player statistics and history meme.
I did this meme twice before! And it's a fun meme! ... it's also been about a year and I've apped and dropped a lot since then, so it was time for an update. PEOPLE SHOULD DO THIS ONE. mackzazzle-style player statistics and history meme part ... III? Part III. Code jacked from her et all.
Auel Neider from "Gundam SEED Destiny" (auel_fixation)
App Percentage: 87.5% Someone who wasn't supposed to vote ended up voting, so Biz manually calculated this one.
Played From: May 2005 to September 2005
That's How Long? Four months
Total Comments: 1,493
Overall Pecentage: 1.3%
Reason For Dropping: Auel was wonderful crack, but started my trend of not doing so hot with characters who were for crack only! I grew really tired of his threads real fast, and nearly dropped him several times in August before I got up the nerve to just RIP THE BAND-AID OFF in September 2005. This was like the start of my "JURI DOESN'T DO CRACK CHARACTERS FOR LONG" trend.
Select Option 3? I STILL LOVE YOU, WOLFRAM!
Heine Westenfluss from "Gundam SEED Destiny" (heine_sight)
App Percentage: 85.7%
Played From: June 2005 to August 2006
That's How Long? One year, two months
Total Comments: 17,506
Overall Pecentage: 15.2%
Reason For Dropping: I loved Heine. So hard. But towards the end, I'd felt like I'd really lost my grasp on his voice, and he was so far from canon that I couldn't really fix that. It didn't help that canon didn't give a whole heck of a lot on Heine, and I didn't have translations for the Edge. Heine is a small character in the series! He gets a whole heck of a lot more in the way of depth in canon than some other SEED side characters, IMHO, but he still doesn't get a lot. So, rather than fix that, I sort of let him wallow for a bit, and then finally let him go. He's the only one that I can really quite safely say that I will never ever reapp. I kind of. I loved Heine, but I don't talk about him much because he's the character I played heavily at the beginning of CFUD, and. haha. hahaha.
Select Option 3? ... on that note, I vaguely contemplated reapping him once, but was too lazy to do so. o/
Yuuki Nao from "My-HiME" (ob_durate)
App Percentage: 88.1%
Played From: July 2005 to August 2005
That's How Long? One month
Total Comments: 116
Overall Pecentage: 0.1%
Reason For Dropping: The problem with Nao was that she really needs certain people in camp, first of all. Secondly, she has to be played a lot more than I was willing to play her at the time. Aaaand all that aside, the person who plays her has to be willing to be abrasive, because that's what Nao requires. I was too afraid of stepping on toes at the time, heh! So she quickly got the axe. Her app was a lot of fun to write, though.
Select Option 3? THINK THINGS THROUGH BEFORE YOU APP, KIDS. One-hundred comment wonder.
Lacus Clyne from "Gundam SEED Destiny" (mizu_no_akashi)
App Percentage: 100%
Played From: August 2005 to November 2005
That's How Long? Three months
Total Comments: 843
Overall Pecentage: 0.7%
Reason For Dropping: Lacus is a Jesus! Lacus is supposed to top you! I ... had difficulty with that after awhile! She's another character that requires a LOT of concentration, IMHO, and I just could not keep that up. She got difficult after a month, and I knew then that I'd have to let her go. Thankfully, we have a Lacus now that is awesome. ♥
Select Option 3? I kept her for a month longer than I intended to because I loved her icons.
Robert Haydn from "The Law of Ueki" (_higher_)
App Percentage: 82.2%
Played From: October 2005 to August 2007
That's How Long? One year, ten months
Total Comments: 19,780 (upon dropping)
Overall Pecentage: ... lol see below.
Reason For Dropping: It was his time! I have no regrets about the Robert drop, unlike my wahwah occasional wangst over Heine's. I loved developing him and playing out his relationships, but at the end of it all, it was really time to let him go home and get back to things.
Select Option 3? Getting sedated and being forced to watch girly movies on Halloween 2006 was kind of awesome. HILARIOUSLY WANTING TO REAPP HIM TEN MONTHS LATER WAS ALSO PRETTY FUNNY.
Anon from "The Law of Ueki" (homphgomph)
App Percentage: 86.4%
Played From: November 2005 to September 2006
That's How Long? Ten months
Total Comments: 3,055
Overall Pecentage: 2.7%
Reason For Dropping: Anon was a lot of fun to play, but ultimately, he was way too difficult, what with being a huge god-mode and all. That aside, canon never really revealed what was up with him, like his precognition. Did he really have that, or ...? I always felt really awkward with him in certain situations, which made it hard to play him! That aside, he wouldn't really make connections. I NEARLY REAPPED HIM ONCE. This was back in October 2007. I canon reviewed the later episodes for him, but I realized that I would probably get stuck because canon was vague when it came to him, and never did. And now that I've reapped Robert, I never will reapp Anon.
Select Option 3? THE BABY WAS OKAY.
