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State of Me: Um, okay? This month has been kind of crazy (and by crazy I mean really bad) and I've been less available than usual as a result, but I've also managed to stay pretty on top of things, even if I do owe a boatload of tags right now. Things should really only get better from here on out, though, which will be really nice. I could do with the break from... everything.
And now the part we really care about!
Lucy Carrigan: Is getting married! It's been a pretty quiet thing so far - which is mostly my own fault in not playing her as much as I should have since then - but Pete proposed to her at the Bennet ball, and she accepted, so if you're someone close to her, just assume you've been told already. Other than that, things are pretty status quo for her. She's still living with Mathias and Sam Halpert, which, despite what brought it about, I think has been really good for her. Coming up, she'll definitely be getting an EP in October to mark her four year islandversary, holy fuck. I could also probably do with a canon rewatch for her, but really, I think if she were going to go somewhere, she would have already. Also Rog and I will figure out when the wedding will be. I also need to decide who she's going to ask to give her away.
Rahne Sinclair: Sadly, is probably not long for this island. I've been going back and forth about it for quite a while, but I've also really felt like I've been faking it with her for a long time, and I'm so rarely motivated to play her. So expect a decision on that by the end of the month. Other than that, she's really just been... moving along. Buffy invited her to move in, which was nice, so that was a thing that happened, and she's still mostly just trying to avoid any and all awkwardness, which is easier said than done, because small island. I don't have any plans because I don't want to commit to anything when she's so up in the air.
Eames: Ugh, I love him. I still probably don't play him quite as much as I should, but I've done a lot better with him the last couple months, and that's all I really need. Besides, I've become pretty comfortable with the fact that I don't need to be doing much with him; despite the nature of his canon, he is a pretty chill guy, and one who makes a point of not forming attachments, so if he doesn't have a lot of relationships, that's fine. He gets played when and with whom he needs to, and his voice definitely hasn't gone anywhere, though I could use a rewatch for him as well. But yeah, things have actually been kind of busy? He slept with Neil when they were women, and now sleeps with Neil when they're not women; he also started sleeping with Lily, so really, he's got all he needs. I'd like to do something to shake him up eventually, but I don't know what, so it's not a super high priority.
Lexie: I'll admit, Lexie was also on the chopping block for a while, and I still have slight reservations about her, but I've started feeling a little better about her this month. Putting her in speed dating was definitely a good idea, with the way her connections had started to dwindle. I also want to find time to put on some of s6 of Grey's, because while I'm not a huge fan of the show as a whole anymore after some of what they did last season, I really enjoyed it then, and that would probably help. Right now, for her, pretty much everything comes down to the speed dating threads: she's had feelings for Sawyer for a long while but thinks she screwed up her chances there, is definitely attracted to Jeff Winger which something may now come of, and is totally charmed by Matt Murdock. (Most of the other threads haven't really gotten far yet.) So it'll be interesting to see what comes of those threads. Oh, and she also said her piece to Meredith about Sean and his drinking, which I don't think she'd done yet the last time I wrote one of these, and that was really good for her, too.
Eduardo: There's an entire draft in my email of EPs/plots I want to do for Eduardo, numbering eleven, and that's not including multiple items I have planned. That should give you an idea of where I stand with him. Granted, this has been the case for a while and I haven't done any of it yet, but that's because I've been too busy with other things. I'll definitely be posting him in the... relatively near future. Things are really more good for him than not; he's been with Olive six whole months in a few days, which is pretty mindblowing to him, but also awesome as he's absolutely crazy about her, and he's getting along with Mark, which is nice. Being a teenager for ageswitch kind of fucked with his head, but that was really fun to play, even if I had shitty internet for most of it. Coming up, I have plans for him to break his leg at Halloween in an homage to Jesse Eisenberg's saying "Maybe his leg is broken" in the cast commentary, which will probably not be too bad an injury but interesting to play out all the same. More importantly, though, in January, as soon as I can give him his second item, I'm going to be doing that right on the heels of a timeloop (going back to when he signed the papers that he didn't know would be writing him out of Facebook), which I actually mean to start preplay for the aftermath of sooner rather than later so it will be entirely done by the time it happens, since I can't really predict all of how it'll go. So... yeah. I've also been thinking I might have him take on some sort of project-type thing studying the island's weather patterns (namely, the crazy things it does) and trying to work out where there might be any sense in it and how to determine when and what it will do next. Or something. With Mark and Olive working on their own project, he needs something to do, and he's never taken well to being too idle.
