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Bandou Mitsuru
Info: I'm having lots of trouble with his voice, I get too nervous to jump my own castmates, and I am :| at Oh! Great for not having Bandou appear in the damn manga since the late 180s. (Trick 257 just came out.) Bandou has been in camp for fifteen months. There's a lot I could have done with him that I... just don't know whether I should or shouldn't.
In this length of time his development ought to be such that his issues with a) heights, b) the sky, and c) being without his new team should have been tackled by now. My problem is that I don't want his attitude about the sky and such to stray from what it turns out to be in canon if/when he ever shows up again. Bandou is different from the other ATards and was happy staying in his cage. It took losing to Ikki to make him see the sky's importance; he also wants to make Akira proud and blah blah. In Camp he needs a goal to work towards or he will feel stagnant and not living up to the name of Behemoth. Maybe needs a padawan like he had about a year ago. Had he spent all this time back home he would be a drastically different guy by now, and you'd know for sure whether he'd truly embraced the sky or kept doing the cage thing since there's a good need for it - to protect less skilled storm riders from dangers they're not ready for. The thing is, I DON'T KNOW HOW DIFFERENT and what kind of different and it would suck if Oh! Great jossed me cos then I would feel stupid.
Back to the other issues, I just... don't play him that often. I barely make activity with him these days. I find it hard to. I struggle with his threads all the time.
Droppability: 7/10. His journal is paid up through early February. I won't drop before that and waste Ari's money.
Delirium
Info: Delirium is my forevergirl. She's my outlet for random silliness and I find it easy to tag lots of posts and people with her simply because she's Delirium. My only real issues stem from running posts. I like to run posts for Delirium! So I frequently post. Kind of. Only not so much anymore because either my ideas suck or the posts are just too hard to tag. Seeing almost no one tag one of her posts makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong. It kills my drive to even run the post. This may seem weird, but the more active one of Del's posts is, the more into it I get, and vice versa. This is NO ONE'S FAULT but my own muse and motivational troubles.
Aside from that, I'm doing pretty fine with Del and her zany free association. While my activity with her has been slow as of late, it's partly because I did so many CFUW games in a row with Bel that I didn't play much in CAMP PROPER for a while.
Droppability: 1/10. If I had to drop all but one character, I'd cry for having to give her the chopping block.
Yukimi
Info: My interest and confidence in playing Yukimi vacillates back and forth between "nnngh" and "FUCK YEAH." Doing much better now that Yoite is back in Camp. He doesn't get out enough, but I have no problems making activity. I need to canon review since it's been eleven months since I apped and I have only read new chapters since then.
Droppability: 4/10. I'd drop him if a) I had too many paid accounts to juggle, b) I lose his voice, or c) too many important castmates drop.
Dancy
Info: Dancy also gives me no trouble when it comes to making activity. I plan for a full canon review of both the novel and the short story anthology sometime soon, and with that will come a big essay of doom, the one I detailed about in her journal four months ago. Derp. She's growing a lot in Camp, and I like it because it's not too exponential, so she can still be awkward and schizo at people.
Droppability: 1/10. I'd drop her if a) I lose the voice, b) she strays TOO far from canon for my comfort, or c) if I had to drop everyone but one character.
Belphegor
Info: Belphegor is my other forevergirl. Though I still struggle with his voice and twisted views at times, I've gotten a lot better at him and he's remained my primary since February. Issues at hand are as follows: lack of played characters to kill on-screen or off-screen, balancing his fightsexuality with his asexuality, and keeping him from being too irritable. For the latter, he should come off as mostly placid on the surface even when others get under his skin, very 'whatever,' with his words being sharp knives to cut into the stupid peasants that dare to speak to him that way. Why should he care what they think? I don't always quite manage that. But I'm working on it.
