Dropping meme and BONUS apping meme!
JJ ADAMS
Apping Story: I DON'T ACTUALLY REMEM-- oh wait, I do! WAY BACK WHEN, by which I mean like, summer/fall... '06? when I was still audience, I'd been considering apping from FAKE. IIRC, I was gonna app Bikky. And then I. . . didn't! And then he got apped. And I decided to work on a HanaKimi app (see Io's app story) and eventually actually got in to Camp, which I had only been trying to do for about a YEAR. Lol. And then I started chatting with Dee a lot, and wound up thinking "OH HEY, MAYBE I'LL APP CAROL. THAT'D BE AWESOME." Shortly after, I went to my first Kentity Meetup, and brought all of FAKE with me in my purse (thank god, or else Morrolan probably never would've figured out who I was, and I would've spent all night on a street corner in Manhattan. Anyway). And then I wound up deciding over the course of that weekend that no, I was gonna app JJ instead. Two months later, I did. I remember crying at Ryo the night before because I hated my app, and I was actually HIDING UNDER MY DESK AVOIDING THE APP. Y-Yeah, I'm a winner. But yeah. o/
In Camp: He... isn't doing much, actually. ._.
State of the Union: JJ isn't unhappy in camp. He's just sort of... bored. A lot. All of his significant relationships other than Dee have gone home (or just otherwise fizzled). Pretty much since Haru left camp, JJ's sort of kept to himself a bit more.
Plans: Top someone into apping Drake (I MEAN IT THIS TIME, DAMMIT :\). Harass Dee more. Try to build some new relationships with him to build the urge back up to play.
Issues: I never feel like playing him anymore. It's not that I'm burned out with him or anything, it's just that... I don't have anything to DO with him. He doesn't have any relationships, he doesn't ever have any need to do his job... When I have a day off and think "Oh gee, I have time to post. What should I do?", ideas for other characters ALWAYS pop up before ideas for JJ.
Ease of Play: ...ehhh. 4-8/10. Once I have him out somewhere, his voice is still as easy as ever and I love him to DEATH, but... I don't actually get him out very often.
Droppability: High. I've been putting it off for, god, probably almost 6 months? Because every time I think about dropping him, I burst into hysterical tears (i-i've been teary eyed since the "issues" section here.) and I have been taking that as a sign that I Am Not Done With Him Yet. But... I don't play him nearly as much as I ought to. Right now, I'm holding out for the next counselor round, because I have someone who has shown interest in apping Drake, and I am going to rape them lovingly until they do. ♥
I'm also really going to push myself to get him some new and interesting relationships so he's not just stagnant and bored, and so I have people to help me motivate myself to play. Nothing motivates me more than someone I love playing with saying "Hey, so-and-so is out, let's thread!".
FIRO PROCHAINEZO
Apping Story: Back in October '07, my anime club showed a whole bunch of new anime, including Baccano! From the very first frame Firo was in, I was pinged hard. From his first actual scene, I knew I had to have him. About a week later, AJ had commented in an app announcement post whoring for Baccano! characters, and I commented anonly saying "HEY I'VE SEEN LIKE ONE EPISODE BUT YEAH COUNT ME IN", and thus a friendship full of abuse began. She and I started chatting, and eventually topped Pie into apping Luck with us. The app itself was my first last minute, and I was up ALL NIGHT ironing out kinks on it.
In Camp: Firo is pretty zen in camp! He's got good friends, he knows now that everything is fine back home and no one is in a panic to find him, and camp's never boring. He misses being able to have a good fight with people who don't outclass him like crazy, and he misses everyone back home, but he's all zen and knows that he's got all the time in the world once camp does eventually let him leave.
State of the Union: Oh Firo ♥ I never get tired of playing with him. I'm especially enamoured with playing him off Joshua and Kaiji lately, and I should probably get around to attempting to essay on his relationship with Kaiji and the funny parallels I keep drawing between it and his canon relationship with Maiza.
Issues: For about half a year, I had horrible horrible problems with Firo. I can't count how many times I nearly dropped him. But I pushed myself through them, and suddenly... I had no issues anymore! I'm comfortable with his voice, I'm zen with how much I play him.... Yeah, no real issues!
Ease of Play: 10/10.
