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THAT MEME THAT TAKES WAY WAY WAY TOO LONG BUT I AM COMPELLED TO DO ANYWAY. I took out all the parts that required effort because all I really wanted to do was babble about app reasons. Here's your delicious table code.
Lady from "Devil May Cry" (mymotherthegun)
Total Comments: 21,020
Reason For Apping:BACK IN THE DAY Aviy played a pretty amazing DMC3 era Dante. I had made a few attempts to get into CFUD and failed even got weeded a couple times! DMC had been a fandom I have always been part of (and actually, the ONLY fandom I was writing fic for at the time) so when the idea of apping Lady came up it was very "Oh, right. Duh." I talked to Aviy and she RAPED MY TERRIBLE APP UNTIL IT CRIED TERRIBLE APP BITCH TEARS but at the end of it I knew how to write a gd app. /o/
Reason For Dropping: She suffered deeply from what I like to think of as First Character Syndrome. If you get what I'm saying, you get what I'm saying and if you don't, it would be a little embaressing to explain. I (rightfully so) second-guessed a whole lot of characterization choices. All that being said? Dropping her when I did was a huuuuuuuge mistake. MORE ON THIS LATER, STAY TUNED.
Select Option 3?: Young Justice. Jake Snake. Gunpowder Muffins. Illin' with Thor. SO FUCKING MUCH OK. You know what? No matter how badly I might have played her sometimes, or how weeeeeird it got at other times, I will never ever regret playing this Lady in camp. Her relationship with Young Justice was fun to play beyond measure, and all of her relationships in camp gave me something wonderful and comforting at a time when I really, really needed it. DMC IS MY TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE FOREVER GIRL CANON and Lady will always be my favorite forever and always the end.
Jay from the View Askewniverse (makeaprophet)
Total Comments: 1,199
Reason For Apping: He had been once of my first CFUD apps, actually. I had another counselor I wanted to do the round after I got Lady in, but then got lazy and just fixed this app up.
Reason For Dropping: I had a hard time feeling comfortable playing in camp. I switched canons from movies to cartoon to take some of the edge off, but even so it was difficult to play someone that crass.
Select Option 3?I played him mostly when inebriated. One time I made the same comment to Ash three times in a thread.
Etna from "Disgaea: Hour of Darkness" (fuckmesomemaou)
Total Comments: 1,710
Reason For Apping: Gentlemen, I love Etna. I knew I had to play Disgaea from the moment I set eyes on her character design. I remember Ari pimping for her CONSTANLY back in the day and finally at some point I couldn't think of a good reason NOT to.
Reason For Dropping: At the time, I really couldn't play a jerk in camp. I would need all those levels in dickery I earned playing Gai before I could understand that being a terrible person is A-OK. I was frustraited by my playing, not able to make her mean or evil or clever enough, all of which it is important for Etna to be.
Select Option 3? Being made VP of the universe.
Maito Gai/Might Guy from "Naruto" (healinglightof)
Total Comments: 5,406
Reason For Apping: Ride down from Sakuracon '06 capthlock_rage (then greenbeast__rar) talked about how much we loved team Gai for four hours. IT WOULD BE THE FIRST OF MANY APPS TO START THIS WAY.
Reason For Dropping: He was just played out. When I was playing him, it was like magic. Eventually, I just stopped feeling the magic and decided not to drag it out.
Select Option 3? TOO MANY TO NAME from the giant sparkling Lee threads to Gaiko which HAD NEVER OCCURRED TO ME but is now my OTP forever, sexually harassing the Ninja Turtles, Gayotic Balls I will never be this amazing again, guys.
Adell from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (olioliooo)
Total Comments: 2,477
Reason For Apping: Disgaea 2 came out and if I didn't app N1 I would ACTUALLY DIE. I can't even remember who I was thinking about at the time, but somehow I heard about old Stan apping Rozalin, and knowing that she would be beyond perfect, I realized that it had to be Adell
Reason For Dropping: Adell was always a back burner. I loved playing him when I did, but I was always surprised when I realized I hadn't dropped him yet. When Rozalin was dropping I knew it was time.
