OOC: How do you play your characters: Part 3

[dinosaurman.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since we've had this meme! Here's a chance to blab about your characters: why you love them, why they're emo why they act the way they do, how much you take from canon, how close you think your characterization is to the original.

The first post can be found here and the second is here.

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[wee-free-men.livejournal.com]

We're short, blue, beligerent alcoholics. What more do you people want?

The rest of the bastards

[wee-free-men.livejournal.com]

We also play a deranged fop who is the personification of Magic. He's sort of in character, maybe. I can't remember any more. He's fun. I have no idea what to do with him.

Honestly, I have no idea what to do with Simkin any more. I think he's moved so far from canon that it's not funny. Even if he still thinks he is. I assume he'll end up marrying Lizzy Bennet. Or y'know, blowing up the school. One of the two.

We have the origin of the wisecracking zombie hunter. Ash doesn't get out much, but if someone opens the necronomicon again, he'll be on that like gore on a chainsaw. Baby.

Vimes. I need to do more with. Other than beat the crap out of Carcer. He's in character though. He'll stay that way. No CRACK FOR VIMES. He's a copper.

Jaime; God knows. He's my favourite handless nutbag. I have no idea how his brain works. It seems to involve yelling Wench a lot though.

Hiro: Is stuck in the limbo that is sorting, because I've been SLACK. Shutup.

Other characters are coming. Maybe.

[descendant-phd.livejournal.com]

Well, Anathema isn't sorted yet, so I'm not sure...

Nny started out as pretty close to canon, but there's been a lot of water under the h_h bridge, and he's mellowed a lot.

Sadako's a pretty crack version of herself... evil, manipulative, and bitchy. She loves making people uncomfortable or afraid.

La Fee Verte is probably even more manipulative, but in a subtler way. She's a total flirt and tries to be alluring, as befits the anthropomorphic personification of an addictive substance with a mystique grown up around it.

Luna, Percy, and Pilz-E don't get nearly enough love from me. I try to play them pretty close to canon when I play them. And Zaphod, I'm still finding my voice for as well.

[seafissure.livejournal.com]

Claire started out as canon as I could make her, given that I missed bits and pieces of the last two seasons of SFU and therefore fill in any holes with my own twisted imagination. When in doubt, I think, "What would the Claire that looked Rachel in the eye and said, 'Can you give me a ride? I have to go get an abortion' do/say?" :D That among others are defining Claire moments for me.

Sam... omg. What can I say about Sam other than I love the boy madly, and HH gives me the excuse to take canon!Sam and then crack him a little. You know, give him a mad TOTALLY CANON OMFG codependence with his brother and how he unwittingly takes advantage of his brother's obsession with him, also TOTALLY CANON OMFG and make him sort of nonchalant about the things that sort of happen between them with this dysfunctional way of justifying what he wants. :P

Also hopefully sending them Hunting again soon, but on-camera. *plots omg*


It'd be great to get them interacting with other people, but I totally fail at integrating into the collective. :D But if anyone wants to hit them to play while braving my unpredictable schedule, please do. :D

[malice-the-doll.livejournal.com]

Well, Lain I try to keep to cannon as much as possible but, all things considered, I have had to make her slightly more noble then she is in the show just to keep her from reading everyone's mind.

Wired Lain on the other hand... I had to simply just block almost all her goddess abilities.
She has two main appearances in series and in her second appearance she is far more mellow, personality wise, then before and so it seems I'm playing her kinda like she's always slightly high. (Eg: Normal most the time but is prone to sudden mood swings all over the place. Mostly into fits of laughter.)
Even when mellow though, she knows how to push Lain's buttons.

Pinhead... I simply can not tell if I'm doing him correctly or not. He is, well, Pinhead. He is slightly poetic with how he talks and seems more like an artist then a slasher villain. He is the ultimate in BDSM.
He's fun to write, hard, but fun.

Godzilla is a fifty meter tall, nuclear powered monster lizard of unknown gender who is possessed by the souls of those that died in the War of the Pacific. What is there to get wrong?
I'm not playing her from any singular film and so, as I watch the films, I pull little pieces of her personality together. I like the idea of her being somehow, a goodie. She's here to save the world from humans and humans from monsters. IN THAT ORDER.
However, as stepping on people is out of the question she does little more then stroll the grounds and swim in the lake.

And last but not least, Malice Doll.
I screwed up big-time; I picked a character from probably the most obscure anime out there and somehow thought I could pull it off. She is dry, emotionless and most of all, in the midst of a mental breakdown cause she unwittingly causes robo-apocalypse.

Her plot in a nutshell, mind the spoilers, is she is the last living human dreaming she is a prostitute 'gynoid' (Female android) dreaming she is the last living human.

I'm slowly making her less and less canonical in my desperate attempt to make her emote but it is a slow process.

Also, she talks funny.
She is semi-formal and she, as far as I'm aware, never says any contractions.

1. Mayday

[makeminemayday.livejournal.com]

May is occasionally very hard to play in H_H, largely because I'm trying not to make her a Sue or make her my mouthpiece. Also, while her terrible luck with even passing relationships is a running joke in the series, a lot of it stems from her constantly being distracted by the demands of her alter ego (which isn't so much of an issue here - I think the thread with Steph is the first time I've had her in costume!). That, and she seems to attract the weirdos *cough*Black Tarantula*cough*.

She's one hell of a lot less emo than her father for the following reasons:
1) Peter discovered early on that if he screwed up as Spidey, people died. May discovered early on that if she did don the suit and use her powers responsibly, people lived. (Had she not done so in the What If? issue and then again in SG #1, Pete would have been toast.)
2) Unlike her father, she had a support system starting out who knew her secret - first her uncle Phil, then Normie when he reformed, then Peter and MJ when Pete gave up trying to stop her and started training her. Peter shouldered the burden of being Spider-Man alone for YEARS.

But she's not entirely happy-go-lucky; May is willing to give just about anyone a second chance assuming they'll actually take it (come on, Normie tried to kill her parents!). So if Eddie Brock ever wakes up, and if he isn't still being influenced by Venom (which depends on how the mun wants to play it), she'd be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. And a wide berth, but the benefit of the doubt.

So what's May like when she's not Spider-Girl? She's still too responsible for her own good and will look out for those she cares for whether they like it or not - although if you don't want to talk about it, she won't push if it's not critical that you do. Occasionally she'll push herself too hard and try to do too much and will need to have sense thwacked into her. I made it possible for her to get messages back home so she wouldn't spend her time going OMGI'VEGOTTAGETHOME and freaking out about her folks.

I take her sporadic fashion sense from the books; sometimes she's dressed normally, other days she looks like she raided a consignment shop (something that Mary Jane bemoans all the time).