Plans: More teaching Kaiji how to knife fight, find people to fight/spar with who DON'T outclass him horribly or aren't a good match for his combat style. Move him out of the hotel. Top people into apping castmates (MAIZA!!!111), and figure out if Ennis has idled or not, so I know if I have to react to that ICly :(
Droppability: You can pry him from my cold dead fingers.
ROSE TYLER
Apping Story: I marathonned all of Torchwood and Doctor Who in like, two weeks, and then remembered "HEY WE HAVE A DOCTOR IN CAMP DON'T WE! kerSTALK". And I was chatting with AJ one day, and was like "man our doctor's player is fucking awesome. i wish i had the balls to strike up a conversation with her." NOT KNOWING THAT SHE AND SIAN ARE LOLBFFL. A-And then AJ popped her into a group GChat with me without warning, and I FELL OFF MY CHAIR IN SURPRISE (my roommate and best friend were in the room with me at the time and mocked me for it horribly). They proceeded to doubleteam the crap out of me, and thus began my reputation for being horrendously topped by AJ and Sian.
In Camp: Rose is... Ehh. She's doing her best to keep busy and stay happy, but she misses the Doctor terribly. Somehow going from travelling all of time and space to suddenly being STUCK was more bearable with him around. She's still got friends here, though, and she loves them all dearly. So while she's not as happy as she was, she's still okay.
State of the Union: kfdjkfdsakn idek. I really really really need to canon review, now that I have S1 on DVD. I've felt flaily about Rose for MONTHS now, tbh. Not that I feel OOC or whatever, I just..... augh, i don't know XD
Issues: I feel burned out with Rose, to be honest. I never have ideas to post with her, and I only ever thread with the same people with her. She has the most friendships of any of my characters, though, because she's like that, and that makes throwing her out a lot easier, but... IDK.
Ease of Play: 7/10
Plans: Try and coordinate a time for me and Jack to both be online and post with my favouritest Captain ever, maybe?
Droppability: Medium-high. I still love her to death, and generally still have a good grasp on her voice, but I'm not sure how much longer I want to keep playing her.
JOUSHIMA KEN
Apping Story: Pretty much RIGHT after I got Rose, Sian (who had just gotten Chrome), AJ, and pie decided that they needed a complete Kokuyou. I'd read Reborn! back in November '07, and... Was more or less ambivalent about it. But once again, they topped the hell out of me, and I was like "yeah whatever, I'll app Ken." and then proceeded to stay up until 5:59 AM writing my app. IIRC the app process involved frequent breaks to shoot marshmallows out my window via crossbow at pigeons. Yeah.
In Camp: Mukuro-san is here, and that's all that matters.
...Okay, no. Ken loves camp. And camp is REALLY GOOD FOR HIM, too. People give him positive attention! Which is something Ken has never ever ever had a lot of in his life. He has FRIENDS sortof, and people to fight with for fun, and... He's like a puppy who's been cooped up inside a tiny apartment for ages and now finally has room to run around out in the sunshine |D
State of the Union: I love Ken. When I apped him, I really didn't think I'd love him this much. I mean, I liked him enough to app him, but I didn't have BURNING LOVE for him like I did my other characters. He was going to be a backburner. SOMEHOW, THAT CHANGED, and Ken is one of my favourite characters to play. He's also the only character I am ttly zen with doing fight threads with, because his combat style is so flexible and FUN to play.
Issues: The ONLY thing I have issues with with ken is that he doesn't... really ever get the chance to do anything to actively be useful to Mukuro. Which. Is a problem, because being useful to Mukuro is 95% of who Ken is. He's obnoxiously outclassed by the Homomafia, because Amano doesn't love the Kokuyou and has FORGOTTEN US while the rest of them get to level up. BUT there's not a lot I can do about that, so mostly I just. Ignore it! :D
Ease of Play ...Well. I have successfully played Ken while drunk off my ass before, so I consider that a sign that He's 10/10.
Plans: HARASS THE NOAH KID MORE, and by association, harass the Noah Kid's boyfriend. Get loaned out to Rhode. Put gum in Kakipi's hat. Fight with people (IKKI! I'M CALLIN' YOU OUT.) a lot more. MAKE MUKURO-SAN LOVE ME i mean. be a more useful tool. Play with Ken's hilarious tsuncrush on Chrome some more (which also means MAKE MORE GROWLY JEALOUS FACES AT TOKIO.)
