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What potential pups have you never been able to fit into Milliways?
Possible reasons may include: excessive canon mangling (anyone living in the 163X setting. They have an incredible ability to munchkin), incompatible metaphysics (my only personal example here would be Marc C. DuQuesne from Grand Central Arena), and inability to function in Bar (Croup and Vandemar would, I think, come the closest here).
More examples! More categories! See if anyone else can spackle over the problem!
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The other big one that I haven't been able to fit is Diana from Next to Normal. Because of her hallucinations of Gabe, I don't know if I'd have to app Gabe as well, or if Gabe would just technically be a part of Diana, because he basically only exists in her head.
I also have one that I'd app in a heartbeat, and would love the bar, but I can't find a PB for to save my ass.
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The character is Nadia McConnell from the musical Bare. She's a large girl, not just stage-large, actually pretty damn big. My problem is that all of the possible people I've found for her are too glamourous. She's more a punk-kid, multi-coloured hair, spicing up her Catholic school uniform with as much as she can get away with, that kind of thing. I've thought of the girl from Glee, but she's just not right in my head for some reason.
So, yeah.
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Nidhogg (from the Sarah Beauhall series) is another I've been tempted with but she is a godlike dragon suffering from dementia who occasionally has violent outbursts. Okay, it only happened once in canon but it would need to be a possibility in order for her to be true to character. I had thought of arranging a handler for her before her first EP, i.e. an existing Milliwyas patron who could calm her down before the explosion, but I wasn't sure how to go about doing that and didn't want to saddle the responsibility on someone.
I think my biggest trouble with pups is finding reliable time to play.
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But atevi won't work on their own, and even with a number of associated atevi in Milliways, interaction with humans (and suchlike) would be hard, there would most likely be an incident of some sort which would end up with all the atevi in the cells and then banned, collectively, from Milliways forever. It's better that I don't even feel tempted to try.
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Steven Banks, Steven Banks Home Entertainment Center: I cannot sustain that level of off-the-wall manic energy for long enough to do him justice. But I have been tempted.
Blackmail, Villains By Necessity: Part logistics, part headvoice rebellion (Cata didn't like the idea of sharing headspace with him, and then things necessitated I app Sam instead). Logistics-wise, he spends most of canon not talking. It'd be a good challenge for me not to be able to fall back on the Black Void of Witty Banter, but also difficult to pull off.
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I'd give him plot. And feelings.
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Doctor Adoullah Makhslood from Throne of the Crescent Moon. He could probably be fit into the Bar if I thought I had even the slightest chance of playing him properly without it seeming like cultural appropriation or failure of cultural understanding.
Both Hektor of Troy and the Silver Corporal (he's from two stories by pulp writer Lester Dent, he who gave the world Doc Savage) were too much the products of their settings to work quite right in Bar. There's too much explicit magic for Hektor and the Corporal kinda wasn't geared for anything other than pulp adventures in the frozen Northland.
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I usually have the opposite of this problem, there are characters I'd love to try playing but they don't take up residency. That's why I don't acquire new headvoices as quickly as other people, it takes a lot for them to choose to stay in my head. But when they do, they're there for good.
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And yet I still want to do that OOM with the link-text "Oops", because it'd be amazing. Sigh.
Budur Radwan, from the novel Years of Rice and Salt, actually has a journal! (
On the matter of 'Oops'
No matter how much I'd like to have a character call Tony Stark, Aluminum Lad.
Re: On the matter of 'Oops'
But dammit, if it was not one of the best moments in the series. Never. Ever. Ever. Piss off the computer genius.
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Which I am not up to date on (I learned my lesson about taking big gulps of canon from WTNV when I burned out my ability to be weirded out over a single weekend) and is not closed yet.
Not that those are the problem, in and of themselves. No, it's her terrible munchkin tendencies. Give someone like that access to the Bar, and her increasing depth of, let's call it 'plot activities' and move on and down that road lies doom and deeply altered timelines.
Also, alternate worlds are an important plot point which is full of potential issues when you bring the Bar in.
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I also have a Harry Lockhart pup in the sandboxes I'm damn fond of, but I'm not sure how well he'd work in the bar himself. There's also the Ford Prefect pup I've had for a long damn time, and would love to bring into the bar, but again, I think he needs canonmates to work.
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Other than that false alarm, I don't have any fandom characters I was able to lure in to my creative brain but that wouldn't work here. (Although I had my doubts about whether it was a good idea to play both Zimmy and Gamma out of one journal. However I gave that one up because I didn't know what the hell was going on with them in canon and had been wrong every time I tried to guess.)