QUESTIONS MEME

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THE QUESTIONS MEME

A first big 'n successful round of apps has concluded and the game is getting off to a roll - since there are always brains to be picked and new pals and acquaintances to be made, how's about we all play a little getting-to-know-you game?

HOW TO PLAY:
• Leave a comment below with your name and the characters who you play.
• Respond to others' comments with questions - they can be about their characters, their current in-game plans or things they'd like to play, their CR, RP in general, their canons and fandoms, or most anything else.
• Answer questions you've received! Keep it short or TL;DR to your heart's content, depending on how much you have or are in the mood to say!
• After each answer you give, ask a question back to the person who answered you. Keep the thread of questioning up for as long as both parties are game!
• Go for it - make friends, make new plans, make anything you like!

Comments

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Tell me your favorite fact about Kanji you like the best, and then tell me one of your headcanon facts about him cause I'm always super curious about headcanon ideas people have and like little quirks that go beyond the games

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I wanna say my favorite thing about him is his heart. He helped that kid with the lost toy in his social link for one thing, but if you really talk to folks around the shopping district both before and just after you rescue Kanji, you learn SO MUCH MORE about his impact on them. The elders for the most part love the guy (Shiroku notes how he nabbed a young shoplifter and directed him back to the shop to return the item AND apologize for instance), and just worry about him.

It's also in the way he treats his mom: He's coarse and tells her to sit her ass down and take a break so he can do the lifting and the work, but then he makes her hot water bottle cozies and all sorts of other things to help make her life easier. She finally has her baby boy back. I feel like Kanji is aware, and yet not aware, of how important it is that he changed for the sake of his mom. Having an elderly mom can be really, REALLY tough.

As for headcanons, the one that immediately pops to mind for me is something I intend to explore in Prismatica: Kanji's spent years at this point being true to himself and having people get to know him. He's his own natural self, sensitive but strong.

But... intimacy. The most vulnerable way you can be with someone. His shadow begged and pleaded someone, anybody to accept him for who he is and he's interested in the idea of being intimate, but his problems would be twofold: Kanji knows he's a big, still-scary-looking dude and wonders if he'd even be attractive to somebody. The other problem is, how can he research more about sex without being seen as a creep or worse, naive?

Because in all stories, you see, the guy always has to make the first move. The guy has to make all the calls. He also has to be an expert, and on top of everything else it's supposed to be amazing from the first word go. Kanji feels like he's back on square one, and is extremely nervous about the whole thing. He's not an expert, he shouldn't make ALL the calls!! What should he do!? Will he disappoint his sex partner? Will they leave? God, what if he's so bad at it he hurts them? What if, on the other hand, he's TOO gentle and boring?

So toxic masculinity and the expectations laid upon a sexually-active man would be another hurdle in his growth, and I'm thrilled to explore it.



This got big. So anyway, right back at you! I confess to never having played Persona 5, but I don't care about spoilers. What drew you to Ren, and what sorts of headcanon do you have for him?