Droppability: When Mukuro drops, Ken is going with him. I've thought through EVERY scenario for how to keep him if Mukuro goes home, and it's just not possible. But until then? Ken is my forever retard.
PATTY THOMPSON
Apping Story: After AX, Sian topped me into apping with her from Tokyo Majin blahblahblah fucking long title. And while I was waiting for that all to torrent, I started watching "that thing Juri plays the adorable OCD kid from". I was amused by it for two episodes, and thought the art was super pretty, and then Kid and the Thompson sisters were introduced. And it was like someone took a giant mallet and BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF MY PINGS. I IMed Juri probably within a day later and was like "HEY KID HEY KID I WANT TO APP ONE OF YOUR GUNS". She told me that Suzaku was apping Liz in the upcoming round and I was like "FUCK YEAH THE ADORABLE AND RETARDED ONE IS ALL MINE!" Writing the app itself was probably the EASIEST app I have ever written, and it wasn't an all-nighter! WHICH WAS A COMBO BREAKER FROM MY PAST 3 APPS.
In Camp: 8D 8D 8D
State of the Union: Oh, god, Patty. She's just. I. I don't even know. I love her SO MUCH.
Issues: The only problem I have with Patty is that she takes a certain mood and energy level to play. O-Obviously. I burn myself out quickly when I post with her, so she doesn't get many posts, and I rarely thread with her, because I feel... like I might be annoying people if I tag them with her! Also she doesn't have the attention span for SRS RELATIONSHIPS outside like, her sister and Kid, so I don't have the motivation of "HEY LOOK ONE OF PATTY'S CLOSE FRIENDS POSTED I SHOULD TAG".
Ease of Play 8/10. If not for the mood/energy required to play her, it would be 10/10.
Plans: Meet Joshua and draw him a comic book. Play with cast more. DRAW ON STEIN'S ROLLY CHAIR? :D Harass the other inhabitants of the Dojo more. Do more things that will make Big Sis prematurely gray. Abuse cast into getting a Soul Eater weekend together and do shiny fun gun-things!
Droppability: Pffft. If Liz and Kid both drop, it's a lot more likely, but for right now? No drop in sight.
NANBA IO
Apping Story: MY FIRST REAPP, SOB. When I dropped Io the first time, I seriously cried ALL DAY. When my roommate came home, she thought someone had died. Even though I was having problems with her, I felt like I had given up by dropping her, and never quite got over it. So a little while before the most recent counselor apps, I was chatting with Umeda, and she mentioned missing my Io. And I got talking with her, and realised, fuck, I still missed playing her. SO I FACED MY FEARS and reapped. A-And found out that reapping is TERRIFYING and proceeded to get pissed off my face and write the app in a half hour, rambling drunkenly at betas all the while. I was hungover for the first time in my life by the time her batch went up :|b
HILARIOUSLY ENOUGH, I didn't actually know that Floor was reapping Akiha until like. ...the week of apps? I think?
In Camp: Io is pretty zen. She's rolled her eyes and gotten over the fact that she's stuck in that wacky summer camp again, and knows she'll get home again eventually, no point in making a big deal about it while she's here.
State of the Union: Apping in late fall/early winter is never a good idea for me. My motivation to play at ALL is always lower this time of year, let alone getting a character settled in at camp. So I haven't played Io NEARLY as much as I should, and need to change that.
Issues: I am worried about running into the same issues I had with Io the last time I played her -- running out of things to do, being stupidly hesitant/afraid to ask castmates to do stuff with me, etc. But I am determined to do better this time, so! yeah.
Ease of Play 6/10. There are still some underlying insecurities from the fact that I had so much trouble with her towards the end of my last span of playing her, and the fact that I haven't played her much yet makes me feel odd about actually getting her out.
Plans: Harass Umeda more ♥ (One of my biggest problems with her the first time I had her was that I didn't do that enough). Meet Luck. Maybe do some sort of camp fashion show with Akiha and Ebi. Get her some new relationships.
Droppability: Moderate. Because I still haven't settled back into playing her yet, I'd be okay if for some reason i HAD to drop her, but I'd regret it again, so. Probably no drop for her any time soon.