Jay the Unseen from "Tales of Legendia" (chizakura)
App Percentage: 81.4%
Played From: February 2006 to June 2006
That's How Long? Four months
Total Comments: 1,171
Overall Pecentage: 1.0%
Reason For Dropping: Jay is an awesome character, but he's also high energy. He's someone who should be played heavily and should be out there trying to figure out stuff. And I couldn't really do that with Jay. I ended up dropping him because I didn't want to half-ass him.
Select Option 3? It was hilarious having people try to figure out his name for that first week.
Sakuraba Haruto from "Eyeshield 21" (haphazardace)
App Percentage: 89.3%
Played From: June 2006 to the present
That's How Long? Two years, ten months
Total Comments: 25,700
Overall Pecentage: 22.4%
Reason For Apping: I'VE TOLD HIS APP STORY MILLIONS OF TIMES. He's just so nice and refreshing, since I usually app more irritable characters. I said before that he's one that stands a chance of never getting dropped, and I still think this is true. Sakuraba is so easy and comfortable for me, and just when I think he's run out of things to do, I find more to do with him.
Select Option 3? God HOW DO I CHOOSE. I just love having a normal boy who gets into abnormal situations, because his take is so random and cracks me up half the time. S-Sakurabaaa.
Kakei Shun from "Eyeshield 21" (high_wave)
App Percentage: 87%
Played From: September 2006 to March 2007
That's How Long? Six months.
Total Comments: 2,350
Overall Pecentage: 2.1%
Reason For Dropping: I actually do regret Kakei's drop! But he became incredibly hard to play without Mizumachi. However, even if Mizumachi hadn't dropped, I would have dropped him eventually anyway. The point in canon that he came from was difficult to deal with, and he became real unhappy real fast with camp. I do regret his drop, though, because I miss his threads with Katou and Himawari.
Select Option 3? KAKEI'S APP WAS SUCH A BITCH. I had the general concept in mind, but writing it was like pulling teeth and took two weeks. Hei's was the only one that was even harder than that (and nowadays, I just crank them out over the course of a day).
Karakuchi Kouji from "Medabots" (shadowedprodigy)
App Percentage: 70.4%
Played From: November 2006 to January 2007
That's How Long? Two months
Total Comments: 362
Overall Pecentage: 0.3%
Reason For Dropping: One Saturday morning, I got bored, watched a couple episodes of Medabots, and remembered how much I loved Kouji and how cool it'd be to play him in a game like CFUD. I wrote the app in an hour on a whim (okay, and enabling from master_of_mon). ... it didn't do so well! I never got my footing after that, and never really wanted to settle in because I was so unnerved about the app, so he got the drop in January. It's sad because- Medabots is a retarded little series, but I love it so and wish I could've played Kouji better or at least written a better app. XD;
Select Option 3? My experiences with Kouji's app were what lead me to get my apps meticulously beta'd for over a year. My apps since then have averaged at 94%, which is something I'm actually kind of proud of. ._.d
Miles Edgeworth from "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" (attorneyatlol)
App Percentage: 97.3%
Played From: December 2006 to the present
That's How Long? One year, six months
Total Comments: 7,777
Overall Pecentage: 6.8%
Reason For Dropping: ... I-I love Edgeworth. Dropping him hurt me a lot, and it still feels weird to not have his account on my widget. This is one of those drops that I agonized over for ages. He's a weird one in that I'd be really good with him one month, and then feel really off the next. But in the end, he was stressing me out, which is what lead to his drop. He had a good run!
Select Option 3? I loved his app. I think that, to this day, it's probably one of my favorite apps.
Sohma Akito from "Fruits Basket" (deusvobiscum)
App Percentage: 80.4%
Played From: February 2007 to September 2007
That's How Long? Seven months
Total Comments: 969
Overall Pecentage: 0.8%
Reason For Dropping: ... god. I loved Akito when I read the manga, and I knew he'd be hard to play. I'm actually kind of surprised his app got over 80%! But he was fun, until I hit a point where I got so exhausted playing him. I couldn't play him for more than an hour towards the end, and that was when I realized that I had to let him go. There were a lot of things I wanted to do with him in camp, but I could never really muster up the energy to do them, which was a shame.
Select Option 3? Push the button, Hatori.
Sasaki Koutarou from "Eyeshield 21" (kickoptionthree)
App Percentage: 98.3%
Played From: April 2007 to September 2007
That's How Long? Five months
Total Comments: 1,506
Overall Pecentage: 1.3%
Reason For Dropping: I had a lot of regrets and "wahwah I suck" when I dropped Koutarou, but looking back on it, I had fun with him when I had him and then dropped him when he stopped being fun. Koutarou was for crack! He wasn't really a longterm character, either, and I should have recognized that when I dropped him. It wasn't failure; it was just me setting him aside for someone else to pick up after I'd played. I kind of wish I liked the ES21 dressing room more, because I would totally toss him out in there.
