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I am mostly doing this so I can steal Rikuou's extra question since it's relevant to my interests too.
Kousaka
IC: Kousaka is doing okay! He's still kind of sad that most of the rest of Genshiken is gone but Saki-chan is still here and CFUD still always has something new and interesting and awesome to do so he's not emo or anything XD Kousaka still loev Camp very much.
OOC: Kousaka is still a nice comfortable character to get out when I feel like it. The problem with that is that I don't have a burning drive to throw him at everything, I have to kind of make myself remember to play him if nothing in particular pings him. He's the kind of character I can throw at anything, I just have to decide to actually do that. Occasionally I wonder vaguely if I've lost touch with his voice and then I mentally slap myself because he's Kousaka and the day I lose his voice is the day I can't RP anymore. I'm debating pulling him back to 15 or 30 icons, which would be easy from a play perspective since he doesn't have much range of expression but I love my keywords and I don't want to have to delete his other icons and screw up his previous threads (even if it is only mildly). DILEMMA. I wonder if the fact that I'm less picky about exactly which smile I use for which comment these days means I'm less dedicated to playing him, but it doesn't really matter.
Dropping: 2/10. He's nice and comfortable and I don't really have any problem making activity with him, but he's not my main anymore. I think I'd miss him terribly if I dropped him, but I don't want to cling to him quite as much as I used to.
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN??: 5/10. I don't really like playing Kousaka emo since it's not his natural state of being and Saki leaving on top of Sasahara, Madarame and Ogiue would make him emo a lot. I wouldn't necessarily drop him but I'd definitely consider it more seriously. But hey, Saki's never ever going to drop so I don't have to think about it 8D
Plans: Try make and maintain some new relationships for him. He's not one to forge deep connections but I like having people who at least know him for him to bug. Get him to bug people from canons he would have seen but I haven't, since I've been failing miserably at keeping up with animanga for the last couple of years or so.
Isabella
IC: Isabella is pretty content with camp. She can do her thing, Johji can do his thing, there are lots of nice people around and everything's just peachy.
OOC: Isabella really needs more friends. She's a social creature and I'm not doing her justice by not keeping up her relationships as well as I should. I'm still enjoying playing her though, and I'm pretty happy with her voice too even if I fluctuate a bit. Just need to get better at picking up threads and jumping people even if it's after they've probably gone to bed (sob my timezone).
Dropping: 3/10. Kind of the same as Kousaka, but I think I would miss her a bit less than him? I can't really judge that though I guess, and I still don't want to drop her XD
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN?? 9/10. Unless she forged some VERY strong friendships before Johji left, I'd drop her with him with no regrets at all. It just wouldn't be right otherwise.
Plans: Make friends! Jump people she knows, jump people I think she'll get on with, jump people I think she might not get on with because who knows maybe she will, basically just get involved in stuff and then actually keep them going.
Dexter
IC: Dexter is starting to feel itchy in his serial-killer places again, but he's still not certain what's going on with the whole Kristoph thing. That gave him quite a scare because he completely underestimated Klavier's reaction to it. So next time he kills he's going to be much more careful about who he picks and what their relationships in camp are like. Otherwise he's... okay. He's settled himself into a routine and this place is starting to feel worryingly comfortable. He misses Rita and the kids but he's starting to think about them less and less often as he adjusts.
OOC: AAAAAH FUCK I'M PRETENDING TO BE DEXTER MORGAN ON THE INTERNET WHAT AM I DOING yeah I've had him for like... nine months... now and I still get that feeling sometimes. That said I'm much more confident than I was at the start, and also much less paranoid. I feel bad for not getting him out more but it's difficult to get him out in the evening when I'm usually distracted with TV, and that's the main time that I play at all. Guys tell me if you want me to jump you with him or something because I ttly will. I think I've mostly gotten over my "I need to be in the zone!!!!" feeling with him. I mean, I think I play him better when I'm in the zone as such but I think I do a pretty passable job anyway. Oh, also I should be more enthusiastic about him from now on because season 3 is airing on TV here so I'm back to getting a weekly dose of canon review ♥
Dropping: 4/10. Dropping him would take pressure off me but then I wouldn't be playng Dexter Morgan and that would make me sad. The difficulty of playing him is worth it, basically. I still feel kind of bad about taking him away from his family and rewatching S3 isn't going to help that feeling but that's my own problem and I'll get over it.
