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[muji]

Random RP Realizations Day!

So way back when Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar were starting to become friends with Sallie Reynolds, I needed to start having named NPCs for the higher-up hands in Sallie's employ. I named Sallie's right hand man Skouris, because I was a dork for The 4400 at the time, and it was a name I used a lot, to the point where I realized that I had accidentally made Skouris damn near Sallie's own age.

Then there was Sallie's flashbacks post, where I explain a little bit, and suddenly I wake up this morning with like, character development and comprehension of an NPC that really shouldn't exist as well as he does. Hunh. *hugs him anyway*

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[innerbrat]

I'm tempted to have Mel's Conversation with Dead People be with Katya Tank - an NPC I created back in 2005 for a one-off OOM.

[muji]

I always get really interested when people pursue old connections like that. I vote yes!

(I also vote that I have no clue who Mal's Conversations with Dead People should be.)

[genarti]

Yeah -- if I could figure out how to do it well, I'd have River's be with her best friend Maggie from the Academy.

She was an NPC initially created only in my head when I realized that part of the dynamic between River and Ophelia was that Ophelia reminded River of someone, and I had to figure out who. (Which was a weird feeling, because usually I don't have character realizations like that. Connections I hadn't predicted or hadn't consciously articulated, sure; gaps in backstory it occurs to me to fill, sure; but not a character filling that gap in without my entirely realizing it.) Anyway, then we had her in Academyplot! Aaaaaand then we killed her in Academyplot. Um. Yes.

I am still very fond of her. But since River doesn't talk about this stuff, and she's a thoroughly dead OC, I don't get to do much with her except the occasional very oblique mention.

[ashen_key]

suddenly I wake up this morning with like, character development and comprehension of an NPC that really shouldn't exist as well as he does.

Yeeeeeep, that happens.

I....have no random revelations, really. At least, not recently.

Also a conversations with dead people post that is writing itself in my head, which could be so awesome, but I'm kinda scared of writing it in case I stuff it up. Humph.

[muji]

That's always the problem isn't it? *eyes NaNo idea* I'm so goona mess it up.

[campkilkare]

Last Christmas! I wanted to come up with a dramatic way to bring Susannah back into the bar. And then I wanted to do something menace-y with her family outside the bar to just to keep my hand in and because I was bored. And it kept getting longer.

And longer.

And looonger.

And finally I gave in and created a separate journal for ofthatantet and started down the long, NPC-heavy path of the last year.

[muji]

*approves greatly*

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

*Pokes shadarsedai and sighs*

[muji]

*was about to say something, but is interrupted by loudspeaker announcement at work*

"We have an uncleared visitor in the office today; Mike is here to service the copy machine."

I am so inappropriate.

[ladye_bright]

*eyes threads*

Is there another Conversations With Dead People thing on, then?

*. . . thoughtful face*

[muji]

Yup! I've seen a couple get posted already.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I... got nothin'.

*pokes brain*

Also can't participate in Conversations with Dead People cause there are no dead people for my girls to converse with, woe.

[muji]

Only in Milliways is this a bad thing.

[mm-aura.livejournal.com]

So, due to Draco and Mia's relationship, we end up thinking out their future in Deathly Hallows Epilogue terms and came up with some uniquely Malfoy-Ausa children. Scorpius is one of them, of course, but there's also his older brother Cepheus and his sweet little sister Narcissa. (Heck, Cissa is so sweet that SNAPE is pretty fond of her!)

It surprises me sometimes that the only semi-canon Malfoy-Ausa child has the least roleplaying development at times, but then, it's the problem middle children often have. Cissa steals the spotlight without trying to and Cepheus comes in with intent to steal the spotlight. What's a poor little Hufflepuff boy to do?

[muji]

That was like Meg and Josie (Tonks and Bernard) and writing about Charlotte before she was born in game! :O!

[timjr.livejournal.com]

I... got nothing. I blame addled brain due to being sick.

[muji]

ANGELA FAIRFIELD

[sdelmonte]

OK, when I saw that Teyla and John Constantine got busy, I realized that Kirk probably had missed his chance with her. Which is okay. But then I realized that part of the reason he misses his chance with her is that yours truly just would never think to have any of his pups sleep with a pregnant woman whose lover is missing. Not that I think Kirk would do that, either, but I was reminded that having a personal code of conduct often affects how you play your pups. (Note: this is NOT a judgment of Teyla or of John. The pups make the choices that suit them, and the muns do a great job making them make the choices.)

It doesn't mean I end up with pups who act the way I would - with the partial exception of Barry Allen, my pups have a different view of sex and relationships than I do. I think that I can play that sort of thing and not compromise my beliefs, compromise the pups, or ever apply my choices to others unfairly. But sometimes, little things in who I am stop things from happening to my pups. Not often, but sometimes.

But there is a reason why I was really not the best person to play Lando, and why I relate more to the older, less amorous Jim Kirk.