Select Option 3? THE ANTEATERS ARE SMART!
Li Shunsheng / Hei from "Darker than Black" (darkasthe)
App Percentage: 92.0%
Played From: June 2007 to July 2008
That's How Long? One year, one month
Total Comments: 9,148
Overall Pecentage: 8.0%
Reason For Dropping: I ran out of stuff to do with him! I love Hei and I love Darker than Black, but at the same time, the series is so ridiculously vague that it's really hard to play after awhile. He was my primary for half of 2007, so it was really weird to have him suddenly taper off in comments. I'd done everything I'd wanted to do with him, though, so it was time!
Select Option 3? His relationship with Yoko and the rest of the TTGL crew is still among my favorites out of all my characters ever.
Sanada Akihiko from "Persona 3" (fistfirst)
App Percentage: 84.3%
Played From: September 2007 to October 2008
That's How Long? One year, one month
Total Comments: 5,107
Overall Pecentage: 4.5%
Reason For Dropping: F-favorite characterrrr. There were a bunch of reasons why I dropped Akihiko, but the big one is that his voice was so damn hard. The problem is that it's so normal and yet, it's very distinctive. I also felt like I'd played myself into a corner and couldn't really do much more with him. And Robert took over a lot of my play time. So Akihiko got the cut.
Select Option 3? ... I don't even know how he got 5k, man. Uh. Xenosaga weekend with Shinji and Mitsuru was tons of fun.
Dist the Reaper Rose from "Tales of the Abyss" (gonnagetreaped)
App Percentage: 91.5%
Played From: December 2007 to March 2008
That's How Long? Three months
Total Comments: 651
Overall Pecentage: 0.6%
Reason For Dropping: I LOVED DIST, but really, I knew he wouldn't last too long and I was in it to have a blast for however long I'd have him. I told people up front that the minute he started being stressful for me was the minute that I'd drop him. I miss having a character strictly "for crack," but those don't work out too well for me. I thrive on characters being able to build relationships, and Dist basically exists to be the butt of everyone's jokes. 8Dd
Select Option 3? FLYING CABIN.
Toudou Heisuke from "Shinsengumi Imon Peacemaker / Peacemaker Kurogane" (countyourchikns)
App Percentage: 92.6%
Played From: January 2008 to June 2008
That's How Long? Six months
Total Comments: 1,765
Overall Pecentage: 1.5%
Reason For Dropping: Heisuke is GREAT in that he's this comedic character with a brutally serious side. I love him, and I love the fact that he can be such a fuck-up. But he's immensely difficult to play in this setting and ICly got very unhappy very fast. I didn't have a Shinpachi and a Sano by counselors and decided to let him go while I still loved him.
Select Option 3? I loved running Haru's auction. I actually contemplate reapping him off and on, but I worry about those issues coming back. Heisuke is a character I really, really love and want to give him the attention he deserves. And since I have primaries like Sakuraba, Robert, and Adachi at the moment ... yeah. ):
XerXes Break from "Pandora Hearts" (pierrotlafraude)
App Percentage: 94.9%
Played From: February 2008 to September 2008
That's How Long? Seven months
Total Comments: 2,788
Overall Pecentage: 2.4%
Reason For Dropping: Break just became too difficult for me to play, end of story. ♥
Select Option 3? I NEED ANOTHER CHARACTER THAT INTERACTS WITH ZAZZLE'S A LOT.
Death the Kid from "Soul Eater" (ocdeath)
App Percentage: 96.2%
Played From: April 2008 to June 2009
That's How Long? One year, two months
Total Comments: 2,170
Overall Pecentage: 1.9%
Reason For Apping: drr drr drr, this character was made for me! I apped him because I loved the balance between his OCD craziness and his serious side, and I am genuinely shocked that I still have him a year later. He's got a lot of what I like in my more "comedic" characters (Heisuke, Gino) while still having those aspects of what I like in the characters I tend to hang onto (read: he's a bitch sometimes). He's just fun.
Reason For Dropping: After a year or so though with no real strong connections anymore, Kid did stop being fun. Patty and I talked and decided to drop while we still had the good memories and they weren't, you know, a chore to play.
Select Option 3? I very nearly dropped him in January until I had this one thread with Stein that was both hilarious and ... really serious and awesome. It was great and reminded me of why I loved Kid and why I loved Soul Eater.
Robert Haydn from "The Law of Ueki" (reidealize)
App Percentage: 94.3%
Played From: October 2005 to August 2007 ; June 2008 to the present
That's How Long? Two years, eight months
Total Comments: 27,356
Overall Pecentage: 23.9%
Reason For Apping: S-SO. TEN MONTHS LATER, I woke up one morning and wanted to reapp Robert. And I did, and since then, his comment count has basically gone up by 10k. Uh. I love Robert, and dropping/reapping him solved a lot of problems I'd had with him in the past. He's just so different from the characters that I usually app that I really need him in my line-up for a change of pace. Hilariously, when I reapped him, I had 8 characters. By 2009, I'd dropped down to three. I sort of blame reapping Robert for this and don't regret it at all.
