's amiss. IDK. Either way, he'll have to be there for her with Sirius's plot goes down (as I said last month.) Additionally, I decided that Chris is going into ageswitch, just so I can make him young and give him his brother's grave as an item that weekend. Yes, I picked the most traumatic thing ever over just making him a chick so he can have fun. Yes, I'm awful. I just think the one-two punch of the plot taking him back to how young he was when Peter died will just make things even worse.
Thread Requests: I always have trouble listing specific people with Chris outside of the regulars, but just know that when I say anyone and everyone, I mean it. Chris loves everyone until they give him a reason not to, and he's generally so easygoing that whether or not he's going to get along with your pup isn't really a question.
Ron Weasley
Voice/Status: Quiet, a bit drowned out by some of my others again, but I suspect as DH2 time draws closer, I'm going to want to play Ron more and more. Now if I could only look at anything HP related without wanting to bawl my eyes out due to nostalgia. But really, a problem I've been having when it comes to Ron is dropping threads early. I look at Harry and Hermione posts and they have somewhere around 200 comments sometimes, and Ron's get dropped at 50 comments or so. Maybe I'm just being method in comparing myself to the way that Kat and Di play, but either way, I need to step it up when it comes to playing Ron and stop being such a slacker.
Character Development and Plot: Not much at the moment, though he did bid all of his chips on Hermione's tutoring sessions at casino night. >_> My little shipper heart has a lot of fun playing out this relationship with Hermione; it's fun to watch it grow and develop and just let the two of them be TEENAGERS, you know? I suppose I should give Ron some plot beyond that very soon; maybe I can squeeze something in this month before Sirius "disappears."
Looking Ahead: Sirius, as I said before, and then I think at some point, Hermione's going to find Crookshanks (no one ever said he disappeared after the last Ron and Hermione were dropped) living feral in the jungle and will try to take him in and domesticate him again. It'll ruin Ron's life, I think, which is the most hilarious thing in the world to me. Part of me wishes it were possible to give Ron Scabbers as an item, but seeing as Scabbers was actually a dude... I need to brainstorm a bit to come up with a good item, I think. I feel like giving him Pig would be a cop-out, IDK.
Thread Requests: Kate, Luna, Malfoy, Bill, Coraline, Hiccup, anybody else I haven't thought of yet. I have been trying and failing to get Ron to make friends who aren't Harry and Hermione, and I'd really like to change that.
Grace Violet
This gif mostly just makes me LOL. I love people's ridiculous cross gen graphics.
Voice/Status: Quite frankly, I'd like to get this girl to shut up. At the end of last month, I told myself that I was going to put Grace on the backburner in order to let some of my other pups get some play, but the sheer number of people she needed to tag EPing and fall out from truthplot or dare meant that I was playing her all month long and ALL THE TIME. Hopefully, now that things have settled a bit, I can ACTUALLY put her on the backburner in July. GAWD.
Character Development and Plot: Aahahahah Hoo boy. So basically, Grace was put through the grinder this past month. She made out with Tony Stonem on the camping trip, got truthed and told him about her gigantic crush on him, and while he seemed to take it okay, it still freaked her out enough that she fled, only to find out through the grapevine that he'd made out with Maxxie later that night. So she dressed a bit like a boy and confronted him about it without knowing that now Tony has a boyfriend. It's a bit of a clusterfuck, really. To be honest, I had a bit of trouble deciding if going that far was really something I wanted to do, but when it comes down to it, a big part of Grace is how she sometimes tries to remake herself to be what people need her to be. Of course, this time it was a bit more self-serving than it usually is. I think I've decided that I'm going to call the Skins novel canon, even if bits of it are a bit iffy to me. I just like the idea of this all being history repeating, because in the novel, she kind of had a thing for her dance partner who turned out to be gay, but then didn't want to break things off with Grace even though he TOLD HER he was gay. I don't know, it was fucked up, but I kind of like the idea of Grace getting into a similar situation again (yes, I know Tony's not gay, but you can see the similarity here.) Either way, there's been a lot of Grace trying to figure out what it means that she might love both Tony AND Rich (love of course in her own romanticized version of it, if that makes any sense). Lastly, and unrelatedly, I've been trying to figure out a birthday for Grace. I don't know why it's bugging me so much, but I think I'm overthinking it. At first, I thought she might be a cancer, so I've got a July birthday on her wiki, but now I'm wondering if it'd be better to make Grace a libra, in which case she's 17 going on 18 instead of 16 going on 17 if I have my ages for sixth form correct. O_O What do you guys think?