Select Option 3? Boys' 6, relationship with the Replicu, DID I MENTION BEST ROZALIN EVER
Mia Fey from Ace Attorney (defrestsinpeace)
Total Comments: 11,645
Reason For Apping: I had to app Ace Attorney. Had to or I would die. Actually, I wanted to app Maya. Rly rly wanted Maya. When I saw that there were going to be possibly as many as EIGHT appers for her, I decided to go with a counselor while I had the chance. I didn't really even care about Mia much beyond that she was a woman and that she was awesome. Even though she really wasn't that interesting a character at the time, she was someone who would be able to be central to the cast and get play with basically everyone. If I had been able to play Justice For All before I apped, I almost certainly would have apped Franziska instead, but I am very glad things turned out the way they did.
Reason For Dropping: fffffffffffff she was worn out. I don't know exactly what did it, but that's the truth. I saw maybe dozens of places I wanted to play her but never found the will to. I still don't know what all took the wind out of her sails but it was gone man. I still see characters and situations in camp I wish I had her to play off of, but somehow I know that I won't ever play Mia here again.
Select Option 3? Tout of Denail, summoning Stephan, awkward mommy tiems with Zuko, summoning Roku, dumb shit with Il Palazzo, BESTEST GODOT EVER there were many many good times
Lady from Devil May Cry (Take Two) (maryhadalilgun)
Total Comments: 3,691
Reason For Apping: DROPPING HER THE FIRST TIME WAS A HUGE MISTAKE. I was sobbing openly though most of her drop post and had the app written before all the threads had been wrapped up. It was hard enough not to app her at the round that opened just a few days later, and spent the next several weeks bawwwing at Excel, Zuko and Box pretty much constantly.
Reason For Dropping: The time came when she really was played out. I waited until I was sure she had been "played out" for about three months before I really did drop her. I haven't had the urge to play DMC3 era Lady in a straight RP since then so yeah IT WAS FINE IT WAS HER TIME.
Select Option 3? All of the above now with more Gai playercest.
Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean (epicfailpirate)
Total Comments: 1,105
Reason For Apping: Like the Gai thing, this one happened because me and Zuko were left alone together. We were working terrible garden store jobs and spent the sweaty days talking about how much we loved pirates. We had a pretty solid plan to app (and ship :Db) Jack and Barbossa before movie three came out, which it did and BASICALLY CONFIRMED THEIR SALTY DICKWEED LOVE and we knew we had to. We topped together the most amazing pirates cast ever and you guys seriously our pre-camp threads are GOLD. FUCKING GOLD.
Reason For Dropping: Around Jack's app was a time when along with lots of awesome happening, many bad decisions were being made and subsequently payed for. A lot of my plans with him had been plans with Zuko's Barbossa. Around this time she didn't know if she was going to stay in CFUD at all. I hadn't played him nearly as much as I thought I should have and dropped him when she dropped Barbossa. Basically I psyched myself into dropping him. He, besides Lady, is the drop I regret the most. I wish I had stuck with it and pushed him though. I seriously let a whole lot of awesome cast mates down. BAWWW PIRATES CAST BAWWW.
Select Option 3? Every single thread he had. Doubly so for canon mates.
Leeron from Tengen Toppa: Gurren Laggan (whothefagdoyou)
Total Comments: 266
Reason For Apping: Our GL cast is absolutely fabulous. After a long time in the chan, I knew I needed in on it. I'm not sure how I decided on Leeron. I think it was thinking that he was the one thing the GL cast NEEDED and that not many people besides me would do.
Reason For Dropping: He was the first character I knew I wouldn't be able to keep basically from his intro post. I thought I was doing terribly and should just call it quits. Going back and re-reading I can see that each and every one of those 266 comments was basically fabulous but the fact remains that at the time I had no confidence in being able to play him, which meant no fun. :(
Select Option 3? I STILL ENJOY THE HILARITY OF HIS TURN-OVER and also his exit.
