Borrowed DE

[noteful]

I'm not stealing DE . . . I'm just sort of borrowing it.

If you were to write a sort of User's Guide to Interacting with Your Pup, what are two or three things that would be at the top of your list as being helpful for the other mun to know?

It might be especially useful if they're things it may be hard to work into narration. Or if they're things that are unique to your take on the character, because you're pre-canon/post-canon/all this stuff happened in Milliways that changed them from canon/etc.

And because examples are handy things, see my answer for Meg in the comments.

Comments

[ellectrical]

1) This is one that could apply/have applied to any of my characters, and is the one I've had the most trouble with: IC behavior =/= OOC sentiment. If my character is being sharp or closed-off or otherwise unfriendly towards yours, it has nothing to do with how I feel. It's just the character. And when we're talking about Elle... yeah. Really specific things can set her off. But it's all about her, not me.

2) Elle isn't stupid. There are some things she's very good at understanding and anticipating. While she sometimes has issues with patience or planning ahead, usually her issue is that she just hasn't been raised to understand or prioritize certain concepts. She hasn't thought much about things like religion or philosophy or science because they were either absent entirely from her upbringing, or she was never taught about them in any meaningful way because what she was going to be in life was already chosen for her. Elle was soundly discouraged from engaging in independent thought, and the extent to which she has and does was born of pure force of will. So when things that come easily to others don't to her, it's not because she's thick or stupid - it's often because she's an outsider looking in.

3) Elle is in a very weird mindspace right now. Surviving a telepath and her own memories has meant she's more or less perfected a sort of empty, detached personality that she often now defaults to. Her memories have also come more in the form of distinct personalities reflecting who she was at different points in her life, and she has difficulty engaging with them, particularly as certain ones would probably cause her to lose immediate control of herself, and she doesn't want to do that around others. So she's trying to sort this all out to reach some kind of whole, but as it is, it may mean she'll act very still and detached, or behave in dramatically different ways depending on what's going on and if she decides to engage in a particular identity. (The ones she'll likely pick from, though, are how she was most recently, and roughly her mindset when she was six or so, as these are the most stable.)