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Tony is social depending on his or his mun’s mood. He’s just not a very verbose character. Audrey was social but canon woe has made her a little more withdrawn. Erin tries to avoid people because she thinks she is “infuriating” to others (which she can be).

Locke is…not social in any conventional sense of the word. That’s because he doesn’t like the bar and therefore won’t be in the bar as often. However, if a random stranger walks up to his thread (if and when he’s ever in the bar), he’ll talk to them. No problem.

Tahiri ventures into other people's threads more often than people venture into hers, I think, because in canon she's a talkative, social creature. I-the-mun am not, so it takes a bit of effort for me to do things like that, but I figure it's what Tahiri would do. And of course, sometimes she pokes me in the back and DEMANDS to go meet someone. XD

col_cardboard isn't very social, so he mainly sticks to his threads or the threads of people he knows (or thinks he knows).

This is something I've thought about before, as it's one of the things I think I could stand to fix about my playing--Cuthbert, IC, is very sociable and talkative. But I, as a player, am not so good at juggling multiple threads.

So, on any given night, if Bert is already talking to two or three people he knows--as he usually is--I won't send him around to meet new people, even though I'd like to and kinda feel like I should. At first, I rectified this with myself by playing the Milliways Freaks Him Out And He Doesn't Know Who Might Be An Enemy card, but he's been here long enough that that doesn't work so well anymore.

I'm not sure if there's any solution to that, other than just me making more of an effort.

Yrael's always willing to meet new people and learn more about the different worlds that connect to Milliways. He's curious. It's what he does. And also there's a chance of free food if he's in catshape. But he'll also always talk to his friends. I, as a mun, just try to balance those two and still keep Yrael IC.

Jane is shy, and so doesn't talk to new people that often. But she does, of course, when someone interesting catches her eye.

Jain's somewhat social, I guess. If she sees something that intrigues her, she will go up and find out what it is. And when she's in a happy mood, she tends to be much more outgoing and willing to meet new people than other times. It really depends, I suppose.

scienceliz is definately much friendly and open and willing to meet new people. I just haven't really played her that much lately.

However, my biggest problem is that personally, I'm not a very social or outgoing person, so it takes me a bit of courage to actually post in other peoples threads. It's a pretty stupid thing that I need to get over, but yeah. That's a lot of the reason why Jaina and Liz'll stick to their own posts a lot of the times - cause I'm a 'fraidy cat.

Of the two really active characters I've got, Angel's definitely the more social. Whether I put either of them in other people's threads depends on how social they're feeling, how social I'm feeling, plot circumstances, and how many slowtimed tabs I've got open (I try to keep from crowding the browser), among other things.
I think the biggest difference is Jane can be away from the bar for a few months and manage fine, but if I want Angel to not be downstairs for more than a few days, I need a VERY good reason.

Since I should do it for my own characters as well:

I'm juggling a lot of characters right now, most are DCU. Peter is not very social at all: he goes to the bar mostly just to see Alanna and Thom. (And Val, but he won't admit this, nope.) He did his social bint as a waiter, he's not really wanting to do more at the moment.

Kon is a very social person, and I really need to get him to be more social in the bar. This is partially a drawback of my own playing (I need to get myself to approach people more often) and partially that he's not quite willing to be as social there as he is in other places. I'm not sure why... I think it has to do with the fact that the bar, for him, exists as a way to see friends he wouldn't see very often otherwise.

Once Dick stops being omg angst (wait, that ever stops for a Bat?), he'll be more social. As soon as this Blockbuster and Catalina thing blows over, anyway. He's a very social creature naturally, so...

Jenni is always. Social. I have to have a lot of time to sit and play when I bring her in the bar, because she blows by anybody and everybody she can. She'll approach without warning, and never say hello... merely jump in as if you're her bestest friend.

Wally? I don't know. We'll see what happens when his next plot kicks in. *shifty*

Connor is the one I'm looking most forward to finding out with, because while the idea of the monk boy being social in a bar makes me twitch, it will actually happen. Because he's a smart man, and he'll realize soon enough that the bar is not merely a bar, but a wonderful place where all these nexuses cross and people have amazing journeys.