Select Option 3? My goal for his reapp was to beat his old app's score, which I did! By 12%. I'm rather proud of that, even though I feel like I sort of half-assed the app.
Bak Chan from "D.Gray-man" (pity_disfou)
App Percentage: 98.1%
Played From: June 2008 to August 2008
That's How Long? Two months
Total Comments: 120
Overall Pecentage: 0.1%
Reason For Dropping: I LOVE BAK. And I actually liked D.Gray-man a lot once I got into it, since it was one of those series that I just could never get into for ages. But Bak is so awesome that I could never really get into his voice or what made him tick. I felt really uncomfortable playing him and couldn't really toss him out into other posts, so after talking with Fou, we just decided to let them go.
Select Option 3? Christmas in July as an intro post was awesome. 8Dd
Gino Weinberg from "Code Geass" (serialdrapist)
App Percentage: 92.9%
Played From: September 2008 to January 2009
That's How Long? Four months
Total Comments: 1,258
Overall Pecentage: 1.1%
Reason For Apping/Dropping: I loved the first season of Geass! I'm still lukewarm on the second season, but Gino was a character that I found incredibly interesting. Side canon gave him snippets of a backstory and there was a lot of room for interpretation. After getting off to a good start with him, though, I burned out quickly. I decided that rather than stress over it (like I did with Koutarou), I'd drop Gino while I still had good memories of playing him and not "stress stress aghhhh."
Select Option 3? Sending someecards to Kallen was pretty much the best thing I ever did with Gino. :|d
Kagami Arata from "Kamen Rider Kabuto" (gartard)
App Percentage: 98.1%
Played From: February 2009 to May 2009
That's How Long? Three months
Total Comments: 305
Overall Pecentage: 0.3%
Reason For Apping: I've always been "ehhh" about toku and sentai, but I sat down and watched Kamen Rider Kabuto on a whim in January and completely adored it. I was really surprised that we didn't have a Kagami already! So I thought I'd give him a shot, see how it went.
Reason For Dropping: Kagami was too backburnery. I'd had him for two months and he hadn't even really threaded with anyone outside of his cast. He didn't feel properly settled when Adachi did, which meant it was time for him to go. I was really sad to let him go because I love the character to pieces, but he was one I didn't entirely click with.
Select Option 3? I loved my cast to bits. ): We didn't get to play together as much for various reasons (TIMEZONES), but when we did, it was fabulous. I held onto him for longer than I should have because I loved the cast.
Nanba Minami from "HanaKimi" (gettingdormhead)
App Percentage: 94.6%
Played From: March 2009 to ... March 2009
That's How Long? THREE WEEKS.
Total Comments: 123
Overall Pecentage: 0.1%
Reason For Apping/Dropping: I have characters I refer to as "one-hundred comment wonders." They're characters that I love and have ideas for playing, but once I app them, get them in, and start playing a bit, something about them just makes me so insanely uncomfortable that I can't get into them. Nao was like that, Bak was like that, and Nanba fell into that same category. I pretty much felt it from the get-go! And rather than intro him and stir up any potential drama only to drop like a tool, I figured it'd be best to quietly let him go. I was fairly positive (especially after getting Adachi, who I'd wanted for MONTHS) that I wouldn't be able to fix my issues with him.
Select Option 3? ONE-HUNDRED COMMENT WONDER.
Adachi Tohru from "Persona 4" (truthlol)
App Percentage: 98.0%
Played From: March 2009 to the present
That's How Long? Two weeks
Total Comments: 1,026
Overall Pecentage: 0.9%
Reason For Apping: ... app story's in his journal. LONG STORY SHORT, I played P4 and basically fell completely for his character by the end of the game and was fully prepared to face a dup to get him. I never want to do dups. That's how much I wanted Adachi. ): Luckily, I didn't have to do it, and you can pry him from my cold, dead hands.
Select Option 3? I ADMIT IT, I was really terrified about dealing with certain things because he's kind of different from my usual fare, but it's been awesome so far. I get a little nervous because a lot of P4 is so damn vague that it leaves things open to interpretation, but at the same time, it's ... a ton of fun.
IN CONCLUSION (from april 2009)
I've played here HOW long? 1,437 days
Overall Comment Count: 114,664
Average Comments Per Day: 80 comments/day
Shortest Kept: Nanba (3 weeks)
Longest Kept: Sakuraba Haruto (Two years, ten months)
Most Played: Robert Haydn (27,356)
Least Played: Yuuki Nao (116)
Highest Percentage: Lacus Clyne #1 (100%), Sasaki Koutarou (98.3%)
Lowest Percentage: Karakuchi Kouji (70.4%)
I went down about 10 comments/day from the last time I did this, but I've also been working a lot more and doing things like ... class and whatnot. I tend to play in spurts, anyway.
eta: NO ONE SAW THAT. Also, have the code for this meme.