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN??: uhhh 8/10. Losing Deb in camp would lose him a lot of his stability and reason to appear stable. I'd probably try keeping him around but I don't think it would be very likely that he'd be sustainable.
Plans: I have a plan I'll post about in his journal in a bit but that's a kind of AU thing so it won't affect him in CFUD proper at all. Like all my characters, get him out more and meeting people. He should be building up a network of people who know and like him in case he needs it orz.
Makoto:
IC: Makoto doesn't really like being out of her element, but Camp is interesting enough. She doesn't like the fact that she wasn't here for so long while Megumi was, but she's getting over it. She's also settling into having a feel for the place and how far she can push when. She probably has a network of gorilla informants set up by now :)
OOC: Sometimes I have no idea what I'm doing with Makoto, but luckily I get over it pretty quick. We don't actually see her outside of some very specific situations in canon despite her being a main character, so I'm having to extrapolate a lot but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It makes me a little more paranoid that I'm Doing It Wrong but I fully expect to be smacked into line by castmates if that were to occur. Sui taught me that having a character to jump people and top them mercilessly is heaps of fun, so I'm thoroughly enjoying doing that with Makoto too.
Dropping: 1/10. She still has that sparkly new character smell (it takes them a while to lose that for me) and I'm loving playing her when I do \o/
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN?? I apped Makoto in the knowledge that as soon as Megumi goes, she's going with her (and the terror that Megumi would drop before I could ninja her even though I knew she wouldn't).
Plans: Uhhh idk, I don't really plan stuff with her. I just throw her at things and off she goes.
Sasha:
IC: Camp is hot and ick and uncomfortable and Sasha wants to go home :( or back to Japan, that was okay too. He misses Teresa and Mafuyu and Tomo more than he will ever admit to anyone ever, although he is getting kinda attached to Oz in an odd way even though he'll never admit that either. It's too easy in CFUD to forget his purpose and start acting like he deserves friends or something, and he doesn't like that either. He hates not having a steady Soma supply. The scythe he got from the 07-Ghost bishops' store is a very poor substitute for his powers and he hates feeling... not helpless, because he knows that in a pinch he could take soma from someone, but he doesn't want to do that. Basically he's restless and he wants to go back to hunting rogue qwasers because these feelings of just enjoying himself in the company of others are weird and strange and baw.
OOC: Aaaah aaaah I love playing Sasha. I planned on apping him for moooooonths and now I have him and he's mine and you can't have him. It's the first time I've played with the express intention of developing a character, and with new canon available and regular enough that I can develop him and not feel OOC. He's taken from well before what his canon is up to and I know his basic arc so far from the raws, so I have guidelines as to what to do. And it's really, really fun so far. Tsunshouta ♥ The only problem is that it can be a little hard to throw him at posts unless they ping him because he is so introverted and honestly I sometimes have him dot in a thread when really he should just be completely ignoring the other person or walking away. But I think that's a fair compromise?
Dropping: 0/10 you can pry him from my cold dead hands miiiine
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN??: COMBO BREAKER HIS PARTNER IS NOT IN CAMP actually depending on how you define partner it could be either Teresa or Mafuyu either way you should app them!
Plans: Continue to be a tsunshouta at people. Bug Russia some more because what is this weird ping. Play with the other Russians more too. Play with everyone more! (are you seeing a pattern yet)
Leo
IC: Leo is like. Locked in the library reading forever right now. SUDDENLY SO MUCH INFORMATION he wants to know everything about camp. And maybe use this opportunity to make Elliot a better person somehow.