BONUS! Apping meme!
I've got a couple of apps planned, but with the exception of my counselor app, I am not DEAD SET on any of them! But I feel like I could do with another camper or two.
THIS IS WHERE YOU GET TO WHORE AT ME, CAMP ♥
My character pings: Retarded/wacky/makes bad decisions/full of FAIL/really topped are all super helpful. A HUGE ping for me is a super important canon relationship (family, romantic, friends, etc. Examples, JJ has his fixation on Dee, Firo has Maiza and Ennis, Rose has the Doctor, Ken has Mukuro, Patty has her sister and Kid, Io has her hilarious (and abusive!) relationship with her family).
Character types I'm looking for: Molesty in-your-space types (I was joking over New Years that I need to app someone who touches holy men so I can ICly molest Abel, but really, any I AM ON ~EVERYONE AROUND ME~ LIKE WHITE ON RICE types would be fun). Someone who I can get better at fight threads with WITHOUT being super outclassed by every fighter in camp. Someone I could, OKAY I ADMIT IT, have super sparkly wai wai homo rabu antics with. I don't play any characters who are in camp relationships, and I'd like to try that out sometime!
...s-someone I can have really pretty icons for. I WANT AN EXCUSE TO PLAY WITH MANGA ICONS MORE.
Canon types I DON'T like: I'mma-spend-four-volumes-or-half-a-season-chargin'-mah-lasers and/or fight after fight after fight after fight after fight-type Shounen series. Gundam shows (I'M SORRY, I JUST CAN'T GET INTO THEM). ...Stuff by Oh! Great :(. Stuff that doesn't ever seem to have an end in sight. Video games that are going to cost me more than like $15, because I am fucking CHEAP. Actually, a lot of video game canons take me FOREVER to get through, so apping from them isn't terribly likely.
So clearly, there are a bunch of SUPER AWESOME SERIES represented in camp that I just... can't get into, no matter how hard I try.
SO PIMP CANONS (AND CHARACTERS!) AT ME WITH LINKS TO WHERE I CAN GET THE CANON EASILY (streaming/reading online is the easiest for me)
Apping Story: I DON'T ACTUALLY REMEM-- oh wait, I do! WAY BACK WHEN, by which I mean like, summer/fall... '06? when I was still audience, I'd been considering apping from FAKE. IIRC, I was gonna app Bikky. And then I. . . didn't! And then he got apped. And I decided to work on a HanaKimi app (see Io's app story) and eventually actually got in to Camp, which I had only been trying to do for about a YEAR. Lol. And then I started chatting with Dee a lot, and wound up thinking "OH HEY, MAYBE I'LL APP CAROL. THAT'D BE AWESOME." Shortly after, I went to my first Kentity Meetup, and brought all of FAKE with me in my purse (thank god, or else Morrolan probably never would've figured out who I was, and I would've spent all night on a street corner in Manhattan. Anyway). And then I wound up deciding over the course of that weekend that no, I was gonna app JJ instead. Two months later, I did. I remember crying at Ryo the night before because I hated my app, and I was actually HIDING UNDER MY DESK AVOIDING THE APP. Y-Yeah, I'm a winner. But yeah. o/
In Camp: He... isn't doing much, actually. ._.
State of the Union: JJ isn't unhappy in camp. He's just sort of... bored. A lot. All of his significant relationships other than Dee have gone home (or just otherwise fizzled). Pretty much since Haru left camp, JJ's sort of kept to himself a bit more.
Plans: Top someone into apping Drake (I MEAN IT THIS TIME, DAMMIT :\). Harass Dee more. Try to build some new relationships with him to build the urge back up to play.
Issues: I never feel like playing him anymore. It's not that I'm burned out with him or anything, it's just that... I don't have anything to DO with him. He doesn't have any relationships, he doesn't ever have any need to do his job... When I have a day off and think "Oh gee, I have time to post. What should I do?", ideas for other characters ALWAYS pop up before ideas for JJ.
Ease of Play: ...ehhh. 4-8/10. Once I have him out somewhere, his voice is still as easy as ever and I love him to DEATH, but... I don't actually get him out very often.