Lyle? I'm just scared of what Lyle will do. >.>

Given that most people do not willingly associate with the depressing musician, just to give him people to play with at all, Asmodean wanders around the bar with his harp.

Thus, he is in other people's threads 95% of the time roundabouts. He picks his clientele at random more or less, and but he always goes back and visits loyal patrons.

Despite him not being a very social person, he is in other people's threads by necessity (the fact that he does this is supported by canon).

Bran Davies should meet many more people than he does. IC he's a relatively prickly person, uncomfortable around strangers and often rude to them, but that shouldn't stop him from talking to people. What does stop him from interacting with the rest of the bar is mostly my time constraints. I play twice a week at best these days, and when I do, I rarely have the focus to have more than two threads running. These end up, most of the time, being plot threads with other Dark is Rising or DiR-crossover characters. I do regret this and hope I'll have more computer time in the future, but I don't really know.

Bernard and Kathleen are both highly social.

Jayne... is an ape.

Charlie and Jack are very sociable. Both will talk to anybody about anything.

Louis would rather read a book and sticks to people he knows.

Boromir needs to come out more.

The new kid needs to come into the bar.

Mun is not sociable at all but is trying to put that aside to play. It also depends on how much my head aches, if I'm at work and how busy I expect to be, and if I just feel like meeting new people or not. So.

First:
Ping. Ping. Jump into my threads. Invite into plots. I will love and adore you. Ask of me and 99/100 times thou shalt indeed receive.

Now:

lord_of_dreams will talk to anyone, but since he's Dream, I try to let other people approach him first, and when it comes to plotty things I won't involve him unless asked. See "Endless" and "OMFGpowerful".

prince_arithon is a little bastard. He's also prickly like hedgehog, sarcastic, and grumpy. So he doesn't get out much.

aphros_born doesn't come in often, but when she does I try to get her around.

tea_and_honor shows up, glomps, is chaotic at, and generally acts like a Fox anywhere I see boredom.

banished_to is not terribly social. You wouldn't be if you were half dead (the left) either. She is, however, willing to talk to anyone.

menninia_vedra is very social, and I'm trying to throw her all over creation.

silessid is a plot device, and sorta genocidal, so he doesn't go out much either.

i_weep doesn't come in often. Because the font tags eat my brain.

This is probably so obvious I don't even need to say it, but Meg is a mad social fiend who'll bounce around to meet people at the slightest provocation. Or even without one. If she likes them, she wants to talk to them. If she doesn't, she wants to annoy them. Given the chance, she'd quite literally go talk to anyone who's around; how much that happens in practice tends to depend on plot and how many threads I have running at the time.

James is an ordinary, sociable, cheerful person who I should probably have meet more people than he has yet - mostly because I don't have him in all that often, and when I do I tend to have another character in as well. However, he's also easily unnerved by weirdness, so he gets nervous approaching some of the stranger people in-bar. Not to mention the awkwardness around girls that goes with being a repressed British boy from thirty years ago.

The others aren't really in often enough to interact with many people, although they have varying levels of sociability as characters. I don't even have to mention Sam-I-Am, do I?

Neither of my characters randomly jump into threads. This stems from my own personal issues, about not wanting to interfear or make an arse of myself. I'm incredibly self-concious about that, and it's even worse in RL. I'm just a terribly shy person when it comes to talking to people I don't know!

I'd love to be able to throw Angie into more conversations though, because she's very sociable. Look at who she had as friends at school and the way she was at the Yule Ball!

I actually keep thinking that I'd want to rp with you again, because our Peter W. and Angie threads a looong time ago amused me. But I never seem to catch you in the bar.

I enjoyed them as well :)

I'm on UK time, which makes it difficult. Also I've never been able to get the hang of RPing two characters at once, so if Dru is around as she has been lately, chances are Angie won't be. I'm always ignoring one or the other.

I'll probably do an entrance post for Angie a bit later though, maybe in an hour or two, so feel free to have him drop by if you're around :)

Well, depends on Peter's mood. Same with Johnny. Usually go between meeting people, and sticking with known people. More limited nowadays due to limited online access. So only have a couple of threads. Also, I only started around mid to late April this year, so dunno a lot of people yet, and neither do my people.