Sam: Is very loud and has a lot of attractive female friends. No, really, that's, like, the whole moral of the story, it cracked me up for so long that so many girls and one guy tagged into his last EP. I love him, though. He's really gotten settled in my head over these past few months, making me really glad I apped him when I did. Despite the movie he comes from (and whatever, I love the whole damn franchise), he's really such an interesting, deep character, and it's really fun to get to play with that. After making him seven again for ageswitch - which still has him kind of thrown, though he'll never admit to it - I decided to go the nice route for an item, and I'm glad I did that, too. He needs his doggy. He also needs to figure shit out with regards to his lady friends. If it were entirely up to him, he would forego any relationship nonsense completely, but he really likes Erica and he really likes Buffy, not to mention Quorra, whom he has a lot of semi-complicated feelings about. He could also flirt with Annie Walker all day err' day, and he's FWB with Britta, who is easily one of his closest friends, even if he hasn't yet told her that he was the sad kid by the clothes box. SO IT'S BASICALLY MAMBO #5 UP IN THIS JOINT. Upcoming, I don't really have any specific plans except an EP at the Hub inspired by the number of times I've watched Garrett Hedlund sing in Country Strong; I also want to joint post him on the beach with Eduardo at some point, just because there are so many pictures of Garrett and Andrew in Hawaii. He will also, it's worth noting, be sitting in on both of Mark's computer classes, less because there's anything he really needs to learn and more because... he can. He has his class, too, which I offered him to teach kind of on a whim, but I'm really glad I did. At the point he's from in canon, he's just decided to, without going into detail, step up and start being responsible, and it kind of sucked for him to not be able to do that after he ignored it for so long, and this is like a step back in that direction. My goal, as it were, is to do more of that.
Jenny: Precious girl, I love her face (see icon above). I haven't gotten her out quite as much as I probably should have, but I love playing her, even if I sometimes feel like she doesn't sound right, like, dialogue as opposed to narration. That really hasn't been a problem, though, and I think the lesson to be learned here is that I just need to rewatch all my canons; I know some people can watch things once or twice and be good, but I do best with repetition and watching things frequently, this I know of myself, which is why I'm not worried. Things with her have been quiet, I have yet to throw anything major her way, which I think means she needs to get another EP soon, though that isn't super high on my list. I think the biggest thing in her life right now, aside from, you know, everything she hasn't talked about, is that she has a ridiculous crush on Cameron Winklevoss, even if she would never describe it as such. She's kind of crazy about him, because he's pretty much the living embodiment of everything she could want, plus he's so sweet to her. That's all the more reason, though, why she has no intention of saying anything, because she doesn't think she gets to have that anymore. If nothing else, she definitely doesn't deserve it when she's kept so much from him, and he'll probably be the first person who gets to hear about her past for that reason. The way she sees it, blank slate or not, if she doesn't tell, then she's as bad as David, and she can't be deceiving like that. So that's a pretty constant moral dilemma for her, which is pretty much exactly what I wanted, which is nice. I really have no plans for her, though, except getting her meeting more people - given that she's roommates with Santana, she should probably meet Kurt and Puck at some point - especially ones around her age.
Elvis: I know it probably seems like I apped him on a whim, but I am so, so glad I did. He's one who's quieter by nature, but he's such a great character, and Shane's Anabelle is wonderful. I think my main hurdle with him will be getting over the issues I have playing any character from a lesser-known canon, namely that I more often than not feel too self-conscious to tag around because I imagine that people will just be like "Who the fuck is that?" and not want to play, even if I logically know that isn't likely to be the case. Still, I'll probably stick mostly to EPs and top levels for a little while. I did really love all the threads in his post this month, especially with Effy, with whom he has a weird sort of kindred spirits-type understanding. Someday they might even exchange names! For the most part, though, he's pretty anti-social, which is another reason why he won't be tagged around as much; he'd be happy just to spend all his time with Anabelle, but clearly that will not fly here. Oh, and I'd really love to thread him with Eden again, because he's very appreciative of how she was when he showed up, even if he doesn't really show such things well.
The future: Oy. Well, first things first, hopefully, if my app (which is in) gets approved, Carla Jean Moss will be coming back. I've wanted to reapp her pretty much since I dropped her, and I'm really glad I got it together and finally decided to, even if a part of me thinks it would have been cool to wait and debut her on the three-year mark of the day I dropped her before. No matter. She was never going to go anywhere, so it's about time I got it together to app her again.
Beyond that, I don't really have anything concrete, just a lot of possibilities I'm tempted by. If I ever manage to reread ASoIaF and read the new book in the first place, I'd still love to app Daenerys Targaryen; her app is started in a Gdoc, but I've just been too intimidated up to now, even though I've kind of wanted her for, like, three and a half years now, since I first read the books. (I've also been thinking a liiiiiiiiittle bit recently about someone else from that canon, but I'm not sure how crazy what I'd have in mind would actually be.) April Ludgate from Parks and Recreation will definitely be coming at some point, too, though probably not until there are any canonmates. I also might still app Jamie from Friends with Benefits when the DVD comes out. And I feel like there was someone else I recently really wanted, but I can't actually remember, which is annoying. There are a couple others I'm thinking about, too, but I'm keeping those under wraps for now. :D