http://so-saturnalian.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] so-saturnalian.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] goshdarnspam2010-06-04 09:36 pm

not!meme~

Because I wondered this sometime yesterday night and it's been a not!meme idea ever since:

Why do you play the character(s) you play? Did you pick them up on a whim, is there anything in particular about their personality you love? Or are you just good at them and decided to run with it?

[identity profile] soonillbe.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Am I really the first person to do this.

Uh, I dunno why I play Hiei really. I guess I'm just good with him. I hope I'm good with him sobbing

As for Ness, I play him because he gives me warm fuzzies. Just looking at his bright and shining little face.

[identity profile] pas-de-ducks.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
WARM FUZZIES REPRESENT /brofist

[identity profile] ajrimmer-ssc.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
FFFF welp. Basically I'm a giant nerd who loves her fandom with the passion of a thousand burning suns. And Rimmer has always been my favorite, so it was an easy choice.

Typically I pick cowardly men and brassy/outspoken women. I fully blame Terry Pratchett for this tendency.

[identity profile] spacetimeprime.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Mog was my intro 'get a feel of the game' character.

Vector has been a strong muse for about three years, and I really wanted to play off the idea of demi-stuck-in-mortal-body-gdammit.

Ganondorf was 'coz I wanted a villain. >>
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[personal profile] notsoloyal 2010-06-05 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I play Shockwave because he's my favorite. He also made me not hate purple. I seem to be drawn to British and/or scientist characters. So maybe that's why. idek.

Billy is somewhat because I'm an idiot, he's adorable, I'm apparently good at playing him, and because I am a fan of his VA.

Cheshire is because I have a thing for cats, and the Wonderland books are my favorite. I'll pretty much pick up any version of him. Might have gone with murder version this time because I kinda miss playing Violator.

Basically I have little idea as to why I play who I play.

[identity profile] stillawitch.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
but where's the ACTUAL meme D:

WELL I first looked into playing Wanda because the game I was in at the time wanted one >_>a but after immersing myself in her canon and doing a couple of in-depth character studies, I've fallen in love with her story and character and I really can't imagine ever not wanting to play her.

It helps that I have the actual best Pietro ever to play off of.

[identity profile] hesakillerqueen.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
I would have put up a legit meme but I'm waiting on cooldown

[identity profile] darkprophecies.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I play Raven here because I've played her for... over a decade in other places (consecutive in one). Although I initially picked her up because I found her fascinating, because she's such a powerful character but doesn't often show/use that power. She had an awesome backstory, and her mother came from a family a lot like mine, so I could identify with her backstory TO A DEGREE.

After so long of playing her, I think it's honestly altered how I handle things in real life. I do them in a more 'Raven like' way. Now she's the first person I think to apply for... anywhere.
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[personal profile] goryteller 2010-06-05 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
HELL YEAH hotel internet. 8D

I've actually wanted to play Katurian since I first saw the play three years ago, but was never sure what I'd do with him. I realized on one of those wonderful enabling memes (THANK YOU, GREER) that if I played him, I'd get to write obnoxiously depressing fairy-tales for funzies. 8] Sold.
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[identity profile] badumtish.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
I JUST ENABLED YOU BY OFFERING A CANONMATE which i dropped pretty quickly

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[identity profile] easyopentabs.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
After I fell in love with Princess Tutu I fell in love with Rue shortly after, and she has been one of my favorite characters ever since. So, when the Tutu cast migrated over from the dressing room, of course I was going to keep playing her here.

Also I just kind of love crazy female villains.
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[personal profile] trueltning_fury 2010-06-05 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
I've been playing Geddoe longer than I've been in C&C...he was my first RP character ever. I picked him up in [livejournal.com profile] suiko_rpg because they didn't have one and certain characters important to him were ICly asking for/hoping for him. Turns out I really find him awesome and after repeated playthroughs I pulled out all sorts of nuances of his character and backstory that made him an enjoyable grumpypants to play. So when suiko started to ebb I brought him over here.

