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

[sometimespawnskillkings]

I can definitely understand that.

Because Temple doesn’t have much canon (he’s the main villain of s15 and only appears in that particular season), there is quite a bit of wiggle room in his characterization, and so I do worry that, even though my interpretation of Temple makes sense to me, someone on the mod staff of a game who is familiar with him might have a different interpretation of him and reject him because I don’t play the kind of Temple they’d like to see.

What made me pick Temple and what do I like about him?

Well, a lot of things, tbh. As a RPer, I tend to be very faithful to one or two characters, who tend also to be my absolute faves for everything else, fandom-wise. And Temple’s my absolute fave character at the moment.

(And I get the feeling that my style of character playing is not typical for DWRPers.)

So, to me, it feels entirely natural that I chose to play Temple.

But, as to why, well... I basically found that I adored him as soon as he was introduced on the show. At first, it was because Church was dead and not coming back and he was the closest thing to Church around but as I got to know him, I found that I started to appreciate him for himself.

Because Temple is basically exactly the kind of character I love.

He’s a villain with a tragic backstory, one who was used by other people to serve their own ends and struck back against those people.

He’s loyal to the people he cares about, and clingy/codependent as well towards the ones he cares the most about. And very passionate about the things he cares about.

He’s someone who was told he couldn’t measure up to other people’s standards, and got treated badly because of it. And he takes some defiant pride in his status as sim trooper but is also insecure about it.

And he’s intelligent and prefers using brains over using brawn.

There are definitely more things I could list but these are the ones that come to mind immediately.