drop meme.
It may be a little pointless to do this meme when I recently made the drops I'd been wibbling over, but the chance to organize some thoughts is never a bad thing!!1
Maki
IC: Maki is cool with where she is. She misses Naoya-kun, but her canon point leaves her pretty zen about most things, and she'd rather enjoy what she can than dwell on what she doesn't have. Camp is interesting! The people are fun! She's sure she'll get out sooner or later so she's determined to have fun with it while she's here.
OOC: I still haven't quite gotten over those random bouts of "oh god I love playing this character ♥" yet; I don't think I fully appreciated before I apped her just how nice of a counterbalance she makes for Tatsuya, because she's up where he's down and rolls with the punches where he flails and gets awkward, and having that is really, really nice. I've been angsting a little over whether the new translation is going to screw with my voice for her (and I'm still debating whether I'll make the inevitable changes in how she addresses people), but the new video they put up on the official site for her today makes me feel a lot better already, so while I don't think I'll be entirely in my happy zone until I have the game in my hands and can see where I'm standing, I think whenever I start to worry I'll just go back, watch that, and take a deep breath. I want to get her out more and get some CR outside the Megaten cast with her. Not thread-dropping horribly on my own post might help with that. WHOOPS. And I think I have a pretty good chance at getting castmates come fall, which opens up a whole new world of fun shit to do with her!
Dropping: 0/10. The voice is easy, I like her, she can hold her own in both a serious thread or a lulzy one, and she does fine without castmates. You can have her over my dead body.
Plans: Bring out Mai and Aki for a post (maybe even Pandora too, if I can find icons and the energy to run a bossfight?). Go pester Cielo and Canaan again since I feel like a douche for dropping those threads. Pester more people in general.
Tatsuya
IC: Kind of an awkward spot, but not the kind of awkward that keeps me from throwing him out (let's face it, his life is made of awkward anyway). Maya-nee and I never got back to our mistletoe thread, which is a little awkward because we left off...mid-kiss, and while the impact that would have on later threads is really easy to play, not knowing the immediate fallout is a little weird. So I need to ping her about that. Aside from that, Tatsuya is...mostly the same as he has been. He's not sure he likes camp, but he's hanging onto every moment because it's his last real chance to spend time with Maya. He's feeling a little more awkward than usual re: Katsuya, thanks to the birthday cake, but he's making an effort there in his own lame way; he kind of realizes he's done a lot of shit wrong in that relationship but he doesn't really have it in him to flat-out say "by the way, I fucked this up and I'm sorry" so he just...eats the damned cake. So basically he's just being awkward and quietly emo. As usual.
OOC: I think I could play Tatsuya in my sleep and feel good about whatever I did with him, which is kind of amazing to me when I think about how incredibly freaked out I was when I first picked him up. I love playing him, I love his castmates, and as always, the only thing that really concerns me is that I have a hard time reaching out to new CR with him, because he is the dottiest dotter.
Dropping: 0/10. The day I drop Tatsuya is the day I leave camp. I don't think I could give him up even if his entire cast dropped tomorrow.
Plans: Figure out that fallout with neesan. Finally have him and Katsuya talk ICly about their canon points. Triple bodyswitch with Maya and Jun if we ever manage to find a day that works for all of us. I want to deage again someday because that was incredibly fun and actually got him talking to people, but it's only been a few months so I'd rather wait and space it out more before I do.
Maki
IC: Maki is cool with where she is. She misses Naoya-kun, but her canon point leaves her pretty zen about most things, and she'd rather enjoy what she can than dwell on what she doesn't have. Camp is interesting! The people are fun! She's sure she'll get out sooner or later so she's determined to have fun with it while she's here.
OOC: I still haven't quite gotten over those random bouts of "oh god I love playing this character ♥" yet; I don't think I fully appreciated before I apped her just how nice of a counterbalance she makes for Tatsuya, because she's up where he's down and rolls with the punches where he flails and gets awkward, and having that is really, really nice. I've been angsting a little over whether the new translation is going to screw with my voice for her (and I'm still debating whether I'll make the inevitable changes in how she addresses people), but the new video they put up on the official site for her today makes me feel a lot better already, so while I don't think I'll be entirely in my happy zone until I have the game in my hands and can see where I'm standing, I think whenever I start to worry I'll just go back, watch that, and take a deep breath. I want to get her out more and get some CR outside the Megaten cast with her. Not thread-dropping horribly on my own post might help with that. WHOOPS. And I think I have a pretty good chance at getting castmates come fall, which opens up a whole new world of fun shit to do with her!
Dropping: 0/10. The voice is easy, I like her, she can hold her own in both a serious thread or a lulzy one, and she does fine without castmates. You can have her over my dead body.
Plans: Bring out Mai and Aki for a post (maybe even Pandora too, if I can find icons and the energy to run a bossfight?). Go pester Cielo and Canaan again since I feel like a douche for dropping those threads. Pester more people in general.
Tatsuya
IC: Kind of an awkward spot, but not the kind of awkward that keeps me from throwing him out (let's face it, his life is made of awkward anyway). Maya-nee and I never got back to our mistletoe thread, which is a little awkward because we left off...mid-kiss, and while the impact that would have on later threads is really easy to play, not knowing the immediate fallout is a little weird. So I need to ping her about that. Aside from that, Tatsuya is...mostly the same as he has been. He's not sure he likes camp, but he's hanging onto every moment because it's his last real chance to spend time with Maya. He's feeling a little more awkward than usual re: Katsuya, thanks to the birthday cake, but he's making an effort there in his own lame way; he kind of realizes he's done a lot of shit wrong in that relationship but he doesn't really have it in him to flat-out say "by the way, I fucked this up and I'm sorry" so he just...eats the damned cake. So basically he's just being awkward and quietly emo. As usual.
OOC: I think I could play Tatsuya in my sleep and feel good about whatever I did with him, which is kind of amazing to me when I think about how incredibly freaked out I was when I first picked him up. I love playing him, I love his castmates, and as always, the only thing that really concerns me is that I have a hard time reaching out to new CR with him, because he is the dottiest dotter.
Dropping: 0/10. The day I drop Tatsuya is the day I leave camp. I don't think I could give him up even if his entire cast dropped tomorrow.
Plans: Figure out that fallout with neesan. Finally have him and Katsuya talk ICly about their canon points. Triple bodyswitch with Maya and Jun if we ever manage to find a day that works for all of us. I want to deage again someday because that was incredibly fun and actually got him talking to people, but it's only been a few months so I'd rather wait and space it out more before I do.