I claim this DE in the name of Mars!

[bringspeopletogether]

The more we play a character, the more we get to know them. What's something you've discovered about your characters -- that you may not have realized initially -- as their time in Milliways has unfolded?

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[varadia]

I never realized X was as much of a mother hen as she has proved to be. My god. I cannot even. She just adopts people and decide they need looking after. I don't even know. And they are the WEIRDEST PEOPLE. Thor, Deadpool, Michaelangelo, kind of Moriarty -- I just. What.

Ysalwen has sort of been constantly evolving as I throw her against different people and see how she reacts. She's a woman of very decided opinions, and she's hiding a lot of her trauma. I didn't realize quite how much she was hiding, I think, until shoving her at templars and seekers and Flemeth and -- other people with similar things in their histories.

Flemeth is kind of lonely. Ish. I kind of want to delete that, actually, but I think it's true, given Inquisition. So. There you go.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim is endlessly amused by X's attitude towards him, and will play on it mercilessly. :D

(He likes it. Which is not something I knew about him before I started playing him. People trying to take care of him is hilarious, and he doesn't understand it, but it's a novelty he's not yet tired of.)

[freedom_is_grey]

Hey, as long as it keeps him out of trouble, she's fine. He's such a hot mess.

I never thought I would think that about Moriarty -- any version -- but here we are.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim: Hot, I agree with, but mess? I will have you know I have my shit together, yo.

(I wish I could promise no more trouble, but when Sherlock leaves and boredom sets in... *hands*)

[varadia]

(Heh. Bring it.)

Also I need to figure out when I want to make her Officially Wolverine.

[bjornwilde]

Thank you for grabbing this! I am having a challenging morning with too little sleep.

Izana: I need to focus on their Japanese voice actress' portrayal rather than the English dub. The English dub makes them sound very feminine and passive, if sassy from time to time, while the original Japanese voice actress makes Izana seem much more gender neutral or balanced, as well as being more proactive.

Izana is also something of a sponge when it comes to new things. They also have a weird thing where if they are given a weapon, even if it is purely ceremonial, they will learn to use it simply out of respect for the weapon.

More later if I find the spoons.

[isawit]

Selina here is much more guarded than I expected but she also is desperately in need of friends and family. I think this is why she's latched onto Jay.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato is even more of an awkward turtle than I previously thought. Um. Like, not even just in the 'he's really kinda abrasive' way, but also in the 'blushing, stammering, refusing to look directly at people' way.

01 Yamato is also way surlier and shorter with people than tri Yamato.

[cook_the_rude]

Hannibal,tailors himself to the people he is trying to manipulate impress, and genuinely wants to please with his skills, at least on a surface level. His canonical dismay at serving a vegetarian meat was genuine. What people don't know, however, can't offend them, so he plays what he thinks of as his little private jokes. Also, he thinks those skills and accomplishments are what justifies his existence to others, and makes him superior to them, which in turn justifies eating the rude. As he assigns nobody any inherent worth as a human being, he has no inherent sense of self-worth. It is an odd thing to realise about such a monstrous self-aggrandising bastard mofo, but it does explain why, for example, he unleashes huge machinations and gives up the entire life he built for himself just to impress one cute, shy neuroatypical investigator who had declared he didnt't find him that interesting.

[hecu_marine]

I hadn't clued into it from playing her canon, but I realized after some time with her here that I didn't have to worry about figuring out what Ellen's romantic life had been in Vault 101; she didn't have one. Ellen doesn't know the term and wouldn't use it, but by modern standards she'd be considered to identify as asexual, with an extremely low/barely present romantic drive. Those urges just plain weren't there, for whatever reason. I mean, she did wind up proposing to and marrying one of the Scribes, but that was mostly because getting married and attempting a family is What Responsible Adults Do. If asked about her husband, I don't know that she'd say she loves him; she'd say that he's a very nice young man and she really likes him a great deal, but beyond that would be uncertain territory for her. She doesn't consider this a problem. It's just something a responsible adult is supposed to do, and positive results are something of a side benefit.

