IN WHICH I WHINE
Okay, I've been having some ~issues~ with my characters lately, and I have decided to stick them here in the hopes that writing them down will somehow help. I guess this is sort of a drop meme/state of the union thing? I don't know, I'm not following any particular model here, I'm just getting my thoughts out.
Hyatt is getting kind of stale for me. She's been in camp for more than three years, and, let's face it, she's a pretty one-note character. I don't really have anything new and interesting to do with her anymore, and I feel like she must be boring the people she threads with. I should just drop -- but she's also one of my only characters who actually has canonmates, and I don't want to let them down. Plus, I kind of enjoy bleeding on people. But that may be a lame reason to keep a character around, even as a backburner.
Hisui... I am just so apathetic towards playing her lately. I don't have problems with her, per se; when she does get out, she's not any harder for me to play than she used to be. I just don't bring her out much and I don't really want to. Well, I don't want not to; it's not like playing her is a chore -- it's just that she's never the character I think to throw into a post. Well, unless said post is made by one of her canonmates, who have lately been around even less than I have. And I am unsure how to fix this or if I even care enough to try, although again, I would feel bad letting her canonmates down. Especially Kohaku, who waited a long time for a Hisui and is probably not likely to get another one anytime soon.
Maria is mostly okay -- certainly not as close to being dropped as Hyatt and Hisui are at this point. However, she hasn't formed a new relationship in ages and I feel like I'm just playing her with the same people over and over. All I really need to do to fix that is start jumping new people, I guess, but she's so :/ all the time and it can be hard to make her interact. But hey, she's developed relationships and had conversations before, so clearly it's possible -- I just need to keep trying.
I've lost Sara's voice. I think I still have her personality down, but the way she talks stopped sounding like Sara somewhere along the line. That's an easy enough thing to fix if I just, you know, sit down and replay the game (or at least part of it), but I never seem to get around to it/have time. At least I do know how to fix it, which is more than I do for anyone else's problems.
Narumi... well. I love him a lot! I was excited about playing him! But the 1920s slang is killing me. I keep telling myself it'll get easier eventually, once I get used to it, but I'm not sure if I believe me. As it is, I'm doing a really mediocre job with it, and I know that. I keep throwing him into all kinds of posts in an effort to fix the problems I'm having with his voice, but I don't know whether it's actually helping or just more deeply entrenching the mistakes I'm making -- practice makes permanent and all that. Because of that, I've developed a tendency to panic and drop his threads a few comments in (if you've bothered reading this far and I've done that to you, I'm sorry! It's not you, it's me). I've also begun to avoid threading with people I know have played DSRK, because I'm embarrassed by how badly I'm doing and I assume they wouldn't want to play with such a fail Narumi. I'll keep him around for the next month and a half so as not to waste the $7 Jun spent on this account when I got in, but if I am not having an easier time with the slang by then, it's curtains for him.
Momoko and Shuro are lovely wonderful characters who do not give me any problems. They get to survive another day. Oh -- I do wonder if Shuro should have confided in more people about her actual gender by now, not to mention the ten'nyo thing. But that's not really a big deal.
So that this post isn't totally useless -- concrit meme goes HERE. I'm too lazy to do the obnoxious big text.
Hyatt is getting kind of stale for me. She's been in camp for more than three years, and, let's face it, she's a pretty one-note character. I don't really have anything new and interesting to do with her anymore, and I feel like she must be boring the people she threads with. I should just drop -- but she's also one of my only characters who actually has canonmates, and I don't want to let them down. Plus, I kind of enjoy bleeding on people. But that may be a lame reason to keep a character around, even as a backburner.
Hisui... I am just so apathetic towards playing her lately. I don't have problems with her, per se; when she does get out, she's not any harder for me to play than she used to be. I just don't bring her out much and I don't really want to. Well, I don't want not to; it's not like playing her is a chore -- it's just that she's never the character I think to throw into a post. Well, unless said post is made by one of her canonmates, who have lately been around even less than I have. And I am unsure how to fix this or if I even care enough to try, although again, I would feel bad letting her canonmates down. Especially Kohaku, who waited a long time for a Hisui and is probably not likely to get another one anytime soon.
Maria is mostly okay -- certainly not as close to being dropped as Hyatt and Hisui are at this point. However, she hasn't formed a new relationship in ages and I feel like I'm just playing her with the same people over and over. All I really need to do to fix that is start jumping new people, I guess, but she's so :/ all the time and it can be hard to make her interact. But hey, she's developed relationships and had conversations before, so clearly it's possible -- I just need to keep trying.
I've lost Sara's voice. I think I still have her personality down, but the way she talks stopped sounding like Sara somewhere along the line. That's an easy enough thing to fix if I just, you know, sit down and replay the game (or at least part of it), but I never seem to get around to it/have time. At least I do know how to fix it, which is more than I do for anyone else's problems.
Narumi... well. I love him a lot! I was excited about playing him! But the 1920s slang is killing me. I keep telling myself it'll get easier eventually, once I get used to it, but I'm not sure if I believe me. As it is, I'm doing a really mediocre job with it, and I know that. I keep throwing him into all kinds of posts in an effort to fix the problems I'm having with his voice, but I don't know whether it's actually helping or just more deeply entrenching the mistakes I'm making -- practice makes permanent and all that. Because of that, I've developed a tendency to panic and drop his threads a few comments in (if you've bothered reading this far and I've done that to you, I'm sorry! It's not you, it's me). I've also begun to avoid threading with people I know have played DSRK, because I'm embarrassed by how badly I'm doing and I assume they wouldn't want to play with such a fail Narumi. I'll keep him around for the next month and a half so as not to waste the $7 Jun spent on this account when I got in, but if I am not having an easier time with the slang by then, it's curtains for him.
Momoko and Shuro are lovely wonderful characters who do not give me any problems. They get to survive another day. Oh -- I do wonder if Shuro should have confided in more people about her actual gender by now, not to mention the ten'nyo thing. But that's not really a big deal.
So that this post isn't totally useless -- concrit meme goes HERE. I'm too lazy to do the obnoxious big text.