Just an essay to prove I've been thinking too much.
Okay, so... I'm getting kind of annoyed with my characterization of Delirium. And clearly I've put way too much energy into thinking about it. Because somehow I produced an essay.
My fear with the way I’m playing Delirium is that I’m playing her too harmlessly. In canon, Del is sometimes cheerful and enthusiastic, but she also spends a whole bunch of time being very blank; she gets completely apathetic and just asks questions reminiscent of a little kid going “Why? why? why?” It goes without saying that she also has huge fits of depression and screaming temper tantrums. However, most of all… she of all the Endless does stuff with her power while around human beings. Like… making little frogs in the lobby of a travel agency. Stuff like that.
The way I’m playing her, I’m trying to avoid the temper tantrums pretty much altogether, simply because Del reacts violently when she’s unhappy with someone, and I can’t make you all go mad. For one thing, I’d run out of ideas for it pretty fast, and for another thing… well, most of the people who Del could potentially strike out against are probably people for whom going mad would be sort of an involved and unpleasant experience, and then we’d have to play it out, and… no.
Anyway, what I’m really getting frustrated with is the fact that I keep playing Del as this sparkly, dancing fairy - disconcerting to many, but not dangerous. And insanity should be dangerous, should be a little scary. Which I’m pretty sure isn’t coming across. I don’t think I’m playing her strongly enough. I’ve got the playful, okay. But the impetuousness and the brokenness of her? Not so much.
One other nitpicky thing - I’m not sure Del would be quite so willing to tell everyone her name as I’ve made her. She doesn’t ICly reveal it to a lot of people. So she will probably be a bit more evasive about that with people she meets in the future. And she won’t know the names of people who haven’t been a bit crazy at least, in their pasts.
Um. Thoughts? I guess what I'm really saying is: does anybody want to volunteer to piss Del off and go crazy for a post or so? You will be rewarded with love and... probably bribed with drabbles. Because they're fun to write.
My fear with the way I’m playing Delirium is that I’m playing her too harmlessly. In canon, Del is sometimes cheerful and enthusiastic, but she also spends a whole bunch of time being very blank; she gets completely apathetic and just asks questions reminiscent of a little kid going “Why? why? why?” It goes without saying that she also has huge fits of depression and screaming temper tantrums. However, most of all… she of all the Endless does stuff with her power while around human beings. Like… making little frogs in the lobby of a travel agency. Stuff like that.
The way I’m playing her, I’m trying to avoid the temper tantrums pretty much altogether, simply because Del reacts violently when she’s unhappy with someone, and I can’t make you all go mad. For one thing, I’d run out of ideas for it pretty fast, and for another thing… well, most of the people who Del could potentially strike out against are probably people for whom going mad would be sort of an involved and unpleasant experience, and then we’d have to play it out, and… no.
Anyway, what I’m really getting frustrated with is the fact that I keep playing Del as this sparkly, dancing fairy - disconcerting to many, but not dangerous. And insanity should be dangerous, should be a little scary. Which I’m pretty sure isn’t coming across. I don’t think I’m playing her strongly enough. I’ve got the playful, okay. But the impetuousness and the brokenness of her? Not so much.
One other nitpicky thing - I’m not sure Del would be quite so willing to tell everyone her name as I’ve made her. She doesn’t ICly reveal it to a lot of people. So she will probably be a bit more evasive about that with people she meets in the future. And she won’t know the names of people who haven’t been a bit crazy at least, in their pasts.
Um. Thoughts? I guess what I'm really saying is: does anybody want to volunteer to piss Del off and go crazy for a post or so? You will be rewarded with love and... probably bribed with drabbles. Because they're fun to write.