Bigby's sort of in-between. He watches a lot, but rarely jumps in unless the situation is one of those "something needs to be done" situations. His character is very much antisocial, however, so he doesn't venture out just for the sake of meeting people.

That said, don't hesitate to chat him up. :)

Tim pretty much stays within the DC universe. He used to be more social, but considering the trauma he's currently undergoing...well, I can't really blame him for being anti-social right now.

Cassandra is actually a bit more social. Although I haven't made an entrance post for her in some time, she wanders over to various people from time to time.

Abby used to be social. She was the most social of them all. But I'm having some trouble with her right now because of the angst that NCIS canon is putting her through. So, yeah. She'll come back sooner or later. *pets her.*

Anamaria and Lex...I just need to play more. That's just it. Bad me. >>;

Kyle might be a bit more social. I'll have to see where he'll take me, but in the comics, he's pretty friendly so I figured... *shrug.*

Brainy...Brainy will be a challenge. I have no clue how he will act. He is my wild card. xD

Bottom line for all characters in general? Need to stop being lazy or canon needs to lay off on angst. xD

Michelle will usually talk to anyone. Getting her to talk to people first is a bit of a problem since she's friendly enough but introverted. She's also a little wary right now. But she'll almost always talk to people she knows (unless mun is terribly overthreaded).

Kim is friendly and outgoing but since she keeps getting involved in breaky plots she's a little traumatized and isn't as likely to go randomly meet new people. She will talk to anyone about anything though.

Susan Delgado is generally friendly and outgoing. Moiraine is serenely reserved, but will keep an eye on people and is open to meeting new people for a variety of reasons/purposes. Jack Sparrow -- need I even say? :) Blodwen Rowlands tends to sit somewhere with knitting, but is warm and friendly in a matronly fashion, really.

As for approaching others v. own posts -- it depends. All of mine are generally open to be approached, and I have a tendency to drop them into others' posts as well when preferred/warranted -- if they're not in an approaching mood and the other person would approach, I've used the placeholder tag method of "so-and-so is sitting here doing this" to start a thread.

Murphy really should be more social, I know.

Basically, the mun's problems are as follows:
-slow typist
-rather shy person
-slightly scatterbrained and easily distracted

As for going into other posts, it's partly the shyness and partly leftover from the first RPG I was in - tried to offer my chara into a couple of threads there and was basically told "Fuck off, we've got plot going here and you're not needed/wanted."

Ace, poor thing, will talk to anyone. The number of people talked to on any particular night depends entirely on the energy of the mun, which fluctuates. If you really want to talk to her, tag her. She won't ignore you. She might drive you bonkers though.

Doctor McCoy is a friendly sort as well, and will talk to anyone. Again, amount of talkativeness depends entirely on mun energy.

Ramses... is scared out of his mind. And trying very hard not to show it. He'll talk to people he knows, and his sister... and sometimes will branch out if the person in question doesn't look to different than what he's familiar with.

Van Helsing isn't necessarily anti-social, he's just a bit shy and not remotely verbose; he'll talk to the person sitting next to him, or the people he knows - that's why I gave him the dog. Beowulf (VH's Irish Wolfhound) can run up to ANYONE in the bar and engage *some* type of interaction. He tends to do very well with small children, which VH does not, and is a way for VH to talk to people he wouldn't normally talk to.

Connor MacLeod - social, but speaks either in facial expressions or short sentances. (Had to explain this to Faith-mun when she told me she was having trouble writing Connor in fic... my first question: "Are you trying to write him talking?"... ;) ) He'll talk to just about anyone... take a peek back at his conversations with Kronos *g*.

Bob the Skull - probably the MOST social of all my characters... AND he's immobile! He's also a huge flirt.

Harry Dresden - relatively social, but sometimes gets nervous talking to girls. heee.

MacGyver - social - but in the 'talk to the person sitting next to him' way; he'll talk to pretty much anyone, but won't always approach people. Now, if he's working on something and needs information, he'll talk to almost everyone.