(Sorry for the two deletions. The first was an accidental post and the second had a really bad word missing.)

[muji]

There's a lot to be said there, I think. You wouldn't pick the pups you do, in my opinion, unless you relate to them, and relating to them tends to mean there are shared personality characteristics.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

I like it when I have the really obvious character revelations. You know, like, "Hey, my OC with psychic powers he can't control that have fucked with him his whole life and given him a personality disorder to boot has MASSIVE CONTROL ISSUES. WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED?!"

[muji]

I LOVE THOSE. MAL HAS FATHER FIGURE ISSUES. IT IS STILL NEWS TO ME.

[agonistes]

I do not know, Steph. :O I have been getting ready for the day and pondering this question, and I literally cannot think of a single realization I have had about any of my characters.

This doesn't mean I haven't had them. I think it means it's early and I can't think straight. And no time to stop for coffee. :(

[muji]

There is no time to make coffee at the apartment? D:?

[ostro_goth]

The most mind-blowing RP realisation I ever had was the OMG 'Suti is a volcano!! thing from long ago, but there have been a few others.

As for Teja, there were several, but none of them quite as big; and I keep writing them up and posting them as OOC posts in Teja's character journal.

However, with time, I may have been thinking a lot about his people post-canon, departing from a dream/vision I wrote about them almost a year ago. I may have worked out the names of all the children that Adalgoth and Gotho, and Wachis and Liuta, were going to have, and a few other things that happen in their future. I'm not yet committing to them in any form, because I hope that one day, somebody will read Teja's canon and then there shall be an Adalgoth; and we can work out things together.-

Conversations with dead people? I wouldn't want to establish too much Millicanon for anybody that I still have faint hopes of seeing as somebody's pup some day, but I might ask carolinw to guest write a Totila for that...

[kali921.livejournal.com]

She-Hulk once had a conversation with Death itself. Death took her to a shopping mall in Los Angeles and told her that this was indeed her afterlife. I so want to revisit that in RP.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

My revelation was partially due to a particularly insightful observation about She-Hulk from my dear friend shadowlongknife and partially due to two things that happened in canon - one in an infamous issue of The Avengers written by Geoff Johns and another in an issue of Dan Slott's run on the Shulkie book - but I realized at a certain point that one of the reasons Jen is/was so driven in her career as an attorney is that she feels 1) a huge sense of guilt over the fact that she can't help her cousin more and 2) every time someone screws over Bruce, which is like every other issue of anything to do with the Hulk, it further sharpens Jen's sense of justice. When Jen started as an attorney way back in the days of the Savage She-Hulk, she cottoned to her profession because she enjoyed the intellectualism.

But after she became She-Hulk, there was a marked shift in her character. She became very proactive in criminal law after watching Bruce get shafted over and over and over again. And given how close they were as children, I realized that that holds a potent primacy in her desire to see justice served. For everyone. She's driven by a sense of helplessness and anger at what her cousin repeatedly goes through and she has a strong sympathy for anyone she considers and underdog.

Whoa, I teal deered there. Sorry!

Speaking of canids! My revelation about Lockjaw was years and years ago after reading something in the Fantastic Four: Lockjaw is way smarter than most people around him, with a keen and intuitive intelligence and an excellent tactical mindset, even when he's romping around in a field on Tarnax IV (ah, Skrull throne world, how we miss you) and playing fetch with Crystal. I also realized after reading a big chunk of his appearances again that Black Bolt - and the rest of the Inhumans - consider him a royal peer rather than the (giant teleporting) family dog.

Hawkgirl. Well. Kendra has healed a lot over the last five years in canon, but the girl still has major anger issues spurred by the loss of her parents; deep down inside, in that place where she won't talk to anyone about it, is the guilt and shame that she feels over giving up her daughter for adoption. Yes, she knows that it was the best thing to do since she was sixteen and homeless and clinically depressed when she had Mia, but that guilt isn't going away anytime soon. That's why talking to little girls is always a deeply emotional experience for her. Thank god Brad Meltzer picked up on that too (which was about the only thing he got right in his recent JLA run).

Edit: Oh, another character revelation that I had whilst playing with a Ben Grimm is that in many ways Jen relies on Ben Grimm as her emotional touchstone - Ben understands what it's like to have Jen's power set and vice versa. Even when they go through periods of not talking to each other due to mutually being very busy with saving the world from different corners of the globe.

[bluespells.livejournal.com]

Mine is - somewhat lame.

I hate physics. A lot. It was the bane of mine and Emily's senior year, we don't talk about it. Anyway, so when I wanted Billy frustrated with homework I picked physics, despite the fact that the boy is a nerd. A few weeks down the road, I went "Wait a minute. He warps reality. Of course he doesn't like physics."