Avatar Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender (gottabendemall)
Total Comments: 1,312
Reason For Apping: After ignoring my whines for her to catch up for months, Zuko fell for Avatar HARD (I don't know if any of you noticed) we had such a wonderful Avatar cast here that I wanted to be part of it. Originally I intended to app Iroh but for whatever reason I decided to go with Aang. And then right after I did episode "The Firebending Masters" came out and it basically confirmed that Zuko and Aang are our gay destiny soul animals.
Reason For Dropping: I felt like I couldn't be the Aang the cast deserved. Couldn't keep up with their spamming, second guessed myself SOFORTH. I regret dropping him a bit, but not enough to reapp him in the year I had to do so, because I was doing OK with him and then they spent like a year without an Aang.
Select Option 3? I can't even remember what I did with Aang. ANYONE GOT SOMETHING GOOD?
Adiane from Tengen Toppa: Guren Laggan ([whothecuntdoi)
Total Comments: 208
Reason For Apping: Adiane is really hot.
Reason For Dropping: It just . . . didn't happen. I think I might have been able to find a way to make her fit, but the fact was that after several months of trying I simply wasn't finding it.
Select Option 3? Adiane is really hot.
Akio from Revolutionary Girl Utena (formly_knownas)
Total Comments: 586
Reason For Apping: Amazing Utena cast. I was going to play Utena but then we realized that it's basically highschool AU Mia/Il Palazzo. I decided to go for Akio in no small part just to see if I could
Reason For Dropping: I was never terribly attached to playing him, particularly after the rest of the cast left. I wanted to app two rounds in a row and he was the very obvious choice of who to let go.
Select Option 3? Even if it's the only one he did, the Eugine thread will stick in my mind as me playing something I thought was beyond my range.
Lal Mirch from Reborn! (truly_epic_lalz)
Total Comments: 1,748
Reason For Apping: I didn't really care about Reborn much at the time. Then Colonello got in and I was like "what. What is this." I STILL didn't pay much attention to anyone but him but him I stalked. Then I see people spazzing about chapter 179 (the Lal vs Ginger fight) and AS SOON AS I KNEW THAT COLONELLO HAD A HOT, CRAZY GIRLFRIEND I KNEW SHE HAD TO BE MINE. There was no question about this at all. I think I read the whole manga in about four days. I was thinking about waiting an app cycle or two to see if she would get just a bit more development. I'm glad now I didn't because after being in camp a year and change she has gotten exactly one line in canon. 8D;;;
Odds of Dropping: She's actually way safer than she used to be. There were a few times when I was ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN I would drop her. I love her so, I honestly do, but canon being a gigonulous cock-tease was just getting to be such a drag. I had a CFO post all written up when I was that the new opening was out in which there was like four seconds of ColoLal DOOMTP. FOUR SECONDS! And she had to stay. Now I have reached some sort of zen state in which my love for her personal story has gone into protective hibernation and I can just enjoy playing her horrible mentoriness.
Select Option 3? WASN'T SAFE FOR WORK
The Boss from Metal Gear Solid (cqcingly)
Total Comments: 916
Reason For Apping: YET ANOTHER GET REALLY EXCITED ABOUT SHIT WITH ZUKO APP. MGS4 was out and everyone was in METAL GEAR!!?!? mode. I had actually only ever played one and two because all I cared about was Snake and Otacon's kawaii buttsex love. But in order to understand four you need to know 3, so Zuko sat me down with the cut scenes. She actually was hoping to get me hooked on EVA. I'm not sure why EVA didn't ping me, but she did not. However, watching The Boss wander around spouting philosobabble and leaving a trail of broken bones in her wake made me 8D something fierce.
Odds of Dropping: I don't know! I never really do. I'm honestly proud of my Boss, but she's not really necessary to my party. Something like how I felt about Akio, but maybe a touch more attached to her. She'll go when I want the character space, which tbh may happen within a couple months.
