Where I sit, I dream for days

Stolen nefariously from twistdfateangel  :
And just to save you guys some time - I love money and I hate cereal.  

TAKING REQUESTS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY DRABBLES YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Give me an OTP and a detailed prompt, and I will give you a 100-300 word fic in response!   I have been particularly itching to do crack fic lately - like, off-the-wall non-canon ships (like Samuel and Jay making out in the elevator).  Or canon ships in really cracky AUs (Devo and Galen in Pokemon AU).  OR PLAIN STUFF IF YOU WANNA BE VANILLA.   I want to smash through them tomorrow (day off FINALLY), but I will have them done by the end of the week.   Put multiple requests if you want, and I'll pick my favorite.

I also have my schmoop bingo board to get through, so you can use that as reference!  It's here.

Gearing back into action, posting like a beast soon!

day 20: favorite enemies

Favorite enemies (in terms of antagonists but not necessarily villains) would have to be (a) the character's own sense of self causing them to self-sabatogue or (b) a family member or a really close friend of the character feeling forced to take the other side.  I actually really love family-based conflict and plots, and don't play them nearly enough (That will change soon, MARRY ALL THE SISTERS).

day 21: have you ever played out the death of a character?

In RP....I think only twice?  I've definitely done it to Deon, though that was a Mexico AU piece.  I KNOW I've done it to Galen/Asiel, I'm just having trouble remembering specifically when in his timeline I did so.  Fairly sure I had his Holy War death written out at some point, though I have no clue whether I actually posted it anywhere or not.   Liam will very likely die over the course of Gesma (it's really the only natural conclusion to his storyline), but that won't be for a while yet.

Actually a bit surprised I never wrote out one of Kazuo's like.......three times he was killed.  But I had a lot of fun writing the times he was recovering from being dead, and making jokes at his expense (in the times we speculated on the 'dub' names for CC characters, I've endorsed the name Kenny for that reason XD ).

Trying to get my big-girl pants stitched together so I have the courage to quit my job in January.  Money shouldn't be a problem, but making big-life-changes always is.  With all the moving and shifting I've done this year you'd think I'd be a bit braver about it. 

day 16: any weird character-creation quirks you have

I don't think so?  Though I do know that the Sailor Moon tradition of obnoxiously meaningful names will never leave me until I die.  


seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight seeing tron tonight boy I can't believe I've been waiting a YEAR AND A HALF for this movie.  I can Move On with my life after this.

day 12: a character you wish you were still playing

Galen, Kazuo, and Bass.  Galen because derp derp I've been talking about him all month.   Kazuo because I had so damn much set up for him, and the game he was in imploded when I was only a year in.   Bass (from Kol's Lost Senshi game) because I felt like I hit on a good character with him, but I was so inexperienced that I wasn't able to draw as much out of him as I do with my other characters.  It's only with Roimata that I've revisited the tortured, finicky artist type, but Bass was the first and I'd like to reintroduce him somewhere again.


day 13: favorite weakness or quirk to play

Obstinate characters <3   I love characters who have the truth shoved in their face multiple times and still try to believe in what is the easiest for their hearts to handle.   THERE IS A REASON WHY OVER HALF OF THEM ARE EARTH SUN SIGNS. 

I'm more subtle about this than I used to be, but I'm also fascinated with dual personalities within a single character.  When I was younger this manifested in outright split-personality characters - very much aping Yu-Gi-Oh!, which I've been obsessed with since high school.  Nowadays I try to make it flow more naturally within the character.  Kazuo, by virtue of being a Tux Kamen char, of course had this, but over time he stopped obsessing over 'gentleman thief vs. mechanic' and instead, his whole being became more dedicated to being a guardian and defender.  Warren had an obvious double-side that I've pretty much dropped - regular Warren is twisted enough by himself.  Deon's developed more of one as I've written him - he flip-flops between being serious and pragmatic and then easy-going and lazy so much that I'm inclined to call him moody, except that I think it just reflects his great inner confusion - between being a dedicated, full-time Hunter or holding on to the last threads of being a loose and free normal college guy. Very much a Capricorn Sun vs. Sagittarius Moon battle for him, made worse by a Gemini Ascendant XD 

Of course, with a love for double personalities such as this, Pax looked like a playground made of chocolate when I came upon it.  For Amrit/Osiris I'm doing something a bit different - my goal is for Amrit and Osiris to synthesize at some point, fully harmonize into a single person.  On the other hand, Jay is going to need a full-on exorcism to remove herself from the zealous and violent urges of the Artemis in her. 

day 10: if you had to link to one scene in which you are most proud of your writing, it would be...