Auel Neider from "Gundam SEED Destiny" (auel_fixation)
App Percentage: 87.5% Someone who wasn't supposed to vote ended up voting, so Biz manually calculated this one.
Played From: May 2005 to September 2005
That's How Long? Four months
Total Comments: 1,493
Overall Pecentage: 1.3%
Reason For Dropping: Auel was wonderful crack, but started my trend of not doing so hot with characters who were for crack only! I grew really tired of his threads real fast, and nearly dropped him several times in August before I got up the nerve to just RIP THE BAND-AID OFF in September 2005. This was like the start of my "JURI DOESN'T DO CRACK CHARACTERS FOR LONG" trend.
Select Option 3? I STILL LOVE YOU, WOLFRAM!
Heine Westenfluss from "Gundam SEED Destiny" (heine_sight)
App Percentage: 85.7%
Played From: June 2005 to August 2006
That's How Long? One year, two months
Total Comments: 17,506
Overall Pecentage: 15.2%
Reason For Dropping: I loved Heine. So hard. But towards the end, I'd felt like I'd really lost my grasp on his voice, and he was so far from canon that I couldn't really fix that. It didn't help that canon didn't give a whole heck of a lot on Heine, and I didn't have translations for the Edge. Heine is a small character in the series! He gets a whole heck of a lot more in the way of depth in canon than some other SEED side characters, IMHO, but he still doesn't get a lot. So, rather than fix that, I sort of let him wallow for a bit, and then finally let him go. He's the only one that I can really quite safely say that I will never ever reapp. I kind of. I loved Heine, but I don't talk about him much because he's the character I played heavily at the beginning of CFUD, and. haha. hahaha.
Select Option 3? ... on that note, I vaguely contemplated reapping him once, but was too lazy to do so. o/
Yuuki Nao from "My-HiME" (ob_durate)
App Percentage: 88.1%
Played From: July 2005 to August 2005
That's How Long? One month
Total Comments: 116
Overall Pecentage: 0.1%
Reason For Dropping: The problem with Nao was that she really needs certain people in camp, first of all. Secondly, she has to be played a lot more than I was willing to play her at the time. Aaaand all that aside, the person who plays her has to be willing to be abrasive, because that's what Nao requires. I was too afraid of stepping on toes at the time, heh! So she quickly got the axe. Her app was a lot of fun to write, though.
Select Option 3? THINK THINGS THROUGH BEFORE YOU APP, KIDS. One-hundred comment wonder.
Lacus Clyne from "Gundam SEED Destiny" (mizu_no_akashi)
App Percentage: 100%
Played From: August 2005 to November 2005
That's How Long? Three months
Total Comments: 843
Overall Pecentage: 0.7%
Reason For Dropping: Lacus is a Jesus! Lacus is supposed to top you! I ... had difficulty with that after awhile! She's another character that requires a LOT of concentration, IMHO, and I just could not keep that up. She got difficult after a month, and I knew then that I'd have to let her go. Thankfully, we have a Lacus now that is awesome. ♥
Select Option 3? I kept her for a month longer than I intended to because I loved her icons.
Robert Haydn from "The Law of Ueki" (_higher_)
App Percentage: 82.2%
Played From: October 2005 to August 2007
That's How Long? One year, ten months
Total Comments: 19,780 (upon dropping)
Overall Pecentage: ... lol see below.
Reason For Dropping: It was his time! I have no regrets about the Robert drop, unlike my wahwah occasional wangst over Heine's. I loved developing him and playing out his relationships, but at the end of it all, it was really time to let him go home and get back to things.
Select Option 3? Getting sedated and being forced to watch girly movies on Halloween 2006 was kind of awesome. HILARIOUSLY WANTING TO REAPP HIM TEN MONTHS LATER WAS ALSO PRETTY FUNNY.
Anon from "The Law of Ueki" (homphgomph)
App Percentage: 86.4%
Played From: November 2005 to September 2006
That's How Long? Ten months
Total Comments: 3,055
Overall Pecentage: 2.7%
Reason For Dropping: Anon was a lot of fun to play, but ultimately, he was way too difficult, what with being a huge god-mode and all. That aside, canon never really revealed what was up with him, like his precognition. Did he really have that, or ...? I always felt really awkward with him in certain situations, which made it hard to play him! That aside, he wouldn't really make connections. I NEARLY REAPPED HIM ONCE. This was back in October 2007. I canon reviewed the later episodes for him, but I realized that I would probably get stuck because canon was vague when it came to him, and never did. And now that I've reapped Robert, I never will reapp Anon.
Select Option 3? THE BABY WAS OKAY.