Looking Ahead: NOTHING. I want Grace to do NOTHING. She MAY get some play in this rapture thing, but I need her to shut the fuck up for a while so I can play my other pups. xD I don't THINK I'm putting her into age/sex swap in August, but if anyone's interested, I can. Tiny Grace in a tiny tutu would mostly be for my own amusement. Though, I guess I want to start getting her involved in dancing, even if the school term's over. Her next EP will likely be in the dance studio. She's also going to help out Jane Bennet with her ball, I think, once I actually tag that thread back and they can meet properly.
Thread Requests: Lux Cassidy, because entirely too much time has gone by since Jason's tea, more Cook, since I'm a horrible mun, River Tam, Hermione Granger, Annie Edison, Marshall Gregson and the regulars, of course.
Nathan Young
Voice/Status: Decent, I think. I'm still holding back when it comes to Nathan, so I need to work on that a bit. I need to remind myself all the time that if someone has tagged him, then they've likely read his wiki and know what they're in for. If I've put up warnings everywhere and set up a freaking PRIMER for crying out loud, then I don't need to worry about muns getting upset when Nathan pushes their pup's buttons. It happens. Such is Nathan Young.
Character Development and Plot: None to speak of on either front. Mostly, he spent the month dicking around and pissing people off. He's still living in the rec center though, and I don't anticipate that changing any time soon. I AM curious though, about whether or not the rec center roof is accessible/if it's flat or curved or what not. Because if it's possible to go up there, he might just set up a hammock up there and live on the roof instead. Either way, Nathan's still incredibly unsettled, even if he does have a few people he's been annoying on a regular basis.
Looking Ahead: Gonna do SOMETHING with this rapture plot (I know I said I wasn't going to mention it in my SOTP, but I kind of need to, here), if only because Nathan doesn't know he's not still immortal, and to have him put himself in some kind of danger on purpose would be hilarious. I may turn him into a girl for sex swap, but I haven't decided yet.
Thread Requests: Puck, Santana, Claire Bennet, anyone who used to have super powers, Zuko, people who are easily annoyed. More of anyone he's already met. Oooh! Maybe Zell! I'm open to suggestions here.
Future
Hank McCoy
So, I'd be lying if I didn't say this wasn't entirely unexpected. I knew from the trailers that I'd want to app someone, and I suspected it'd be Hank. The movie confirmed it, though for a bit, I didn't know if it was going to end up being Hank, Charles or Erik. Other people's reserves made my decision for me, thank god. Either way, He pushed to the front of my queue rather unexpectedly, mostly because of rapture happening next month. I can't imagine all this neat sciency stuff going down without having Hank around for it, so I'll be sending his app in on the 1st, I think. (Though, possibly not; I always try to have apps in on the first and then don't end up sending them until the 5th.) His exit point will be the night before the big climax of the movie, just in time for the syringe to do absolutely nothing and leave him with his physical mutation.
