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State of the Me: Ridiculously tired, ridiculously burnt out. Between the show opening, the show closing, and how little sleep I've been getting, I've spent the past week or two really behind, and wound up dropping just about everything that wasn't plot-important as a result. There are still a couple of pretty old things I have in my inbox to tag back that are serious and therefore I haven't been able to respond to yet, but I'm hoping when I get home next weekend to turn things around. Everything should be calmed down after this, so, yeah.
Now, on to the important part! A whole lot has happened since my last SotP, which is probably because I never fucking write them, but, you know, whatever.
Lucy Carrigan: God, what isn't going on with Lucy? I don't even remember the last time I wrote an SotP, but things have really turned around for her as of late, in ways that are very satisfying for me. I don't know if I've ever said this, but it has, admittedly, been my dream pretty much since I apped her to have her get elected to the Council one day; obviously, the voting's not done yet, but I'm pretty hopeful. I'll still have plot if she loses, of course (which is the nice thing about this), but I just love the idea of her… coming full circle like that.
Anyway, aside from that, she finally gave in and, on Halloween, in a thread that I still need to post, told Bryce that she has feelings for him and they made out for a while and now are in a relationship. She's got it pretty bad for him, which is actually kind of refreshing; with all the people she's lost, she'll never not worry about the possibility of him disappearing, but after a year, it's nice to have her finally moving on. Shane and I have some ideas in the works for homeplot that will be really exciting, too.
Also upcoming, she and Pete Campbell are planning a Christmas party, the details of which are yet to be worked out, but needless to say, it'll be a lot of fun. I love the two of them and their bizarre but awesome friendship. Regardless of whether or not she gets elected, I really want to get her tagging new people more. She does well with a select few people, though I recently have had her branch out a little more (and have loved her threads with Bucky Barnes and Katniss Everdeen especially), and her social circle could definitely do with some expanding.
Mary Jane Parker: It has, for once, been a quieter month for MJ, though a lot of that has to do with the fact that it's been a quieter month for me. The big thing for her, right now, is The Mousetrap, in which she has the female lead. This is so thrilling for her, it's hard to even know where to start. Though she's been really content with her life here, despite the graves as items and Tony Stark and all those other factors, acting is the one thing she's really, really missed about home, and given how rarely we have theatre on the island, this is an opportunity that she seriously could not be more grateful for. So, with about a month until the show, a lot of her time right now is probably spent in rehearsals and working on lines. It's also good because she, like Lucy, is someone I want to get meeting more people, and this provides a pretty great opportunity for that.
Things have otherwise been pretty quiet, uh, comparatively speaking. Which probably means not at all. She was in nightmare plot at the end of last month, with a post I have yet to completely write up, and that would have fucked with her head in a big way except she kind of needs to move forward when things are really bad, and knowing later that it wasn't real, it isn't as if there was anything to be done about it. She spent more time worrying about the auditions for the play. The main factor is her daddy issues, and how this whole situation with Tony and his alcoholism plays on that; she's figuring out that Tony and what he did isn't wholly the problem here, but she doesn't know what to do with that, because it's not an easy thing to piece together and then move forward from. I'm still not entirely sure what will happen there, but it's been really interesting gameplay for me, a part of her character that's rewarding for me to explore because I can, uh, relate. What can I say, I have a type, and as an adult child of alcoholics, it only makes sense that I play adult children of alcoholics.
Unrelated to all of this, but totally worth mentioning, her friendship with Claire Bennet is quickly becoming one of my favorites. There are things she'll never talk about, but she really sees a lot of herself in Claire, and the thread they have right now, with both of them making some confessions, has been really fantastic.
Rahne Sinclair: Also a quiet month for Rahne, also because it was a quiet month for me. She's been dating George Sands for almost exactly two months now, which was… kind of a long time coming, but I really, really love the two of them together. Someone like him is really good for her, and he understands her in a way a lot of people can't. Foremost for her right now, though, has been Moira's disappearing, which still has her pretty screwed up; she never got around to telling Moira that she died back home, and despite the logical part of her being aware that it wouldn't have changed anything, she still feels kind of guilty for it. Plus, you know, getting her mother figure back just to lose her again is pretty devastating.
…and I'm not sure I have much else to say for her, which is weird. I need to play her more, but I'm realizing that I need to play everyone more. I also really need to thread her more with canonmates, since it feels like it's been a while and that needs to change. Also, sort of hand in hand with that, I haven't threaded her nearly enough with the other Being Human characters, and also Sookie. CLEARLY THERE SHOULD BE A DOUBLE DATE.
OH, I KNEW THERE WAS MORE I WANTED TO SAY. (I am adding this after the fact, too tired to make it all fluid or whatever.) Nightmare plot also fucked her up in a big way, involving her turning into a wolf and not being able to help it and killing all the people she cares about, and it's probably going to be enough to get her to finally tell Jamie that she kills him and Layla in the future. I've been wanting to do something with that pretty much since I brought her, so while I don't know yet exactly when/how that will happen, I am very much looking forward to it.
