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THE GRAB BAG MEME
I. Post a list of your characters.
II. Ask questions! Anything from "Why'd you pick up character X?", "your most hoped-for canonmates for Y", "how would you describe your canon Z to somebody totally canon-blind?" to total ridiculousness like "your character in a band AU, how does it go". This is a getting-to-know-your-lineup meme ( Read more... )
I. Post a list of your characters.
II. Ask questions! Anything from "Why'd you pick up character X?", "your most hoped-for canonmates for Y", "how would you describe your canon Z to somebody totally canon-blind?" to total ridiculousness like "your character in a band AU, how does it go". This is a getting-to-know-your-lineup meme ( Read more... )
Replies might take a while, but I'll get to them as I can!
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HAHAHA Percy, I love Percy Jackson.
... uuuuuuummmm. Jamie has Gryffindor qualities, but ultimately I think he would be more likely to end up in Hufflepuff, since he hates fighting and would just like it if everybody could sort out their differences over a cup of tea. Jamie is basically the Nice One of the cast of TDL, and while he can be brave, I think his general niceness and loyalty to family and friends are what win there. Also he would never be in Ravenclaw because LOL SCHOOLWORK SHOULD BE OPTIONAL (in his mind anyway) and uh Slytherin is most likely full of terrifying and psychotic people, please don't send him there. (Nick would totally be Slytherin, I bet.)
ON A SLIGHTLY RELATED NOTE, Jamie would absolutely love Hogwarts, omg. A SCHOOL OF MAGIC!!!
If Ginny were a teacher at Hogwarts, what class/es would she take and if she were Head of House somehow, what would happen? C:
/uses pink-haired Jamie icon sob
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Alright, so. Ginny goes through some pretty tough shit throughout the book, etc - would she be the type, if she could, to go back and change any of it? Or is she the type to consider the past the past and any sort of spell that could change it far too dangerous to consider its worth?
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And the first thing that comes to mind is being possessed by Tom Riddle's diary when she was eleven. I've actually given this some thought before, entertaining the idea of grab bagging her with Road Not Taken and having a Ginny who had never been used by the diary. I haven't quite figured out the specifics yet, but I did brainstorm enough to realise that a Ginny who didn't have that experience in her past was an entirely different - and not exactly pleasant - person.
And I think that if she was ever offered the opportunity to go back and change that, to warn her younger self or destroy the diary before it hurt her and anyone else, I don't think she'd do it. On the one hand, yes, the past is the past so why bother, but also, yes, that sort of magic isn't something you just tamper with. You don't mess with time. Her father had told her about Time-Turners and the laws behind them and it's such a mad, risky thing that even she wouldn't dare it. But also, a person's most developmental years - when they're really ( ... )
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on one of these forever ago you gave me an AMAZING response to a question I asked about Harry, I think, and I meant to tell you that I was like slkdfds fdsiloveyourginny but then I
didn't. And months passed.
But :|;;
FOR A REAL QUESTION. Let's see. I'm a weirdo who is a giant Percy stan, so tell me how Ginny feels about that guy?
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AND THIS IS LOVELY. I love the Weasleys too. I'm all like... lol Percy shouldn't have flounced out in his egomaniacal butthurt, but I also can't help but understand why he flipped and snapped and walked away, and I just think oh you poor stupid proud git. Omg, wow, playing Ginny since before HBP! Did HBP totally rock your world of characterization or were you already on that road ( ... )
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AHAHAHA BUTTHURT. BEST word to describe Percy's flouncing, omg. And yeah, I feel so awful for Percy because all he wanted was to be successful, probably because he'd grown up with the family being so poor and mocked by people like the Malfoys, and by the time he got to that point and realised how much it cost him, it was (almost) too late. And YES, he was such a mother hen in terms of being a brother, pestering Ginny to take Pepper-Up Potion when she looked all pale and peaky (BECAUSE SHE WAS POSSESSED) and rushing to Ron after the Second Task, omg i almost forgot about that! I love Percy a lot because he's so wonderfully complicated and nnngh. Yes.
Sooooob playing Ginny pre-HBP. I was really really awful back then, she was my very first RP character in my life. I focused a lot on her trying to overcome the diary and working towards having friends (and not just being That Weasley Girl who had to be rescued by Harry Potter from ( ... )
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So, the crush on Harry, how did it start, and how did the fact that Ron was best friends with him impact it and vice versa? What about with Hermione?
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Her crush on Harry started as a gradual thing when she was nine years old. She had grown up hearing the stories, of course, how he became the Boy Who Lived and saved their world from You-Know-Who. He was a hero, but he was always just a story, and she never felt That Way about him before meeting him. At King's Cross, she saw eleven year old Harry Potter and thought he looked a bit unassuming, not quite like she imagined the saviour of the Wizarding World to look like. But when she caught a glimpse of his eyes, that's, I think, when it began. It didn't hit her like a ton of bricks, nothing so dramatic as all that, but she did pause. And then in the year following, she couldn't quite stop thinking about him, and the next summer when Ron came back, she kept on and on asking questions about Harry (and Ron went and told Harry about it, how embarrassing), wanting to know what he was like because if she Sorted into Gryffindor and if they were friends then she should know. Right? RIGHT?
And then Harry ( ... )
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ALSO, AHHH, THE EYEEEES, that's adorable, I like that so much.
This whole response is cute and awesome and I can't respond to all of it, because it's just so nice.
Feel free to ask me whatever and however many you want because I am curious, when did you start feeling like you could play her. Was there one defining 'oh, wow, I understand her' or was it 'well, why'd she do that? I guess she could have x, y, z.' Or what?
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Hmmm, feeling like I could play Ginny. Well, I started playing her before HBP (because I remember the first comm I ever joined, we were required to tag post-HBP posts for spoiler warnings!) so it's really been a gradual, growing thing these past few years. I look back on how I played her and cringe and while it's got the ideas and traits that make her the same character, my understanding of her and her family was nowhere near the level it is now. And I don't mean that in an arrogant way, I just had the most base-level, superficial understanding of how she was as a person and I didn't delve into her quite as much as I try to nowadays. I've really tried to put a lot of time and care into exploring all aspects of the Weasleys and their world to make Ginny as three-dimensional as possible, especially since we don't get to see a whole lot of her in the books. As I mentioned in a ( ... )
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Haha, oh old comms. And yeah, that's natural, current playing is always different than when you first pick someone up. Always striving to improve and really flesh out characters is a good thing. You should feel proud! Those are- good milestones, actually.
Also, I didn't know that you were an actor! Awesome! Stanislavski method?
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And ahahaha yeah, well, I'm trying to be an actor. I'm about to start my third year at university so I'm still training and whatnot. And I started in Meisner, actually! So that's what I'm the most comfortable with. Though our acting program wants us to be well-versed in different schools of thought so this fall, I'll be taking a Stanislavski course and I may take Chekov some time in the future; and then we get trained in classical/Shakespeare. 8)
Hilariously enough, RPing has really really helped me as an actor because when we do exercises like "how would your character react to this scenario not given in the script?" it's like AWWW YEAH. I've often described RPing to people as improv acting through text, so. |D;;;
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