While the books focus on her issues with playing basketball and whether or not it's fair for her to play even if she holds back, it's worth noting that she is still something of a science geek (look at her two closest friends) on top of that. I can't find where on earth it was stated in canon - I'm positive it was, but now that I've brought it into HH I can't find the issue - that May at least knows the formula for her dad's web-fluid and he made her memorize it just to be safe. Aside from web-swinging, basketball and science are her favorite things - after all, she's Peter Parker's daughter, and while she's nowhere near his level, she still has tendencies towards the geek side.

Honestly, I think HH!Mayday tends to be modeled after a couple of people I knew in high school and freshman year of college - primarily an upperclassman in college who was majoring in biochem, playing two sports, and who would stop and help other IT workers carry huge boxes of phone manuals down to the campus center even wearing heels. (Which I only remember because that was the last time I ever saw her.)

May herself isn't very cracky, but she was already used to weirdness when she showed up in the Sorting Room (seriously, it's hard to top going back in time and having a teenage version of your Dad unknowingly hit on you) so she tends to take Hogwarts in stride.

...Mostly.

Wow, that's rambling. Anyway, I'll do Tomo next, she's easier.

[fabpenny.livejournal.com]

Penny: Well, I admit I've messed with her a bit to make her more palatable. I mean if I'd stuck with original canon, she'd be a marionette who did... pretty much nothing at all. But there were a lot of inconsistencies in the movie canon, so... I sort of split the difference. Penny is a bit of a Mary Sue by nature (beautiful, wealthy, talented, titled), but I am trying to bring her some depth, although it may take some time. Work in progress, you know?

Gillian: So, so damaged. She is afraid to touch anyone since the end of her canon; right at the end of The Fury she gets an extra dose of powers offloaded onto her, so I've been playing it that she can't quite handle them. Also, she was/is a very innocent girl who chose to murder at the end of the film, so there's that for her to deal with too. I think, down the road, if she can find a way to control the extra powers (the Fury of the movie title) she will be able to deal with her own powers much better.

HR Pufnstuf: Truthfully? I had no idea he would actually get sorted! It was just a demented idea I had and now I don't know what to do with him... but I'll think of something.

Robin of Loxley: He's conflicted, idealistic, lonely, sad, good-natured, altruistic, and very smart. Also, depending on your taste, really sexy. I've given him mad archery skills and some 'man of the forest' wisdom, but his backstory's not always what people expect. I added some 'backstory' to explain why he's at Hogwarts, as I thought it would be more interesting to do it that way. Also he's a departure in that meta is sort of non-applicable, apart from the actual Robin of Sherwood series. He knows that legends have grown up about him and is trying to deal with the truth v. fiction aspect of that, and people's expectations of him. So far the most fun of my characters!

2. Tomo

[tomowildcat.livejournal.com]

I play Tomo based on the anime, since I haven't read the manga (well, not much of it). She's a lot more suited to the crack than Mayday is, for obvious reasons.

Initially, I had a lot of trouble playing her because I kept writing her as too nice. Heck, I even set it up so that she was mildly concussed when Demyx met her at her Sorting so she wouldn't scare the poor Nobody away.

Then I found a much better Tomo roleplayer on LJ, and discovered she had a very simple strategy: to play Tomo, just turn the filter off between your mouth and your brain and go with the first random thing that you think of.

Tomo has no such tact filter, and doesn't see a need for one. She's an attention whore, good and bad; if she'll get a reaction out of you, she'll keep bugging you. Yelling and screaming and eye-rolling and facepalming? She loves those reactions. They validate her existence. If you're just reserved and nice and polite to her, she'll probably get bored and go away. If you get annoyed at her baiting, you will NEVER GET RID OF HER. This is why Tomo is currently stalking Dwight; she knows his name isn't Douche, but he always rises to the bait and it will never get old. If you play along with her or feed her ego, she'll like that too. Exciting reactions are what she likes.

But if her teasing causes someone to get upset, sad and/or emo, she will backpedal like crazy, flail, try to take it back or cheer the person up. She's not malicious, she's just Tomo. She just really really wants to be liked, but she's not going to change herself so that other people will like her.

And yeah, she's a bit of a delusional egomaniac. She sees absolutely nothing wrong with her personality. If someone doesn't like it, she'll make them like it, so people like Dwight who dislike her get pestered a lot more. I guess she figures if she annoys them enough they will see the awesome that is her. Hey, they wouldn't react so predictably if they didn't want her to bug them!

The one thing about herself she doesn't like is the fact that she's flat-chested and short (come on, she obsesses over everyone else's size in the anime!) but she's kind of resigned to that.

She pretty much therefore assumes that she's off the radar to most guys unless she's trying to consciously win them over. So if someone she doesn't know well approaches her and hits on her, it is completely out of her reality. Hence her cluelessness when Demyx got a whiff of love potion and freaking out when he kissed her and her insistence that he was under a spell because in Tomo's world, that just does not happen. It's not a self-esteem thing for Tomo so much as it is an unfortunate fact of life.

Oh, and finally: Tomo-logic != Earth logic. Not by a long shot. She's not quite as out there as Osaka, who is in a universe all her own, but she's pretty off-the-wall. This is the girl who, after noticing the wet paint sign on a wall, will still slap her hand on it just because she feels like it. She's not as stupid as she acts and can do things if she puts her mind to it. Her ultra-competitive streak is the result of having the energy level of a caffeinated ferret - she hardly ever wins, having a lot of energy but zero talent, but she'll never give up.

...did I say Tomo was easier? Well, yes. Not necessarily shorter to write up, though. XD

Forgot to add...

[makeminemayday.livejournal.com]

Tomo is also probably the only character I can get away with playing while drunk. Which says SO MUCH. XD

Re: 2. Tomo (yet more on the Tactless One)

[tomowildcat.livejournal.com]

Honestly, despite the rambling, I don't think I've quite got Tomo down yet. Obnoxious is easy. Obnoxious but still likable in the way that Tomo is... I don't think I've gotten it down yet.

Oh, and the zombie fixation dates back to her Sorting when she and Kagura cooked up an idea for a zombie-hunting business. And I am a very bad mun for not RPing that even though we should. (Had I the energy I'd have followed through with my suggestion to have the Knuckleheads try to "cure" Demyx of the love spell.)

I really need to get my hands on a copy of the manga...

[cafpowgirl.livejournal.com]

Let's talk about Abby.

The question of whether I play Abby according to canon is an interesting one. In NCIS canon, Abby is a rabid disciple of science and forensics. The very idea that she would wind up at a magic school would blow her mind considering she reacts badly on the show whenever someone even insinuates anything bad about forensics or science.

I see Abby as conflicted, and trying to use the scientific methods she has grown so skilled in to determine if magic can alter scientific results. If it turns out it can, well, that will throw everything she's done up to this point into question.

