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Me
I'M AWESOME.
No, actually, I'm kind of eh. I mean, I've been pretty much failing at getting anything done this month, but on the other hand, I'm about to take off for Europe again and that is awesome. I need to devote the next few days to prepping for that, both in terms of travel plans and story, packing, and winding down on some of my threads. I should be around while abroad, but I can't really say how my availability will be until I get there. I'll probably still be around mostly late at night at ridiculous hours, so we should be fine.
I should mention, because of this - I won't be traveling on the first, so I will be around if I'm needed, I'll just probably be really, really jetlagged, so none of my girls are going into Hush Plot. However, if anyone who knows them is, let me know so I can know if they ran into them or whatever, and I'll tag where I'm wanted for whoever doesn't mind slowtime, I just need to be told. I want to play, it looks so shiny.
Veronica Mars
You may have noticed, I did not give her her item. That is because I fail. I still very much intend to give her this item, but I got distracted and then it got late in the month and I felt it was too close to my departure to do right, so I might do that in the middle of next month, when I'm back in Edinburgh and Meg has school. And she's playing baseball now. That's pretty much it for currently.
I very much want to do the time loop plot with her sometime, but she's a really tough one to pick for, because so many of the things she would want to change have to stay the same. I have to rewatch some and think about it, because she would want to, say, save Lilly from dying and I would much rather send her to some moment when she is convinced she did the right thing and have her see it again through the lens of being four years removed and a little more mature. I just don't know what that moment would be.
Eden McCain
Sort of tagged her around this month? Anyway, she met Sam Winchester and Charlie Crews, both of which I enjoyed, and it was a good reminder of just how easy she is to play off nearly anybody, at least on my end. Next month, I want desperately to play her off Robin Goodfellow, for the whole crazy hilarious "you look like that guy I am super into, but will bang anything that moves" hijinx. Also I want you to know that my spellcheck does not believe "hijinx" is a word and it would prefer I use "hijinks," which, while also accurate, just does not have the same sassiness, lacking, as it does, an x.
But I digress. Plans: More new people, more threads, more being awesome. I want to do the time loop for her, but not yet. When I do, though, I'll almost certainly go the obvious route and send her back to the Company and her attempt to kill Sylar and let her do it right this time. The hard part is trying to decide if that means killing him or standing down. Probably the former.
Meredith Grey
Okay, so this month was: Cristina disappearing; lots of wallowing and pretending to be okay and coping in the only ways she knows how (i.e., probably a lot of alcohol, sex and hanging around the clinic when she isn't needed, getting frustrated with entirely unrelated things, mostly inanimate); hanging out with Mary Jane and being really awesome; asking Sean to move in; Sadie turning up.
I love her dynamic with MJ and the way she basically projects everything ever about herself onto that poor girl. I mean, she does that with everyone, but MJ is like her life-size sounding board for her issues. Pretend that made sense. She uses talking to her as a way of coming to terms with things without knowing she's doing it and that is awesome to write. I feel like she really is growing up a little, even if she freaked out on Izzie throughout the entire process of asking Sean to live with her (which is also really fun to write). She's so far from healed and whole, but she's learning to live with that better, even if her abandonment issues have flared up like no one's business (and, admittedly, having Sean live with her is as much one as the other). Having Sadie around at this point, when she is all teetering on the edge of maturity or whatever, but looking for some escapism, is so perfect, and I'm having so much fun with these two already.
Someday, someday, I will do time loop plot with her and I am sort of really tempted to have it be her drowning in the bay all over again. In the meanwhile, whenever Izzie has hers, she's going on that one and it will be awesome. And I'm gonna give her Doc in a month or two, which is extra-awesome this time because she will know he has died, because the last time she saw him, she was dead. I am still picking at her suicidal mommy issues, yes, yes, I am. Slow but steady, etc.
Serena van der Woodsen
Upset as ever at losing yet another member of her circle. Eric's extra rough on her, though I kind of like the full circle nature of him being the one to leave her behind. She's becoming almost aggressively outgoing as a result, while closing off at the same time. She's not as quick to let people in, but she's kind of throwing herself into knowing people, so I need to work on that because she's just going to be everywhere. And by everywhere, also I mean it is time for some ill-advised flings. Gentlemen, start your engines. I should EP her at the Hub or something.
Next month marks her two month islandversary and she's not going to be thrilled about that either. I still desperately want to give her a second item, but I'm waiting for canon to finish this daddy issues arc in case there is something better ahead than the letter about her dad and her mom in a hotel, what up. And fuck yes, she is getting a time loop someday. We all know she's going back to the night of the Shepherd wedding, right? To Georgina and Pete. Because she so totally is. You know, once I figure out how that should happen this time, probably in the summer. Oh! And she's helping Jane Bennet plan a ball for next month. Get ready to dance.
