[SotP | February 2010]
State of the Me: Well, I've made my two drops official (oh my God, my wiki and LJ Login are so empty), and while there are some regrets that I didn't get to do what I'd originally set out to, I'm probably more relieved than anything else, so I'll take that to mean I made the right decision, even if I'm sure I let some people down. I don't think I'll be apping anyone until Q2, though, partly because I have no idea who I want to app, but mostly because March promises to be busy as fuck, so I'd rather just focus on the characters I do have instead of worrying about settling in anyone new.
Of course, this could change halfway through the month, so... don't hold this to heart. Especially because I'm itching to play someone else. I just, again, have no idea who.
Kate Bishop: Has a canonmate! After over a year! It is, as they say, very exciting! That... is pretty much all I have to say about Kate, actually. So let's move on to--
Peter Parker: I read something like 40 issues of various Spider-Man titles yesterday on a whim in order to figure out, among other things: the Clone Saga, Mary Jane's pregnancy, and the way they pretty much never talked about that pregnancy, like, a month after they lost the baby. The reason for this, uh, research is that Peter and Mary Jane had unprotected sex on Christmas, which means, you know, pregnancy scare! Peter Parker is canonically incapable of having sex without consequences, and we figured that between all the stress of Osborn Plot and Pete in the clinic, that she could, conceivably, have skipped a period or two. So that's happening, which means that, you know, he'll have cause to think about the baby he lost, once upon a time, giving him a reason to tell Mary Jane.
Besides that bit of personal drama, Peter's finally leaving the clinic after two months, though his leg is still in a cast, and will be through the end of May. With physiotherapy, I imagine he won't be back into walking shape until July, at which point he'll finally find the letter Norman wrote to him before his death that Mary Jane's been hiding.
Planning ahead, fuck yeah.
He has a lot of plot, suffice it to say, though my goal is to get him out a lot more in the coming months. Outside of his canonmates, he has... well, no one except for Sarah Walker. That really needs to change. I'm not sure who outside of his canon he'd get along with, but that's the beauty of randomly tagging people, right? The unexpected friendships that form. So I'mma work on that in the coming months. I have an EP planned for him early this month -- probably Tuesday -- celebrating his clinic freedom, which y'all should tag (and I'll try not to drop threads, which I've been doing way too often lately, because I keep threading at the end of the month, and I don't like threading when it no longer counts, and I lose interest too quickly, ahem).
Jamie Madrox: I learned a very important lesson with Jamie this month, which I'd actually learned last time I played him, but apparently forgot -- I cannot, under any circumstances, tag with him if I don't know how a preceding thread ended. I started to do that this month, and ended up having to drop the threads set later because the thread before it was taking a turn for the unexpected, and I didn't want to retcon anything.
That was a really confusing sentence.
Anyway, before reapping him, I'd been super concerned that Jamie and Peter would be too similar (which was, admittedly, a large part of why I apped him at his most depressed), but now I'm wondering why the hell I was ever concerned. For example, his stuff with Layla is so, so different from Peter's relationship with Mary Jane -- they approach things from entirely different perspectives, love in particular. Jamie -- or, well, Jamie Prime -- has never really been in love, and he's absolutely godawful at it. I know not everyone likes Jamie/Layla (I do, for the record), but Jamie knows that, too.
From his thread at Mardi Gras:There's a quote you see sometimes -- what's popular isn't always right and what's right isn't always popular. Whether this -- whatever it is between us that's got me acting on every impulse I've been trying to ignore since she showed up -- is right is very much up in the air, but its popularity, or lack thereof, isn't. I was the only one who ever really liked Layla.
And in a subsequent thread:I wasted no efforts in trying to get Layla Miller back from the future -- not out of love, not out of duty, but because I was the only one willing to fight for her, and someone had to fight for her. Cyclops was too busy looking at the big picture to remember those pawns he was moving across that big chessboard of his were people.
So, what I'm trying to say is, she's not the great love of my life. That would be, in a word, wildly inappropriate. Oh, sure, in some future, somewhere, she's my wife. And? I've had wives. For all I know -- for all we know -- she's married to a dupe, just like everyone else. It wouldn't be the first time. It probably wouldn't be the last.
So, in short, Jamie/Layla will not actually be happening anytime soon. They're on better terms than they were, but she (rightly) rejected his drunken advances, and he's not going to get over that for a while, I don't think. He, too, I want to get out more, since as it stands, his only guy friend is Brodie Bruce, and that oughta change.
And this got super long, wow, so I'm just gonna call it a night there.