Extended Future and Other Thoughts
So I'm at six now, Hank will make seven, and I don't think I want to go past eight pups. This is a problem when I can think of about five pups off of the top of my head that I'd love to play. Lee Adama, Tyrion Lannister, Chuck Bass, Ryan from Wilfred, Arthur from Inception... Eight is the most I've ever played and managed well, and I don't even think I played eight for all that long, come to think of it. I'm likely going to take a break from apping after Hank and try to make sure that I have a good handle on my roster before I decide concretely on the next pup. I will say though, that I'm incredibly tempted to put Chuck Bass on reserve for P5 and bring him from sometime in season 2, just to contribute to the teenage pups clusterfuck on the island right now, but I wonder if I'm already too invested in all this. xD Tyrion is also still a possibility, but I can't allow myself to app him until I'm caught up on the books. I just started A Storm of Swords the other night, so it's going to be a while. -_-
I'm still managing fairly well, but I'm definitely going to have to learn to manage what pups I'm playing when. I've had a harder go of evenly distributing pup play this month and I definitely haven't been sticking to my plot timetables. -_- Some pups that I didn't anticipate getting a lot of play this month ended up having a lot more to do and there was no way to get around playing them a lot. I don't know, I still need to figure out the balance, I think. I'm falling a bit behind, so the only way I'll be able to manage here is definitely sticking to a schedule. At this point, I don't anticipate dropping anyone any time soon, and I don't want to be forced to drop anyone because of time constraints. Like, you know how sometimes there's that one pup that you think "oh, if I had to drop I could drop so-and-so?" I don't have one of those at this point. It's a good thing, but definitely an off thing. If you notice, I'm mentioning little to nothing about rapture in this SOTP, mostly because I haven't had a chance to read through and thoroughly ingest everything pertaining to that plot. I'll probably toss up a separate post once I've done that, but feel free to let me know if your pup is going to be a part of that.
George Sands
Voice/Status: I rewatched some Being Human the other day and immediately wanted to play George, so I know not to be worried even if he's had a quiet couple of months, at least when it comes to being able to write George. I'm a bit worried that I'm fucking up when it comes to characterization though, so I'm going to try and push myself back on track. IDK, I just feel like I've said some things pertaining to George recently that weren't necessarily in character. I guess it has to do with the stark difference between season 1 George (where my George comes from) and season 3 George, and season 3 George is clearer in my head. Like, I was thinking as I watched last night about how George was the one clueless about women in season 1, and in season 3, he's giving Mitchell advice about reading ~signals. I guess my George is somewhere in between the two? I've got a lot of thinking to do on this.
Character Development and Plot: I was torn for a while on whether or not I wanted to give George his item that's not an item this month or next month, but ultimately decided to do it this month. There's the possibility that it'll push things forward a bit when it comes to Kat and Mitchell as well, so I can pretend it's not just me being horrible to my pup. In canon, George got a lot of closure from this, but island!George is going to get none whatsoever, at least until which time the BH pups get canon punctured (which I'm not too keen on happening just yet.) I think I'm just an awful mun by default these days. This is all basically the same as last month, I suppose, but come July, there'll be more to talk about.
Looking Ahead: Mitchell's birthday is next month, and I'm not exactly sure what's happening there besides George potentially trying to get the Winchester for a private party, and a cake with about a hundred candles on it. xD I need to send out an email just to check with everyone as well, but if all of George's friends and canonmates are okay with it, then he'll be a baby for ageswap. I should probably think it through some though. It might be a better thing he was a toddler maybe? Either way, it'd be easier for me to write if he can actually speak.
Thread requests: The usuals, Wolf, Spike, maybe Buffy? I'm always open to suggestions for both plot and people to thread with. George is a pup who works best when he's shoved out of his comfort zone, so if anyone has any ideas, I'll welcome them.
Fred Burkle
Voice/Status: In desperate need of a rewatch, if only just Fredless so that I've got Amy Acker's Fred cadence in my head while I write. I've fallen behind a lot when it comes to Fred, but I know that it's only because some of my others have had shitloads of plot. She's got to become a priority soon or IDK what's going to happen. Maybe I'll just rewatch the entirety of Angel seasons 3 and 4 soon.