OOC: I AM STILL KIND OF SURPRISED THAT I AM PLAYING HIM?! Seriously this is by far my fastest turn-around time from "who is this" to "I AM APPING" so I'm. Still not really used to the idea orz. I do love him though so I will get over this and actually start playing him properly soon I need to sort out one or two things with Elliot first though. Playing Leo is kind of an experiment for me a bit because I'm not usually one to make up much headcanon or anything, I prefer to play from established canon. But playing such a minor character is forcing me to make up headcanon about what seems like practically everything outside of his personality (I mean, he's still appable after all) and it's being a really interesting mental exercise. A little intimidating too, but I am doing my best to get over it. Also I have an urge to note his tone of voice in most of his comments because his expression doesn't exactly change and people don't necessarily know his personality which would give clues too.
Dropping ????? I haven't played him enough to really know. Basically either I will be overcome with "AAAH THERE ARE NO RAILS" and drop him, or I will get over it and play him lots and make him my own. I'm really hoping and working towards it being the latter orz.
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN?? Muuuuuuuuuuuch higher unless we're talking in months and months and months' time when he'll have established relationships with other people. I don't thiink he's so hugely reliant on Elliot? I think there'd be plenty for him to do here if Elliot wasn't (you see, I'm even hesitant to come up with headcanon for this fff). But I don't know.
Plans: ACTUALLY PLAY HIM?! Pick up the threads I do have with him. Don't get frustrated by his few icons because he doesn't actually need more.
Me
I'm in a bit of a weird place playing-wise right now. I'm back at uni, and I do have a lot of work for uni although I'm being pretty slack with it really, but mostly it's influencing when I can play. Uni internet has been pretty dodgy lately so I haven't been threading while I'm there, and that basically limits me to weekends and evenings which I know is perfectly doable it's just less than what I'm used to. Also for some reason there haven't been many posts lately that ping my characters, which is no one's fault, it's just luck of the draw. And possibly less enthusiasm making it harder for me to figure out how to throw characters into a post that doesn't immediately ping any of them. But I still love this game and playing in it and I'm not going anywhere any time soon..... actually I shouldn't say that because I might hiatus for a few days next week but I'm not going anywhere permanently any time soon!
Kousaka
IC: Kousaka is doing okay! He's still kind of sad that most of the rest of Genshiken is gone but Saki-chan is still here and CFUD still always has something new and interesting and awesome to do so he's not emo or anything XD Kousaka still loev Camp very much.
OOC: Kousaka is still a nice comfortable character to get out when I feel like it. The problem with that is that I don't have a burning drive to throw him at everything, I have to kind of make myself remember to play him if nothing in particular pings him. He's the kind of character I can throw at anything, I just have to decide to actually do that. Occasionally I wonder vaguely if I've lost touch with his voice and then I mentally slap myself because he's Kousaka and the day I lose his voice is the day I can't RP anymore. I'm debating pulling him back to 15 or 30 icons, which would be easy from a play perspective since he doesn't have much range of expression but I love my keywords and I don't want to have to delete his other icons and screw up his previous threads (even if it is only mildly). DILEMMA. I wonder if the fact that I'm less picky about exactly which smile I use for which comment these days means I'm less dedicated to playing him, but it doesn't really matter.
Dropping: 2/10. He's nice and comfortable and I don't really have any problem making activity with him, but he's not my main anymore. I think I'd miss him terribly if I dropped him, but I don't want to cling to him quite as much as I used to.
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN??: 5/10. I don't really like playing Kousaka emo since it's not his natural state of being and Saki leaving on top of Sasahara, Madarame and Ogiue would make him emo a lot. I wouldn't necessarily drop him but I'd definitely consider it more seriously. But hey, Saki's never ever going to drop so I don't have to think about it 8D
Plans: Try make and maintain some new relationships for him. He's not one to forge deep connections but I like having people who at least know him for him to bug. Get him to bug people from canons he would have seen but I haven't, since I've been failing miserably at keeping up with animanga for the last couple of years or so.
Isabella
IC: Isabella is pretty content with camp. She can do her thing, Johji can do his thing, there are lots of nice people around and everything's just peachy.