Dawn Summers - teenager - she'll talk to pretty much anyone.

Martouf - hell, I can't even get him to show up in the bar here recently, much less talk to people. Typically, though, with interpersonal stuff, he's a bit shy; with business-related things - he's aggressive.

Tom is, and has been, more social than he probably should be. He will bump into your table, bump into you (hey, it's happened), and will talk to anyone after doing a magic user check to make sure the character isn't from his world and about to hex him. Why is he like this? Cos it's RP, I don't get to play as much, so I don't really get lots of people coming over (unless they are wizards intent on hexing Tom), and because my version of Tom now likes people and having friends.

Ingress is a social butterfly. When she was Lynette's, she'd talk to everyone, and I try to continue the tradition.

Susan Pevensie is shy. She doesn't go to people without a reason.

Scarlett would only go speak to a handsome feller. And only if the handsome feller wouldn't come talk to her.

Dumbledore doesn't get played enough to count :P

Wash is definitely a sociable sort and always open to being approached, but most of the time, I don't toss him into other people's entrances simply because I'm terrible at handling a lot of simultaneous conversations. Once I hit my sixth or seventh thread, I start panicking and completely lose his voice. If his own post isn't crazygonuts busy, though, I try to send him out at least a little bit so he can chat with friends and meet other people.

('Course, that plan usually ends up having varying degrees of success because of my own OOC shyness, but we're working on that not-so-minor detail. Sigh.)

Roger, on the other hand? Hah. Reclusive like a reclusive thing, and rather prickly to boot. But people should talk to him anyway if they're inclined -- just because he might have objections to being bothered doesn't mean his mun does, and anyway, it'll be good for him. ;)

Snow's quite social. It started as sort of a defensive reaction; she'd spent so much time in Fabletown administration, greeting the newcomers was the closest thing she could come to a position like that, at Milliways. From this, she made friends, and has finally started opening up a bit.

Petunia is the gossipy sort, and always tended to talk about people instead of talking with them. She's not used to being around magic users, and for various reasons, she's uncomfortable around them. She tries to keep to herself while she's at Milliways.

Grissom is by nature reticent. He will speak to others if they strike him as interesting or if he thinks he can offer them aid, as was the case with Mace Windu.

Sara is a little more social than Grissom and will go to other people's threads. More often than not, her threads are tagged and send the mun into frantic 'omgcannotkeepup!' panic.

Inuyasha is waiting for Kagome to find her way to the bar. He sees no need to be overly social with people outside of his pack. That being said, he won't refuse aid to those who need it.

Sawyer is getting more social as time goes along, but he still gets in pissy, morose moods every once in a while.

He does have a tendency to be more social with ladies than with men.

Alex does not talk to strangers all that often; he's more comfortable with the people he knows, mostly due to stuff that's happened in-bar with various people.

Josiane keeps to herself because she's happy just being in the same place as Delia. Also because she's fairly new, though I will be bringing her in more often.

Vachon will talk to pretty girls ;)

And pretty boys. ;)

That too, of course. ;D

OOC, there are certain mad good Rpers that I fear approaching, but largely my characters are sociable and my mood matches them.

Ron is highly social, a fact that has gotten him into trouble and will continue to get him into trouble. He tends to think in black and white and thus expects bad guys to look bad. And bad to him is black cloaks and white masks. This means that he often interacts with people he probabgly shouldn't, just because they look normal, like Barty Crouch. He was even more social in the beginning, as he was lonely, but now Harry's here and Hermione's not being as reclusive, and also the mun has less time, so that's lessened of late. He mostly sticks to those two, Biff, Meg, Nita, and Xander and whatnot, nowadays.

Virginia, being a waitress, is also very social, and is social by nature, although she does go through the occasional funk where she wants to be alone. She also can be friendly with people, but had trouble making true friends and often has niggling doubts that they don't really like her.

Rob tends to hide from people, and only reveal himself to a limited few.

