Meta Monday DE

[bjornwilde]

Have any new insights into your characters, whether from AU week or other sources?

New canon you’ve got coming?

or how closely do you hold to canon anyway?

ETA: Also, thank you Fi and Lee for covering my DEs last week. You were a great help. :)

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[bjornwilde]

Danny: New canon next week!! So excited. I've also discovered an Iron Fist comics fan who has been writing some reactions and reviews to the first season of Iron Fist, which has made me realize Danny is going through even more than I'd thought he was in his PTSD, reacclimatizing to New York, and rejection by the Meachums. ETA: The new meta is that Danny is not only suffering from PTSD and having trouble adjusting to a different culture, but he's suffering from an identity crisis as well, which works really well and explains his poor choices and reactions, imho.

Viv: In plotting things with her, I am realizing how much I don't have to restrict myself to what is show on page. I'm also playing with ways to present her canon that isn't the normal, such as the letter to her father relating the events of the first issue of Champions. I mean to play with each bit more and not just use letters, but I like it as a means to cover things and not have to go into details.

[cottoncandypink]

In getting ready to take Wilford through canon, and do a few other things I've been wanting to do with him, I found where his persecution complex comes from. And I'm sorry to say it's not going anywhere, ever. I've always sort of had an idea of where it came from, but in working out a scene, it suddenly became blindingly obvious why he is the way he is in a lot of ways.

As for his canon, I have such a tense relationship with it. It's always contradicted itself, from day one, and that's where his meta came from. But then there was the four-part series that completely retconned everything, took out the games, and made it just straight up paranormal horror. The episode that came out recently is also supposed to be a new part of Wilford's backstory, but I'm going to play both of them as happening after everything else. While watching the breakdown for the most recent episode, I was given a convenient escape to be able to do this, in the form of insight into another character's head. Basically, he's just as crazy as everyone else, and if you take the last five episodes as being from his POV, and not the audience's (as everything else has been, and even how the most recent stuff is supposed to be), you get a delusion that makes more sense than reality does. I'm assuming that's supposed to be the point, so I'm going with it.

There's a new episode coming out next month, and a little bird tells me there will be monthly instalments going forward, so maybe things will actually start to become more cohesive as time moves forward. Or maybe it'll be a complete clusterfuck for all eternity. Either way, I'll probably never catch up at this rate.

[irish_vagabond]

Preacher S3 just finished last night and I have been emotionally compromised. Oh my god. I'm still processing.

Within Milliways, Cassidy is still in the middle of S1 but it is just so good to see where he ends up, why he makes the choices he does, and what Jesse and Tulip (Tulip especially) mean to him. Aspects of Cassidy's personality that I've learned: he is indeed bi or pan; he steals/borrows clothes from his crushes then reverts to his garbage wardrobe when they break up; he has a surprisingly strong moral center, which impressed me and made me love him more because it's such a deviation from the comics; he really likes unicorns; his persistent bad taste in music is horrifying (NICKLEBACK. REALLY?)

Got a little bit more vampire lore, finally, but unfortunately no backstory, which has been frustrating and it's making me even more impatient for the 4th season. Which hasn't been officially announced yet, I don't think. Which is worrying. But I have faith (hur hur).

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Nobody knows when there will be more content for Overwatch's present day and there haven't been any developments in that area for a while, but we did just get a new short featuring D.Va in the recent past. (Somewhere between six months and a year before the present, I think.) This had absolutely nothing to do with Bastion, but they did get a tiny bit of new content recently: the spray in this icon, commemorating the Overwatch League finals. They're still hanging out with the Lindholms.

I hold very closely to what's shown in canon, but if it's not explicitly shown, I'll do pretty much whatever I want. If something happens on-screen that I don't like, I generally come up with an alternate way to interpret it rather than ignoring it entirely. If something's implied on-screen but not committed to, I'll ignore the implication if I don't like it. If something's exposited but not shown, well, the expositing character definitely said that but they weren't necessarily right. Basically, I stick to the letter of canon events but I don't give a damn about the spirit.

Also, for video game pups like Bastion (Aradia, on the other hand, is from a canon that is only pretending to be a video game), I draw on the game mechanics for inspiration even when the mechanics aren't supposed to be canon to the story. Some things I just leave as gameplay conceits, like respawning, but I like to think that the matches you play on various Overwatch maps are dramatic reenactments of actual conflicts between Overwatch, Talon, et al. Often inaccurate ones even aside from most or all of the people involved dying and respawning several times, like when there's a copy of yourself on the enemy team and the other you is working together with your mortal enemy, but so it goes.

For Bastion specifically this comes out in the form of their self-repair function being incredibly potent and allowing them to survive nearly anything that doesn't kill them in one hit, because that's exactly what happens in-game; they can be reduced to 1 HP and be totally fine all on their own shortly afterwards, without needing a health pack or the assistance of a healer. I did rearrange some stuff for balance, though, because I didn't want to give them full-fledged Wolverine-like rapid regeneration in story (and that doesn't seem in keeping with the way Reinhardt tore through, like, a small platoon of Bastions singlehandedly in Honor and Glory anyhow, although it wouldn't surprise me if the ones that weren't smashed to smithereens got back up and rejoined the ranks off-camera) but their tank configuration would be considerably more useful if it lasted longer than 8 seconds, so I made it so intensive self-repairing heavily drains their battery but the duration of Configuration: Tank is condensed for gameplay purposes and actually more like a few minutes.

[oldmancreed]

All my characters, save Kylo, are done with their canons. So I don't really have any new insights, though I'm still exploring Creed's thought processes and justifications.

As for Kylo, well, TLJ gave me some surprises I'm starting to work with. Can't wait to see what comes next.

I hold really well to canon, aside from Tess with whom I'm ignoring the comic series. If I'm not, I might as well just play an AU.