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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

[campkilkare]

We already talked a bunch about X and Susannah, and until they came along we never got to thread a lot. I am tempted to cheat and ask about Rose.

Also, ed and Yuna, just because it's always interesting to hear stuff from Ed's giant fish perspective, y'know?

[varadia]

Ed on Yuna: She serves her purpose admirably well. I really liked their dynamic, because they came from such opposite ends of the spectrum in their personal beliefs and what they are for, and then came to a meeting of minds over kind of his own condition, and she sent him on. Man. I love that thread. So much.

I will make X-Rose discussion ALSO about X-Susannah, and that way we will abide by the rules. I think one of the things I like about both X-Rose and X-Susannah is that--X has no real context for what a mother is supposed to DO. So she doesn't really have a clear sense of Susannah as attached to Rose. Not really. She approaches them both separately, they are their own people, and the kin-ties just--don't register. And I like what that does to their dynamic, and I think it explains how she can be friends with both of them and not really feel a conflict or like she's stuck in the middle. As for Rose--I think they are another case of ships passing in the night. X is learning to be a 'real' or 'normal' person, as much as she can be, and Rose is learning to be a gunslinger, which isn't the same thing as a weapon, but similar enough. I think X is often bewildered by the value judgments Rose places on things, and by the fact that she is not yet ruthlessly pragmatic and that she CAN get distracted by boys and school and friends and unfairness (see the Helen Conversation). It's not that she thinks Rose is incapable, just young. And distracted. *wry*

[mm-gao.livejournal.com]

It's a very accurate assessment.

Rose does not get X-23 at all, but she just doesn't care. She's not a big picture person, she operates on instinct and intuition a lot of the time, and she likes X-23, which she assumes will be enough; and she has enough egotism to ride right over the confused or stalled out moments. You can see that when X-23 first came to stay and Rose was feeling less secure--their conversation was very stilted and dead-ended at first. Susannah tends to listen hard to X-23 and sort slowly through each miscommunication, but Rose just rockets ahead and counts on X-23 to keep up.

Also she's insanely jealous of some things about X-23 and wouldn't want some other things about X-23 at any cost, which makes her conflicted, and also X-23 is hot. But the great thing about operating on intuition and instinct is that she never has to stop and deal with any of that!

[varadia]

Not having to deal is win! X is--too analytically oriented not to try to figure things out. I think that's why she is always so big on understanding, and asking questions, and trying to get people to explain. It's something she needs to do in order to feel comfortable. Having a brain like a computer is a disadvantage when it comes to dealing with people. Especially people like Rose. But I think she makes a go of it, and she's starting to get how this whole teenager thing works. Even if it is incredibly inefficient and awkward. *solemn*

[mm-gao.livejournal.com]

X is her Alain. Everyone moody and passionate and disinclined to self-analysis needs a friend who watches everything all the time and can think through a brick wall and only talks when it's important.

(Emmy is Cuthbert, natch.)

[varadia]

*CRACKS UP*

OH MY GOD. *cough*

That is pretty damn hilarious.

*eyes X and Wolverine, and replaces Cuthbert with Logan in DT*

*for shits and giggles*

Randomly, I think another thing I like about X--that makes her interesting, is she has this bizarre purity of purpose. For all her uncertainty about EVERYTHING ELSE, she knows what she's for. Esther and I talked once about what a picture (painted by Joshua from Dark Angel, he does abstracts and one is of 494) of her would look like. It's a white canvas with one stripe of brilliant bright blue. Her focus is much less spread out than Susannah's or Rose's,I think. I find that interesting.

[mm-gao.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Although the gunslingers are quite prone to monofocus, in the right circumstances, and I think Susannah's situation is deceptive, because she has her bright tower now. Everything else is just... static, and easily cast aside if something threatens what really matters.

Rose is legitimately very complicated and very confused.

[varadia]

*nods*

But with the Susannah thing--X does not get mental static. She's not capable of it. Yet. Maybe one day.

Rose's life is hard.

(Cutting back to earlier, I still REALLY love the whole Yuna-Ed sending on thing. That was the best way for him to go that I could ever have imagined. Rock.)

[mm-gao.livejournal.com]

*nod* The thing about Susannah is that there are things she wishes were true about herself, and even pretends are true about herself, that pretty much are not. At least she has not tried to teach this to X?




...and per our other thread of discussion, she has taught it to Rose accidentally. High-five myself for consistency.

[varadia]

GO YOU. *cheerleads consistency*

*pats*

Yeah. I try to imagine X learning to compartmentalize and--it ain't gonna happen. She is always the weapon. Sometimes she can be Laura, too, but--the weapon part isn't going anywhere.

I kind of like that, too.

[mm-gao.livejournal.com]

Also, I missed the edit about Ed. Just mentioning that thread has got me re-reading all of Yuna's stuff! Good times. And excellent boot camp for future indignities of writing a seventeen year old girl. *wry*

[varadia]

Whee Yuna.

Also, heh. At least you were prepared! Ish.

[genarti]

*chokes*

Oh my god that is PRICELESS and I will be giggling over this one for a good while now.

Particularly because, at least looking on from my outside perspective, you are not wrong.