Character Development and Plot: I think I've been doing an okay job of doing a nice gradual recovery for Fred, even if it's not a complete mental recovery at this point. She's out and about at least, even if she's making excuses to stay in as much as she can. She won sword lessons from Alistair in the casino night auction, and I think it'll be a great character thing for her, if only because learning how to defend herself a bit will help her out psychologically. I'll tell you one thing that I've found interesting though: that Fred seems to attract male friends more than female ones, just as she mostly had guy friends in canon. It's just neat how these things work out sometimes. I just love that back home AND on the island, Fred has her boys looking out for her. xD Last, but certainly not least, I think Jason Stackhouse might be developing a bit of a crush on Fred, which I think is absolutely adorable, if only because she has no idea that he's a ho. xD Either way, it'll be a while, I think, before Fred is ready for something like that, if only because she's the type to have to really get to know someone first. Or, you know, get saved from some horrifyingly dangerous situation. She's got a knight in shining armor complex, I think.
Looking Ahead: If I get Hank, I might leave a lot of the sciency rapture stuff for him, but I'm sure I won't be able to get through a month of new stuff like that without tossing Fred in somewhere. Then there are the aforementioned sword lessons that she won in the auction, so that's something as well. I think I'm going to post her in July continuing her efforts on trying to open a portal home, because she definitely hasn't given up on it yet. This is the girl who was stranded somewhere for five years, remember? She hasn't been on the island nearly that long. At some point in the near future, I WOULD like someone to find out she's been scribbling equations and formulas on her wall in the compound, though, because she's been keeping that a secret.
Thread Requests: More Buffy and Spike always, Jason Stackhouse, maybe Sookie Stackhouse, Sawyer and all the other regulars, of course. Olivia and Walter. Jane.
Chris Miles
Voice/Status: Back to being good. Not that Chris was ever in danger of being dropped or anything, but he did have a quieter month or two not long ago that made me wonder whether or not I'd burned out on him quickly. Thank god, that's not the case.
Character Development and Plot: Oh, so much happened to my poor Monkey Man this month. Truthplot or dare turned out more awesome than I ever imagined it would be, you guys. The DRAMA. For Chris, it meant being truthed and finally admitting some of his secrets to Claire. So now she knows he died back home, it was a genetic disorder that his brother also had aaaand that both of his parents abandoned him. It was really rough on him, and to be honest, he's going to try his best not to bring it up ever again. Though, it does mean that he and Claire made out AGAIN, and while they're not exactly dating, they're closer now than they've ever been, and Chris is kind of falling head over heels. Of course, the problem there is that she's much more traditional than he is when it comes to these kinds of things, AND the fact that he's still being self-destructive, despite it all. I figure if Claire asks him to hold back a bit, he'll probably try, but as I've said before, he does have a psychological addiction to all of it. (I make the distinction between psychological and physical, because it's not like Chris is going to go into some kind of a painful withdrawal if he doesn't have an MDMA pill for a week) So there's some definite conflict there. Not to mention that Chris came out of truthplot with one big secret still intact. It's gonna be a long while, I think, before he can mention Jal and the baby to anyone (unless Jal shows up before then), just because I feel like that was the moment that really broke him in canon. Little fact: after everything that goes wrong with Chris, the only time we actually see him cry (and even then we don't SEE it) is after Jal has told him she's getting rid of the baby. It's a whole abandonment/desire for a family thing and it's one of Chris's true issues. But I'm rambling here, I think.
Looking Ahead: Lots of stuff on the horizon for both Chris and for his friends. When it comes to his friends, Cassie's gotten her item, and he doesn't know about it (of course), but I figure if Claire gets him to cut down on the drugs, he MIGHT notice something's amiss. IDK. Either way, he'll have to be there for her with Sirius's plot goes down (as I said last month.) Additionally, I decided that Chris is going into ageswitch, just so I can make him young and give him his brother's grave as an item that weekend. Yes, I picked the most traumatic thing ever over just making him a chick so he can have fun. Yes, I'm awful. I just think the one-two punch of the plot taking him back to how young he was when Peter died will just make things even worse.