Alastair is just...god, I am one of few fans of the Doma season and storyline in the YGO anime, and I always loved him. Particularly as a foil for Kaiba. I was only just dorking around dressing room-type places with him until xepi caught me on...i think it was app_this_plz or something and said there was a good cast at C&C. Lo and behold, here I am.

I actually debated for six months whether to bring in a second character, and who. About the time I finally decided to go for it, I fell hardcore for One Piece. I was torn between Sanji and Zoro...and maybe Luffy. I can't do Luffy, I would have to be smarter than I am to play that dumb. I like Zoro. But I saw the greatest opportunity for CR and shenanigans if I played Sanji.

[identity profile] prodigitalson.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Once every year and a half or so I get brained with a character--inevitably either a doomed mentor figure or a self-destructive antihero of some sort--who I then need to play to get the urge out of my system. Right now Keith is it. There are a bunch of factors that decide whether or not a character is eligible for winding up in this role. Keith fits about six or seven of eighteen points I've identified (as opposed to my last guy, who fit thirteen or fourteen, but he was a special case).

Gates I play because there's always something to do with him and he's a lot of fun. See, I don't always overanalyze ridiculously. Only sometimes.

[identity profile] loltraitorlol.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Initially, I started playing Starscream because I wanted to have an account to troll my old game's spam comm with, and because he was my favourite character from The Movie. It was honestly just a whim. I started playing him in CnC because I wanted a challenge and I thought he'd fit here.

As time's gone on, though, the reason I think I was drawn to Starscream was because of his dogged persistence and his cocky arrogance. He may be an utter bastard and a complete failure at life, but no matter what, he never gives up. There's something twisted-yet-inspiring about that to me, and sometimes it helps me to play someone who is so blind to his own flaws that he doesn't know when to quit. Lord knows that I try to quit too easily sometimes.

... yeah idk.

Teel Dears!

[identity profile] shockheadedpete.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I have no idea.

I first picked up Top 10, because I had the same haircut as Robyn Slinger at the time, and I thought she looked cool, but during my first read of the series my favorite character was Kemlo Caesar, a talking dog in a cybersuit. I read the series as trades, and for some reason it was very difficult to get volume two at the time (I think it had just come out, and I had to order the hard cover at great expense from Amazon). While I was waiting, I read volume one (which is issues 1 through 7) over a few times, and somewhere in there I fell in love with Pete.

Pete is a very dividing character among fans of the series. You can tell from the letters to the editor in the backs of the issues and in reviews of the series. People either really identify with him, or find him completely repulsive. I won't go into the psychology behind that, but let's just say I find it...telling. What I have always loved the most about Pete is that he is a very very human superhuman. He is, let's face it, the kind of superhero most people would actually be: horribly flawed, but no necessarily a bad person.

I've been roleplaying for years (you can see my character list at [livejournal.com profile] iplayedthem), and I've always mentioned the Top 10 series in "why doesn't anyone play these characters?" memes, but I'd never played in a setting that I thought Pete would fit. I started off playing in third person "trapped on a" type games, and I'm not sure if people notice, but I find Pete very difficult to write in the third person (see: I don't log much). There are characters I can write in the third person without thinking about it; fanfics on them just spew out of me like someone else is writing them and I'm just channeling it, but Pete has never been like that. I switched for a while to prompt-based games, and it's just too big of a suspension of disbelief to think that Pete would keep a diary, much less an online diary. I had a bad experience with a character in one of those games, and jumped ships for the unmoderated waters of sixwordstories, where I played for about three years.

When the second season of Top 10 came out, and had such a strong storyline attached to Pete, I knew it was time to write him. I started him at sws, and actually attracted a few castmates, but never felt fullfilled: I wanted a more structured universe to play him in, so I searched for superhero-based games, with lots of robots in them that he could butt up against, and here I am!

[identity profile] badumtish.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
WELL I first learned about Danny due to the /co/ board on 4chan. I was still fairly new to comics and was looking for something to read, and there was a suggestion board up. They recommended Immortal Iron Fist, I downloaded the first issue, saw the gorgeous art and shirtless man (I AM SHALLOW, I ADMIT IT) and I was sold.

