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[bjornwilde]

 Tell us about someone who was influential to your character's development. 

ETA: This can be a person within canon, Milliways, meta as the player, or whatever inspires. Originally I had meant within canon and character POV, but run with it as you will.

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[manythorned]

How are we taking this, like within canon? To us as the writers? To the character as it was actually being developed for book/TV/film/whatever?

[bjornwilde]

However you choose. =)

[manythorned]

Within canon:

Tess was heavily influenced by Papa Mercer and then Lex, and a little less so by Checkmate and then, finally, Clark.

Kylo clearly has Snoke tracks all over him.

Sikozu was influenced by Scorpius, but that doesn't last long.

Rose has been influenced by her parents and then by Dr. Chritlow, who trained her on how to create Thorn (not that they got what they expected).

[just_cant_lose]

Going within canon - himself.

And Sherlock.

[jedi_interrupted]

That would have to be my master, Anakin Skywalker. He's brave, skilled, and powerful, and yet cares for those under his command. He is reckless but considering he always succeeds in his plans, it's hard to say that's a bad thing. He taught me how to adapt to any situation and there is so much else he taught me.

There were others who influenced me--Master Obi-Wan, Master Yoda, Master Plo Koon, Captain Rex, Senator Amidala, Senator Chuchi, Barriss Offee, even Asajj Ventress--but Anakin had the most to do with who I am today.

And you will never see a better star pilot.

[ownerless]

That would be Rose Quartz.

[bjornwilde]

For Sabine...

In bar, Cassian has influenced her to be more subtle and careful in regards to who she reveals details of home to (she still struggles with wanting to show off though). He comes across to her as very competent and careful, she might even go so far as to say he'd be good as an ISB agent, if he enjoyed bullying and making people paranoid.

In canon, Kanan has a lot of influence on her, which really shows up in s02 & 03. She learns there are many ways to win a battle from him.

Hera teaches similar things to her, but it's harder to read since they've only had the one episode together, way back in s01. Also I feel like Hera has taken a back seat in focus, which really is unfortunate.

Both are amazing in showing they value Sabine as who she is and not just because she's a good resource for the team. I cannot state how important this is for Sabine.

[childofrebellion]

He'd be pleased to know that because her enthusiasm and art give him hope for the Rebellion and he wants her safe. Also he'd hope that she doesn't goes as far as he does, because he knows he's good at using safety as a reason to cut himself off.

[student_of_impossibility]

In what is a startling break from the norm, I am not going to talk about the usual go-tos for Tavi and this question! Especially as the question was not most influential. So instead we're going with one inspired by a certain someone's place in Codex Alera!

One of the strong influences on Tavi is Varg, one of the highest-ranking Canim of the series. For those who don't know, Canim are the civilization of nine-foot somewhat-anthropomorphized wolves who wear armor and wield swords and terrifying crossbows and [spoiler]. They're really super cool and really scary in some ways and generally fantastic.

Varg teaches Tavi a lot about body language and how to handle crises in the moment in book two, and really cemented Tavi's baseline understanding that centuries of hostility does not mean you can't work together and make alliances and/or even peace. He also teaches Tavi some Canish, which is super helpful as Tavi never does learn any Marat languages in the course of the books and learning to actually think in a different language is good for expanding his frame of reference, especially one so different from Aleran (which is pretty close to English in some ways for really stupid reasons of Butcher didn't think things through before making a comment in book two).

Varg also teaches Tavi chess--well, ludus, which is totally chess. Actually I figure Tavi already knew the basics and wasn't bad, could probably beat a fair number of people. But Varg's had centuries playing it and is way, way better. Besides helping Tavi learn about diplomacy and how you meet a different race when thinking things through, it also teaches him a lot about strategy and tactics, both in the literal game sense and the rather more metaphorical sense that can be applied to politics, diplomacy, or the battlefield. Varg's lessons for Tavi will continue to prompt growth and shifts in perspective throughout the series.

And then Tavi promptly adapts those lessons to his own style. Then everyone gets headaches.

There's also so many other people, of course--most characters in the series, really, with Kitai, Gaius Sextus, Isana, and Bernard at the top of that list (... and, to be honest, Fidelias, but that is a complicated issue). But Varg is also one of them, and he is appropriate to discuss today.

[tattling]

Both of Franklin's uncles, in canon. Ben Grimm is his moral centre. (Christians sometimes think, "What would Jesus do?" Franklin thinks, "What would Uncle Ben do?") Uncle Johnny is the style, the ambition, the sheer cool-ness (no pun intended) of how the morals are carried out.

(OOC, it's always Jonathan Hickman. He made me interested in Franklin in Dark Reign, all downhill since then.)

[bjornwilde]

Old pup voice, grumbling, "Jeeze kid, ya really know how to get to a guy."

[tattling]

NO PRESSURE OR ANYTHING

[ever_lovin]

Nope, none at all!

(What is even up with the F4 in Marvel today? Not a peep of them anywhere?)

[tattling]

(Right? They hung a lantern on it in the first issue of Jessica Jones, but otherwise, MIA since Secret Wars. One conspiracy theory is that Marvel won't publish F4 stories again til they get the movie rights back. I mean ... I guess that's why it wasn't selling. It's not like Fox did them proud, after all. :/ )

[bjornwilde]

(That could be. Although F4 always seems to sell less than other titles. I love it dearly, especially what Fraction and Hickman (although that man needs to hurry up his damn plot) brought to the table. I also loved Ben in Guardians of the Galaxy. I need to finish reading his time in that title.)

(How was Johnny with the Inhumans? I never read it. Oh, and Ben did show up in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur recently if memory serves.)

[tattling]

(IKR, I would join the church of Hickman and yet I still LOL that they had to extend Secret Wars from 8 issues to 9 for him.)

I actually haven't read any Marvel comics since Secret Wars/Battleworld ended, other than the first couple issues of Jessica Jones and America. The lack of F4 was a decent enough excuse for me to stop giving Marvel all my money. (Oh, I also buy Spider-Gwen, actually-- I'm a year behind, but I will never stop supporting that comic.)

[bjornwilde]

(I've avoided the summer cross-overs since Fear Itself to be honest. I did read some of A-Force and a few of the other battle world titles, but it just wasn't grabbing me.)

(Spider-Gwen is awesome and I loved the issues with Jessica and Silk. Alas, my coin is limited, so I've only been reading Hulk (Jen's book, not Amadeus's) which has been amazing and I've started reading America which I am warming up to.)

(Marvel get noting else from me until they work really hard to get ride of what the rest of their universe is doing.)

[tattling]

Ugh yeah. I order from a local shop every month, I've felt bad the past couple months sending them my orders for ... basically just Spider-Gwen and Jessica Jones.

(I already quit sending DC money when they retconned Oracle. It's not my LCS' fault that Marvel employs Nazis! For June, I've ordered my bro's Christmas gift early. We'll see what July brings...)