Thread Requests: I always have trouble listing specific people with Chris outside of the regulars, but just know that when I say anyone and everyone, I mean it. Chris loves everyone until they give him a reason not to, and he's generally so easygoing that whether or not he's going to get along with your pup isn't really a question.
Ron Weasley
Voice/Status: Quiet, a bit drowned out by some of my others again, but I suspect as DH2 time draws closer, I'm going to want to play Ron more and more. Now if I could only look at anything HP related without wanting to bawl my eyes out due to nostalgia. But really, a problem I've been having when it comes to Ron is dropping threads early. I look at Harry and Hermione posts and they have somewhere around 200 comments sometimes, and Ron's get dropped at 50 comments or so. Maybe I'm just being method in comparing myself to the way that Kat and Di play, but either way, I need to step it up when it comes to playing Ron and stop being such a slacker.
Character Development and Plot: Not much at the moment, though he did bid all of his chips on Hermione's tutoring sessions at casino night. >_> My little shipper heart has a lot of fun playing out this relationship with Hermione; it's fun to watch it grow and develop and just let the two of them be TEENAGERS, you know? I suppose I should give Ron some plot beyond that very soon; maybe I can squeeze something in this month before Sirius "disappears."
Looking Ahead: Sirius, as I said before, and then I think at some point, Hermione's going to find Crookshanks (no one ever said he disappeared after the last Ron and Hermione were dropped) living feral in the jungle and will try to take him in and domesticate him again. It'll ruin Ron's life, I think, which is the most hilarious thing in the world to me. Part of me wishes it were possible to give Ron Scabbers as an item, but seeing as Scabbers was actually a dude... I need to brainstorm a bit to come up with a good item, I think. I feel like giving him Pig would be a cop-out, IDK.
Thread Requests: Kate, Luna, Malfoy, Bill, Coraline, Hiccup, anybody else I haven't thought of yet. I have been trying and failing to get Ron to make friends who aren't Harry and Hermione, and I'd really like to change that.
Grace Violet
This gif mostly just makes me LOL. I love people's ridiculous cross gen graphics.
Voice/Status: Quite frankly, I'd like to get this girl to shut up. At the end of last month, I told myself that I was going to put Grace on the backburner in order to let some of my other pups get some play, but the sheer number of people she needed to tag EPing and fall out from truthplot or dare meant that I was playing her all month long and ALL THE TIME. Hopefully, now that things have settled a bit, I can ACTUALLY put her on the backburner in July. GAWD.
Character Development and Plot: Aahahahah Hoo boy. So basically, Grace was put through the grinder this past month. She made out with Tony Stonem on the camping trip, got truthed and told him about her gigantic crush on him, and while he seemed to take it okay, it still freaked her out enough that she fled, only to find out through the grapevine that he'd made out with Maxxie later that night. So she dressed a bit like a boy and confronted him about it without knowing that now Tony has a boyfriend. It's a bit of a clusterfuck, really. To be honest, I had a bit of trouble deciding if going that far was really something I wanted to do, but when it comes down to it, a big part of Grace is how she sometimes tries to remake herself to be what people need her to be. Of course, this time it was a bit more self-serving than it usually is. I think I've decided that I'm going to call the Skins novel canon, even if bits of it are a bit iffy to me. I just like the idea of this all being history repeating, because in the novel, she kind of had a thing for her dance partner who turned out to be gay, but then didn't want to break things off with Grace even though he TOLD HER he was gay. I don't know, it was fucked up, but I kind of like the idea of Grace getting into a similar situation again (yes, I know Tony's not gay, but you can see the similarity here.) Either way, there's been a lot of Grace trying to figure out what it means that she might love both Tony AND Rich (love of course in her own romanticized version of it, if that makes any sense). Lastly, and unrelatedly, I've been trying to figure out a birthday for Grace. I don't know why it's bugging me so much, but I think I'm overthinking it. At first, I thought she might be a cancer, so I've got a July birthday on her wiki, but now I'm wondering if it'd be better to make Grace a libra, in which case she's 17 going on 18 instead of 16 going on 17 if I have my ages for sixth form correct. O_O What do you guys think?