Ever since then, Danny's been my favorite character and Iron Fist has been my favorite series. I've reread Immortal Iron Fist god knows how many times (I used to read it every night for canon review) and have used it to teach the principles of comics to my comic book group.

Danny was my first character, not only on LJRP but in... fandom RP in general. I've only been playing him since... idk last July? I was pretty bad when I first started, remained bad, came here, was slightly-less-bad, got meh again, and now I'm hoping I'm... finally okay with him.

As for Baroona, well. In 10th grade I discovered Ares on the website onemanga. It had... I think 117 chapters then? I don't remember. It had a lot, is all. I started reading it, was intrigued by how different the art was, and then fell in love with the series once I saw how the fight scenes were illustrated. Unfortunately, after I got into it, the group that was scanlating it... stopped and the series was basically dead for... over a year or two? Luckily, I had downloaded all the volumes (the series was complete in the Raw version), but sadly... I don't know Korean and had no idea what was happening.

So I lost interest in Ares until recently, when a new scanlation group picked it up again. Then, I renewed my love for both the series, and Baroona and got the idea to throw him in here for the LOLs. I also wanted to try out a historical character, and see how much trouble they'd have adjusting to a place so advanced to them. I really wanted to have a character that would see the world in a much... idk... different view. One that was more childlike and accepting-but-not at the same time.

Also, there was and still is the potential for a lot of funny scenarios with him.
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[personal profile] liverletdie 2010-06-05 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Originally, I picked up Tony at another game on a whim, after a somewhat cracky conversation! He honestly wasn't my favorite Marvel character (spoiler: it was Namor) and I was kind of in the "Nooooo Tony you're evil" camp for a long time in the post-civil war stuff! Buuuut, well, I started reading his canon. I started liking his canon. I started playing him on a whim, but as I started to play and read, I started to really enjoy the character, mostly because he's like the polar opposite of me! He's so outgoing, clever, intelligent, and a fucking flirt, all of which I'm really...not? I kept playing him because he's a challenge, and he's fun as hell to write, if my log amounts say anything! ; ; He's the most difficult of my characters to play...thinking process wise. I do a lot of research into his interests, and try and emulate the way men think to get into his head more, which is really difficult. Also the fact that he's constantly horny makes him hard challenging to play, since I don't really know too many people like that!

Mara is my longest character, and she's one that I actually identify with the most, and I've loved her since I was an itty bitty reading Heir to the Empire under my bedsheets. :x I've played her in SEVERAL games, but actually...only recently has she gotten really solid CR, and I think it's because I started playing her from an earlier point where she's...feistier? :)

Mitch was one I considered for a while, and he is...well. A lot like me. I like writing him because he's a politician and I love politics (and study it!) so it's really fun for me to do!

Illidan was also one I tossed around here and there for a bit, and when we got a solid wow cast, I was sold! I like playing him because...I don't normally play people with extremely distorted views of reality? He's fun!

Aaaand Allison! I was told to app her by Gabbie and Sara. :| Then I read her canon to see if I should! I really liked her, and I don't normally play teenagers, so I thought it would be fun to do so! What draws me to her is that she's so much more simple than my other characters! She's still essentially a kid, and I really like it!

[identity profile] noelleno.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
It does show how much fun you have with Mitch and Illibutts I can tell 8V

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[identity profile] noelleno.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
I picked Blue Beetle as my first character when CNC opened because I was hideously obsessed with him back then. He was the first superhero teen I'd read whose life wasn't utterly ridden with angst, death, or some kind of parental abandonment/drama. He's...a loved child with a support system! And I like his morals (or I did...Idk what Teen Titans is doing with this boy anymo' I give up rofl).
I figured out of any of the people I was playing back then, he had the best odds of success in a superhero game (since he IS a superhero derp), and he gave me someone to fall back on when playing Deadpool was wiping me out. A little balance to the madness. :V

Soldier Blue is here because I am a huge retard for anime albinos and...sad people. Idek. His voice was a lot calmer and gave me a different outlet. It didn't click at first try, however, and I dropped him after a few botched threads that just left me a mess of nerves. After a couple more watches of the show, however, I found the drive again and gave it a second shot. I'm glad I did. He's actually my favorite muse at the moment, and has been for a couple months now! He's a lot less flat than when I first tried, I hope.
I play him to relax and plot something a lot more extensively. Out of all my muses, he's gone through the most (sorry Jaimekins), and he's still dynamic. I do enjoy.