Select Option 3? MGS even, fail as it was basically every thread ever with cast mates of either era.
Yuffie Kisaragi from Final Fantasy VII (oh_grossness)
Total Comments: 5,211
Reason For Apping: Honestly, Yuffie was never my favorite. I liked her well enough, in that way that the genki girl was generally my favorite in basically everything for no real reason beyond "^_^". But then I started talking to Box about FFVII more and more. And thought about apping Yuffie. I don't know how long it went from "thinking about it" to "doing it" but by the time I did, I had a list of over a dozen posts I wanted to do with Yuffie. Some of those original ones I STILL haven't gotten to yet.
Odds of Dropping: lol no
Select Option 3? YUFFIE IS MY SPIRIT ANIMAL she really is. Playing her has moved her solidly into my favorite character slot. And like. I don't even know. Playing her feels magical like nothing has since Gai. I NEED TO FINISH MY ESSAY ON WHAT A ~*~DEEP CHARACTER~*~ SHE IS YOU GUYS. She's so deep. Super fucking ninja deep.
Emma Emmerich from Metal Gear Solid (vampfuckudie)
Total Comments: 1,306
Reason For Apping: Back when I played Lady and she was close with Snake and Otacon, I picked up MGS2. I wanted to app Emma as soon as I got past her part of the canon. She basically drove a steam roller over my character pings. For various reasons (including the nature of Lady's relationship with that Otacon and the playercest it would entail) it just wouldn't have worked to app her then. I thought about it fairly regularly since then, but never really felt that the time was right for me to play her. I'm honestly glad I didn't app her back then. I don't think I would have done her well. It would have run a seriously risk of getting weeeeeeird, but I digress.
When our current Snake and Otacon apped, I was already committed to Yuffie's app the next round. This is fine, I thought! She really wasn't my TYPE anymore, I didn't need her. Closer to the app date, I happened to be walking through Zuko's house and saw her little sister playing MGS2, around where Emma comes in to the plot. By the end of it, I had called Otacon informing her that I would ACTUALLY HAVE TO KILL anyone who even thought about apping Emma. I would have actually knifed them. Seriously. With a knife. I dropped Akio so I could app twice in a row, but man it was even hard not apping her that round. WITH I KNIFE I WOULD HAVE KILLED ANYONE ELSE WHO APPED HER. WITH A KNIFE.
Odds of Dropping: Emma can't get Good End. MGS characters don't get Good End, period. I still have things I want to accomplish with her. Having waited as long as I did to get her, I want to do her justice. That being said, there is a finite amount of stuff I still want to explore with her, but when I have I will let her go.
Select Option 3? I LOVE EMMA EMMERICH TOO MUCH GUYS. It just can't be helped, I'm afraid.
Portgas D. Ace from One Piece (snapcracklezzz)
Total Comments: 124
Reason For Apping: I really needed to play from One Piece
Reason For Dropping: Ace was not the character from One Piece I needed to play, and I could see that even before he intro'd. I gave it a shot, just in case, but then decided it would be best if I dropped him before he got any more castmates.
Select Option 3? Ace is my wai wai bishie I understand his soul and we are married on the astral play. Kyaaaaaa, Ace-sama!!!
Lady from Devil May Cry (Take three. Not like, five as some people seem to think 8< ) (welchersmaycry)
Total Comments: 425
Reason For Apping: I knew when I dropped Lady last February that if I ever apped her at CFUD again it would be as a counselor. I loved where her character went in the anime and game four. It was totally not what I expected, but I love it far more than my version. She was the same badass wonderful violent hotness, but now basically chill with her life and free of any baggage that would hamper her constant awesome. I should really have just apped her at Christmas, but now I was able to double app with Trish. Sexy.