Personality wise, I'm playing a very canon Abby. She's friendly, outgoing, fun, a little crazy, unflustered by dealing with people like House, Cox, and Jordan because well, she's used to it.

[sacredharpie.livejournal.com]

Jordan, Jordan, Jordan...

Jordan's entirely canon. Raging bitch harpie to the max, that's Jordan. I'm playing her early in the Scrubs canon, originally before the reunion with Cox, and definitely before the pregnancy.

She is evil, mean, cruel, with an uncanny ability to see into your soul, find your worst fear and taunt you with it. People who annoy Perry, like Sirius, amuse her.

Jordan is locked up tighter than Fort Knox emotionally, usually. However, a few people have managed to get to know her. I'll admit, that heart-to-heart she had with Lily about Perry, was a little OOC. Jordan is never going to quit being a superbitch, and that's why she's so much fun to play.

[eeeeegnomes.livejournal.com]

Tweek is canon. I just have to figure out what to have him do besides look for gnomes and be twitchy, which probably means I need to watch more South Park with him in it.

[kappakappawong.livejournal.com]

Amy is smart, sweet, and a little vain. She responds awfully to anyone who tries to make her feel uncute (like Zoidberg!) because she treasures her cuteness.

Although her parents are insanely rich, Amy doesn't seem too concerned with the money they have, content to run around in her pink tracksuit.

Amy is also naive, and is easily susceptible to pranks pulled by those around her. However, she's not the type to carry a grudge.

The one issue where my Amy differs from canon is that she's not involved with Kif, either that or I'm playing her from the pre-Kif episodes.

[pollicle-zapper.livejournal.com]

Quaxo and Mistoffelees... Well. Quaxo started out as someone older, a cat just out of kittenhood, but now he's... a kitten. Definitely much younger, to make him even more seperate from Mistoffelees. Who, by the way, started out a sarcastic bastard but is now a fluffy, romantic little bunny. Personally I blame Teazer for it. Mistoffelees/Rumpleteazer was NOT a pairing we planned, though I'm very happy it's around. Because they're cute.

There is not much actual canon to support the way I play Quaxo and Mistoffelees, actually. They are being played by the same actor in the show, and he is Quaxo up until the song Mr. Mistoffelees, but there is a lot of backstory that I have pretty much made up on my own. Mistoffelees is the personification of Quaxo's magical powers, and there to look after the kitten until he can do so himself. Where Mistoffelees actually comes from is a bit of a mystery and I doubt even he knows. Whether or not Mistoffelees will disappear when Quaxo grows up is also unclear. Really, the guy is just weird.

In canon, Quaxo is playful, a bit cocky, but ultimately cute and adorable. He has a fair few friends and has some sort of relationship with a sweet white girl kit named Victoria. I play it so that Quaxo has a bit of an obvious crush on her, but he's too young to actually do anything about it.

Mistoffelees is, canonically, a huge show-off, a great dancer (the guy playing Mistoffelees is most often the best dancer of the bunch, and he has to do some of the more impressive steps), and according to his song "shy and aloof." So I am assuming that he's less outgoing than Quaxo. Mistoffelees is also so very, very gay bi, and enjoys flirting. Especially with Rumpleteazer, though before they actually started to date, Mistoffelees also flirted with her brother. Why? Because it was fun, and Mungojerrie was completely clueless about it. =D Now, however, Mistoffelees is completely head-over-heals for Teazer, and they're so romantic it's disgusting.

Right, I'll stop rambling about these two now and go to the next pup. ^__^

[angelicbadboy.livejournal.com]

Brice. My poor, abused little angel... Woe is he, except not. When playing Brice I tend to have the books around, though I don't need to much anymore. I'm used to his voice by now. Really, once you get used to the smirking and the nicknames, he's a piece of cake. Took me oh, six months to get him right, but whatevah. Brice is one of my favourites, whether he's emo and getting drunk, or he's floating on air because he's in LURVE.

Canonically Brice does a lot of walking around with his hands in his pockets, call every girl younger than him "sweetheart" or "darling," occasionally chuckle evilly, aaand be a kick-ass angel with l33t martial arts skillz. He's definitely one of the more interesting characters of the series, and we know quite a lot about his motivations for things. The biggest change in HH is his relationship with Mel. The cosmic connection they share is actually canon, and Mel did play a vital part in getting Brice to stop being a silly boy and come back to Heaven, but they do not have any sort of romance going on no matter how awesome that would be. Brice is actually dating Lola, Mel's best friend, and it's mostly Lollie who has to shout at them both to make them actually get along. In Keeping it Real, the currently last of the Angels Unlimited books, Mel and Brice do work together just fine, though with some minor disagreements, and the author Annie Dalton says that they will get closer in the future. So here's to hoping for canon Mel/Brice.

Brice doesn't express his feelings very clearly. The first time he told Mel he loved her he used thought-speak, for crying out loud. Again and again he claims that he's a bad boy, and again and again he proves with his actions that he really isn't. Well, he's enough of a bad boy to be interesting, but come on. He gives her flowers and biscuits. Seriously. He doesn't say 'I love you' very often, because he's not very good with the whole boyfriend-girlfriend thing, but he does his best. He's possessive about Mel and gets jealous easily, which is really too bad considering Mel has crushes on a LOT of people. Poor angel boy.

HH!Brice has more cuddly moments than canon!Brice. It's probably because with his little brother here, he feels he's got everything he needs at Hogwarts and can relax more. Dominic was the reason Brice became a fallen angel in the first place, and it wasn't until he knew the kid would be all right that he decided to return to Heaven, even though the whole 'working for evil' thing was seriously bumming him out.

Now he is remarkably cheerful for Brice, because he is back with Mel and everything is well with the world. Let's see how long that lasts before the muns decide they want to mess everything up again!

[pippithepirate.livejournal.com]

Pippi Longstocking, ah, my delightfully weird pup. She is capable of saying and doing pretty much anything, and whenever I need a break from angels and OMG TEH DRAMA, I slip into Pippi's oversized shoes and sing a pirate song. It's brilliant.

Pippi is... eccentric. In a good way. She has very little respect for authority, and has been known to play tag with policemen and give cake to burglars. She is living the life every kid dreams of. No parents to tell her what to do, no school to interfere with her playing, and she can go into a candy shop and buy 18 kilos of caramels, if she wants. She is strong enough to lift a horse, five seamen, two normally sized children and a kitchen door above her head, and is therefore known as the strongest girl in the world.

She is fiercely loyal to her friends, and dislikes injustice. When she sees things like six boys chasing a seventh who can't defend himself, she immediately steps in to defend the one being bullied. She befriends the forgotten and the lonely, and frequently spoils the kids in her little town with candy and toys and the most fabulous parties where everyone's invited. She probably knows the name of every kid in town, though her two best friends are her neighbors, Tommy and Annika.