Harper is good at being social, but usually tends to lurk about in the shadows and make deals with shady characters for things he need. He can talk to anyone and be friendly, but very few actually become his friend. He's been screwed over and lost too many people to really make any true friends at the bar. Wash is possibly one of the only exceptions at the bar.

Vimes doesn't get in enough, but even when he does, he's rather antisocial, unless watchmen are there. Usually, bars are places for him to think.

Gaston is very social and loud, but obnoxious, so people don't like him.

Walt largely keeps to himself, but often wanders up to people and creeps them out.

The Evil Stepmother is very social. You have to talk to people to manipulate them, after all.

I'm increasingly considering getting a new AIM SN specifically for Milliways, because lately I've been having a difficult time trying to juggle crackchat, RP conversations, and the pings of friends who are foolish enough to try to carry on a conversation with me when I'm RP-ing. If anything, that's the main reason why I haven't a) brought new characters inna bar, and b) forced

merriman_lyon to interact more. (Then again, he's not the most social of individuals as a rule, so I usually have to poke at him to get him out of his own thread.)

Also, I (as his player) tend to be shy. Which I'm working on changing. So, yes.

*licks Merriman's nose*

I'm all over the map. Certain characters are typically "wait in my own thread" while others (Ryo-oh-ki) are "run out and hug everyone that even looks like they might possibly be friendly".

On the whole, most of my pups are at least marginally antisocial.

*Hannibal Lecter -- runs in his own crowd for the most part, but is amenable to meeting new people.
*Mina Murray (Absent)
*Evil Tea (doesn't count)
*Lady Death -- Rarely around, usually loner unless someone I see as interesting is around
*Ryo-oh-ki -- Noted above, will try to talk to at least seven people when she comes in
*Q -- Plot only
*Joker -- Loves to torment people. If they're looking vulnerable, they're meat for his grinder
*The Impressive Clergyman -- pretty much plot only - writing his speech is a pain ...
*Aral Vorkosigan (Not in yet)
*Statler (of the Muppet Show - in once only so far) -- By nature he has to seek out others and mock them

So that's who what where when and why my pups tend to interact.

I get overthreaded easily, and I can't keep up as many threads as some of the people here do. Also I as a mun am shy, and though I will happily respond to anyone who posts in my threads, I'll usually go for characters whose muns I know, because... well, I'm shy.

Having said that:

Eska sticks to magic users and people who need a witch, because she has nothing else to talk about. She's a geek, and has no concept of small talk.
Mel has been limited recently due to plot and not knowing what mood she'll be in.
Angua will talk to anyone interesting, which usually includes people who smell odd.
Miss Susan is anti-social, so she'll need to be approached.
Cera really will talk to anyone, particularly nice people.
Laddie will run from thread to thread. Y'know, when he's not in New Jersey.

This is a question I often think about, actually. I have a hard time with the jumping into other threads and wandering around and such... so unfortunately most of my talking is within my original posts... but not all the time!

LaCroix... is an elitist bastard. I have a hard time justifying his talking to ANYONE who isn't Nicolas or someone related to Nicolas, in character. If it involves Nicolas, he may speak with you... but that's about it. I'm trying to get him out more, especially since he's supposed to have "let go" of the whole Nicolas obsession... it's not working though. Because, as stated, he's an elitist bastard. Maybe if he could find other really old vampires... but most of the vampires seem to be pretty much children so... yeah. He'll talk to you if you talk to him, but he won't start conversations unless you're Nicolas. Or Fleur. Or Janette. Maybe Vachon.

Youji, on the other hand... is SO social. If you are attractive, he will hit on you. He hit on DREAM for hell's sake, so you know he's not too picky. He's the easiest to play, as he will talk to everyone who is within talking distance. He won't mean half the crap he says, but he'll say all sorts of crap ^.~

Donnie... I wish were social. I want him to be! I really do. He wants to be a talkative, if weird, teenage boy. I just... forget to bring him in. *is a sad, bad adoptive mommy*

I... think that's all the characters I have left. I can't remember. During the great character perg of 2005 many of my characters were deleted and I havn't really had the time to go through and figure out which ones are still active. I know, I suck.

But aren't those three enough? For now?