Odds of Dropping: lol no
Select Option 3? NOBODY UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH HAVING AN ACTIVE DMC CAST MAKES ME HEMMORAGE WITH JOY ON A REGULAR BASIS. Whenever I remember it I feel \o/ deep inside me. EVERYTHING I EVER DREAMED OF AND MORE ;o;
Lady from "Devil May Cry" (mymotherthegun)
Total Comments: 21,020
Reason For Apping:BACK IN THE DAY Aviy played a pretty amazing DMC3 era Dante. I had made a few attempts to get into CFUD and failed even got weeded a couple times! DMC had been a fandom I have always been part of (and actually, the ONLY fandom I was writing fic for at the time) so when the idea of apping Lady came up it was very "Oh, right. Duh." I talked to Aviy and she RAPED MY TERRIBLE APP UNTIL IT CRIED TERRIBLE APP BITCH TEARS but at the end of it I knew how to write a gd app. /o/
Reason For Dropping: She suffered deeply from what I like to think of as First Character Syndrome. If you get what I'm saying, you get what I'm saying and if you don't, it would be a little embaressing to explain. I (rightfully so) second-guessed a whole lot of characterization choices. All that being said? Dropping her when I did was a huuuuuuuge mistake. MORE ON THIS LATER, STAY TUNED.
Select Option 3?: Young Justice. Jake Snake. Gunpowder Muffins. Illin' with Thor. SO FUCKING MUCH OK. You know what? No matter how badly I might have played her sometimes, or how weeeeeird it got at other times, I will never ever regret playing this Lady in camp. Her relationship with Young Justice was fun to play beyond measure, and all of her relationships in camp gave me something wonderful and comforting at a time when I really, really needed it. DMC IS MY TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE FOREVER GIRL CANON and Lady will always be my favorite forever and always the end.
Jay from the View Askewniverse (makeaprophet)
Total Comments: 1,199
Reason For Apping: He had been once of my first CFUD apps, actually. I had another counselor I wanted to do the round after I got Lady in, but then got lazy and just fixed this app up.
Reason For Dropping: I had a hard time feeling comfortable playing in camp. I switched canons from movies to cartoon to take some of the edge off, but even so it was difficult to play someone that crass.
Select Option 3?I played him mostly when inebriated. One time I made the same comment to Ash three times in a thread.
Etna from "Disgaea: Hour of Darkness" (fuckmesomemaou)
Total Comments: 1,710
Reason For Apping: Gentlemen, I love Etna. I knew I had to play Disgaea from the moment I set eyes on her character design. I remember Ari pimping for her CONSTANLY back in the day and finally at some point I couldn't think of a good reason NOT to.
Reason For Dropping: At the time, I really couldn't play a jerk in camp. I would need all those levels in dickery I earned playing Gai before I could understand that being a terrible person is A-OK. I was frustraited by my playing, not able to make her mean or evil or clever enough, all of which it is important for Etna to be.
Select Option 3? Being made VP of the universe.
Maito Gai/Might Guy from "Naruto" (healinglightof)
Total Comments: 5,406
Reason For Apping: Ride down from Sakuracon '06 capthlock_rage (then greenbeast__rar) talked about how much we loved team Gai for four hours. IT WOULD BE THE FIRST OF MANY APPS TO START THIS WAY.
Reason For Dropping: He was just played out. When I was playing him, it was like magic. Eventually, I just stopped feeling the magic and decided not to drag it out.
Select Option 3? TOO MANY TO NAME from the giant sparkling Lee threads to Gaiko which HAD NEVER OCCURRED TO ME but is now my OTP forever, sexually harassing the Ninja Turtles, Gayotic Balls I will never be this amazing again, guys.
Adell from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (olioliooo)
Total Comments: 2,477
Reason For Apping: Disgaea 2 came out and if I didn't app N1 I would ACTUALLY DIE. I can't even remember who I was thinking about at the time, but somehow I heard about old Stan apping Rozalin, and knowing that she would be beyond perfect, I realized that it had to be Adell
Reason For Dropping: Adell was always a back burner. I loved playing him when I did, but I was always surprised when I realized I hadn't dropped him yet. When Rozalin was dropping I knew it was time.