OOC: Isabella really needs more friends. She's a social creature and I'm not doing her justice by not keeping up her relationships as well as I should. I'm still enjoying playing her though, and I'm pretty happy with her voice too even if I fluctuate a bit. Just need to get better at picking up threads and jumping people even if it's after they've probably gone to bed (sob my timezone).
Dropping: 3/10. Kind of the same as Kousaka, but I think I would miss her a bit less than him? I can't really judge that though I guess, and I still don't want to drop her XD
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN?? 9/10. Unless she forged some VERY strong friendships before Johji left, I'd drop her with him with no regrets at all. It just wouldn't be right otherwise.
Plans: Make friends! Jump people she knows, jump people I think she'll get on with, jump people I think she might not get on with because who knows maybe she will, basically just get involved in stuff and then actually keep them going.
Dexter
IC: Dexter is starting to feel itchy in his serial-killer places again, but he's still not certain what's going on with the whole Kristoph thing. That gave him quite a scare because he completely underestimated Klavier's reaction to it. So next time he kills he's going to be much more careful about who he picks and what their relationships in camp are like. Otherwise he's... okay. He's settled himself into a routine and this place is starting to feel worryingly comfortable. He misses Rita and the kids but he's starting to think about them less and less often as he adjusts.
OOC: AAAAAH FUCK I'M PRETENDING TO BE DEXTER MORGAN ON THE INTERNET WHAT AM I DOING yeah I've had him for like... nine months... now and I still get that feeling sometimes. That said I'm much more confident than I was at the start, and also much less paranoid. I feel bad for not getting him out more but it's difficult to get him out in the evening when I'm usually distracted with TV, and that's the main time that I play at all. Guys tell me if you want me to jump you with him or something because I ttly will. I think I've mostly gotten over my "I need to be in the zone!!!!" feeling with him. I mean, I think I play him better when I'm in the zone as such but I think I do a pretty passable job anyway. Oh, also I should be more enthusiastic about him from now on because season 3 is airing on TV here so I'm back to getting a weekly dose of canon review ♥
Dropping: 4/10. Dropping him would take pressure off me but then I wouldn't be playng Dexter Morgan and that would make me sad. The difficulty of playing him is worth it, basically. I still feel kind of bad about taking him away from his family and rewatching S3 isn't going to help that feeling but that's my own problem and I'll get over it.
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN??: uhhh 8/10. Losing Deb in camp would lose him a lot of his stability and reason to appear stable. I'd probably try keeping him around but I don't think it would be very likely that he'd be sustainable.
Plans: I have a plan I'll post about in his journal in a bit but that's a kind of AU thing so it won't affect him in CFUD proper at all. Like all my characters, get him out more and meeting people. He should be building up a network of people who know and like him in case he needs it orz.
Makoto:
IC: Makoto doesn't really like being out of her element, but Camp is interesting enough. She doesn't like the fact that she wasn't here for so long while Megumi was, but she's getting over it. She's also settling into having a feel for the place and how far she can push when. She probably has a network of gorilla informants set up by now :)
OOC: Sometimes I have no idea what I'm doing with Makoto, but luckily I get over it pretty quick. We don't actually see her outside of some very specific situations in canon despite her being a main character, so I'm having to extrapolate a lot but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It makes me a little more paranoid that I'm Doing It Wrong but I fully expect to be smacked into line by castmates if that were to occur. Sui taught me that having a character to jump people and top them mercilessly is heaps of fun, so I'm thoroughly enjoying doing that with Makoto too.
Dropping: 1/10. She still has that sparkly new character smell (it takes them a while to lose that for me) and I'm loving playing her when I do \o/
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN?? I apped Makoto in the knowledge that as soon as Megumi goes, she's going with her (and the terror that Megumi would drop before I could ninja her even though I knew she wouldn't).
Plans: Uhhh idk, I don't really plan stuff with her. I just throw her at things and off she goes.
