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[muji]

A meme from Veronica:

1. People comment with the names of their characters.
2. Others reply to those comments with the names of characters of theirs who have threaded with them.
3. The first person goes back, and replies with at least one thing they enjoy about the thread(s) they've had with those characters.

Comments

[aberration]

Elle

[muji]

SARAH? May be a stretch.

[aberration]

Anything that involves Elle watching Jerry Springer is good in my book. That and I like the fact that SARAH's ... odd identity to Elle means that she's always sort of trying to find a way to... look at SARAH or face her, even if that's not really possible. I say I like this because it gives me the mental image of Elle trying to face about every direction at once, which amuses me.

And because it should be talked about, anyway - Six! Now that I have time, I'm definitely trying to get her on track again. But! AI and AI! Different levels of sentience forming a funny, older-younger relationship! Evil plotting! These are all awesome!

[muji]

I am kind of all about the evil plotting. <333

[varadia]

X-23!

[ellectrical]

X is hands-down the easiest to thread with when it comes to Elle, because she really just hits Elle's core so that Elle can respond to her more honestly and genuinely than she would anyone else (including, most definitely, her father). And that can be relatively relaxing, as it means her thought process is pretty simple when talking to X, as opposed to other people, where she can be all over the place.

And I really love what their relationship means for Elle - that it's taken a considerable weight off of the one she has with her father, and that she has, well, anyone to talk to. I also just love how it's this very strong relationship between two women that isn't a sort of typical (or stereotypical) one that they wouldn't really understand, or even so much a two-scary-girls being scary together kind of one, considering they sort of seem to let themselves come down to non-scary around each other? Or Elle does, and X allows for it.

Plus the unintentional hilarity. You have to love that.

[varadia]

I embrace the unintentional hilarity wholeheartedly. And all the rest of it, too.

Their BFF vibe of Odd is one of my favorite things about playing X. (That and the REALLY CREEPY rabbit-killing thread. Heh. Oh contrast.)

[aberration]

Aha, yeah, they can be scary. But it's sort of like - a lot of times when there are two scary women, they have to be constantly sharpening their knives at each other, like there's this underlying competition between them? And that's not the case with X and Elle.

Which is almost kind of more scary.

[varadia]

Oh. Yes. THAT kind of dynamic. I like theirs so much better.

Um.

I fear for people if they ever unite against someone. I really do.

[hero_farmboy]

Clark

...and Bizarro >.>

[aberration]

Clark rubs Elle the wrong way. For me, this is a lot of fun. I love threading Elle against people I know she won't get along with, both because I feel like if she was getting along with everyone, I wouldn't be playing her right, and because being bitchy is part of her character and part of why I like playing her.

That said, the reason why she just doesn't tend to get along with Clark is pretty consistent with why she just doesn't seem to get along with decent men in the bar in general (her reactions to Sam Winchester and, well, Peter Petrelli were pretty similar). It's that - well, they actually treat her with a lot of respect. And then look at canon - no one treats her like that, except briefly, Peter, so she just doesn't know how to deal with it. Everyone else is pretty nasty and condescending toward her, and so you can tell where she gets that from. So when Clark is actually nice to her, and because he talks to her like a NORMAL PERSON (unlike, say, X), she doesn't get it, doesn't know how to respond, and so kind of reverts to her two instinctive responses - getting defensive, or actively trying to scare the other person off.

The Bizarro thread was actually one of the most difficult ones I've done for her, mainly because it was at the extreme of her mind being in about a million places at once. She likes Bizarro, but not in the way she likes X or her father. She wouldn't really love him in any kind of actual romantic sense. Because she thought it was Clark, a lot of it for her was about how far she was willing to push herself into a situation where she'd have to continually assert her own level of power (hence doing things like seeing if he'd follow her) because she's perfectly aware that Clark is more than capable of overpowering her (which is another reason to be wary of him). So the thread was kind of this big balancing act for me in terms of measuring her flirtation to a point where she would be stringing it along without necessarily initiating it, as well as trying to figure out how far she was willing to push herself in it.

... and I managed to tl;dr all over you. Sorry >.>

[azremodehar.livejournal.com]

Axel.

[aberration]

Axel's the kind of balance between amoral and powerful that means he won't be freaked out by Elle, and Elle will maintain a certain measure of respect for him and his ability that means she won't be as rude or condescending toward him as she might otherwise be, and will be less likely to invade his personal space (EXCEPT WHEN HE WEARS COOL TOP HATS. THAT'S NOT HER FAULT).

So it's a nice balance for threading for me, because to an extent she can be herself more than she can around others without having to respond to something like - noting her lack of normality or, you know, morals, but also to an extent be guarded, as he is powerful in his own right and she has to be prepared for that.

[spiffynamehere.livejournal.com]

Bart Allen!

[ellectrical]

I think because Bart and Elle's interactions tend to swing toward the rather silly and shallow, and neither of them tries to go much deeper than that, they just don't find very much to conflict on. Bart's too young to really get a touchy-feely reaction from her, and Elle is very capable of acting immature and silly, which tends to be jarring because she's sort of too old for it.

But yeah, I love their antics and they're always a lot of fun to thread.

[adiva_calandia]

Tom!

I keep wanting to tag and be like "This is what I loved!"

[aberration]

That probably would've been more efficient, but I think I thought that maybe people would kind of tag out to each other more if all they had to do was tag with a name rather than an answer? Or something.

And yeah, Tom - I'm kind of surprised at where the ended up? I have the weird idea that maybe because they started off with Elle annoying the crap out of him and so him being grumpy toward her, it was actually the right foot, because it meant Elle at least was comfortable and... people can get used to Elle to an extent, but I think it's harder for her to get used to them? Or something. So Tom seemed kind of unique in that even though he's a decent, relatively normal person, they got along better than Elle normally would with someone like that, and that's fun to play. I think the fact that his world's so uniquely messed up probably helps, as well. But their threads were a fun case where she could be snarky without necessarily being bitchy.

[vivien]

Tom or Bela!

[aberration]

Tom is a kind of weird one for me because I can usually... have some clue about how a thread's going to go, but I never really do with him. It's sort of like he either stays on her good side by not being too normal (normal as in, for her world), but then occasionally pushes her into grumpy when he's... and yes, gasp, nice to her. It's also kind of interesting in that - even if another person has some ability like hers, Elle is confident enough in her own to be guarded, but still feeling capable. Tom is someone she simply has to be more wary and slightly distrustful of because she doesn't have that feeling of assurance with him. So there's this sometimes... measured sense in the way she interacts with him.

Bela tends to be more how Elle interacts with women who are normal (aka, not X), though she's less... moralistic than the others, so they get along better. There's still I think a sort of separation because Bela is very much a part of the normal world that Elle is not, despite it being full of demons and spirits and all that, and it's - Elle is too versed in the normal world to have the kind of relationship X does with Bela, but not enough to have a normal relationship, so it can be an odd middle ground to feel through.

[vivien]

This is very interesting. Tom regards Elle much in the same way he did Anthy. She was a puzzle, and so is Elle. He knows there is a great deal of pain or misery or something there, and he would like to help in the ways he tends to help younger people who remind him of himself.

Bela just thinks Elle's a fun person to talk to with whom she can stay nicely on the surface of things. No deep thinking there. Yay!