I do my best to keep Pippi in character, but playing her in English is a bit of a challenge. Being Swedish, I grew up knowing Pippi Longstocking in my native language, and some things just don't translate very well. (This is, by the way, the reason I keep referring to Pippi's pet monkey as Mr. Nilsson instead of Nelson, as it apparently is in the English version. I didn't know this when I apped, and I like to be consistent, so the name of the damn monkey is Nilsson.) Some of Pippi's curse words come out a little peculiar, but that's okay. She's a peculiar girl. =)

Despite her living in child's paradise, with everything she could wish for, there is a sadness to Pippi that is absolutely heartbreaking, which I of course as a kid never noticed. The way she sits by the window at Christmas Eve, her only companions being a horse and a monkey, and talking to her mother in Heaven is gut-wrenchingly sad, and not even her friends showing up with a present for her is really enough to make it better. Because when it really boils down to it, Pippi is very lonely. This is probably why she's talking to her pets as if they were humans and able to answer her back., and why she gives those damn leeches that dare to call themselves her friends the most extravagant presents she can think of. Like all kids, Pippi just doesn't want to be lonely.

I think I am overanalyzing poor Pippi, here. I doubt that Astrid Lindgren actually considered this when she wrote the books. She just created a brilliant character capable of breaking every rule that little girls were expected to obey in the 1940's, and as the former Psychology student I am I'm just reading too much into it. I'm going to stop myself before I start going on a rant about how horribly cruel Tommy and Annika can be to Pippi, and go to the next pup.

[nemofound.livejournal.com]

((I absolutely adore your Pippi, she's just like I remember her from the books. And, to assuage your fear of inconsistency: I live in the United States, I read U.S. versions of the books, and I have always seen her monkey's name rendered as Mr. Nilsson.))

[pippithepirate.livejournal.com]

((*HIGHLAND FLAIL* Ahem. =D =D =D Thank you so very much for that! Both the compliment and for Nilsson. I have read Nelson in the British version and on some websites, but Nilsson is much cooler. Ha ha. Maybe I should just end up referring to him as That Damn Monkey?

Nemo is the little brother Pippi never had. That is all.))

[redballerina.livejournal.com]

Bombalurina. Hooo boy, where do I start... Well. Bombalurina is a tremendous flirt, all sugary-sweet as far as men are concerned, and a grade-A bitch when it comes to interacting with other women. I apped her both to give Mungojerrie someone to flirt with while Teazer was busy with Mistoffelees, and because I wanted to see if I could actually play someone so incredibly different from myself. Apparently I'm just a little too good at it. O.o

Bomba has virtually no shame whatsoever (most of the things she does makes me want to cringe and hide under my desk from embarrassment), though she does have some sense of honour. One thing to prove this is that she does not flirt with her sister's mate. Demeter (no, it's not canon that she's Bomba's sister; they might just be good friends) is the only person that Bombalurina genuinely cares about and can make her calm down a bit. That little aspects of this particular redhead's personality makes her, at least in my mind, a tad more likable.

I truly don't think that Bombalurina is a bad person. Not really. She has had bad experiences in the past and learned early that she shouldn't get too attached because she will always be left in the end. In her mind, there's just no point losing your heart to someone who will always, always break it. The problem is that she still likes sex a lot, so she flirts, and sleeps around. She likes the intimacy and the orgasms of the thing, especially now that she's human, and she'll even stick around for snuggling afterwards if she thinks it's worth it.

Some people might call her a whore. This is wrong. Whores get paid. Bomba just likes sex, which I suppose would make her a slut. So.

The one thing, the number one most fabulous thing that I really want to happen with Bomba one of these days, is for her to fall in love. Because that? Would mess with her head really badly. There would be a lot of angsting on her part, which would be just brilliant, and some of it I've already written I'd really love it if she could meet some knight in shining armor to sweep her off her feet. In the meantime, Bomba will just hang around, get into catfights, and flirt with new applicants.

[fine-eyes-lizzy.livejournal.com]

Marius: I love Marius. Les Miserables was the first piece of nineteenth century literature that I read (as a result of the musical), and I had a huge literary crush on Marius after reading said book. I've been writing 'Les Mis' fic since I was thirteen, so writing Marius is rather second nature. He's a mess of contradictions, since I've always thought Hugo wrote him as sort of the personification of early nineteenth century society. He's a Romantic poet who lives in a garret and lives from paycheck to paycheck on his translation work, yet is also a baron and a law student. He's got rather a daddy- complex, which, in turn, made him an enormous Bonapartist, and a rabid defender of his Emperor. At the same time, he's also a member of a seditious republican society seeking to overthrow the monarchy. Marius is incredibly moralistic, shy, polite to the point of being impolite, and always has some sort of complex about his clothes. He's rather close to canon, I think, though canon!Marius probably wouldn't be as communicative as he is now.

Christine: Again, another nineteenth century novel I read as a result of a 1980s musical! I like Christine's innocence. Of course, this innocence often borders on idiocy, but she's a blast to play. You can stick her in any sort of awkward sexual situation and she won't have any idea what's going on. Fortunately, though she's one of the least observant characters ever written, she's got a magnificent voice to make up for it. I also get to be an opera geek with her. ^^ I stick closely to the book, since I don't really like the ALW characterization (Christine seems more stupid than naive, IMHO). In the book, she's a bit crazier/ more depressed, since the Phantom puts her under a really grueling work schedule and kidnaps her and keeps her underground for a week fairly early on. I take her right after her "triumph" in the beginning of the book, before she figures out that her Angel of Music is actually a psychopath named Erik who smells like death. Thus, she's no longer depressed over her father's death, but she's not half- crazed from lack of sleep and a traumatic kidnapping. Christine's her naive, happy- go -lucky self!

Josh: He's so much fun. Where else could I play Jesus? That, and Christopher Moore's interpretation of "Josh" is hilarious. I take him entirely from canon, including some of his early mustard seed rants.

Lizzy: ... I seem to play her rather more than any of my others, don't I? In any case, I'm a serious Jane Austen fanatic, and I adore the 1995 BBC version (and not just because of we shirt!Colin Firth, though I do admit that it helped). Elizabeth is the easiest to write, I think, though I couldn't tell you why. Since I read so much Jane Austen, perhaps it's easier to ape her style? In any case, I stick pretty closely to canon and since I re-read/re-watch Pride and Prejudice for fun, it's rather easy to check and make sure that she's IC. My Lizzy is a bit more informal and emotional than in canon, but thats really it. My main issue is with her throughly complicated love life. For whatever reason, my Lizzy- figment is beginning to become attracted to Darcy, at the same time that she's in a relationship with Simkin, yet Robin Goodfellow is also in love with her, and- for reasons that really escape me- male characters keep flirting with her. >.> I don't quite know where to begin with that, since Austen was pretty clear on the Lizzy/Darcy thing (and I'm a huge Lizzy/Darcy fan, too). I'm going to have to figure that out soon.