Looking Ahead: NOTHING. I want Grace to do NOTHING. She MAY get some play in this rapture thing, but I need her to shut the fuck up for a while so I can play my other pups. xD I don't THINK I'm putting her into age/sex swap in August, but if anyone's interested, I can. Tiny Grace in a tiny tutu would mostly be for my own amusement. Though, I guess I want to start getting her involved in dancing, even if the school term's over. Her next EP will likely be in the dance studio. She's also going to help out Jane Bennet with her ball, I think, once I actually tag that thread back and they can meet properly.
Thread Requests: Lux Cassidy, because entirely too much time has gone by since Jason's tea, more Cook, since I'm a horrible mun, River Tam, Hermione Granger, Annie Edison, Marshall Gregson and the regulars, of course.
Nathan Young
Voice/Status: Decent, I think. I'm still holding back when it comes to Nathan, so I need to work on that a bit. I need to remind myself all the time that if someone has tagged him, then they've likely read his wiki and know what they're in for. If I've put up warnings everywhere and set up a freaking PRIMER for crying out loud, then I don't need to worry about muns getting upset when Nathan pushes their pup's buttons. It happens. Such is Nathan Young.
Character Development and Plot: None to speak of on either front. Mostly, he spent the month dicking around and pissing people off. He's still living in the rec center though, and I don't anticipate that changing any time soon. I AM curious though, about whether or not the rec center roof is accessible/if it's flat or curved or what not. Because if it's possible to go up there, he might just set up a hammock up there and live on the roof instead. Either way, Nathan's still incredibly unsettled, even if he does have a few people he's been annoying on a regular basis.
Looking Ahead: Gonna do SOMETHING with this rapture plot (I know I said I wasn't going to mention it in my SOTP, but I kind of need to, here), if only because Nathan doesn't know he's not still immortal, and to have him put himself in some kind of danger on purpose would be hilarious. I may turn him into a girl for sex swap, but I haven't decided yet.
Thread Requests: Puck, Santana, Claire Bennet, anyone who used to have super powers, Zuko, people who are easily annoyed. More of anyone he's already met. Oooh! Maybe Zell! I'm open to suggestions here.
Future
Hank McCoy
So, I'd be lying if I didn't say this wasn't entirely unexpected. I knew from the trailers that I'd want to app someone, and I suspected it'd be Hank. The movie confirmed it, though for a bit, I didn't know if it was going to end up being Hank, Charles or Erik. Other people's reserves made my decision for me, thank god. Either way, He pushed to the front of my queue rather unexpectedly, mostly because of rapture happening next month. I can't imagine all this neat sciency stuff going down without having Hank around for it, so I'll be sending his app in on the 1st, I think. (Though, possibly not; I always try to have apps in on the first and then don't end up sending them until the 5th.) His exit point will be the night before the big climax of the movie, just in time for the syringe to do absolutely nothing and leave him with his physical mutation.
Extended Future and Other Thoughts
So I'm at six now, Hank will make seven, and I don't think I want to go past eight pups. This is a problem when I can think of about five pups off of the top of my head that I'd love to play. Lee Adama, Tyrion Lannister, Chuck Bass, Ryan from Wilfred, Arthur from Inception... Eight is the most I've ever played and managed well, and I don't even think I played eight for all that long, come to think of it. I'm likely going to take a break from apping after Hank and try to make sure that I have a good handle on my roster before I decide concretely on the next pup. I will say though, that I'm incredibly tempted to put Chuck Bass on reserve for P5 and bring him from sometime in season 2, just to contribute to the teenage pups clusterfuck on the island right now, but I wonder if I'm already too invested in all this. xD Tyrion is also still a possibility, but I can't allow myself to app him until I'm caught up on the books. I just started A Storm of Swords the other night, so it's going to be a while. -_-