Select Option 3? Boys' 6, relationship with the Replicu, DID I MENTION BEST ROZALIN EVER
Mia Fey from Ace Attorney (defrestsinpeace)
Total Comments: 11,645
Reason For Apping: I had to app Ace Attorney. Had to or I would die. Actually, I wanted to app Maya. Rly rly wanted Maya. When I saw that there were going to be possibly as many as EIGHT appers for her, I decided to go with a counselor while I had the chance. I didn't really even care about Mia much beyond that she was a woman and that she was awesome. Even though she really wasn't that interesting a character at the time, she was someone who would be able to be central to the cast and get play with basically everyone. If I had been able to play Justice For All before I apped, I almost certainly would have apped Franziska instead, but I am very glad things turned out the way they did.
Reason For Dropping: fffffffffffff she was worn out. I don't know exactly what did it, but that's the truth. I saw maybe dozens of places I wanted to play her but never found the will to. I still don't know what all took the wind out of her sails but it was gone man. I still see characters and situations in camp I wish I had her to play off of, but somehow I know that I won't ever play Mia here again.
Select Option 3? Tout of Denail, summoning Stephan, awkward mommy tiems with Zuko, summoning Roku, dumb shit with Il Palazzo, BESTEST GODOT EVER there were many many good times
Lady from Devil May Cry (Take Two) (maryhadalilgun)
Total Comments: 3,691
Reason For Apping: DROPPING HER THE FIRST TIME WAS A HUGE MISTAKE. I was sobbing openly though most of her drop post and had the app written before all the threads had been wrapped up. It was hard enough not to app her at the round that opened just a few days later, and spent the next several weeks bawwwing at Excel, Zuko and Box pretty much constantly.
Reason For Dropping: The time came when she really was played out. I waited until I was sure she had been "played out" for about three months before I really did drop her. I haven't had the urge to play DMC3 era Lady in a straight RP since then so yeah IT WAS FINE IT WAS HER TIME.
Select Option 3? All of the above now with more Gai playercest.
Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean (epicfailpirate)
Total Comments: 1,105
Reason For Apping: Like the Gai thing, this one happened because me and Zuko were left alone together. We were working terrible garden store jobs and spent the sweaty days talking about how much we loved pirates. We had a pretty solid plan to app (and ship :Db) Jack and Barbossa before movie three came out, which it did and BASICALLY CONFIRMED THEIR SALTY DICKWEED LOVE and we knew we had to. We topped together the most amazing pirates cast ever and you guys seriously our pre-camp threads are GOLD. FUCKING GOLD.
Reason For Dropping: Around Jack's app was a time when along with lots of awesome happening, many bad decisions were being made and subsequently payed for. A lot of my plans with him had been plans with Zuko's Barbossa. Around this time she didn't know if she was going to stay in CFUD at all. I hadn't played him nearly as much as I thought I should have and dropped him when she dropped Barbossa. Basically I psyched myself into dropping him. He, besides Lady, is the drop I regret the most. I wish I had stuck with it and pushed him though. I seriously let a whole lot of awesome cast mates down. BAWWW PIRATES CAST BAWWW.
Select Option 3? Every single thread he had. Doubly so for canon mates.
Leeron from Tengen Toppa: Gurren Laggan (whothefagdoyou)
Total Comments: 266
Reason For Apping: Our GL cast is absolutely fabulous. After a long time in the chan, I knew I needed in on it. I'm not sure how I decided on Leeron. I think it was thinking that he was the one thing the GL cast NEEDED and that not many people besides me would do.
Reason For Dropping: He was the first character I knew I wouldn't be able to keep basically from his intro post. I thought I was doing terribly and should just call it quits. Going back and re-reading I can see that each and every one of those 266 comments was basically fabulous but the fact remains that at the time I had no confidence in being able to play him, which meant no fun. :(
Select Option 3? I STILL ENJOY THE HILARITY OF HIS TURN-OVER and also his exit.