Droppability: High. I've been putting it off for, god, probably almost 6 months? Because every time I think about dropping him, I burst into hysterical tears (i-i've been teary eyed since the "issues" section here.) and I have been taking that as a sign that I Am Not Done With Him Yet. But... I don't play him nearly as much as I ought to. Right now, I'm holding out for the next counselor round, because I have someone who has shown interest in apping Drake, and I am going to rape them lovingly until they do. ♥
I'm also really going to push myself to get him some new and interesting relationships so he's not just stagnant and bored, and so I have people to help me motivate myself to play. Nothing motivates me more than someone I love playing with saying "Hey, so-and-so is out, let's thread!".
FIRO PROCHAINEZO
Apping Story: Back in October '07, my anime club showed a whole bunch of new anime, including Baccano! From the very first frame Firo was in, I was pinged hard. From his first actual scene, I knew I had to have him. About a week later, AJ had commented in an app announcement post whoring for Baccano! characters, and I commented anonly saying "HEY I'VE SEEN LIKE ONE EPISODE BUT YEAH COUNT ME IN", and thus a friendship full of abuse began. She and I started chatting, and eventually topped Pie into apping Luck with us. The app itself was my first last minute, and I was up ALL NIGHT ironing out kinks on it.
In Camp: Firo is pretty zen in camp! He's got good friends, he knows now that everything is fine back home and no one is in a panic to find him, and camp's never boring. He misses being able to have a good fight with people who don't outclass him like crazy, and he misses everyone back home, but he's all zen and knows that he's got all the time in the world once camp does eventually let him leave.
State of the Union: Oh Firo ♥ I never get tired of playing with him. I'm especially enamoured with playing him off Joshua and Kaiji lately, and I should probably get around to attempting to essay on his relationship with Kaiji and the funny parallels I keep drawing between it and his canon relationship with Maiza.
Issues: For about half a year, I had horrible horrible problems with Firo. I can't count how many times I nearly dropped him. But I pushed myself through them, and suddenly... I had no issues anymore! I'm comfortable with his voice, I'm zen with how much I play him.... Yeah, no real issues!
Ease of Play: 10/10.
Plans: More teaching Kaiji how to knife fight, find people to fight/spar with who DON'T outclass him horribly or aren't a good match for his combat style. Move him out of the hotel. Top people into apping castmates (MAIZA!!!111), and figure out if Ennis has idled or not, so I know if I have to react to that ICly :(
Droppability: You can pry him from my cold dead fingers.
ROSE TYLER
Apping Story: I marathonned all of Torchwood and Doctor Who in like, two weeks, and then remembered "HEY WE HAVE A DOCTOR IN CAMP DON'T WE! kerSTALK". And I was chatting with AJ one day, and was like "man our doctor's player is fucking awesome. i wish i had the balls to strike up a conversation with her." NOT KNOWING THAT SHE AND SIAN ARE LOLBFFL. A-And then AJ popped her into a group GChat with me without warning, and I FELL OFF MY CHAIR IN SURPRISE (my roommate and best friend were in the room with me at the time and mocked me for it horribly). They proceeded to doubleteam the crap out of me, and thus began my reputation for being horrendously topped by AJ and Sian.
In Camp: Rose is... Ehh. She's doing her best to keep busy and stay happy, but she misses the Doctor terribly. Somehow going from travelling all of time and space to suddenly being STUCK was more bearable with him around. She's still got friends here, though, and she loves them all dearly. So while she's not as happy as she was, she's still okay.
State of the Union: kfdjkfdsakn idek. I really really really need to canon review, now that I have S1 on DVD. I've felt flaily about Rose for MONTHS now, tbh. Not that I feel OOC or whatever, I just..... augh, i don't know XD
Issues: I feel burned out with Rose, to be honest. I never have ideas to post with her, and I only ever thread with the same people with her. She has the most friendships of any of my characters, though, because she's like that, and that makes throwing her out a lot easier, but... IDK.
Ease of Play: 7/10
Plans: Try and coordinate a time for me and Jack to both be online and post with my favouritest Captain ever, maybe?
Droppability: Medium-high. I still love her to death, and generally still have a good grasp on her voice, but I'm not sure how much longer I want to keep playing her.
