[OOC] State of the Pups - May 2011
Jack O'Neill (has_2ls, since November 09
Jack is Jack. He's never very hard for me to play but sometimes I get kind of at loose ends with him because he's so damn happy being on the island with Sam and Daniel and Vala. He did make a new friend in Martha Costello and I really want to keep up that relationship and I think he and Sam have officially started trying to get pregnant. I'm not sure when Callie and I actually intend on sending our pregnancy app and getting Sam pregnant for real but for now, they've talked about it and are working on it.
Truth Plot: No. Jack's pretty honest anyway.
Age/Sex Switch: BWAHAHAH no. Jack would mutiny. He and Sam don't take well to island shenanigans.
Thread Requests: Martha Costello, Carwood Lipton, Jane Lipton, Samantha Carter, Jack Harkness, Danny Williams, Vala Mal Doran
Jacob Black (quileutejacob, since January '10)
Jacob had a quiet month. I really enjoy playing him, especially since we have so many teenagers on the island now (and there were really none here when I apped him, imagine that!) but he's just so...comfortable. He's due an item so I'm trying to think of something that would really fuck with him and I still haven't done anything with his NDPD gift (kayak). I really want him to teach kayaking and outdoor survival stuff, this is what he's good at, but I've just been a bad mun and not posted him. It's a combination of Jacob being a little quieter and me not feeling one hundred percent that's sort of kept that from happening. I fully intend to EP him in June, though, and I would really like some new people to tag him.
He's also taking on more and more maintenance responsibilities around the Homestead/for Shari so if there's any roofing or carpenter work you need, Jacob's your guy.
Truth Plot: Jacob's ridiculously honest. There wouldn't be any point.
Age/Sex Switch: Honestly, I don't think so. I don't know that there would be any plot fun in that for Jacob.
Thread Requests: Belle, Alexis Castle, Marshall Gregson, Billy Kaplan, Coraline Jones, Bill Weasley, Shari Cooper
Princess Zelda (hylianqueen, since April '10)
Zelda is actually doing better lately than she's been in a while. I almost dropped her back in March when I dropped so many but I'm really glad I didn't. She's happy with Ygritte, if a little hesitant about saying she loves her, and she has some of the strongest friendships of any of my pups. She really liked her thread with Lily this month even if I was a useless mun and had to drop it so I want to thread them again and I'd like to thread her with Nina sometime too, I think. She has this amazing friendship with Alistair that I just love and it's really one of the more dynamic friendships anyone in my roster has. I'm very excited for sex switch because I've wanted that plot since I apped her and I'm really excited to have her get to be Sheik again, even if it's only for a few days.
Truth Plot: Yes. She hides things all the time and I would love to have her out herself.
Age/Sex Switch: Yes, she's going to be a boy. I haven't decided on a PB, but I'm leaning toward Boyd Holbrook.
Thread Requests: Alistair, Ygritte, Tom Hansen, Lily, Nina Sayers, River Tam, The Doctor, Snafu, Wolf
Dr. Helen Magnus (lastof_five, since July '10)
Um, if there's one pup I never have to worry about dropping, Magnus is it. I can play her at the drop of a hat, in tons of pain, in short threads at work, in massive opus threads that go on forever. She's just gotten stronger voiced since I've started playing her and I adore her to pieces. Enough fangirling. It looks like she might win a council seat, or at least come close to it, and I'm hoping she does because she really does want to better the island. She's got a lot of ideas about how to do that even if she doesn't get elected though and I'm hoping to put those into motion soon.
On the personal front, she did ask Will to move in with her at the end of April and he accepted, so she's very content relationship-wise. She got her item this month, the (empty) jar from Pavor Nocturnus, so her close friends can feel free to notice she's been a little on edge. She's only told Will about it, so they won't know details, but she's not perfect at keeping distress off her face either. She's overall very content and very happy with the progress the Vet's Office and her interns are making.
Truth Plot: Yes. I want her to tell Will about killing Adam (only Sookie knows, at this point) and I want more people to know that she used to be an immortal. She is horrible about all the secrets she keeps and I need her to out them.
Age/Sex Switch: I don't think so, because I think I'd rather go the route of Will changing into a woman and freaking out and I need Magnus to be her regular self.
Thread Requests: Luce, Juliet Burke, Sookie Stackhouse, Zhuge, Will Zimmerman, Rodney Skinner, Greg House, Sam Witwicky, Gale Hawthorne, Coraline Jones, Pepper Potts, other Council members
Molly Carpenter (grasshopper_m, since March '11)
Molly is actually stronger now than when I apped her which is amazing to me. She was kind of a whim app, me wanting someone a little mouthier and younger than the bright, upstanding citizens I normally play and I'm glad I did it. She has relationships with people I wouldn't be able to interact with otherwise and I really loved her thread with Lisbeth this month (I have to grab you for another one, Jessie) and of course, her threads with Harry Potter are always amazing.
I also shocked myself because I really don't normally app for ships, they sort of end up in my lap, and Molly and Kvothe get along like a house on fire. I don't know if that's because I always want to thread with all of Ruth's pups no matter what or if they're just particularly suited but I am loving their interactions and loving her relationship with him. He's the first real boyfriend she's ever had time before so it's a lot of firsts, even if Molly isn't really a typical naive girl.
I really want her to keep researching ways to get off the island or, alternatively, get hers and Harry's magic back. She'll fail, of course, but I think she's going to keep trying.
Truth Plot: Molly's pretty honest anyway, so I don't think so.
Age/Sex Switch: Nah, I'll let her off the hook for this one I think.
Thread Requests: Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Kvothe, Sam Witwicky, Cassie Sandsmark, Cissie King-Jones, Kon-El, Clark Kent, Will Zimmerman, Lisbeth Salander
Gwen Cooper (ffyddlon, since May '11)
Gwen. Gwen is all because I was out for surgery back in April and I rewatched all of Torchwood and she wouldn't shut up. I dithered about apping her since she was such a sensitive character with her past history but I really am glad that I did because I love her. She has a very distinctive voice within my roster and I think she's going to end up being a lot of fun both plot and just interactive wise. I need more friendly, outgoing pups because I tend to not do so well with the quiet ones, Zelda being my only exception there.
I really want her to discover she's got a child on the island and have to try and deal with that, especially since I brought her from when she and Rhys were arguing about children but I'm about 99% sure that other than a casual relationship, she's not going to feel maternal toward Nate. Which is good, considering he already has two wonderful parents and Gwen (even though she doesn't know who Chase's child is yet) already thinks Chase is probably a good dad.
I want to work on building relationships for her and I need to thread her around more to do that, I just got bogged down in her debut since she had so many plot-dependent threads within it. That said, she's probably going to get an EP next month, maybe at the Hub, so I can start introducing her to people.
Truth Plot: I think so, yes, if only because she hasn't told everyone what Torchwood's about and she's very wary of the island.
Age/Sex Switch: I'm on the fence, but I sort of want to make her a teenager if I can find a suitable PB for that.
Thread Requests: THE ISLAND, Ianto Jones, Charlie Jones, Jack Harkness, The Doctor, Robert Chase, Rose Tyler, Rodney Skinner, Will Zimmerman, Helen/Saffron, Coraline Jones, honestly everyone on this here island. For real.