Laurie: He's so neglected, poor thing. I apped him for Jo- mun, and since she's been on hiatus, I haven't really done anything with Laurie. I swear I'll post an intro post for him or that sock- puppeting thing with Josh once RL stops being work- intensive. In any case, haven't really rped him much, and all he seems to do is act politley yet awkwardly with people he doesn't know, and become very boisterous and enthusiastic with people he does (aka Jo). That's rather close to canon, though Laurie-in-the-book is much more clever than my Laurie is currently.

Since I am not now running for the bus...

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Mel has nine books and a tenth is coming out soon. Her canon is written for younger kids, but I'm not giving them up anytime soon. They teach you so much about history.

Mel has twisted from her time at h_h. I play her from the end of the last book, so she's just aged up to 16 and has no clue how to handle it. She started off very shallow--spent a lot of time in the first book trying to get out of Heaven, actually--but there is inherent goodness in her. She desires adventure, so even if she'd not meant to come here she would have adapted fast.

She cares too much. If you need help, just call for her and she'll be there. She's not always amazing, but she's always reliable. In canon, she goes out to find one of her group of friends in the driving rain at three am after this friend's mum has kicked her out.

She's not good with words. I almost regret playing her first now, because what Mel says is what she means, and that stifled my growth as an RPer somewhat.

OK, we move on to: people she loves. Hoo boy. XD As said before, she cares too much. She's a huge worrier. She's come to realise she's NOT the most important thing in the universe, and it's come down to if it were Brice or her, she'd sacrifice herself for him. If anyone threatened her little sister, you get the feeling she would stand up for Jade. She's brave, because she always does what's morally right, even when she's scared.

Mel is impulsive, blunt, tactless, a little annoying, a teenager and is trying to handle growing up when you're dead. She's amazing and I love her for it.

Next pup coming up.

[kaizokuking.livejournal.com]

Agh. I love Luffy to pieces, but I feel like I don't do him justice... I think I'm getting better, though. I'm not used to RPing full stop and I often forget what comms I've joined or posts I've replied to. Yeah.

In the future, I will not apply for characters who use a lot of body language. That is the lesson I have learned. *nod*

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This one might be long, because I love me some Dax.

I love Jadzia Dax because she's simultaneously a 257 year-old entity, and a 28 year old woman. That gives her one hell of a perspective! Dax is a person who can’t help but see the other side of every situation, because she’s probably been on said side. However, she's not a know it all. If anything, 300+ years have taught her that she's still got a lot to learn. Dax is such a unique character that it took the DS9 writers a season or two to get a good (consistent!) beat on her. I’m playing a season four Jadzia. Above all else, she lives for the moment, and happily throws herself into whatever she’s doing- be it Klingon calisthenics, a night out on the town, or techwork on a new wormhole variation.

Dating-wise, Dax likes everybody! Jadzia and her ex-wife actually had the first same sex-kiss on network television. She used to have a crush on this guy (http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c4/200px-Morn001.jpg) and wound up happily married to this fella (http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200306/ds9-482-worf-as-duchamps/320x240.jpg) (season five, not HH cannon). She’s one of the few people that claims to be attracted to personality and actually means it!

Jadzia adjusted to HH life rather quickly, after a few rocky patches. She likes being in control of a situation, and was understandably unnerved that Hogwarts wasn't a holo-suite program. Still, it didn't take long before she moved from ‘how did I get here’ to ‘Oh! How does that work?’.

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Also! I should mention Dax’s scientific background, which is quite varied. She has degrees in astrophysics, exoarchaeology, exobiology, and zoology. So by training she’s more of a physicist/biologist/archeologist. But on several occasions, she’s taken over the Chief of Engineering’s duties, so I assume she’s had engineering training as well (most Starfleet personnel do). My guess is that one of Dax’s former hosts was an engineer, and that’s how I’ve written it in H_H canon.

[anythingawesome.livejournal.com]

Kelly: Oh, Kelly. Kelly’s my newest pup, and so far, I’m pretty happy with her voice. The thing to keep in mind when playing Kelly is that her world revolves around three things: Kelly, Kelly’s relationship with Ryan, and gossip. Kelly’s actually a very nice person- she just has a limited world view. She knows exactly what she wants- to get married and have baaaaabies.
One thing I want to avoid with Kelly is having her ‘evolve’ into a more well-rounded character. Kelly is perfectly happy with who she is, and isn’t about to consider that there’s any reason to change. And that’s why we love her!

[busty-robin.livejournal.com]

Stephanie Brown is all sorts of amazing, and the character that got me into comics in the first place.

Steph's had a pretty rough home life. Her father was a third-rate villian called The Cluemaster, and her mother was in and out of rehab for the bulk of Steph's childhood. When Stephanie was 12 years old, one of her father's friends attempted to sexually assault her. When she told her father about the attack, he essentially called her a liar. I've always thought that moment was the straw that broke the camel's back. Before, her dad was just useless. Now, his presence and the life he lead was a threat to Steph and her mother (whose relapses were almost always triggered by Arthur Brown coming back into their lives). Four years later, Steph adopted The Spoiler persona, in order to get her father arrested for good.

A few months after becoming Spoiler, Stephanie found out that she was pregnant. She chose to give the baby up for adoption. She then returned to active duty for almost a year, became Robin for a short time, and then following actions that were rushed and terribly out of character for all parties involved inadvertently started a gang war, and was brutally murdered.

Characterization wise, Steph is the very definition of pluck. She’s cheerful, and while she certainly has her angsty moments, she tries to remain upbeat.

Steph is self reliant, to the point where she's almost always waiting for the other shoe to drop. While she actively seeks out mentors (in H_H’s case, Manticore and Bruce), by now she’s grown accustomed to being abandoned (in canon, the Birds and Prey and Batman have promised to train her, only to later change their minds), and honestly assumes that anyone she attaches herself to is eventually going to send her away. This makes her all the more determined to get the most out of her training while it lasts.

[whoopwhoowhoop.livejournal.com]

Zoidberg!

Out of all of my pups, Zoidberg is actually the hardest to narrate, and I sometimes worry that I don't do him justice. I think the trick is to give him absolutely no internal monologue. Zoidberg just doesn't strike me as having a single thought that he doesn't say aloud.

Zoidberg wants to be popular, and if he thinks you're his friend, then you aren't ever going to get rid of him. Ever. Also, as Jordan and Muppet Person discovered, he’s very adept at hearing only what he wants to hear. So even if you tell him point blank that you dislike him, he’ll only hear that you ‘---like’ him.