Sarah Walker
HAS A NAME. SORT OF. She has a first name, at least, or an abbreviated version of a first name, thanks to canon, not that I'm doing anything with that yet (because she's pretty much always going to be Sarah anyway, you know? It's not like her having a real name now is going to mean she suddenly tells people). Canon also just told me about her first kill. Fucking awesome, thanks, canon! I should give her an item that has something to do with that. Mmm, trauma. It'd be nice to remind her again of why she doesn't reeeeally miss her spy days as much as she sometimes thinks she does, and to give her a reason to open up/lie to her friends.
As bored as she gets, as much as she loves swordfighting because it's a change, Sarah likes that it's quiet, too. She kind of just wants both, you know? She wants the thrill and the adrenaline rush, but she wants the normal life. Like, all of it, the house and, somewhere a ways down the line, marriage and kids and just to be that woman she never thought she'd be allowed to be, and there's still a part of her that doesn't really think she ever can have that.
Moira MacTaggert
Moiraaaa. God, I love her. Already I don't play her enough, though, and I should EP her again in a couple weeks because she's so awesome and just, everyone can know her, okay? Everyone. She's going to be so pleased to help with the whole medical equipment thing because, while she's still turning her mind to figuring the place out, it helps to have another project, and one where she can actually see progress. Also, she and Scotty talked about maybe getting the scientists together for, like, I don't know, a scientist club for discussion and comparing notes or some such, and this kind of covers that. I may have her do something closer to those lines later, though, if anyone's interested in something like that.
That's all I have planned for her now. Plots and items are on hold until I've at least wound down this Sadie plot and Veronica's item, but that's fine, she doesn't really need them. Also, please know that she is available at all times for motherly behavior, whether that is comfort or smacking your pup upside the head (Jamie Madrox, that means you).
Emma Frost
Emma motherfucking Frost, you guys, who let me play her? I'm still second-guessing like crazy, although usually not until after I've hit post, because she's just so goddamn iconic, I feel like I am fucking up constantly, but I don't know how or why or I wouldn't be doing it. And yet I kind of don't care. I mean, I care, but I just love playing her anyway (although, seriously, folks, if anything ever just seems really off or egregious, please do let me know, because I want to be awesome at her). She's dancing on the edge of crazy and she's way past crossed the line on bitchiness, and it's so much fun to play. I'd like to see her settle down a little eventually, but it's hard to see her ever being entirely at ease with the fact that she's lost her abilities. She's struggling towards not letting it define her, though, trying to find her footing, because it's that or completely lose her shit, and she's too proud to become the island crazy lady.
Someday I would like her to start teaching again, so, inasmuch as I have goals for them, my goal for Emma is to get her into a mental place to be able to take that on by the next school term, because she really does love teaching. In the meanwhile, she's taken Jenny Humphrey under her wing, because if anyone is a tiny Emma Frost-in-training, it's little J. Please, give me your teenagers, she will unthinkingly make herself a tiny flock. Also, she's made friends with Adrian Veidt, and I still haven't seen Watchmen (yeah, I know), but I have it on good authority that this means we should all be afraid. So it's pretty much awesome. Oh, oh, and she's totally going to be Rogue's therapist. HILARIOUS yet awesome. And if I time loop her, she will almost certainly go back to the day the Hellions died, of course.
The Future
Abby Mills is next, although I will be pushing back the date of her app until later in April, if not all the way back into mid-May. It's all going to depend on what my availability is like in the coming weeks, because she's one I'm going to very much want to focus on in her first few weeks, more than usually so. Given what she's been through, I think the early weeks will be pretty key for her. I'm super excited.
For the most part, my options haven't much changed. I pretty much just waffle over who gets to show up first. I love Jessica Hamby beyond words, but I'd definitely have to get my hands on True Blood and rewatch at least her episodes; I've only seen the show once through at this point, and while I think I've got a hang on her character, I need a refresher, I need a point of entry and I need to get a grip on her speech patterns. I alway want to go, like, full Rogue and I know that isn't right. But I think the one I really, really want is Scott Summers. I always said he'd have to wait until Emma was gone because I still feel weird about playing pups who grow up to bang each other, for a given value of the phrase "grow up," even though I have done it before, but I just… really want to play him, okay. I don't even care if I'm nearly the only person who loves him. I just really want to play with what would happen if you took him away from the team, but gave him a new, difficult situation to tackle instead of just letting him run off to the forest to play lumberjack.