Sasha:
IC: Camp is hot and ick and uncomfortable and Sasha wants to go home :( or back to Japan, that was okay too. He misses Teresa and Mafuyu and Tomo more than he will ever admit to anyone ever, although he is getting kinda attached to Oz in an odd way even though he'll never admit that either. It's too easy in CFUD to forget his purpose and start acting like he deserves friends or something, and he doesn't like that either. He hates not having a steady Soma supply. The scythe he got from the 07-Ghost bishops' store is a very poor substitute for his powers and he hates feeling... not helpless, because he knows that in a pinch he could take soma from someone, but he doesn't want to do that. Basically he's restless and he wants to go back to hunting rogue qwasers because these feelings of just enjoying himself in the company of others are weird and strange and baw.
OOC: Aaaah aaaah I love playing Sasha. I planned on apping him for moooooonths and now I have him and he's mine and you can't have him. It's the first time I've played with the express intention of developing a character, and with new canon available and regular enough that I can develop him and not feel OOC. He's taken from well before what his canon is up to and I know his basic arc so far from the raws, so I have guidelines as to what to do. And it's really, really fun so far. Tsunshouta ♥ The only problem is that it can be a little hard to throw him at posts unless they ping him because he is so introverted and honestly I sometimes have him dot in a thread when really he should just be completely ignoring the other person or walking away. But I think that's a fair compromise?
Dropping: 0/10 you can pry him from my cold dead hands miiiine
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN??: COMBO BREAKER HIS PARTNER IS NOT IN CAMP actually depending on how you define partner it could be either Teresa or Mafuyu either way you should app them!
Plans: Continue to be a tsunshouta at people. Bug Russia some more because what is this weird ping. Play with the other Russians more too. Play with everyone more! (are you seeing a pattern yet)
Leo
IC: Leo is like. Locked in the library reading forever right now. SUDDENLY SO MUCH INFORMATION he wants to know everything about camp. And maybe use this opportunity to make Elliot a better person somehow.
OOC: I AM STILL KIND OF SURPRISED THAT I AM PLAYING HIM?! Seriously this is by far my fastest turn-around time from "who is this" to "I AM APPING" so I'm. Still not really used to the idea orz. I do love him though so I will get over this and actually start playing him properly soon I need to sort out one or two things with Elliot first though. Playing Leo is kind of an experiment for me a bit because I'm not usually one to make up much headcanon or anything, I prefer to play from established canon. But playing such a minor character is forcing me to make up headcanon about what seems like practically everything outside of his personality (I mean, he's still appable after all) and it's being a really interesting mental exercise. A little intimidating too, but I am doing my best to get over it. Also I have an urge to note his tone of voice in most of his comments because his expression doesn't exactly change and people don't necessarily know his personality which would give clues too.
Dropping ????? I haven't played him enough to really know. Basically either I will be overcome with "AAAH THERE ARE NO RAILS" and drop him, or I will get over it and play him lots and make him my own. I'm really hoping and working towards it being the latter orz.
BUT WHAT IF YOUR PARTNER DROPPED WHAT THEN?? Muuuuuuuuuuuch higher unless we're talking in months and months and months' time when he'll have established relationships with other people. I don't thiink he's so hugely reliant on Elliot? I think there'd be plenty for him to do here if Elliot wasn't (you see, I'm even hesitant to come up with headcanon for this fff). But I don't know.
Plans: ACTUALLY PLAY HIM?! Pick up the threads I do have with him. Don't get frustrated by his few icons because he doesn't actually need more.
Me
I'm in a bit of a weird place playing-wise right now. I'm back at uni, and I do have a lot of work for uni although I'm being pretty slack with it really, but mostly it's influencing when I can play. Uni internet has been pretty dodgy lately so I haven't been threading while I'm there, and that basically limits me to weekends and evenings which I know is perfectly doable it's just less than what I'm used to. Also for some reason there haven't been many posts lately that ping my characters, which is no one's fault, it's just luck of the draw. And possibly less enthusiasm making it harder for me to figure out how to throw characters into a post that doesn't immediately ping any of them. But I still love this game and playing in it and I'm not going anywhere any time soon..... actually I shouldn't say that because I might hiatus for a few days next week but I'm not going anywhere permanently any time soon!