Friday DE

[dreamingofelectricsheep]

It’s Friday! And if it’s not the soon-to-be weekend for you, I hope the days until your weekend pass quickly and you have a long feeling weekend.

So today’s topic, what odd for you character have you had the thought to play? Or have you played them somewhere? 

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[bjornwilde]

Latest odd ball pup idea/urge was Velma Dinkley, from Scooby Doo. I don't know why and I haven't acted on it.

[cottoncandypink]

*looks at pup roster*

All of my pups have been perfectly normal.

[bjornwilde]

There's a reason I said "odd for you". = )

[holdingacat]

Keita Mori, from 'Watchmaker of Filigree Street' and to a lesser extent from 'Bedlam Stacks' (and there is going to be a sequel to Watchmaker \o/). He is way more calculating and withdrawn than what I tend to play.

[aberration]

I'm not really sure what I'd consider "odd for me," as while I like certain things, I don't feel like I have a character "type." I was thinking I hadn't played a villain, but then I remembered Elle... whom I think counts enough. And any reluctance to play a villain in game is I think just me feeling like they can be difficult to play in-bar. So, idk, I'm open to suggestions!

[balancingminds]

The Pirate King, not a lot of backstory or logic or much to his canon other than glorious music and Kevin Kline being Kevin Kline. I think that's why he didn't last that long for me, very much one of my guest starring characters.

[golden_lyre]

Bertie Wooster.

He was really fun to play! But such a difficult headspace for me to get into.

[cameoflage]

Wolfgang from Don't Starve is playing against type for me (here in particular, my type as of pups #3 and #4 is "gender-atypical, nonhuman, and from web media: pick two", apparently) but I've done well with him on a DST RP server, I just don't think he'd work here because I'd have to do his backstory properly instead of a semi-researched slapdash and the translation field would play merry hell with his speech patterns.

[have_no_mercy]

I play so many characters elsewhere. I suppose the most odd character I've ever played was Road Runner. Somehow it worked!

[mightbeagoodone]

Absurdist characters are hard for me. I've tried Bender from Futurama once, and Brak from Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast/the Brak Show. They're fun, but hard to sustain.

I have a hard time with villains, too. I've tried Jim Moriarty (no shade on the current Jim-mun; they're doing an excellent job) and Dracula, and probably some others I've forgotten. One or two EPs and you realize, yeah, this isn't a headspace I can keep going.