RP meme, stolen from sort of everybody...

[yakalskovich]

A. Has my portrayal of a character(s) changed the way you think of him/her?
(This one is a question from me to you!)


B. Pick one of my characters and I'll answer the following questions about him or her.
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What’s their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?


C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I'm in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching/reading, and why!

Comments

[ashen_key]

A: Donovan! You've made him a person! An actual person with preferences and personality and it's a lovely, lovely thing to see.

B: Hmmmmmm, Teja.

C: Supernatural.

(bonus D: your tag in our OOM? I literally burst out laughing at it. Just, *gleees*)

A, C, D

[yakalskovich]

As for A and D: Thanks! I do my best. And I couldn't play anybody who wasn't a person. Also, characters round out while they are being played, especially those that were a bit flat, or just a bunch of wet feathers. That's true for Teja, too. He comes from his canon complete with worldview, backstory full of unspeakable WOE, great skills, and a very defined personality -- but the moment he got into non-canonical situations in Milliways, he had to show varied and appropriate reactions. Nobody can stay that serious, grim, and woeful forever. Not when there are cats. So he didn't.-

C: Fandom comments on Supernatural
I'm still watching. In fact, I've just downloaded the current episode and will watch the current episode when I get back from the necessary expedition into the rainy world outside. But I'm one of the people who don't know if the epic angels-and-demons arc was a good move, and I would be very put off if God really ended up a played character on that show. Conversely, though, I do like Castiel very, very much and see some potential for slashy subtext between him and Dean. Supernatural's producer's being wise to fan culture, and very, very meta, I still suspect that they put that in on purpose to offer an alternative to all that unspeakable, character-inappropriate Wincest. Also, the original explanation at the beginning of season 4 ('Dean was raised by the angel of Thursday because there must be SPN on a Thursday as another season was commissioned by the network, and we totally ran out of other reasons at the end of season 3') is still hilarious, even though now superseded by a complex, emerging mytholgy.

B

[yakalskovich]

B: Teja
1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for? His people -- those he loves, those he has promised his loyalty to.
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why? Rape anybody. Even in a setup where one of the inventive monsters from Jason's world held a gun to his head. Or even held a gun to somebody else's head. Just no.
3. What do they dream about? The past and the future. Teja canonically has prophetic dreams that come true.
4. What’s their biggest fear? At the moment, in Milliways? That one day, Charlie's door will go away and he'll never see his beloved again. Canonically, I'm afraid, Teja was afraid of nothing.
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why? His harp. Canonically, his harp and his battle axe, as they define who he is. But now, he has so many weapons, and several axes, so he'd part with his original battle axe for a good reason. In fact, he has both of them twice, as he faded in Carlotta's world and came back in from his death, so he'd part with one instance of his harp, but not the second. One of them, he would keep under all circumstances.
6. What is their fondest memory? From his life? Nights in Rome in the ruined park he liked to haunt, with Adalgoth, making music. From Milliways, it might be that one time in the forge, with Charlie, when they first spoke of love.
7. What is their worst memory? Myrtia's death, closely followed by Totila's death, and the massacre at Cumae. The things he suffered as a child while in the 'care' of monks and priests in Rome, he has successfully pushed down a hole in his mind where they exist as a theoretical, philosophical evil, not a personal painful memory.
8. What or who was were their most significant influence? Expound. Old Hildebrand, who saved him from the monks in Rome as a child, and instilled that sense of duty in him, and of destiny, and of very, very long-range planning for the worst. Teja is nothing near as stone-age conservative as Hildebrand, but the strict demands Teja makes on himself come from that old man (who is already ancient when the book starts in 526, and still alive and fighting beside Teja in battle in autumn 552, so he must be something like a very sprightly 140...)
9. What do they believe makes a successful life? Keeping one's word, and keeping those that rely on one safe.
10. What makes them laugh? Canonically: only battle, or his own cynical comments. In Milliways, it's Carlotta murdering the Latin language, and Sameth's brilliant non-descriptions like "Baseball is very similar to cricket, but also completely different."
11. What are their religious views? Strict, angry atheist of the Dostoevsky (or more precisely, Ivan Karamasov) school. Poor Castiel recently caught the brunt of that. I don't know what Teja will do when he finally realises Castiel is an angel, but I do feel it will be remarkable.
12. What is their greatest strength?That he fears nothing, hopes for nothing, and has nothing to lose, canonically.
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it? That he fears nothing, hopes for nothing, and has nothing to lose. Canonically, that means he doesn't even dare hope that he can save his people, even though he saw the very end, and his own dirge, in a dream. Nobody is more surprised than Teja when Narses lets the Goths go away with the Vikings.
14. Who is the most important person in their life? Totila
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die? He did die, heroically in battle saving everybody else, and the one to miss him most was Adalgoth, canonically so.