I play Zelgadis because sometimes I just need to write somebody having a miserable life and being stupid about it. And he does this. The Slayers series is my favorite anime OF ALL TIME!!! kanye.gif and Zelgadis always charmed me. So moronically morose. So stupidly stubborn. So...........well. He was a boat anchor once.
I also play characters for shameless pairups and I will not feel guilty about that. He's just too easy to embarrass. And so long as those I'm playing off of enjoy it, I will continue to make him suffer.

Salaak is here because he is my favorite Lantern. I am stupid about logic and smartness, so idk why I'd think I'd do a good job, but I really just wanted a cranky alien to learn how to be human. :'| He is also an excuse to type something jerkish once in a while.


I played Superman because I adore what Superman represents and tries to be and I am a huge sap who bites off more than she can chew.
I played Slo-bo because he is adorable and underrated and his accent thrills me to no end. I wanted him to get more credit than the DCU ever even thought to give him.
I played The Phantom Stranger because I'm a huge idiot. If you don't remember, that's not a bad thing.
I played Jericho because he's adorable and I thought I could try my hand at that. It didn't stick too well here.
I played Rose because Dre played Jason. That's....that's why I apped her. Okay. I wanted to play with Dre. 8'| (AND I SHIP IT OKAY AND I WILL SHIP IT UNTIL DC SHIPS IT AND EVEN AFTER THAT)
I played Deadpool because I thought being a troll at KC would cross over to a srs game well. Nope.
I played Sena because Hiruma is so cool and I wanted to be a part of the cool. But then I was like "HAHA PRESSURE" and gave up.
GOD HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE I APPED IN THIS GAME JEEZ

[identity profile] littleprovolone.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
You know I love all of your people, Elle. I do I do. (HERE IS A SECRET: Zel's my favorite because he is so good at the suffering)

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[identity profile] taughttolisten.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I play Obi-Wan in part because of the prequels--if they did one thing well, they established that he's a hero in his own right, just as worthy of exploration as any of the established heroes. His voice has been more or less around since I saw Revenge of the Sith on its opening weekend. He also kind of fits a pattern, since I'm drawn to characters who somehow support the leads but may not get their due themselves.

And the fourthwalling is so much fun, you guys.

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[personal profile] satisfiedsigner 2010-06-05 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I think...because Kiryu's the character I identify the most with, period. And 5D's is just the best crack ever.

Kiryu comes really easily to me. There are some bits that are more difficult than others, like how outgoing he is /o\ but I get him. and he's really fun to play when he's doing more than just dorking around with his roommates (although that's fun too).

And I really love psychos and jerks and jerks who are psychos. so.
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[personal profile] hackeralastair 2010-06-05 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
And we wouldn't have it any other way. :D

[identity profile] supergabbie.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I was playing Norman somewhere else (though an AU Norman) and really interested in giving comics Norman a try... he's my favorite character in anything, ever, I just find him absolutely fascinating and I love nothing more than delving into his psychology and getting to play out how twisted he is. I always worry about doing him justice, but he's my favorite character to play (originally I apped him on a whim), and probably always will be. I love love love working with his motivations. I dunno, he's just really become my character. I'm attached to him, what makes him tick, why he does the things he does, why he doesn't go the route a lot of other similar personality-ed men do, what makes him different from other villains and what makes him alike to the people he despises. Etc.

Bob is similar -- my second favorite character, and I also kind of apped him on a whim (somewhere else) because I thought his character was fantastic and wanted to delve into his thought processes more. I love crazy characters, IDK. I think it's super interesting to play with what makes them that why and how their craziness works and manifests.