Alex Linus: Though it's been a little while now, the big thing for Alex is that she misses her dad, and is trying to figure out exactly what that means. As any Lost-watchers know, their relationship is/was hardly simple, and it's a hard thing for her to admit to herself, that she might actually want him around. So she's so far not really outright addressed it, except maybe a little with Sawyer. She's independent enough that she doesn't seem too affected by it, anyway. For now, she has Sawyer and Kate (both of whom are awesome, and I couldn't ask for better), and bizarre as it is, she really does think of them both like a sort of family. It's also nice because, well, she was a girl who grew up surrounded almost exclusively by adults, so she gets along better with them anyway. She's more awkward with people her own age (which of course, means I want to thread her with teenagers more). Chuck Charles has become a maternal sort of figure for her, too, which is random and adorable and she's going to be so, so thrilled when Chuck has her baby, since babies can be born. She needs to meet Ned still, but given how much she adores Chuck - which has a lot to do, I think, with the fact that she's never really had someone like that in her life before - I really foresee her wanting to help out/be involved with their family.
Of all of mine, she's one of the quieter ones, but in a way that hasn't really proven too detrimental so far. Overall, I'm really enjoying playing her. Mostly, she worries that what happened before will happen again, with someone wanting to find the other island and her being connected to it; as such, she hasn't told anyone who wasn't there about that island, and I don't anticipate that ever changing. She might become more herself - namely, more badass, less trying to seem like what other people would see as a normal teenager - but would pin that on acclimatizing to this place. So there's that.
Eames: Oh, Eames. I adore playing Eames. I just also have this stupid, I don't have enough self-confidence to call it unfounded paranoia that I'm doing it wrong and that everyone else will think I'm doing it wrong. A few people have offered me reassurance on that front, but given how popular Inception is and the varied opinions people have on it - and I'm well aware that mine isn't among the most common, namely that, I'm going to say it outright because I'm too tired to care, I don't ship Eames/Arthur at all and never will - it's been really hard for me to stop worrying, which has made it really hard for me to play him. That said, when I spontaneously EPed him… I think last month? I really had a lot of fun with it. I just need to find more to do with him. I was anticipating canonmates and then there weren't any, making it more difficult to find a way of addressing the whole dreamsharing thing. At some point, I do want him to tell people, at least a couple. I'm also hoping that having a copy of Inception and not just a file on my computer will be inspiring or what the fuck ever, too.
As far as the future goes, the one concrete plan I have is homeplot, in which he will… Is this still something not to spoil? I shouldn't say just in case. Anyway, he will wake up where he thinks he should have been before, and it will all be kind of mindfucky, and if anyone else wants in on that, I am totally up for anyone coming along, because it will be good times. Also, I know how early it is, but if anyone wants to play canonmates for me in it, that would be awesome, too. Basically I just need to stop being a self-conscious idiot and get over myself and deal with it, because there is a lot of fun to be had and I want to have it.
Lexie Grey: OH MY GOD, LEXIE. For most of this month, Lexie has been dominatingly (I don't think that's a word) loud, and I kind of love it. I'm having such a blast with her, really, and I could go on and on about it but I won't. Basically, I'm just really glad I decided to app her when I did; things are falling into place really nicely, better than I even could have hoped for. I wound up dropping a bunch of threads for her because I was super overwhelmed, game-wise, but that's probably just as well, since there's a good chance things will be getting really dramatic in the near future, if Shane's app for Mark gets approved. I don't want to go into detail because I'm superstitious and don't want to jinx it, but needless to say, shit is going to go down, and it's going to be epic, and Lexie will probably be eating her weight in food. Oh, Lexie and her stress eating.
In addition to that, she's still trying to (re)build some kind of relationship with Meredith without overstepping too much, is flirting unwisely with Sawyer, and has her reservations about Sean, based on his asking where the scotch was the morning she showed up. (See above comment about me having a type.) She's got a few prospective friends, though, which puts her in a better place than she was at this time last month. PERFECT TIME FOR IT ALL TO COME CRASHING DOWN, WHEE~ I anticipate her continuing to be really insanely loud for the foreseeable future, whatever happens.
Delysia Lafosse: I don't even know why I'm listing her when I haven't really done anything with her yet, though that's been for a variety of reasons. Her debut is (slowly) in progress and will be posted soon, since, uh, it has to be, and then I'll finally get to EPing her, or maybe just tag around the council election party, since I think that's before the first of the month? But yeah, I am so, so looking forward to playing her, and really enjoying it so far; I just haven't really had the time or energy to devote to getting a new character in game, but that will probably change soon. Like when I get a full night's sleep, which I haven't in I don't know how long. So yes.
The Future: As of right now, I'm totally undecided on who will be next or when it will be, though I suspect I'll figure it out next month. Probably most likely, following a conversation with Rog, is Trudy Campbell from Mad Men, assuming I can get it together and finish season four in time. If not her, it will probably be Sally Owens from Practical Magic, whose app is roughly halfway written, but that depends on if/when Lina apps Gillian. There isn't anyone pressing right now, but I kind of like that. After a month like this one has been, I really need the opportunity to focus on who I have without distraction.