And so a transfered personality quirk was justified. *nod*

Also? Billy's brothers and parents and grandparents are all ridiculously developed at this point. And III and I have more interesting female OCs than you can shake a stick at in our book of an AU.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I was pleasantly surprised by the most recent issue of Tales of TMNT. It was basically a story told by Mike to Shadow where a character of the story comes through to this world and adopts the shape of a stuffed animal until it's safe to send him back to his own world.

I smiled because that was always my plan for Stampy outside of Milliways.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

I've had plenty of revelations about my characters, but I just can't remember them right now. Phail!

In other news, oh my goodness it needs to be the first of November I have someone I want to app like burning!!!

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Well, one thing I've realized in trying to wrote Reed Richards (that I don't think many writers have pulled off) is that Reed usually is thinking so far ahead of everyone else. He is thinking so far ahead on so many things that those around him have to trust him and give him a LOT of faith because Reed typically can't explain what he knows. It isn't so much that the listener isn't smart enough, it's that Reed doesn't have the language to explain how his mind works.

Also, as kali921 mentioned, Jen is an emotional anchor for Ben, more so than Reed, Sue or Johnny can ever be. She understands his power set and what it's like to live with it. Not too many other people understand the caution their power demands, nor how it effects their emotional state. A perfect example of this is their first bonding in canon.

Ben was seriously upset about losing Alicia to Johnny, losing his ability to turn back to human form and feeling betrayed by Reed. Jen saw this and wanted to help so she took Ben to a bar despite barely knowing Ben and Ben being rude and belligerent toward her. She then picked a fight with him in a deserted construction site which was scheduled to be demolished, thus allowing him a space to get out all the anger and frustrations in a safe and constructive way.

Ben has never forgotten that and they have become like brother and sister since.

WORD.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Also, as kali921 mentioned, Jen is an emotional anchor for Ben, more so than Reed, Sue or Johnny can ever be. She understands his power set and what it's like to live with it. Not too many other people understand the caution their power demands, nor how it effects their emotional state. A perfect example of this is their first bonding in canon.

WORD.

Also, you've read The Thing and She-Hulk: The Long Night, (http://www.leaderslair.com/she-hulk/longnight1.html) right? I LOVE that mini!

[ceitfianna]

Its sort of a small thing to realize but I think during one of the DE's, I suddenly got that Tumnus really is a scholar at heart. This is why he found things so hard when the Witch was in control, he knows he's not a fighter and all he could do was read Narnian history and about Men trying to understand what would be needed to take her on. He's working towards accepting that the choices he made were alright for him and also I've realized that he feels like he lost all the time he was a statue and that terrifies him especially because he doesn't know how long it was. I don't either since canon is really handwavey in terms of time which is annoying.

The Brand plot really made me realize that Will isn't really ambitious, Robin already has given him a chance to be more than he ever expected so everything is just extra. Few people seem to understand that and he gets confused especially by modern ideas of moving up through society, because he knows who he is and that he is doing some good.

Demeter, I'm not sure since really she has been shaped a lot by talking to the other Mythmuns and especially by Ashie's lovely Kore/Seph.

[anold-soul.livejournal.com]

I don't really have RP realizations, but I do have character 'secrets' if you will, for other people to realize through RP with my characters. It's always something very big that the character cannot admit out loud, but will hint at. Sometimes people pick up on it, and sometimes they don't. Generally people don't get them for characters they consider 'humorous', because I suppose they just aren't expecting it. I'm always surprised when people don't get it, because I don't think I'm exactly subtle about it.

Someone here has actually gotten Tommy's already (or if not exactly, come very close). Kudos!

[moofoot.livejournal.com]

I've realized after writing this (http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/20748187.html) that Doc's a lot more attached to the outlaw lifestyle than he thought, if only because he's not sure what the hell he can do anymore.

[blinkandyoumiss.livejournal.com]

...I know I've had a lot of epiphanies for my pups, especially Bart, but I can't really remember much right now. His background is still a work in progress, anyway.

OH. Though, his ickle cousins came about because I looked at how he is with Boo, and decided that, even though he's still an only child, he has ickle cousins over whom he was placed in charge at family gatherings.





...Make me not be sick?

[misslucyjane]

I can't think of anything epiphany-like, though I'm sure there have been a few over the years; but that's the trouble with epiphanies for me: they feel so natural that afterwards I can't imagine I ever didn't know this.

But there have been small ones. Like, for GreenJack that he draws because he didn't learn to write until about five hundred years ago and it still feels weird to him. Or that he had children with mortal women long, long ago and it's entirely possible he's still got descendants around.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[sophistry]

I can't think of anything epiphany-like, though I'm sure there have been a few over the years; but that's the trouble with epiphanies for me: they feel so natural that afterwards I can't imagine I ever didn't know this.

This!

*sits in memefail corner*

[vivien]

I have lots of them. All the time. Usually with the people I play with the most. Like, Lynette and Lynne, both with their versions of Door? They've both helped me find out things about both Tom and Ingress that I never expected.

Bela is surprising me with some of the things I'm finding out about her as I go.