I'M AWESOME.
No, actually, I'm kind of eh. I mean, I've been pretty much failing at getting anything done this month, but on the other hand, I'm about to take off for Europe again and that is awesome. I need to devote the next few days to prepping for that, both in terms of travel plans and story, packing, and winding down on some of my threads. I should be around while abroad, but I can't really say how my availability will be until I get there. I'll probably still be around mostly late at night at ridiculous hours, so we should be fine.
I should mention, because of this - I won't be traveling on the first, so I will be around if I'm needed, I'll just probably be really, really jetlagged, so none of my girls are going into Hush Plot. However, if anyone who knows them is, let me know so I can know if they ran into them or whatever, and I'll tag where I'm wanted for whoever doesn't mind slowtime, I just need to be told. I want to play, it looks so shiny.
Veronica Mars
You may have noticed, I did not give her her item. That is because I fail. I still very much intend to give her this item, but I got distracted and then it got late in the month and I felt it was too close to my departure to do right, so I might do that in the middle of next month, when I'm back in Edinburgh and Meg has school. And she's playing baseball now. That's pretty much it for currently.
I very much want to do the time loop plot with her sometime, but she's a really tough one to pick for, because so many of the things she would want to change have to stay the same. I have to rewatch some and think about it, because she would want to, say, save Lilly from dying and I would much rather send her to some moment when she is convinced she did the right thing and have her see it again through the lens of being four years removed and a little more mature. I just don't know what that moment would be.
Eden McCain
Sort of tagged her around this month? Anyway, she met Sam Winchester and Charlie Crews, both of which I enjoyed, and it was a good reminder of just how easy she is to play off nearly anybody, at least on my end. Next month, I want desperately to play her off Robin Goodfellow, for the whole crazy hilarious "you look like that guy I am super into, but will bang anything that moves" hijinx. Also I want you to know that my spellcheck does not believe "hijinx" is a word and it would prefer I use "hijinks," which, while also accurate, just does not have the same sassiness, lacking, as it does, an x.
But I digress. Plans: More new people, more threads, more being awesome. I want to do the time loop for her, but not yet. When I do, though, I'll almost certainly go the obvious route and send her back to the Company and her attempt to kill Sylar and let her do it right this time. The hard part is trying to decide if that means killing him or standing down. Probably the former.
Meredith Grey
Okay, so this month was: Cristina disappearing; lots of wallowing and pretending to be okay and coping in the only ways she knows how (i.e., probably a lot of alcohol, sex and hanging around the clinic when she isn't needed, getting frustrated with entirely unrelated things, mostly inanimate); hanging out with Mary Jane and being really awesome; asking Sean to move in; Sadie turning up.
I love her dynamic with MJ and the way she basically projects everything ever about herself onto that poor girl. I mean, she does that with everyone, but MJ is like her life-size sounding board for her issues. Pretend that made sense. She uses talking to her as a way of coming to terms with things without knowing she's doing it and that is awesome to write. I feel like she really is growing up a little, even if she freaked out on Izzie throughout the entire process of asking Sean to live with her (which is also really fun to write). She's so far from healed and whole, but she's learning to live with that better, even if her abandonment issues have flared up like no one's business (and, admittedly, having Sean live with her is as much one as the other). Having Sadie around at this point, when she is all teetering on the edge of maturity or whatever, but looking for some escapism, is so perfect, and I'm having so much fun with these two already.
Someday, someday, I will do time loop plot with her and I am sort of really tempted to have it be her drowning in the bay all over again. In the meanwhile, whenever Izzie has hers, she's going on that one and it will be awesome. And I'm gonna give her Doc in a month or two, which is extra-awesome this time because she will know he has died, because the last time she saw him, she was dead. I am still picking at her suicidal mommy issues, yes, yes, I am. Slow but steady, etc.
Serena van der Woodsen
Upset as ever at losing yet another member of her circle. Eric's extra rough on her, though I kind of like the full circle nature of him being the one to leave her behind. She's becoming almost aggressively outgoing as a result, while closing off at the same time. She's not as quick to let people in, but she's kind of throwing herself into knowing people, so I need to work on that because she's just going to be everywhere. And by everywhere, also I mean it is time for some ill-advised flings. Gentlemen, start your engines. I should EP her at the Hub or something.
Next month marks her two month islandversary and she's not going to be thrilled about that either. I still desperately want to give her a second item, but I'm waiting for canon to finish this daddy issues arc in case there is something better ahead than the letter about her dad and her mom in a hotel, what up. And fuck yes, she is getting a time loop someday. We all know she's going back to the night of the Shepherd wedding, right? To Georgina and Pete. Because she so totally is. You know, once I figure out how that should happen this time, probably in the summer. Oh! And she's helping Jane Bennet plan a ball for next month. Get ready to dance.