Jay the Unseen from "Tales of Legendia" (chizakura)
App Percentage: 81.4%
Played From: February 2006 to June 2006
That's How Long? Four months
Total Comments: 1,171
Overall Pecentage: 1.0%
Reason For Dropping: Jay is an awesome character, but he's also high energy. He's someone who should be played heavily and should be out there trying to figure out stuff. And I couldn't really do that with Jay. I ended up dropping him because I didn't want to half-ass him.
Select Option 3? It was hilarious having people try to figure out his name for that first week.
Sakuraba Haruto from "Eyeshield 21" (haphazardace)
App Percentage: 89.3%
Played From: June 2006 to the present
That's How Long? Two years, ten months
Total Comments: 25,700
Overall Pecentage: 22.4%
Reason For Apping: I'VE TOLD HIS APP STORY MILLIONS OF TIMES. He's just so nice and refreshing, since I usually app more irritable characters. I said before that he's one that stands a chance of never getting dropped, and I still think this is true. Sakuraba is so easy and comfortable for me, and just when I think he's run out of things to do, I find more to do with him.
Select Option 3? God HOW DO I CHOOSE. I just love having a normal boy who gets into abnormal situations, because his take is so random and cracks me up half the time. S-Sakurabaaa.
Kakei Shun from "Eyeshield 21" (high_wave)
App Percentage: 87%
Played From: September 2006 to March 2007
That's How Long? Six months.
Total Comments: 2,350
Overall Pecentage: 2.1%
Reason For Dropping: I actually do regret Kakei's drop! But he became incredibly hard to play without Mizumachi. However, even if Mizumachi hadn't dropped, I would have dropped him eventually anyway. The point in canon that he came from was difficult to deal with, and he became real unhappy real fast with camp. I do regret his drop, though, because I miss his threads with Katou and Himawari.
Select Option 3? KAKEI'S APP WAS SUCH A BITCH. I had the general concept in mind, but writing it was like pulling teeth and took two weeks. Hei's was the only one that was even harder than that (and nowadays, I just crank them out over the course of a day).
Karakuchi Kouji from "Medabots" (shadowedprodigy)
App Percentage: 70.4%
Played From: November 2006 to January 2007
That's How Long? Two months
Total Comments: 362
Overall Pecentage: 0.3%
Reason For Dropping: One Saturday morning, I got bored, watched a couple episodes of Medabots, and remembered how much I loved Kouji and how cool it'd be to play him in a game like CFUD. I wrote the app in an hour on a whim (okay, and enabling from master_of_mon). ... it didn't do so well! I never got my footing after that, and never really wanted to settle in because I was so unnerved about the app, so he got the drop in January. It's sad because- Medabots is a retarded little series, but I love it so and wish I could've played Kouji better or at least written a better app. XD;
Select Option 3? My experiences with Kouji's app were what lead me to get my apps meticulously beta'd for over a year. My apps since then have averaged at 94%, which is something I'm actually kind of proud of. ._.d
Miles Edgeworth from "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" (attorneyatlol)
App Percentage: 97.3%
Played From: December 2006 to the present
That's How Long? One year, six months
Total Comments: 7,777
Overall Pecentage: 6.8%
Reason For Dropping: ... I-I love Edgeworth. Dropping him hurt me a lot, and it still feels weird to not have his account on my widget. This is one of those drops that I agonized over for ages. He's a weird one in that I'd be really good with him one month, and then feel really off the next. But in the end, he was stressing me out, which is what lead to his drop. He had a good run!
Select Option 3? I loved his app. I think that, to this day, it's probably one of my favorite apps.
Sohma Akito from "Fruits Basket" (deusvobiscum)
App Percentage: 80.4%
Played From: February 2007 to September 2007
That's How Long? Seven months
Total Comments: 969
Overall Pecentage: 0.8%
Reason For Dropping: ... god. I loved Akito when I read the manga, and I knew he'd be hard to play. I'm actually kind of surprised his app got over 80%! But he was fun, until I hit a point where I got so exhausted playing him. I couldn't play him for more than an hour towards the end, and that was when I realized that I had to let him go. There were a lot of things I wanted to do with him in camp, but I could never really muster up the energy to do them, which was a shame.
Select Option 3? Push the button, Hatori.
Sasaki Koutarou from "Eyeshield 21" (kickoptionthree)
App Percentage: 98.3%
Played From: April 2007 to September 2007
That's How Long? Five months
Total Comments: 1,506
Overall Pecentage: 1.3%
Reason For Dropping: I had a lot of regrets and "wahwah I suck" when I dropped Koutarou, but looking back on it, I had fun with him when I had him and then dropped him when he stopped being fun. Koutarou was for crack! He wasn't really a longterm character, either, and I should have recognized that when I dropped him. It wasn't failure; it was just me setting him aside for someone else to pick up after I'd played. I kind of wish I liked the ES21 dressing room more, because I would totally toss him out in there.
Select Option 3? THE ANTEATERS ARE SMART!
