QUESTION MEME

[telltaleheart]

I WANT TO TOO, I HAVE BEEN WAITING. And Raven finally broke 7k! And Perscitia is... getting kind of close... to 2k... yeah you people with 10k comments in three months can just shut up.

Anyway, question meme. There have been developments. For King/Raven and Perscitia.

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[telltaleheart]

PERSCITIA DOESN'T REALLY... DEVELOP... IN CANON... okay that's not exactly true. But really she's a secondary character who's only in one book. :x And it is not that she personally develops so much as that circumstances change around her to suit her better, so she can take up a role she's more comfortable with.

Aather has kind of been the opposite? She continues to struggle with her circumstances, because the circumstances in which math and logic and strategy are helpful in Aather or in games are apparently limited, especially when you don't want to risk getting hurt. But she has been doing slightly better at actually bonding with people (even if it's still in a tsundere way) and at appreciating viewpoints other than her own on occasion instead of just thinking they're all stupid. She only actually demonstrates this with a few people though.

If you had to drop both of yours and app new people who would you app?

[sticksofthejedi]

H-hahaha it's not hard for me to answer this because I've been trying to decide which of three characters I want most for my next app anyway (I've given up on the idea that it wouldn't be right to app a third with the large app pool because it's staying fairly stable XD).

I'm kind of bouncing between:

-Maggie Mui, Read or Dream/R.O.D. the TV. Adorable, shy, klutzy bibliomaniac who will spaz out at...ninety percent of the games. And try adopting her team as a family. Will surprise everyone after skill gains as she reveals that despite her default clumsy pushover state, she's actually the strongest member of her party in canon, as well as a clear-thinker and reliable defender when something threatens the party. Also, paper manipulation and her skill at cooking would make for really cute team party posts.

-Molly Carpenter, Dresden Files. Canonically, a character of potential we are supposed to watch develop. We see her go from rebellious, impressionable teenager to an eager sidekick, to a competent and good-willed wizard, and now to a vigilante of questionable sanity. It'd be interesting to see what direction Aather events would take her. She's an illusion/mind magic specialist, which has fun play opportunities, and Automaton will hate her because technology tends to muck up around Dresdenverse wizards.

-Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...IT'S DATA 8D

Reverse?

[telltaleheart]

I HAVE ANSWERED THIS QUESTION BEFORE, it is actually much different than the question of who I am considering apping for my third (or really, when Perscitia good ends, because I don't want three), because if I had to drop everyone I would no longer play Raven, and I could app the people I wouldn't/couldn't play alongside him. :'D

So I would app Rita from Vesperia, who is actually my favorite character (she is the party's genius mage/researcher/inventor, and who Raven was referring to when he told Jaina he knew someone who would be really interested in her schematics) and potentially Battler from Umineko, although I am still working my way through the canon for that.

What teams do you think would be good fits for those three? I LOVE PLANING THE TEAM PLACEMENT GAME.

[sticksofthejedi]

I am bad at the team placement game because I'm horrible at figuring out team dynamics. However! I would guess that Maggie would work well on a team like Peridot, that I think likes to try being really super tight with each other.

Molly...since the fun with her is the way she changes her character with her environment, I couldn't say; she'd have interesting chemistry no matter what, for the most part. The main thing I'd be concerned about is when she regains her wizard's senses, she'd be terrified of characters like Lucifer, which would either play out really interestingly, or really badly. It'd be better off to have them cross paths than for her to try living with the Devil. XD

Data would be a blast on ANY of them, but I'd put him on a team like Emerald or Sapphire, where you've got someone with some kind of background in Awesome Mechanical Work, so that he can get fixed up when he needs it.

Since you're probably better at the team placement game, what teams would you put them on~

[telltaleheart]

I AM NOT SURE I AM ACTUALLY BETTER AT IT especially since I don't know the characters that well, but--

Maggie would probably fit in super well on Kunzite! Which kind of already is team family bibliomaniac secretly powerful as far as I can tell. Though because of that she might be more interesting on a team she had a little more conflict with, although I think Peridot might be a little too much conflict. She could also do pretty well on Amethyst! It would be interesting to have someone more actively friendly on the team.

Molly would potentially do well on Tiger's Eye but only if you wanted her to end up uncannily stable like the other people of questionable and changeable morality who are on it. Sapphire would also potentially work and probably give her more latitude. Or maybe Carnelian if you wanted to give her a variety of influences. :|a

Data I would put on Amethyst because they are team nerd. And he could be shocked when they are also team yandere. And team clone.

SINCE I DON'T PLAY A KNIGHT what are your opinions on playing a knight and how it is different from playing a team character? What character types work better, that sort of thing.

[sticksofthejedi]

Playing a knight...The main thing, to me, is picking the right character type. It seems to me like you need someone who either doesn't need the support of a team, or someone who can easily connect with pretty much anyone they come across. They need to be able to do their own thing, since who they're playing with in a game is pretty random. Character relationships tend to be a little different for Snake compared to Jaina simply in that his relationships tend to come around at a different angle -- someone with a responsibility to pretty much everyone, and who is approached by others looking for a job. Jaina feels a responsibility to help most people out regardless of team because she's a Jedi, and if she doesn't like someone she can just stay away from them; Snake feels a responsibility to pretty much everyone in Aather because he's taken a job and that's just part of getting a successful Mission Complete.

If your characters designed a game, what would it be?