My guys, Part 1

[wh0-kill3d-m3.livejournal.com]

Wow, it has been a long time since we did this; I only had two characters last time, and I covered Laura and Ian pretty exhaustively in the second link up there. So, new pups!

Carrie: My Carrie is informed mostly by Sissy Spacek's affectionate and sympathetic portrayal in the movie; read King's novel closely, forgetting Spacek's version, and she's much more psychically warped and stunted. She comes to Hogwarts straight from her death, which I took from the book version, because I needed her to have resolved things with Sue. As regards her Prom experience, she veers back and forth between being ashamed of it and almost proud of it. Her initial instinct was to keep her powers a closely held secret at Hogwarts, but she's become a little more open as she's met more people who've arrived with preexisting powers.

I didn't know if I was going to play her as meek and beaten-down or as an avatar of rage, but events shaped my playing of her, namely her interactions with Dogma!God and Josh H. Christ. Those encounters helped her come to terms with God as a loving and forgiving God rather than the vengeful God her mother browbeat her with. That's tipped her over to the side of her better nature. OTOH, having been raised with an End-Times version of Christianity, she takes Damien Thorn's presence as a serious threat and is fully prepared to stand between him and Josh/humanity if need be. Someday Thorn-mun and I are going get around to that full-on Thorn/Carrie smackdown we keep talking about. :-)

Max Headroom: Plain old wacky snark, which I wish I could find more occasions for him to use. His main source of conflict is having gone from full, unfettered speed-of-thought meganetwork access to existing in one tiny little box at Hogwarts, where there is no Net at all.

My guys, Part 2

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Brenda Johnson (The Closer): My Brenda's pretty close to canon. I see her as having given up on her CIA career, where she had to navigate moral gray areas all the time, in favor of cleaning up her one little corner of the world (Atlanta, L.A.) and a more clear-cut mandate, to act as murder victims' advocates. She's very driven and career-oriented; on the show she's slowly establishing a home life with her live-in boyfriend, and it's a constant struggle for her to put work aside when she's home. That's a problem for her at Hogwarts, since there is no murder and very little criminal mischief, but it's an extension of where she was mentally at the point in canon I pulled her from. She'd just come off four months of administrative leave while Internal Affairs investigated a shooting incident in her squadroom, and already had the stir-crazies.

Mr. Darcy: I had to app Darcy, because we got such a pitch-perfect Lizzy, who plays her from my favorite adaptation, too. I was nervous about doing it and sure someone else would want to app him first, and when nobody seemed to be stepping up I started writing my app. I followed Lizzy's lead on the point to pull him from in canon: awkwardly paying court to an oblivious Lizzy during her visit to the Collinses in Kent, but before he busts out a proposal and gets shot down in flames.

He is stuffy, which I see as a reaction to taking over as head of the family after his parents' deaths - a corollary to this is his tendency to focus on his responsibilities to his sister and to the estate. He is repressed, which I see as a reaction to growing up with Wickham's "vicious nature," after a close reading of the letter in which he details his relationship with Wickham to Lizzy in P&P. He's protective to the point of meddlesomeness where his loved ones are concerned, which I see as a reaction to Georgianna's near-miss with Wickham's scheming.

After initial blown-mind syndrome, he's coming to like the idea of a society without the rigid caste system that made the Bennets seem like such a bad bet, marriage-wise, in Regency England.

My guys, Last Part!

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Sidney Reilly (Reilly, Ace of Spies): My newest guy, the superspy of World War I and precursor of James Bond (Fleming modeled Bond at least partly on a biography of Reilly). I brought him in from his execution at the end of "Shutdown," after a few months in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. So he's an older, seasoned, cynical spy.

Reilly is Russian-born, to a respectable middle-class family. He was close to his mother, but his father was a bigot and a blowhard, and the revelation after his mother's death that Sidney was the product of an affair with her doctor blew their relationship to pieces. At 16 he staged his death by drowning and reinvented himself in South America as Sigmund Rosenblum, where the head of MI-5 found and recruited him. He was raised Christian (I infer from his familiarity with Christian liturgy in the movies) but is half-Jewish - Rosenblum is the doctor's name - something he has occasional trouble reconciling. He seldom lets anything ruffle his smooth exterior, but racism and anti-Semitism invariably get a wince from him.

He's a ladykiller, but sucks at establishing lasting emotional bonds with a woman. He was fairly recklessly in love with his first wife, but his work-related secrecy drove them to separate after a year of marriage. He reconnected with his half-sister Anna, possibly incestuously, shortly thereafter and reversed course, telling her everything; the tailspin that caused drove Anna to commit suicide. Thereupon he got cynical about women. We see him use countless women as part of his plots, and he married his second wife strictly for political gain. His third wife Pepita he married only a month or two before his imprisonment and death; I'm inclined to think he does love her, but by that point has his life pretty fully compartmentalized.

By the point where I took him, he's been through two wars (the Russo-Japanese War and WWI) and the rise of the Bolsheviks, and "cynical" is a pretty concise term for him. He appears, to have no loyalty or commitment to any agency, government or person. But in the end he does commit himself to avenging his friend Savinkov's murder, and goes to his death to achieve that end. And his Russianness does keep pulling at him no matter where else his life takes him.

I haven't really started playing Reilly at Hogwarts yet, but as of his Sorting he is mixing in to the Grant/Thorn doppelganger subplot that's been brewing since the bodyswitch modplot - Reilly being a third Sam Neill character.

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

Well, I['m still tchnically on hiatus, but I'll aswer this anyway, since I hope I can be around mre now that performances have started.

Tyrion: I fell in love with the "A Song of Ice and Fire" books because of Tyrion, and I think I play him more or less canonically--exept for the, y'know, uncanonical dwarfcest. He's snaky, he's ambitious, and he's crude, and that mkes him fun to play.

Samwell: I have a serious soft spot for geeks and underdogs, and Samwell is definitely one of those. I think he's fairly canonical, although the crack I keep threatening him with certainly isn't. ;)

Molly Weasley: Man, I love this woman. I think she's probably a tad OOC, because she certainly would be a lot more shrill and disapproving if she were really canonical. That said, she's so much fun to play, and I mis the days of terrorizing new applicants to H_H by having her show up at sortings.

Jo: I started out laying her fairly close to canon. Then she discovered dildoes, and, well, now canon has kind of disappeared. That said, I love her naivetee, and I can't wait until she and Laurie can have actual adentures.

Bothari: He's probably the hardest character to play, because he's such a complex man. He's definitely crazy, but he's very loyal and seems to need to have someone to depend on him. This is why I've had difficulty doig much with him at H_H.