Bel is a guy who sees others as far beneath him. He's a prince. If you're lucky, you're a toy meant to entertain him instead of merely a bug to crush. If you're super lucky, you're a strong person for whom he holds at least a shred of respect. (This is close to the only way you'll get any from him.) In spite of his sociopathic ways he does seem to desire some amount of company. Which is why I put him out so much - to find the right people he'll bother with, or bother in general. Most people probably want their characters to remain relatively unharmed, and I want to respect that so they can enjoy playing with Bel. I want threading to be fun for both parties. So, given Bel's nature, the best IC way for me to have Bel interact with those characters is either as a troll (gotta relieve the boredom somehow) or a non-loyal not-friend (this is more the case with characters like Sasuke or Mika, who are obviously strong and capable and somewhat respectable). Sometimes both.
If I'm doing it wrong, then fuck me to hell and back.
Droppability: 0/10. Bel will stab you to death before you can pry him from my hands.
Kirima Nagi
Info: Constantly struggling with her voice. Can't find much for her to do at Camp. She's a defender of justice and an investigator, but most of the creatures (barring zombies etc.) that show themselves in Camp are out of her league, and most of Camp's mysteries are too inexplicable and dumb that I... just can't see her being anything but frustrated and put out over. So there's not much for her to do except possibly try to maintain some amount of... idk. Making herself feel useful. For instance this month she's volunteered to be a guard since it's so dangerous. Nagi isn't the type to be all Batman and Robin, thankfully, so it's easier to have her overlook things. The role she gives herself is sort of a lone defender who is there when no one else can be. It validates her existence and pays her late father back.
Maybe if Nagi were more accepting of a social life she'd be easier to play. Then again, I knew this when I pick her up.
Droppability: 7/10. She'd be the first to go. If I can't make activity well enough for her by the time I'm hitting 9, 10 characters, she is totally getting the chopping block.
Deidara
Info: I'm doing okay with him so far. Outside of his notable vocal quirk I have to be careful not to meld his voice with Bel's, which I find sadly amusing. He's someone I've wanted to play for two years and I'm finally doing it and it is going pretty swell for an otherwise shiny new muse. Making activity isn't hard at all.
Droppability: 2/10. I'll keep him around as long as I can.
Info: I'm having lots of trouble with his voice, I get too nervous to jump my own castmates, and I am :| at Oh! Great for not having Bandou appear in the damn manga since the late 180s. (Trick 257 just came out.) Bandou has been in camp for fifteen months. There's a lot I could have done with him that I... just don't know whether I should or shouldn't.
In this length of time his development ought to be such that his issues with a) heights, b) the sky, and c) being without his new team should have been tackled by now. My problem is that I don't want his attitude about the sky and such to stray from what it turns out to be in canon if/when he ever shows up again. Bandou is different from the other ATards and was happy staying in his cage. It took losing to Ikki to make him see the sky's importance; he also wants to make Akira proud and blah blah. In Camp he needs a goal to work towards or he will feel stagnant and not living up to the name of Behemoth. Maybe needs a padawan like he had about a year ago. Had he spent all this time back home he would be a drastically different guy by now, and you'd know for sure whether he'd truly embraced the sky or kept doing the cage thing since there's a good need for it - to protect less skilled storm riders from dangers they're not ready for. The thing is, I DON'T KNOW HOW DIFFERENT and what kind of different and it would suck if Oh! Great jossed me cos then I would feel stupid.
Back to the other issues, I just... don't play him that often. I barely make activity with him these days. I find it hard to. I struggle with his threads all the time.
Droppability: 7/10. His journal is paid up through early February. I won't drop before that and waste Ari's money.
Delirium
Info: Delirium is my forevergirl. She's my outlet for random silliness and I find it easy to tag lots of posts and people with her simply because she's Delirium. My only real issues stem from running posts. I like to run posts for Delirium! So I frequently post. Kind of. Only not so much anymore because either my ideas suck or the posts are just too hard to tag. Seeing almost no one tag one of her posts makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong. It kills my drive to even run the post. This may seem weird, but the more active one of Del's posts is, the more into it I get, and vice versa. This is NO ONE'S FAULT but my own muse and motivational troubles.