Li Shunsheng / Hei from "Darker than Black" (darkasthe)
App Percentage: 92.0%
Played From: June 2007 to July 2008
That's How Long? One year, one month
Total Comments: 9,148
Overall Pecentage: 8.0%
Reason For Dropping: I ran out of stuff to do with him! I love Hei and I love Darker than Black, but at the same time, the series is so ridiculously vague that it's really hard to play after awhile. He was my primary for half of 2007, so it was really weird to have him suddenly taper off in comments. I'd done everything I'd wanted to do with him, though, so it was time!
Select Option 3? His relationship with Yoko and the rest of the TTGL crew is still among my favorites out of all my characters ever.
Sanada Akihiko from "Persona 3" (fistfirst)
App Percentage: 84.3%
Played From: September 2007 to October 2008
That's How Long? One year, one month
Total Comments: 5,107
Overall Pecentage: 4.5%
Reason For Dropping: F-favorite characterrrr. There were a bunch of reasons why I dropped Akihiko, but the big one is that his voice was so damn hard. The problem is that it's so normal and yet, it's very distinctive. I also felt like I'd played myself into a corner and couldn't really do much more with him. And Robert took over a lot of my play time. So Akihiko got the cut.
Select Option 3? ... I don't even know how he got 5k, man. Uh. Xenosaga weekend with Shinji and Mitsuru was tons of fun.
Dist the Reaper Rose from "Tales of the Abyss" (gonnagetreaped)
App Percentage: 91.5%
Played From: December 2007 to March 2008
That's How Long? Three months
Total Comments: 651
Overall Pecentage: 0.6%
Reason For Dropping: I LOVED DIST, but really, I knew he wouldn't last too long and I was in it to have a blast for however long I'd have him. I told people up front that the minute he started being stressful for me was the minute that I'd drop him. I miss having a character strictly "for crack," but those don't work out too well for me. I thrive on characters being able to build relationships, and Dist basically exists to be the butt of everyone's jokes. 8Dd
Select Option 3? FLYING CABIN.
Toudou Heisuke from "Shinsengumi Imon Peacemaker / Peacemaker Kurogane" (countyourchikns)
App Percentage: 92.6%
Played From: January 2008 to June 2008
That's How Long? Six months
Total Comments: 1,765
Overall Pecentage: 1.5%
Reason For Dropping: Heisuke is GREAT in that he's this comedic character with a brutally serious side. I love him, and I love the fact that he can be such a fuck-up. But he's immensely difficult to play in this setting and ICly got very unhappy very fast. I didn't have a Shinpachi and a Sano by counselors and decided to let him go while I still loved him.
Select Option 3? I loved running Haru's auction. I actually contemplate reapping him off and on, but I worry about those issues coming back. Heisuke is a character I really, really love and want to give him the attention he deserves. And since I have primaries like Sakuraba, Robert, and Adachi at the moment ... yeah. ):
XerXes Break from "Pandora Hearts" (pierrotlafraude)
App Percentage: 94.9%
Played From: February 2008 to September 2008
That's How Long? Seven months
Total Comments: 2,788
Overall Pecentage: 2.4%
Reason For Dropping: Break just became too difficult for me to play, end of story. ♥
Select Option 3? I NEED ANOTHER CHARACTER THAT INTERACTS WITH ZAZZLE'S A LOT.
Death the Kid from "Soul Eater" (ocdeath)
App Percentage: 96.2%
Played From: April 2008 to June 2009
That's How Long? One year, two months
Total Comments: 2,170
Overall Pecentage: 1.9%
Reason For Apping: drr drr drr, this character was made for me! I apped him because I loved the balance between his OCD craziness and his serious side, and I am genuinely shocked that I still have him a year later. He's got a lot of what I like in my more "comedic" characters (Heisuke, Gino) while still having those aspects of what I like in the characters I tend to hang onto (read: he's a bitch sometimes). He's just fun.
Reason For Dropping: After a year or so though with no real strong connections anymore, Kid did stop being fun. Patty and I talked and decided to drop while we still had the good memories and they weren't, you know, a chore to play.
Select Option 3? I very nearly dropped him in January until I had this one thread with Stein that was both hilarious and ... really serious and awesome. It was great and reminded me of why I loved Kid and why I loved Soul Eater.
Robert Haydn from "The Law of Ueki" (reidealize)
App Percentage: 94.3%
Played From: October 2005 to August 2007 ; June 2008 to the present
That's How Long? Two years, eight months
Total Comments: 27,356
Overall Pecentage: 23.9%
Reason For Apping: S-SO. TEN MONTHS LATER, I woke up one morning and wanted to reapp Robert. And I did, and since then, his comment count has basically gone up by 10k. Uh. I love Robert, and dropping/reapping him solved a lot of problems I'd had with him in the past. He's just so different from the characters that I usually app that I really need him in my line-up for a change of pace. Hilariously, when I reapped him, I had 8 characters. By 2009, I'd dropped down to three. I sort of blame reapping Robert for this and don't regret it at all.