Martine: I don't have a handle on her, and she's kind of an introvert, at least in the beginning of her canon, which pretty much threw her into a situation she wasn't prepared to deal with. That's sort of how Hogwarts has been for her, too. She's also my newest pup, and I didn't get much of a chance to get a handle on her voice before RL intrude.

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I play Kisame as a very polite fellow, with an underlying appreciation for bloodshed and savagery. If you're rude, he'll tell you so, then contemplate whether or not to shave your face off. He loves challenges and finds different people fascinating.

I've loved him since I played the fourth Naruto game for Gamecube. He was an awesome, polite psychopath with a sword that shaved people.

It's been a while since I've read the most recent Kisame chapters, but I think I characterize him reasonably accurately.

Cammy, Tako, and Carmen

[dinosaurman.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I can't believe I have ten characters already. I think I'll start with the ones that take up the least amount of brain space and move on.

Cammy White: I don't think Cammy has much of a future outside of the snack food business. As much as I love the character, I could never get into her head.

Tako: Tako is like the HH equivalent of getting drunk and heading to a tattoo parlor. After staying up all night, you wake up in the morning with a pounding headache and a new character, with no idea of how it got there. Tako is from Deep Fried Live (http://www.8legged.com/), a very entertaining and educational web cartoon. Here, Tako's mostly for the crack.

Carmen Sandiego: Carmen doesn't get as much love as she deserves, but I'm trying to fix that. She's a very confident woman, in both her physical qualities and her mental ones. I'm playing her mostly from Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? because I grew up watching that, and she is a main character with a defined personality, instead of a mysterious woman that the player hardly ever meets.

Roxy, Oliver, and Dieter

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These three are all pretty easy to write for since they each have a very one-dimensional personality. While they may not be flat cardboard cutouts, each has a certain character trait that outshines everything else about the person.

Roxy: When I was 11 or 12, I picked up my first issue of Gen 13, and Roxy was love at first sight. She was the teenager I wished I could be. She's snarky, rebellious, and fun-loving. Roxy's not stupid, but she says dumb things, because at 15 she says everything that pops into her head. I'm taking her from the very beginning of her canon, where she's insecure, abrasive, and hasn't learned how to live with other people. Roxy's also ashamed of growing up in poverty, but I haven't had much opportunity to cover that.

Oliver: What I said about Oliver before still stands true. He's a person who can only keep one thought in his head at a time, and most of the time, that thought is Quidditch. However, when he gets something else in his head, he will pursue it doggedly. While he may not have much in the way of social graces, Oliver's probably a brilliant strategist, at least in Quidditch. He appears to have been chosen as Captain ahead of Charlie Weasley, who was still playing at Hogwarts when Oliver became Captain.

Dieter is very good at what he does, and he does two things: tennis and sex, and maybe not in that order. That's really all there is to say about him.

Ellie

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To be honest, I picked up Ellie to fix the giant freakin' hole in Grant's backstory that I had to dance around to avoid creating backstory for another character. However, I really, really like her as a character, too. In movie canon she seems smart and witty and warm. I was really surprised by the third movie, where she's married to somebody else. Since JP3 offered no reason for Ellie and Grant's breakup, I had to create my own.

Grant seemed to be a person who was happy with the status quo, and Ellie constantly wanted new experiences. I figure that after the Park, Ellie realized that life was short and she had better things to do with her time like watch paint dry than wait for Grant to change his mind. They broke up, but there were no hard feelings, since I think Grant realized that he couldn't give her what she wanted, so why should she stay?

Ellie seemed to suffer the least psychological trauma of the three adults at the Park, probably because of her ability to adapt to new things and bounce back quickly. She met a nice man, started a family, and wrote a book. However, she is the one who's having the hardest time at Hogwarts. She's cut off from her family, which is her support system. While Grant is her best friend, she feels that a certain level of trust has been betrayed, because he spent a few days with her during the summer without telling her about Hogwarts and what he'd been doing there. She's got so many reason that she's mad at Ian that she needs a list.

While Ellie is normally a cheerful and social person, she's taking to hiding in her room or spending time at the bar to avoid dealing with the reality of Hogwarts. After Halloween and eating a magical chocolate that made her naked, who could blame her?

Provenza

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Provenza hasn't even made it out of his Sorting yet, but I've got some thoughts on him. Provenza is the class clown of The Closer. He's the old (but not wise) cop who's been there and seen that so many times that the only thing left to do is crack jokes.

Provenza does not react well to change in any way, shape, or form, but he is able to hide any discomfort or concern under a cloak of pervy snark and indifference. He likes to do things his way and the old way.

While Provenza might not show much initiative, he does throw himself into any task that he feels is worth his time. In canon not only is he a good cop, morally, but a good cop, professionally. He's got a knack for it. However, after being around for so long, he knows that somebody else can go running around. He'll get there eventually, and usually with a lot less fuss.

He's also got a soft spot, but only a few people know about it. Provenza admires competence, and once he sees that in a friend or leader, he's loyal. Brenda is probably the only person he's worked with who's seen that softer side. Provenza also has kids, and I'm guessing grandchildren. While there might be no love lost for his ex-wives, he loves his kids.

Round 1!

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I've loved Squee since I randomly found Squee's Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors at the library when I was... fourteen? Maybe fifteen. It took a couple of rereads to warm up to the Vasquez-style humour, but I got hooked pretty quickly. He's the easiest character for me to play, and his freakouts are a blast to write. The only problem I have with him is that I'm never sure if he's being too twitchy, or not twitchy enough. In canon he has good reason to be paranoid, since horrible stuff happens to him all the time, but he deals with the horrible stuff pretty well in his own way. His perpetual bad luck doesn't apply so much at HH, since he's made a couple friends and has a surrogate if psychotic family that actually cares about him. He was pretty starved for attention/affection at home, and having friends and nice people who aren't automatically doomed to explode or be eaten by rabid chihuahuas has been good for him. Sooo... I guess he's mostly the same (I hope), but paranoid and twitchy about slightly different things? He's also more used to hanging around with homicidal maniacs XD

Playing Shmee is all about taking Squee's train of thought and running in the totally opposite direction with it. One of these days I have to sit down and do a serious write-up on what I think Shmee actually is (curse you, vague canon!) since I've mostly been playing him by ear, but the short version is that he is the same kind of headvoice that affected Devi and Johnny, but he's feeding off Squee's mental trauma and fear instead of his creativity, and since Squee has enough fear to feed an entire third-world country for a decade, their relationship is symbiotic instead of parasitic. Otherwise, he's a snarky, cynical little lint-infested bastard who's a fun contrast to Squee's innocence. And I have to make him poke Squee more about lighting stuff on fire, dammit.