Aside from that, I'm doing pretty fine with Del and her zany free association. While my activity with her has been slow as of late, it's partly because I did so many CFUW games in a row with Bel that I didn't play much in CAMP PROPER for a while.
Droppability: 1/10. If I had to drop all but one character, I'd cry for having to give her the chopping block.
Yukimi
Info: My interest and confidence in playing Yukimi vacillates back and forth between "nnngh" and "FUCK YEAH." Doing much better now that Yoite is back in Camp. He doesn't get out enough, but I have no problems making activity. I need to canon review since it's been eleven months since I apped and I have only read new chapters since then.
Droppability: 4/10. I'd drop him if a) I had too many paid accounts to juggle, b) I lose his voice, or c) too many important castmates drop.
Dancy
Info: Dancy also gives me no trouble when it comes to making activity. I plan for a full canon review of both the novel and the short story anthology sometime soon, and with that will come a big essay of doom, the one I detailed about in her journal four months ago. Derp. She's growing a lot in Camp, and I like it because it's not too exponential, so she can still be awkward and schizo at people.
Droppability: 1/10. I'd drop her if a) I lose the voice, b) she strays TOO far from canon for my comfort, or c) if I had to drop everyone but one character.
Belphegor
Info: Belphegor is my other forevergirl. Though I still struggle with his voice and twisted views at times, I've gotten a lot better at him and he's remained my primary since February. Issues at hand are as follows: lack of played characters to kill on-screen or off-screen, balancing his fightsexuality with his asexuality, and keeping him from being too irritable. For the latter, he should come off as mostly placid on the surface even when others get under his skin, very 'whatever,' with his words being sharp knives to cut into the stupid peasants that dare to speak to him that way. Why should he care what they think? I don't always quite manage that. But I'm working on it.
Bel is a guy who sees others as far beneath him. He's a prince. If you're lucky, you're a toy meant to entertain him instead of merely a bug to crush. If you're super lucky, you're a strong person for whom he holds at least a shred of respect. (This is close to the only way you'll get any from him.) In spite of his sociopathic ways he does seem to desire some amount of company. Which is why I put him out so much - to find the right people he'll bother with, or bother in general. Most people probably want their characters to remain relatively unharmed, and I want to respect that so they can enjoy playing with Bel. I want threading to be fun for both parties. So, given Bel's nature, the best IC way for me to have Bel interact with those characters is either as a troll (gotta relieve the boredom somehow) or a non-loyal not-friend (this is more the case with characters like Sasuke or Mika, who are obviously strong and capable and somewhat respectable). Sometimes both.
If I'm doing it wrong, then fuck me to hell and back.
Droppability: 0/10. Bel will stab you to death before you can pry him from my hands.
Kirima Nagi
Info: Constantly struggling with her voice. Can't find much for her to do at Camp. She's a defender of justice and an investigator, but most of the creatures (barring zombies etc.) that show themselves in Camp are out of her league, and most of Camp's mysteries are too inexplicable and dumb that I... just can't see her being anything but frustrated and put out over. So there's not much for her to do except possibly try to maintain some amount of... idk. Making herself feel useful. For instance this month she's volunteered to be a guard since it's so dangerous. Nagi isn't the type to be all Batman and Robin, thankfully, so it's easier to have her overlook things. The role she gives herself is sort of a lone defender who is there when no one else can be. It validates her existence and pays her late father back.
Maybe if Nagi were more accepting of a social life she'd be easier to play. Then again, I knew this when I pick her up.
Droppability: 7/10. She'd be the first to go. If I can't make activity well enough for her by the time I'm hitting 9, 10 characters, she is totally getting the chopping block.
Deidara
Info: I'm doing okay with him so far. Outside of his notable vocal quirk I have to be careful not to meld his voice with Bel's, which I find sadly amusing. He's someone I've wanted to play for two years and I'm finally doing it and it is going pretty swell for an otherwise shiny new muse. Making activity isn't hard at all.
Droppability: 2/10. I'll keep him around as long as I can.