Avatar Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender (gottabendemall)
Total Comments: 1,312
Reason For Apping: After ignoring my whines for her to catch up for months, Zuko fell for Avatar HARD (I don't know if any of you noticed) we had such a wonderful Avatar cast here that I wanted to be part of it. Originally I intended to app Iroh but for whatever reason I decided to go with Aang. And then right after I did episode "The Firebending Masters" came out and it basically confirmed that Zuko and Aang are our gay destiny soul animals.
Reason For Dropping: I felt like I couldn't be the Aang the cast deserved. Couldn't keep up with their spamming, second guessed myself SOFORTH. I regret dropping him a bit, but not enough to reapp him in the year I had to do so, because I was doing OK with him and then they spent like a year without an Aang.
Select Option 3? I can't even remember what I did with Aang. ANYONE GOT SOMETHING GOOD?
Adiane from Tengen Toppa: Guren Laggan ([whothecuntdoi)
Total Comments: 208
Reason For Apping: Adiane is really hot.
Reason For Dropping: It just . . . didn't happen. I think I might have been able to find a way to make her fit, but the fact was that after several months of trying I simply wasn't finding it.
Select Option 3? Adiane is really hot.
Akio from Revolutionary Girl Utena (formly_knownas)
Total Comments: 586
Reason For Apping: Amazing Utena cast. I was going to play Utena but then we realized that it's basically highschool AU Mia/Il Palazzo. I decided to go for Akio in no small part just to see if I could
Reason For Dropping: I was never terribly attached to playing him, particularly after the rest of the cast left. I wanted to app two rounds in a row and he was the very obvious choice of who to let go.
Select Option 3? Even if it's the only one he did, the Eugine thread will stick in my mind as me playing something I thought was beyond my range.
Lal Mirch from Reborn! (truly_epic_lalz)
Total Comments: 1,748
Reason For Apping: I didn't really care about Reborn much at the time. Then Colonello got in and I was like "what. What is this." I STILL didn't pay much attention to anyone but him but him I stalked. Then I see people spazzing about chapter 179 (the Lal vs Ginger fight) and AS SOON AS I KNEW THAT COLONELLO HAD A HOT, CRAZY GIRLFRIEND I KNEW SHE HAD TO BE MINE. There was no question about this at all. I think I read the whole manga in about four days. I was thinking about waiting an app cycle or two to see if she would get just a bit more development. I'm glad now I didn't because after being in camp a year and change she has gotten exactly one line in canon. 8D;;;
Odds of Dropping: She's actually way safer than she used to be. There were a few times when I was ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN I would drop her. I love her so, I honestly do, but canon being a gigonulous cock-tease was just getting to be such a drag. I had a CFO post all written up when I was that the new opening was out in which there was like four seconds of ColoLal DOOMTP. FOUR SECONDS! And she had to stay. Now I have reached some sort of zen state in which my love for her personal story has gone into protective hibernation and I can just enjoy playing her horrible mentoriness.
Select Option 3? WASN'T SAFE FOR WORK
The Boss from Metal Gear Solid (cqcingly)
Total Comments: 916
Reason For Apping: YET ANOTHER GET REALLY EXCITED ABOUT SHIT WITH ZUKO APP. MGS4 was out and everyone was in METAL GEAR!!?!? mode. I had actually only ever played one and two because all I cared about was Snake and Otacon's kawaii buttsex love. But in order to understand four you need to know 3, so Zuko sat me down with the cut scenes. She actually was hoping to get me hooked on EVA. I'm not sure why EVA didn't ping me, but she did not. However, watching The Boss wander around spouting philosobabble and leaving a trail of broken bones in her wake made me 8D something fierce.
Odds of Dropping: I don't know! I never really do. I'm honestly proud of my Boss, but she's not really necessary to my party. Something like how I felt about Akio, but maybe a touch more attached to her. She'll go when I want the character space, which tbh may happen within a couple months.
Select Option 3? MGS even, fail as it was basically every thread ever with cast mates of either era.
