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It's serious poll is serious time again, C&C. This time I have an inquiry of a more metatastical nature than usual. And I am anxious to hear your answers, double spaced or no!
What do you like best about playing your characters? What do you like least, or find most challenging? As always this is mostly just an opportunity to indulge tl;dr ( Read more... )
What do you like best about playing your characters? What do you like least, or find most challenging? As always this is mostly just an opportunity to indulge tl;dr ( Read more... )
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CARRIE started out as just a HEY I WANNA BE IN THE COOL BAT-CLUB TOO :C urge at another game, but then it turned out she was pretty fun. Then I discovered that I absolutely love yanking Batman out of her life and seeing how she copes with suddenly not being "and Robin", but just "Robin". Also I love that she knows all these people that don't know her, because universe fuckery is my favorite. ALSO ALSO PULLING FUTURISTIC SLANG OUT OF MY ASS, THAT IS THE BEST. But that said, it can be a little trying to keep up forever. If I had to go back to a canon-fresh Carrie that hadn't been hanging out in a setting where they don't talk like crazy 80s stoners, I would shed a tear or two.
The only thing I've run into about her so far that I didn't like playing actually happened in another game-- she UM SOMEHOW IS THE LEADER OF THE AVENGERS WHAT?? I SWEAR THERE'S A HISTORY THERE IT DIDN'T JUST HAPPEN (oh wait that's exactly what it did), and so she's obligated to care for and try to help each and every member of the team. No ( ... )
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This is the best metaphor for the joy of playing a villain character I've ever seen. WATCH YOUR CHARACTERS' PITIFULLY HAPPY LITTLE LIVES BURN, NON-EVIL PLAYERS!
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The bad thing about playing him is that HE HAS NO GODDAMN ICONS so hopefully his book will get good art in the future and until then he'll just use the same four faces (SORRY).
Also SINCE YE OLDE THORSPEAKE IS A TAG, filed under reasons it was difficult to play Thor. It's easy to plug in thee/thou/what have you where appropriate, but it's not to make a sentence sound pseudo-Elizabethan without that. Also, despite being friendly and a good guy, he doesn't ( ... )
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Like best: I love the power of paper mastery and I love playing a bad ass superhero who can also be so very vulnerable in many ways. I love that, like many R.O.D characters, context from her canon is well provided that I know how she's going to act and what she's going to do whether she's on a shopping trip or eating ice cream with friends or defending herself against 50 laser beam shooting robots. I love that I get to show off my own literary nerdery (which is still nothing compared to Maggie's). I love that she's got some cool canon points that help make her interested in various plots going on in the game (e.g., the brainwash plot last year). In summary: I love being a nerd moeblob who can kill you with an index card.
Like least: She's shy. And she talks. Like an Ernest Hemingway Novel. While dying in the rain. (Also, another thing I hate about playing Maggie? The fact that I fucking hate fucking Ernest Fucking Hemingway with a fucking ( ... )
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STUFF I LIKE
+ Bucky has a real fun, distinct way of speaking, that lets me play around with old-fashioned slangwords and military jargon and generally registers of language I wouldn't normally get to use, by golly
+ He's funny, both on purpose and not so on purpose- he makes a lot of jokes, but there are also just avenues of fish-out-of-water comedy there
+ But he isn't just a joke character? I don't want to go all DEEP on you, but he's got a lot of hooks on him- war, history, jealousy, patriotism, Chris Samnee art
+ USAmerican history is KIND OF MY THING, even if WW2 isn't but I get to do all kinds of fun research and thinking and rolling around in anachronisms with the added safety net of the MU not being all that great at historical accuracy so if I mess up, well hey, this WW2 had lasers
+ He is an extrovert which is such a boon my goodness ( ... )
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Ghost
THE GOOD - I enjoy his ambiguously reformed criminal status and the number of contradictory positions he holds. He's a total paranoid headcase with conspiracies that--oh shi--half of them are plausible, especially in the Marvel universe. Fuckin, Area 51? Boy there are Skrulls on TV on Earth 616. And the Illuminati actually does exist. And Hank Pym could totally be rewiring brains if he wanted to. (But he probably isn't).
Socially his awkwardness is easy for me, because under Jeff Parker he's sort of like an overt schizoid / schizotypal personality, and his willingness to understand other people from a logical perspective is the kind of challenge I adore (I'm not logical myself, so it's hard, but in a good way).
THE MEH - tracking mainline marvel events is hard for me, since I have a short attention span and I skim when I'm bored. So I feel guilty sometimes for not knowing certain things and for taking forever to understand stuff that should be obvious (and I still haven't read Fear Itself's main ( ... )
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Yep not-meme winning line right there
Also it's best if we ignore Fear Itself
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;; is it really bad? I srs only read the Tbolts tie-in and the one with Zemo...
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I also don't like what he did to Bucky and Natasha at all
But I have extreme biases- it's a lot of beat-em-up. Some of the tie-ins are not bad though.
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