JOUSHIMA KEN
Apping Story: Pretty much RIGHT after I got Rose, Sian (who had just gotten Chrome), AJ, and pie decided that they needed a complete Kokuyou. I'd read Reborn! back in November '07, and... Was more or less ambivalent about it. But once again, they topped the hell out of me, and I was like "yeah whatever, I'll app Ken." and then proceeded to stay up until 5:59 AM writing my app. IIRC the app process involved frequent breaks to shoot marshmallows out my window via crossbow at pigeons. Yeah.
In Camp: Mukuro-san is here, and that's all that matters.
...Okay, no. Ken loves camp. And camp is REALLY GOOD FOR HIM, too. People give him positive attention! Which is something Ken has never ever ever had a lot of in his life. He has FRIENDS sortof, and people to fight with for fun, and... He's like a puppy who's been cooped up inside a tiny apartment for ages and now finally has room to run around out in the sunshine |D
State of the Union: I love Ken. When I apped him, I really didn't think I'd love him this much. I mean, I liked him enough to app him, but I didn't have BURNING LOVE for him like I did my other characters. He was going to be a backburner. SOMEHOW, THAT CHANGED, and Ken is one of my favourite characters to play. He's also the only character I am ttly zen with doing fight threads with, because his combat style is so flexible and FUN to play.
Issues: The ONLY thing I have issues with with ken is that he doesn't... really ever get the chance to do anything to actively be useful to Mukuro. Which. Is a problem, because being useful to Mukuro is 95% of who Ken is. He's obnoxiously outclassed by the Homomafia, because Amano doesn't love the Kokuyou and has FORGOTTEN US while the rest of them get to level up. BUT there's not a lot I can do about that, so mostly I just. Ignore it! :D
Ease of Play ...Well. I have successfully played Ken while drunk off my ass before, so I consider that a sign that He's 10/10.
Plans: HARASS THE NOAH KID MORE, and by association, harass the Noah Kid's boyfriend. Get loaned out to Rhode. Put gum in Kakipi's hat. Fight with people (IKKI! I'M CALLIN' YOU OUT.) a lot more. MAKE MUKURO-SAN LOVE ME i mean. be a more useful tool. Play with Ken's hilarious tsuncrush on Chrome some more (which also means MAKE MORE GROWLY JEALOUS FACES AT TOKIO.)
Droppability: When Mukuro drops, Ken is going with him. I've thought through EVERY scenario for how to keep him if Mukuro goes home, and it's just not possible. But until then? Ken is my forever retard.
PATTY THOMPSON
Apping Story: After AX, Sian topped me into apping with her from Tokyo Majin blahblahblah fucking long title. And while I was waiting for that all to torrent, I started watching "that thing Juri plays the adorable OCD kid from". I was amused by it for two episodes, and thought the art was super pretty, and then Kid and the Thompson sisters were introduced. And it was like someone took a giant mallet and BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF MY PINGS. I IMed Juri probably within a day later and was like "HEY KID HEY KID I WANT TO APP ONE OF YOUR GUNS". She told me that Suzaku was apping Liz in the upcoming round and I was like "FUCK YEAH THE ADORABLE AND RETARDED ONE IS ALL MINE!" Writing the app itself was probably the EASIEST app I have ever written, and it wasn't an all-nighter! WHICH WAS A COMBO BREAKER FROM MY PAST 3 APPS.
In Camp: 8D 8D 8D
State of the Union: Oh, god, Patty. She's just. I. I don't even know. I love her SO MUCH.
Issues: The only problem I have with Patty is that she takes a certain mood and energy level to play. O-Obviously. I burn myself out quickly when I post with her, so she doesn't get many posts, and I rarely thread with her, because I feel... like I might be annoying people if I tag them with her! Also she doesn't have the attention span for SRS RELATIONSHIPS outside like, her sister and Kid, so I don't have the motivation of "HEY LOOK ONE OF PATTY'S CLOSE FRIENDS POSTED I SHOULD TAG".
Ease of Play 8/10. If not for the mood/energy required to play her, it would be 10/10.
Plans: Meet Joshua and draw him a comic book. Play with cast more. DRAW ON STEIN'S ROLLY CHAIR? :D Harass the other inhabitants of the Dojo more. Do more things that will make Big Sis prematurely gray. Abuse cast into getting a Soul Eater weekend together and do shiny fun gun-things!