Yuffie Kisaragi from Final Fantasy VII (oh_grossness)
Total Comments: 5,211
Reason For Apping: Honestly, Yuffie was never my favorite. I liked her well enough, in that way that the genki girl was generally my favorite in basically everything for no real reason beyond "^_^". But then I started talking to Box about FFVII more and more. And thought about apping Yuffie. I don't know how long it went from "thinking about it" to "doing it" but by the time I did, I had a list of over a dozen posts I wanted to do with Yuffie. Some of those original ones I STILL haven't gotten to yet.
Odds of Dropping: lol no
Select Option 3? YUFFIE IS MY SPIRIT ANIMAL she really is. Playing her has moved her solidly into my favorite character slot. And like. I don't even know. Playing her feels magical like nothing has since Gai. I NEED TO FINISH MY ESSAY ON WHAT A ~*~DEEP CHARACTER~*~ SHE IS YOU GUYS. She's so deep. Super fucking ninja deep.
Emma Emmerich from Metal Gear Solid (vampfuckudie)
Total Comments: 1,306
Reason For Apping: Back when I played Lady and she was close with Snake and Otacon, I picked up MGS2. I wanted to app Emma as soon as I got past her part of the canon. She basically drove a steam roller over my character pings. For various reasons (including the nature of Lady's relationship with that Otacon and the playercest it would entail) it just wouldn't have worked to app her then. I thought about it fairly regularly since then, but never really felt that the time was right for me to play her. I'm honestly glad I didn't app her back then. I don't think I would have done her well. It would have run a seriously risk of getting weeeeeeird, but I digress.
When our current Snake and Otacon apped, I was already committed to Yuffie's app the next round. This is fine, I thought! She really wasn't my TYPE anymore, I didn't need her. Closer to the app date, I happened to be walking through Zuko's house and saw her little sister playing MGS2, around where Emma comes in to the plot. By the end of it, I had called Otacon informing her that I would ACTUALLY HAVE TO KILL anyone who even thought about apping Emma. I would have actually knifed them. Seriously. With a knife. I dropped Akio so I could app twice in a row, but man it was even hard not apping her that round. WITH I KNIFE I WOULD HAVE KILLED ANYONE ELSE WHO APPED HER. WITH A KNIFE.
Odds of Dropping: Emma can't get Good End. MGS characters don't get Good End, period. I still have things I want to accomplish with her. Having waited as long as I did to get her, I want to do her justice. That being said, there is a finite amount of stuff I still want to explore with her, but when I have I will let her go.
Select Option 3? I LOVE EMMA EMMERICH TOO MUCH GUYS. It just can't be helped, I'm afraid.
Portgas D. Ace from One Piece (snapcracklezzz)
Total Comments: 124
Reason For Apping: I really needed to play from One Piece
Reason For Dropping: Ace was not the character from One Piece I needed to play, and I could see that even before he intro'd. I gave it a shot, just in case, but then decided it would be best if I dropped him before he got any more castmates.
Select Option 3? Ace is my wai wai bishie I understand his soul and we are married on the astral play. Kyaaaaaa, Ace-sama!!!
Lady from Devil May Cry (Take three. Not like, five as some people seem to think 8< ) (welchersmaycry)
Total Comments: 425
Reason For Apping: I knew when I dropped Lady last February that if I ever apped her at CFUD again it would be as a counselor. I loved where her character went in the anime and game four. It was totally not what I expected, but I love it far more than my version. She was the same badass wonderful violent hotness, but now basically chill with her life and free of any baggage that would hamper her constant awesome. I should really have just apped her at Christmas, but now I was able to double app with Trish. Sexy.
Odds of Dropping: lol no
Select Option 3? NOBODY UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH HAVING AN ACTIVE DMC CAST MAKES ME HEMMORAGE WITH JOY ON A REGULAR BASIS. Whenever I remember it I feel \o/ deep inside me. EVERYTHING I EVER DREAMED OF AND MORE ;o;