Select Option 3? My goal for his reapp was to beat his old app's score, which I did! By 12%. I'm rather proud of that, even though I feel like I sort of half-assed the app.
Bak Chan from "D.Gray-man" (pity_disfou)
App Percentage: 98.1%
Played From: June 2008 to August 2008
That's How Long? Two months
Total Comments: 120
Overall Pecentage: 0.1%
Reason For Dropping: I LOVE BAK. And I actually liked D.Gray-man a lot once I got into it, since it was one of those series that I just could never get into for ages. But Bak is so awesome that I could never really get into his voice or what made him tick. I felt really uncomfortable playing him and couldn't really toss him out into other posts, so after talking with Fou, we just decided to let them go.
Select Option 3? Christmas in July as an intro post was awesome. 8Dd
Gino Weinberg from "Code Geass" (serialdrapist)
App Percentage: 92.9%
Played From: September 2008 to January 2009
That's How Long? Four months
Total Comments: 1,258
Overall Pecentage: 1.1%
Reason For Apping/Dropping: I loved the first season of Geass! I'm still lukewarm on the second season, but Gino was a character that I found incredibly interesting. Side canon gave him snippets of a backstory and there was a lot of room for interpretation. After getting off to a good start with him, though, I burned out quickly. I decided that rather than stress over it (like I did with Koutarou), I'd drop Gino while I still had good memories of playing him and not "stress stress aghhhh."
Select Option 3? Sending someecards to Kallen was pretty much the best thing I ever did with Gino. :|d
Kagami Arata from "Kamen Rider Kabuto" (gartard)
App Percentage: 98.1%
Played From: February 2009 to May 2009
That's How Long? Three months
Total Comments: 305
Overall Pecentage: 0.3%
Reason For Apping: I've always been "ehhh" about toku and sentai, but I sat down and watched Kamen Rider Kabuto on a whim in January and completely adored it. I was really surprised that we didn't have a Kagami already! So I thought I'd give him a shot, see how it went.
Reason For Dropping: Kagami was too backburnery. I'd had him for two months and he hadn't even really threaded with anyone outside of his cast. He didn't feel properly settled when Adachi did, which meant it was time for him to go. I was really sad to let him go because I love the character to pieces, but he was one I didn't entirely click with.
Select Option 3? I loved my cast to bits. ): We didn't get to play together as much for various reasons (TIMEZONES), but when we did, it was fabulous. I held onto him for longer than I should have because I loved the cast.
Nanba Minami from "HanaKimi" (gettingdormhead)
App Percentage: 94.6%
Played From: March 2009 to ... March 2009
That's How Long? THREE WEEKS.
Total Comments: 123
Overall Pecentage: 0.1%
Reason For Apping/Dropping: I have characters I refer to as "one-hundred comment wonders." They're characters that I love and have ideas for playing, but once I app them, get them in, and start playing a bit, something about them just makes me so insanely uncomfortable that I can't get into them. Nao was like that, Bak was like that, and Nanba fell into that same category. I pretty much felt it from the get-go! And rather than intro him and stir up any potential drama only to drop like a tool, I figured it'd be best to quietly let him go. I was fairly positive (especially after getting Adachi, who I'd wanted for MONTHS) that I wouldn't be able to fix my issues with him.
Select Option 3? ONE-HUNDRED COMMENT WONDER.
Adachi Tohru from "Persona 4" (truthlol)
App Percentage: 98.0%
Played From: March 2009 to the present
That's How Long? Two weeks
Total Comments: 1,026
Overall Pecentage: 0.9%
Reason For Apping: ... app story's in his journal. LONG STORY SHORT, I played P4 and basically fell completely for his character by the end of the game and was fully prepared to face a dup to get him. I never want to do dups. That's how much I wanted Adachi. ): Luckily, I didn't have to do it, and you can pry him from my cold, dead hands.
Select Option 3? I ADMIT IT, I was really terrified about dealing with certain things because he's kind of different from my usual fare, but it's been awesome so far. I get a little nervous because a lot of P4 is so damn vague that it leaves things open to interpretation, but at the same time, it's ... a ton of fun.
IN CONCLUSION (from april 2009)
I've played here HOW long? 1,437 days
Overall Comment Count: 114,664
Average Comments Per Day: 80 comments/day
Shortest Kept: Nanba (3 weeks)
Longest Kept: Sakuraba Haruto (Two years, ten months)
Most Played: Robert Haydn (27,356)
Least Played: Yuuki Nao (116)
Highest Percentage: Lacus Clyne #1 (100%), Sasaki Koutarou (98.3%)
Lowest Percentage: Karakuchi Kouji (70.4%)
I went down about 10 comments/day from the last time I did this, but I've also been working a lot more and doing things like ... class and whatnot. I tend to play in spurts, anyway.
eta: NO ONE SAW THAT. Also, have the code for this meme.