Quicksilver- I haven't played him much yet, he's had maybe three EPs so far, but his discussions with other pups have led me to believe that his mother's family is Jewish, that she doesn't interact with her family often for various reasons, and that Peter feels a significant amount of absence in his life as a result. Also, I am very sure that he is a closet reader, although you wouldn't know it to look at his room in his mother's basement. People take FOREVER to interact with, by his standards, but books move at whatever pace he chooses to set. He's in and out of at least four local libraries on a regular basis, but they never know it, because he generally comes in and raids the shelves at top speed so all they notice is a gust of wind. Most of the time, he returns the books. There's no point in stealing from a library. He steals from jerks who move too slowly to stop him, not people who say 'come and borrow our stuff, just bring it back when you're done'.

As for this account, everything about Shephard is stuff I've discovered through playing him, or very close to everything. His canon is an FPS and a page of stilted journal-style writing in said FPS's manual. Everything about him was either developed for his app or discovered through character interaction.

[bringspeopletogether]

Answering my own question: it turns out Alistair's got some pretty gnarly abandonment issues! WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT.

He's been discarded or left behind a lot in his life -- by Maric, by Arl Eamon (at Isolde's urging, yes, but Eamon didn't have to send Alistair away), by the Chantry (though that was more of a mutual dislike and not-fitting-in deal) -- but he always managed to bounce back. Losing the Fereldan Wardens, though, and then being "discarded" by Lyna when she put him on the throne? Combined with the stress and loneliness of everything else, I realized somewhere around his second or third EP that those issues were pushing to the fore a lot more easily. He wasn't bouncing back so well this time.

Fortunately, I think he is finally starting to get past it. Or, uh, at least the issues are retreating to where Alistair can safely ignore them again! (He's never really been conscious of them anyway, at any point in his life. They just kinda get lumped in with a general malaise and sadness if he's upset about something. I'll leave this Incorrect Dragon Age post here and go on my way.)

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Poor guy. No wonder he likes dogs so much. They're a lot more loyal than the humans've been.

[ceitfianna]

I love my New Zealand alma mater and New Zealanders in general, my feet are sore but I had a great day and party.

Sameth tends to be drawn to chaotic people because I think they remind him of Yrael who for all that he was abrasive to him, focused on him in a way that hasn't happened a lot in his life. I didn't expect him to keep searching out Jim and caring and being worried all at once.

William will become everyone's big brother given the chance and he gets frustrated by people going but just go and change everything. He's very aware of the structure of his world but not great at explaining it, he knows his edges.

Ivan feels disoriented not having Barrayar be known, in some ways he likes it, but he misses knowing what assumptions to work off of.

Quentin is far more willing to let some of his awkwardness around someone he likes be visible in Milliways than at home. He has internal boundaries but he feels safer as well as hugely awkward because there's more flirting.

Tumnus is a historian, he wants to find the patterns in Narnia's history and use them to help the Pevensies.

Demeter's favorite people to talk to are gods of other pantheons and worlds or worlds that are not quite like hers. Its like finding a new species of plant.

Moist actually really likes learning new skills for different jobs, he doesn't mind if the preparation is long if he gets a lot of information out of it.

[i_am_your_host]

I've learned that despite one of Emcee's signature songs, "I Don't Care Much," Emcee cares a WHOLE FUCKING LOT. Too much. Which is why he tries not to. And why he denies it. He has spent a lifetime building up walls that are now being dismantled brick by brick, and he doesn't know what to do when they're coming down except put on more masks, lots of different ones, as much as possible. And even though a few people have seen him without a mask on, it's still more than it was before he came to Milliways. Goddammit, Milliways. Making him care, and stuff.

[ceitfianna]

*hugs him* I still think fondly of his threads with Charles who will return at some point and how much they've shared with each other. I think they're both good at putting other people first and not taking care of themselves.