Felicia is one of my favorite female personality types -- strong, independent, self-aware, and flirty, and I wanted someone different than Norman to bounce off different types of people. Plus, I do really like playing girls... there are just not very many girls I feel comfortable/good at playing.

Chronos -- well, I love derpy characters, ahaha. Again, I wanted a different kind of character to bounce off different people, and I think derpy villains are fun because they have motivations, they're just kind of bizarre, and it's fun being able to work with them in this kind of atmosphere. Especially since his motivations stem from his wife wanting him to do things, so when she's not with him -- well, he just kind of... doesn't feel the need to do the same things. It wasn't that HE wanted to take over Gotham/have tons of money, that was stuff he did to make his wife happy. Devoted characters (see also: Bob) add another extra level of interest to me, IDK.

AND FINALLY ELECTRO. Well. Electro is one of my favorite Marvel characters, but I thought the developments he made in recent Spider-man canon were interesting to read and would be more interesting to delve into playing, as well. Because he is actually a rather... inconsistently written character, which delves into (in play) multi-facets that don't really all appear at the same time in one arc. So I wanted to play him and develop a deeper, more solid, consistent personality for him. Plus, anarchy is fun to write.

THE END TL;DR.

[identity profile] noelleno.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
gabbie
i do enjoy your felicia
do you enjoy having your felicia fight people
(played by elle)?

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[identity profile] wasalways.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
When I first came here, I applied for Renee Montoya for quite a few reasons. She is, actually, the reason I first got back into DC (I was strictly Marvel for a few years, after annoyance with some mishandling of my fave characters on DC's part). When 52 came out, I was reading it like a champ, and was enthralled by Renee's story. Immediately, I picked up Gotham Central, No Man's Land, and a bunch of other Bat stories and quickly began to relate to her as a queer POC with unaccepting parents. Her softness for women, her passionate friendships with men, her struggle with alcohol and her smartass tendencies make her such an appealing and accessible character to me that there's no way I won't try to apply for her again, as soon as I have time.

After I idled out due to inactivity and school, I came back as Princess Iolande from the Green Lantern Corps. After Katma Tui, she is tied with Arisia for my favorite GL girl. I love politics, and so does she, and she comes from a strict monarchy which I felt fun to play with. Her culture is much more conservative and also, on a whole, more collectivist, and I related MUCH more to her collectivist thinking than I did with Soranik's individualist thinking, even if the logical part of me sided with Soranik more on their debates. I figured she'd just be fun to play, and who else would play her? NO ONE THAT IS WHO.

I also love her arrogance, wut. And how well meaning of a place it comes from :) Her family tragedy unfolding before the reader made me very invested in her story.


I then got the balls to app Wonder Girl -- the Donna Troy Wonder Girl, that is. I have a huge love for Diana, Cassie and Donna, and I feel all three women are so mishandled in their respective canons and often want to write FOR them to do what I can with them. Donna grabs at me the most, particularly because I am a New Teen Titans fangirl, and I liked what a bundle of contradictions she is. Although I can't stand him, I do share a more Morrison-esque take on continuity, and find errors and contradictions can be interesting to play with when done right.

Donna's identity issues become a prime philosophical template for me to play off of, because your identity is so essential to the ID, the mind, and any internal worth you might have. I get to explore her confusion through her actions with others, and I love that Donna has this character that kind of evolved from a bubbly boy crazy teenage girl to a Mother-hen who is incredibly fierce, giving, and a great listener. She's sophisticated, cultured, but also very bratty and huffy at times. I like her temper, I like how understanding she is of other cultures and people, and I like the way she reaches out to amoral types without being a pure goody-two-shoes. She tries to appear perfect and is very dishonest about her flaws in representation, which she can get called out for, and I like her constant performance anxiety and stress over not letting people get to know her worst self so they won't leave her.

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[identity profile] wasalways.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
I was torn on where to take her from, because as much as I hate how mishandled she's become, it's interesting to explore Donna Troy as the widowed wife and bereaved mother -- a total deconstruction of the perfect girl she was SUPPOSED to be. She tried to settle down early, have a kid, give up all of her powers and superheroing to stay in the kitchen, was nice to everyone, and it still all kind of turned to crap. Her current temper is not hidden anymore and she can be just downright mean and cranky.

tl;dr I love Donna even though she is possibly the female character I make fun of the most in DC. How can you not? She is a walking continuity error.