Sarah Walker
HAS A NAME. SORT OF. She has a first name, at least, or an abbreviated version of a first name, thanks to canon, not that I'm doing anything with that yet (because she's pretty much always going to be Sarah anyway, you know? It's not like her having a real name now is going to mean she suddenly tells people). Canon also just told me about her first kill. Fucking awesome, thanks, canon! I should give her an item that has something to do with that. Mmm, trauma. It'd be nice to remind her again of why she doesn't reeeeally miss her spy days as much as she sometimes thinks she does, and to give her a reason to open up/lie to her friends.
As bored as she gets, as much as she loves swordfighting because it's a change, Sarah likes that it's quiet, too. She kind of just wants both, you know? She wants the thrill and the adrenaline rush, but she wants the normal life. Like, all of it, the house and, somewhere a ways down the line, marriage and kids and just to be that woman she never thought she'd be allowed to be, and there's still a part of her that doesn't really think she ever can have that.
Moira MacTaggert
Moiraaaa. God, I love her. Already I don't play her enough, though, and I should EP her again in a couple weeks because she's so awesome and just, everyone can know her, okay? Everyone. She's going to be so pleased to help with the whole medical equipment thing because, while she's still turning her mind to figuring the place out, it helps to have another project, and one where she can actually see progress. Also, she and Scotty talked about maybe getting the scientists together for, like, I don't know, a scientist club for discussion and comparing notes or some such, and this kind of covers that. I may have her do something closer to those lines later, though, if anyone's interested in something like that.
That's all I have planned for her now. Plots and items are on hold until I've at least wound down this Sadie plot and Veronica's item, but that's fine, she doesn't really need them. Also, please know that she is available at all times for motherly behavior, whether that is comfort or smacking your pup upside the head (Jamie Madrox, that means you).
Emma Frost
Emma motherfucking Frost, you guys, who let me play her? I'm still second-guessing like crazy, although usually not until after I've hit post, because she's just so goddamn iconic, I feel like I am fucking up constantly, but I don't know how or why or I wouldn't be doing it. And yet I kind of don't care. I mean, I care, but I just love playing her anyway (although, seriously, folks, if anything ever just seems really off or egregious, please do let me know, because I want to be awesome at her). She's dancing on the edge of crazy and she's way past crossed the line on bitchiness, and it's so much fun to play. I'd like to see her settle down a little eventually, but it's hard to see her ever being entirely at ease with the fact that she's lost her abilities. She's struggling towards not letting it define her, though, trying to find her footing, because it's that or completely lose her shit, and she's too proud to become the island crazy lady.
Someday I would like her to start teaching again, so, inasmuch as I have goals for them, my goal for Emma is to get her into a mental place to be able to take that on by the next school term, because she really does love teaching. In the meanwhile, she's taken Jenny Humphrey under her wing, because if anyone is a tiny Emma Frost-in-training, it's little J. Please, give me your teenagers, she will unthinkingly make herself a tiny flock. Also, she's made friends with Adrian Veidt, and I still haven't seen Watchmen (yeah, I know), but I have it on good authority that this means we should all be afraid. So it's pretty much awesome. Oh, oh, and she's totally going to be Rogue's therapist. HILARIOUS yet awesome. And if I time loop her, she will almost certainly go back to the day the Hellions died, of course.
The Future
Abby Mills is next, although I will be pushing back the date of her app until later in April, if not all the way back into mid-May. It's all going to depend on what my availability is like in the coming weeks, because she's one I'm going to very much want to focus on in her first few weeks, more than usually so. Given what she's been through, I think the early weeks will be pretty key for her. I'm super excited.
For the most part, my options haven't much changed. I pretty much just waffle over who gets to show up first. I love Jessica Hamby beyond words, but I'd definitely have to get my hands on True Blood and rewatch at least her episodes; I've only seen the show once through at this point, and while I think I've got a hang on her character, I need a refresher, I need a point of entry and I need to get a grip on her speech patterns. I alway want to go, like, full Rogue and I know that isn't right. But I think the one I really, really want is Scott Summers. I always said he'd have to wait until Emma was gone because I still feel weird about playing pups who grow up to bang each other, for a given value of the phrase "grow up," even though I have done it before, but I just… really want to play him, okay. I don't even care if I'm nearly the only person who loves him. I just really want to play with what would happen if you took him away from the team, but gave him a new, difficult situation to tackle instead of just letting him run off to the forest to play lumberjack.