... ok, that's all for now. I wrote this on the ad breaks between the Daily Show and Colbert Report, and I need sleep ^^;

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Aayla: After several rereadings of her canon and lots of RPing with her in the past few months, I think I have a better grip on Aayla than I did when I was starting out, which is a good thing. She's a strong character with some initial complications on her path to becoming a Jedi (very nearly eaten by a Wampa as a kid, fighting against the Twi'lek female stereotype, drugged and enslaved by her uncle, falling to the Dark Side before she got her memory back) but once she worked past those issues she was a very strong Jedi. And then she died. Here, I played it so she wouldn't remember because she was so moody all the time in the other RP I was using her on where she did remember dying. And then I found my feet with her and decided that yes, she's strong enough to find out what happened and move on, with a little help from Josh (Thanks, Lizzy!) And she's even more at peace now that she knows what happened to at least some of her friends (thanks to Han, Mara, and Galadriel.) I feel like she's had enough time to recover from that and will be throwing her back in to H_H soon.

Chiana: After yet more rewatching of her canon, there's stuff I want to emphasize with her but haven't yet had the chance too. She likes pretty things, she likes causing trouble, she likes sex, and she's not dealing as heavily with her grief as she was when I first applied with her. It doesn't mean that she doesn't get drunk and mopey, but she's dealing. Something I want to expand on is that she's actually this caring, loyal person when she bonds with people. And of course, she's thrilled, amused, and confused as hell that one of her friends from before when I'm playing her from is here.

Osaka: At times she's incredibly easy for me to play, and at times I can't get into her head because she's just so random. Which is why I love her, of course. She's this naive, constantly daydreaming girl with insane leaps of logic and a love of marine biology. And now, a fear of zombies. I need to use her more, especially since now two of her buddies are here.

Janet: Initially apped because it was her or Teal'c and I could show some of my medical geekiness with her. Also, she talks more than Teal'c. I'm again playing her from her from the end of her canon (so she's dead.) She's not terribly angsty about being dead. She initially thought of it as sort of awkward. And she and Daniel are now together (which isn't technically SG1 canon, but was something the actors thought up to amuse themselves.) She's still adjusting to that, since her previous marriage wasn't a good one (I've made my version of how that went, compiled from actual canon and quotes from Teryl Rothery to flesh out the character, wherein she got married straight out of high school mostly to spite her parents, kept expecting her husband to change, and divorced his ass in favor of the Air Force paying for med school.) And partially because of that, she hasn't really dated since (the other reasons would be her career and adopted daughter) and is very, very out of practice. But hey, she's getting better. Also, now Sam's here, which is great because they're best friends. So yes, dead but happy.

(continued in the next post)

pt. 2: Valentine, Arya, Leia, Toki, Rogue, Joscelin

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Valentine: He differs from his canon in that he hasn't killed anyone at Hogwarts. He's still a creepy, drugged-out, sociopathic, creep. Something that I kept in to give him that occasional hint of extra-creepiness is that the esper drug he took in his canon, while burned out upon his death, was taken in strong enough doses so that once he's properly wasted he can see auras. I haven't done this since his Sorting because he's trying to ration his drugs. He's incapable of actually caring for people, though Carrie, Rose, and Tyrion amuse him. And I think he's secretly jealous of Damien because he's the Antichrist.

Arya: A very, very troubled little girl. In her canon, she went from being a sort of wild kid with typical kid problems (a sister, mother, and tutor who didn't understand her lack of ladylike-ness) to being on the run, desperate enough to kill people, and angry enough that every night she reminds herself of people she wants to die for what they've done. She's happy to have at least some of her family back at Hogwarts (especially Jon Snow). She feels this mix of pride and guilt for having killed people: on the one hand it's kept her alive, and on the other she knows that her family doesn't remember her that way and she's scared of what they'll think (especially Sansa and Cat.) And the fact that Cersei's here, with no way for Arya to kill her, is driving her crazy. She's also a little weirded out that people she doesn't know care about her here (Lily, Laura, Ray.)

Leia: I need to do more with her. She's such an awesome character in her canon, and I hate ignoring her here. She and Han bicker because they love each other.

Toki: Another character that it's either absurdly easy or very hard for me to play, depending on my mood. It's honestly sort of hard finding a solid base for him. He likes guns, blood, metal, model planes, his teddy bear, and apparantly likes candy enough that he's given himself diabetes. I'm trying to avoid some of the fandom cliches that I've seen, which is that he's a candy-addicted, completely naive and innocent guy, which he's not. Okay, he's sort of naive and unobservant, but that's at least partially due to his not-wonderful grasp of English. (I've decided that in regards to the candy, he ate it because they kept giving it to him, and now that he can't have it without fear of a diabetic coma he wants it.) I agree with another Metalocalypse writer that he's trying to make up for a shitty childhood by enjoying all that crap now that he's rich and doesn't have his creepy parents staring at him. I've also decided that while he's a pushover when it comes to Dethklok, he will lash out at any threat he percieves to himself. He tries to get respect from others and doesn't succeed a whole hell of a lot, so Cersei thinking he's metal is a huge ego boost to him. So yeah, he's an oblivious overgrown spoiled kid.

Rogue: In her canon, she's had a rough life. She spent several years under Weapon X and honestly thought that she would die there. Her time there didn't leave her the most stable person, and she spent a brief period of time as an anti-human terrorist. She calmed down, had two boyfriends (though one of them ended up absorbed), and in her canon is now deeply unhappy because of the return of her absorbing powers and Xavier's apparent death. So the way I'm playing her, she's desperate enough to be able to touch people safely that she's willing to try magic. She still views her powers as immensely useful, so she doesn't want them completely gone, but she wants them controlled. She's happy to have made a couple of friends thus far, and I need to use her more to see how she'll continue to deal with things.

Joscelin: I haven't done all that much with him, and sadly despite a reread of his canon I can't get into his head anymore. I think he'll probably be going the Way of the Kernal in the not-too-distant future to make room for someone else.

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Neal:

I try to play Neal a close to cannon as possible. He's a little snarky, a bit of a know it all, and a bit of a showoff, but good at heart. If anything, I've deviated on the side of him not being oppinionated enough - I'm not entirely sure that cannon!Neal would have backed down from the idea of squibbing Pollution so quickly, for example. I'm playing him from the end of Lady Knight, the last book in which he's a major character.

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Digger:

Digger's, well, the most grounded of my characters. She's rather hard to faze - if you've read her comic, you can see that she's seen more than her share of really odd things, already, and she tries not to let it get to her. Probably a good thing, seeing as she's in the House known for insanity, above and beyond the rest of the school. I'm also not sure I've done justice to her dislike for gods in general, but then, the only god she's had any interaction with is Josh, and it's hard to genuinely dislike Josh.

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Malingo:

I'm still getting my bearings with Malingo. He's sweet, and rather unworldly, and eager to please - that much I think is coming through well, and it's canon.