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

[mech_and_mutt]

That's what I try to assume; I can admit a lot of it is just my own overly-developed sense of caution. And I share that same mindset on characterization being the main reason; my characters for a long time were sober and contemplative sorts (Ramza Beoulve from Final Fantasy Tactics being a good example) so I started playing Red just because he's headstrong, stubborn, and doesn't think so hard about everything.

How about playing a character that's an antagonist in their canon? You ever run into any sort of difficulties (presumptions, metagaming, etc.) there?

[sometimespawnskillkings]

I definitely do run into difficulties - but only with canonmates, I’ve noticed.

For example, someone was worried that Temple would try to kill their character, in an unfamiliar environment, as soon as he saw that character because that character happened to be a Freelancer and Temple hates Freelancers. Even though Temple is much smarter than that, and I really don’t want to play out Temple murdering anyone’s character.

And just, in general, I get the feeling that my canonmates tend not to be interested in RPing with my character. Like, some of them were but a lot of them seem not to be. And like, it’s fine, and I do prefer it to presumptions and metagaming buuut... it does feel like most of my canonmates don’t want him as a canonmate.

So yeah, I have ended up preferring crosscanon simply because, most of the time, when stuff with canonmates happens, a whole ton of issues I don’t feel like doing with gets crated in and people start making tons of assumptions about how I will play my character.