Jean Grey had been someone gnawing at me FOREVER. I am absolutely in love with her character, and I had to do some huge canon review before I could try to do her justice. I like how moody she can be. I like her emotions, I like her "vanilla" side that people seem to think is one dimensional, I like her girl-next-door attitude, I like her sisterly bonds and I love how all of this masks much darker qualities. She sought out power, she let it corrupt her. She likes a certain type of attention. What she did to Emma's mind was not ethical in the least, and it's those few human bonds that she has that let me explore such low depths of selfishness and wrath and such high highs of altruism, brotherly love, and compassion that she is capable of.

Also, existentialist issues up the wazoo, and identity issues. Come to think of it, Donna, Jean, Renee and Iolande all have huge identity issues and are torn between being two people.

[identity profile] bluffing-ruffle.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
I picked up Godzilla because I love the movies and wanted to see if the mods would let me play something so off-the-wall. There's just something fun about running with an iconic loose cannon and I missed it from the first go-round.

Edgeworth came from my wanting to pick apart the character back in the PWDR days because his psyche is fascinating and I love getting in there and making a nest of it. Somewhere along the way though I developed a massive insecurity complex about playing him though and my interest in doing so waxes and wanes in massive swings. Some days I have ideas coming out of my ears and some days I'm just tired and want to drop him. I guess he probably feels the same way about himself, so at least it's IC.

Trowa... has pretty much always been my favorite GW character. For about a month I liked Duo best, because I thought Trowa was dull, and then it sort of... struck me how very complex the kid is. And how much of it I could relate to. So for, what, ten years now? Maybe more? I've loved poking round his head. It's Kit's fault I play him though. She kept after me to do so, in the earliest days of C&C. So I do.

And that's the end of that.
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[personal profile] trueltning_fury 2010-06-05 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you've never dropped Edgeworth because he's one of my favorite characters in the game and I stalk him so bad.

[identity profile] pas-de-ducks.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
yo I'm real happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Princess Tutu is the best magical girl of all time

OF ALL TIME.




Okay yes, I have a weakness for magical girls, but there is almost nothing about Princess Tutu that I don't love--and Duck herself is one of the sweetest and best-written variants on the trope I've ever come across. It is ridiculously fun to play someone with her cheerful attitude, determination, and HAY LETS BE FRENDS approach.

Not to mention I am a raging feminist advocate for stronger girls/women in my entertainment, so putting an anime in front of me where a princess explicitly says she wants to protect and rescue a prince is like giving me a chocolate-covered Natalie Portman. I CAN'T NOT PLAY WITH IT.

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... pretty much unrelated, but I think I need to get my love for your duck username off my chest itissomuchbetterthanmine

[identity profile] fated-end.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
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haha I almost didn't even try to enable you since I'm like... stupidly shy

SO GLAD I DID

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[identity profile] fromyourbones.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Lust was actually the first character I ever apped to a serious roleplay! idk, she just seemed like an easily writable FMA character, at the time (AND STILL, LOL) I loved the series so fucking much it was ridiculous, I love her and thought I would have fun with playing a slick badass sociopath! And I did! Which is why I'm still playing her now!

Riful I also have loved forever, and after I got a fucking dumbass (Senji) and a badass person who wasn't a babykiller (Atsuko) in, I figured I should play someone who was more... gleefully horrible? Her mannerisms and her love of allies and cheerfully amassing her giant lesbian harem............. I just love her okay. My favorite character type, in case you can't tell, is female villains who will just fuck with shit! My deepest regret was actually that... Lust and Riful... will never get to interact because I play them both ladskmdkmasmadsmmds. But Riful expresses her lady sociopathy differently than Lust does, and ultimately she's actually a lot more human a character than Lust is, and I really just wanted to be able to talk at length about eating people with smileyface icons okay you've got me.