God damn the sharing on Google Docs is down. 

Well, the top story was To Catch A Thief , from Chaos Crisis.  If we are going to measure my pride by how often I've re-read an RP log, then this one is the clear winner.   Again, it was for Chaos Crisis, which was an 'alternative' Sailor Moon game (sort of alternative, except that our senshi were supposed to be the originals that Takeuchi misinterpreted in her stories...anyways).   In this particular scene, my Tuxedo Kamen (who is more of a Tuxedo Melvin, blundering and dorky half of the time) is pulling a Cinderella on K's Sailor Moon, running away rooftop to rooftop until she manages to corner him for questioning.  I think K and I finished this log in one day, and I think it is perfect.  

Also..............well, Deon only had a small cameo in Desperately Seeking Misu, but damn I feel like that was a fantastic appearance, and I'm really proud at how it seamlessly fit in with everything else Angie and Pixie had wrote (they just as easily could have puppetted Deon, but I'm happy they asked for me to post).   There was a story Angie and I wrote with Fin and Uri, their first meeting in which Uri gets knifed in an alley then is kind enough to give the knife back to his sulty aggressor which made me die laughing.  Deon and Mara's A Long Farewell And A Time To Choose probably was one of my more emotionally potent stories.   Oh god, and playing the Sassy Unicorn in the Wonder Friends Adventure Log in Gesma was PURE FUN.    

Day 08: character you've played the longest

Galen.  Considering that I wrote a fic with him two weeks ago, and he still comes up in speculations, I think he counts.  That would be five and a half years for him.  Warren is in second-place, I think I've had him for four years.

OMG.  Someone just gifted a paid account, and now I have new icons!  OMG.  SEND GOOD CHRISTMAS JUJU IN MYSTERY PERSON'S DIRECTION!

day 05: similar or frequent themes in your characters

LOL okay.  Most of you can probably answer this question for me.

I love Jerks.  I love them I love them I love them, and I love them because they have the best dialogue, and tend to have more moral flexibility than other characters, and can get away with a lot of shit if you can still get people to like them.  I love true-blue good guy characters too, and they tend to be the well-meaning, somewhat oblivious type.   Quite obviously I return to 'prince' characters often - either literal princes like Warren and Kaz (or in a way, Amrit), but a number of my other characters have royal or noble tendencies to them, like Rae (who is technically a princess), Vay, Deon, Roimata. 

Fashion is a reoccurring theme in my characters too - they are either rather aware of style and dress well, or they are absolutely horrible at dressing themselves.  I think Galen and Rae are really the only two characters who run middle-of-the-road on this.  

My characters usually have either a buttload of siblings, or none at all.  Galen, Deon, Vay, Mulli, and Rae all have more than 3 siblings each.  Warren, Val, Kaz, Julian, and Jay have none. 

With all of my characters, I think of them all as prisoners in one way or another.  In creating my characters, I keep in mind how that character will be self-sabotaguing him/herself, and plot for them accordingly.  No exceptions on this one.  For reference, I use The Devil in Tarot, which symbolizes how people can be imprisoned by their own heart and fears.   The songs Senorita by VAST, Happiness in Slavery by Nine Inch Nails, and Sober by TOOL also touch on what I'm getting at.


day 06: scenes/characters that make you laugh the most

Oh jeez.  I don't even know.  I really love serious, uptight characters forced to do something ridiculous.  I really really like AU situations because you can write something about stuff like Pokemon straight-faced, but it ends up looking HILARIOUS if you think about the characters involved.  I love flirting and teasing that falls flat.  I love characters being proved absolutely, utterly dead wrong in a manner they did not at all expect.  I love joking around about shipped characters getting into costume play.  

day 02: what comes first, the character or the pb?

The kind of games I usually join don't have mandatory PBs, so by default it is the character first.  There are some chars I have that I KNOW I will never find a PB for - Deon, for example.  I'd be shocked to high hell if I ever found anybody (real) who actually resembles how he looks in my head (Pixie's calendar art is the dead closest to what is actually in my head).  Kaz, I had a few potential PBs for him but nobody who ever looked perfect. 

In games that do use PBs, the pb-finding process happens about midway through, after I've figured out what character I want and what their general traits are.  Amrit kind of got away from me though - I was originally looking for potential Endymion PBs, not Osiris PBs, but one look at Allu Arjun on Hollow Art and I had to use him.  He just had such a fun look to him, unlike a lot of the other PBs I had been looking at.