So I need a little help.
These days, I have no faith in my ability to play Inara well, or even averagely, which is why I haven't been. Nor do I have any idea how to fix this problem, short of dropping her and letting someone else pick her up. I really hate to do that before having made any kind of real effort to FIX the problems, though.
So I'm throwing myself on the mercy (and creativity) of you guys. Does anybody have any ideas for posts or threads or I don't even know what the hell to help rejuvenate her? My mind is a total blank.*
*Not that you didn't already know that.
Edit to add the following explanation about where I am with her right now:
When I started playing her I struck a very poor balance between her relationship with Mal and her relationships in the rest of camp. I also probably pushed too hard too fast with her relationship with Mal because I thought (rightly or wrongly) that the movie had left them in a place where they'd take the next step. I knew this was a problem and was trying to remedy it, although I wasn't doing a very good job. So I was struggling already and then Mal died, which Inara didn't take well, and I didn't roleplay well. During this time, I received some anonymous crit that told me what I already knew, that I'd made her weak and dependent and that, basically, she was almost nothing like she'd been in canon. Which left me wondering if I'd ever played her well at all.
Ever since then, I've basically been struggling with deciding whether I want to fix her or whether I've damaged her so much that it would be kinder to stop playing her. I still don't know, but I feel that I should make some effort to fix her before dropping her, otherwise that's simply giving up. But I can't quite shake the feeling that if I do try to fix her, I'll simply repeat my mistakes and that really, it would be better to turn her over to someone who can do her justice.
So I'm throwing myself on the mercy (and creativity) of you guys. Does anybody have any ideas for posts or threads or I don't even know what the hell to help rejuvenate her? My mind is a total blank.*
*Not that you didn't already know that.
Edit to add the following explanation about where I am with her right now:
When I started playing her I struck a very poor balance between her relationship with Mal and her relationships in the rest of camp. I also probably pushed too hard too fast with her relationship with Mal because I thought (rightly or wrongly) that the movie had left them in a place where they'd take the next step. I knew this was a problem and was trying to remedy it, although I wasn't doing a very good job. So I was struggling already and then Mal died, which Inara didn't take well, and I didn't roleplay well. During this time, I received some anonymous crit that told me what I already knew, that I'd made her weak and dependent and that, basically, she was almost nothing like she'd been in canon. Which left me wondering if I'd ever played her well at all.
Ever since then, I've basically been struggling with deciding whether I want to fix her or whether I've damaged her so much that it would be kinder to stop playing her. I still don't know, but I feel that I should make some effort to fix her before dropping her, otherwise that's simply giving up. But I can't quite shake the feeling that if I do try to fix her, I'll simply repeat my mistakes and that really, it would be better to turn her over to someone who can do her justice.