Sooraya is. :/ I feel uncomfortably tokenistic about her pretty frequently, for good reason, but we had Steph's amazing Jay and I had just read New X-Men and the way people handled her was simultaneously so earnest and so fucking stupid, but she was so cute. And I really wanted to finally play a goddamn character from Marvel! I have never had a character before her who is just... withdrawn... and purely... nice to people for no ulterior reasons... and I wanted to see if I could do that! And now she is just really really fun to play! I've also never played a teenager before her, and the combination of typical teenage awkwardness and her profound discomfort with the world around her, and the way she plays the passive card while still being like NOPE SORRY NOT PUTTING ON A TUBE TOP I RESPECT YOUR OPINION BUT IT SUCKS really is fun to try and convey even though I fail at it. She's a survivor! And then she still has those moments where she's like I'M SORRY I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY JULIAN DERP DERP DERP and it's like, oh Sooraya. And okay, I do like fleshing her out, because after Young X-Men she has basically become cameo wallpaper LIKE HALF THE OTHER NEW X-MEN and I can compensate for that... by having her adopt a chinchilla.

[identity profile] uglyasssuit.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
TEE ON ANOTHER ACCOUNT... I have to say I really think you play Sooraya awesomely, okay, I actually really approve and like it lawkel;aweklawe you do it with sensibility and flesh her out so well and I just.

Like it.

And I think you know I share your love of Riful................alot...................

[identity profile] moveovergrissom.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
LOL OKAY SO

Mew I picked up ENTIRELY ON A WHIM. I fully intended to drop her after a couple months because lol who wants a humanized Pokemon around anyway. ELEVEN MONTHS LATER, I AM STILL PLAYING THE PINK THING AND HAVE SPENT WAY TOO MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT HER AND HOW HER BRAIN WORKS AND STUFF oh yeah the actual reason why I picked her up was just watching the movie and being like "Hey..."

Ravage! Teal got me into robots. We were talking. I mentioned I wanted to see a movieverse bot that uses lolspeak. I was directed towards SG!Ravage. I fell in love with the character. AND THE REST IS HISTORY.

Ema was... well, a rather spontaneous choice in the end. I played through the game and fell in love with her character and FUNFACT I WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO APP MAYA AND APP EMA AT ANOTHER GAME but that didn't come through

Regulus is the product of awful, awful enabling by olesia. And me being awkward on Christmas. But mostly the first thing, because the second is harder to explain.

I started off with Alucard but I sucked and exactly one year later we got like a bajillion more hellsingcast

[identity profile] littleprovolone.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
MARY! Mary is my first character at C&C and my first comic character ever. My experience in this format of rp was... uh... nil, and before that I had really only dabbled in Trigun (I blame whiz for EVERYTHING). When Whiz insisted that I join this, I had just finished reading Keith Giffen's run of "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League!" I knew that Mary Marvel, absolute airhead and sweetheart that she was, would fit in perfectly with this setting. It helped that I was more than a bit horrified in what happened to her character in Countdown, so I wanted to try to do right by her. I saw no reason that DC had to darken her up; there are plenty of dark characters in DC, and I think that 100% Good!Mary helps balance that out. Plus, I get to make her a bit of an idiot at times for teh lulz, which is always a bonus.

MAZA! Maza I was inspired to play when Andy told me he was going to app Goliath. It reawakened my deep love of Gargoyles, and since I have a love of rping badass ladies, she was the first to spring to mind. I had to canon-review, but it only made me love her more. She's smart as a whip, sassy, non-nonsense, tough, understanding, and an absolute firecracker. I knew that as a cop, she'd fit in pretty well, and I love exploring her character without the bounds of The Disney Censor. She's tremendous fun to play, especially when I get to pit her against some of the baddies. I have a personal weakness for banter. I love writing it so much, and she's a great way to snark on everything. It balances out the sweetness of Mary.

[identity profile] pas-de-ducks.livejournal.com 2010-06-05 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
LAIH IS MARY GOING TO PROM

why no this is not a shameless attempt to jam my hand in the CR cookie jar why do you ask

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