Droppability: Pffft. If Liz and Kid both drop, it's a lot more likely, but for right now? No drop in sight.
NANBA IO
Apping Story: MY FIRST REAPP, SOB. When I dropped Io the first time, I seriously cried ALL DAY. When my roommate came home, she thought someone had died. Even though I was having problems with her, I felt like I had given up by dropping her, and never quite got over it. So a little while before the most recent counselor apps, I was chatting with Umeda, and she mentioned missing my Io. And I got talking with her, and realised, fuck, I still missed playing her. SO I FACED MY FEARS and reapped. A-And found out that reapping is TERRIFYING and proceeded to get pissed off my face and write the app in a half hour, rambling drunkenly at betas all the while. I was hungover for the first time in my life by the time her batch went up :|b
HILARIOUSLY ENOUGH, I didn't actually know that Floor was reapping Akiha until like. ...the week of apps? I think?
In Camp: Io is pretty zen. She's rolled her eyes and gotten over the fact that she's stuck in that wacky summer camp again, and knows she'll get home again eventually, no point in making a big deal about it while she's here.
State of the Union: Apping in late fall/early winter is never a good idea for me. My motivation to play at ALL is always lower this time of year, let alone getting a character settled in at camp. So I haven't played Io NEARLY as much as I should, and need to change that.
Issues: I am worried about running into the same issues I had with Io the last time I played her -- running out of things to do, being stupidly hesitant/afraid to ask castmates to do stuff with me, etc. But I am determined to do better this time, so! yeah.
Ease of Play 6/10. There are still some underlying insecurities from the fact that I had so much trouble with her towards the end of my last span of playing her, and the fact that I haven't played her much yet makes me feel odd about actually getting her out.
Plans: Harass Umeda more ♥ (One of my biggest problems with her the first time I had her was that I didn't do that enough). Meet Luck. Maybe do some sort of camp fashion show with Akiha and Ebi. Get her some new relationships.
Droppability: Moderate. Because I still haven't settled back into playing her yet, I'd be okay if for some reason i HAD to drop her, but I'd regret it again, so. Probably no drop for her any time soon.
BONUS! Apping meme!
I've got a couple of apps planned, but with the exception of my counselor app, I am not DEAD SET on any of them! But I feel like I could do with another camper or two.
THIS IS WHERE YOU GET TO WHORE AT ME, CAMP ♥
My character pings: Retarded/wacky/makes bad decisions/full of FAIL/really topped are all super helpful. A HUGE ping for me is a super important canon relationship (family, romantic, friends, etc. Examples, JJ has his fixation on Dee, Firo has Maiza and Ennis, Rose has the Doctor, Ken has Mukuro, Patty has her sister and Kid, Io has her hilarious (and abusive!) relationship with her family).
Character types I'm looking for: Molesty in-your-space types (I was joking over New Years that I need to app someone who touches holy men so I can ICly molest Abel, but really, any I AM ON ~EVERYONE AROUND ME~ LIKE WHITE ON RICE types would be fun). Someone who I can get better at fight threads with WITHOUT being super outclassed by every fighter in camp. Someone I could, OKAY I ADMIT IT, have super sparkly wai wai homo rabu antics with. I don't play any characters who are in camp relationships, and I'd like to try that out sometime!
...s-someone I can have really pretty icons for. I WANT AN EXCUSE TO PLAY WITH MANGA ICONS MORE.
Canon types I DON'T like: I'mma-spend-four-volumes-or-half-a-season-chargin'-mah-lasers and/or fight after fight after fight after fight after fight-type Shounen series. Gundam shows (I'M SORRY, I JUST CAN'T GET INTO THEM). ...Stuff by Oh! Great :(. Stuff that doesn't ever seem to have an end in sight. Video games that are going to cost me more than like $15, because I am fucking CHEAP. Actually, a lot of video game canons take me FOREVER to get through, so apping from them isn't terribly likely.
So clearly, there are a bunch of SUPER AWESOME SERIES represented in camp that I just... can't get into, no matter how hard I try.
SO PIMP CANONS (AND CHARACTERS!) AT ME WITH LINKS TO WHERE I CAN GET THE CANON EASILY (streaming/reading online is the easiest for me)