[Meme] The Dropping Meme
I'm in a long slump and there's been a lot of dropping, so here's that meme. Except without IC state of the unions, because I haven't been playing enough for that. Just tl;dr on dropping for each character.
Ion: Ion is -- auuugh. Weird. Both so close and so far from being dropped. Today at work I finally decided I was going to get it over with when I got home. FINALLY. Then I came back and saw all the drops in CFO and took it as a sign, so I typed up a drop post.
And then I closed the window and wrote this instead. ION IS NOT GETTING DROPPED TODAY. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in a few weeks, maybe something great will happen and that makes me want to keep him another year. This has pretty much been my position since January or so, tugging at the band-aid and then putting it back in place. Tales of the Abyss is probably my favorite game and I really really love Ion, and I'd miss having a Jesus who goes around being Jesusy all the time and genuinely likes being in camp. Sometimes I think I need to have one, like I will have a sad Jesus-shaped hole in my heart and everything. (Okay, there's still Toki, but he's a different kind of Jesus.) But I rarely play him anymore, I feel like I never do anything new with him even when I try (like the cheagle post), and most of his threads are getting hard for me to keep up with. When all's said and done, I'm probably going to drop him sooner than later. I'm not preparing to drop, though -- I'm just going to wait around and play him like normal until I can go through with hitting "post."
Toki: He used to be my primary. Now he is so, so not. He's been around a long time, and I've had a completely satisfying run with him -- so if Kon and Kuchiha both dropped today, I would drop Toki along with them and not regret it at all. But I don't actively want to drop him, either. As soon as I get caught up on Amatsuki again I bet I'll be even more enthusiastic about keeping him and playing him more again (which I really want to!) So the chances of dropping him are actually really low, it looks like. I REALLY DO WANT TO PLAY HIM MORE AGAIN.
Lyserg: Despite how little I play him, dropping potential is also pretty low. I have a character who doesn't make connections to people easily! And that's okay! I'm okay with him being a backburner for this. And I still have plans for him that I've been waiting to do ever since I first got him.
Lymsleia: LOL Lym. I said I would definitely drop her whenever the rest of her cast dropped. I'm still not sure why I didn't, but I'm glad I kept her. She's made some close relationships since then, and I don't feel like I've failed at her anymore! (Which, come to think of it, probably is the reason I didn't drop her. If I'd done it then, I would have dropped her without breaking 600 comments, and that would be a record low.) Now she's one of my easiest characters to play and is doing pretty great!
But -- if I had to clean out my lineup, I think she'd be one of the first. Because first, like I said, I think she's had a good run now, and because she really wants to go home, and because I'm not as attached to her as a character as I am to anyone else I play. I'm not dropping her before Ion, but if he goes and I start to feel overloaded again, Lym will probably have to say bye. :(
Hungary: I . . . I don't even have anything to say here. HUNGARY IS EVERYONE I EVER WANTED TO PLAY ON THE INTERNET. If CFUD and ever other RP died tomorrow I would FIND a way to keep playing her.
Tycho: I've had Tycho more than a month and she's barely at 200 comments. Is THIS a new level of fail -- I think it is. But it's not that she's hard to play! I LOVE playing her, and she's actually the character I'm most likely to postjump with currently (after Hungary, of course). I just apped her around the time when I was starting to get into this general RP slump. But when I want to RP at all, I usually want to play her. She's also a definite not-drop.
Safety levels, in conclusion: Hungary < Toki <<<< Lyserg / Tycho <<<<<<<< Lym <<<< Ion
Ion: Ion is -- auuugh. Weird. Both so close and so far from being dropped. Today at work I finally decided I was going to get it over with when I got home. FINALLY. Then I came back and saw all the drops in CFO and took it as a sign, so I typed up a drop post.
And then I closed the window and wrote this instead. ION IS NOT GETTING DROPPED TODAY. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in a few weeks, maybe something great will happen and that makes me want to keep him another year. This has pretty much been my position since January or so, tugging at the band-aid and then putting it back in place. Tales of the Abyss is probably my favorite game and I really really love Ion, and I'd miss having a Jesus who goes around being Jesusy all the time and genuinely likes being in camp. Sometimes I think I need to have one, like I will have a sad Jesus-shaped hole in my heart and everything. (Okay, there's still Toki, but he's a different kind of Jesus.) But I rarely play him anymore, I feel like I never do anything new with him even when I try (like the cheagle post), and most of his threads are getting hard for me to keep up with. When all's said and done, I'm probably going to drop him sooner than later. I'm not preparing to drop, though -- I'm just going to wait around and play him like normal until I can go through with hitting "post."
Toki: He used to be my primary. Now he is so, so not. He's been around a long time, and I've had a completely satisfying run with him -- so if Kon and Kuchiha both dropped today, I would drop Toki along with them and not regret it at all. But I don't actively want to drop him, either. As soon as I get caught up on Amatsuki again I bet I'll be even more enthusiastic about keeping him and playing him more again (which I really want to!) So the chances of dropping him are actually really low, it looks like. I REALLY DO WANT TO PLAY HIM MORE AGAIN.
Lyserg: Despite how little I play him, dropping potential is also pretty low. I have a character who doesn't make connections to people easily! And that's okay! I'm okay with him being a backburner for this. And I still have plans for him that I've been waiting to do ever since I first got him.
Lymsleia: LOL Lym. I said I would definitely drop her whenever the rest of her cast dropped. I'm still not sure why I didn't, but I'm glad I kept her. She's made some close relationships since then, and I don't feel like I've failed at her anymore! (Which, come to think of it, probably is the reason I didn't drop her. If I'd done it then, I would have dropped her without breaking 600 comments, and that would be a record low.) Now she's one of my easiest characters to play and is doing pretty great!
But -- if I had to clean out my lineup, I think she'd be one of the first. Because first, like I said, I think she's had a good run now, and because she really wants to go home, and because I'm not as attached to her as a character as I am to anyone else I play. I'm not dropping her before Ion, but if he goes and I start to feel overloaded again, Lym will probably have to say bye. :(
Hungary: I . . . I don't even have anything to say here. HUNGARY IS EVERYONE I EVER WANTED TO PLAY ON THE INTERNET. If CFUD and ever other RP died tomorrow I would FIND a way to keep playing her.
Tycho: I've had Tycho more than a month and she's barely at 200 comments. Is THIS a new level of fail -- I think it is. But it's not that she's hard to play! I LOVE playing her, and she's actually the character I'm most likely to postjump with currently (after Hungary, of course). I just apped her around the time when I was starting to get into this general RP slump. But when I want to RP at all, I usually want to play her. She's also a definite not-drop.
Safety levels, in conclusion: Hungary < Toki <<<< Lyserg / Tycho <<<<<<<< Lym <<<< Ion