SOTU
Dairine (motherbored)
IC Dairine is fussy and frustrated in camp. She's got some cool friends and generally likes some of the more interesting aspects of camp. But she's a DAIRINE SMASH kind of power wielder and the fact that she can't force her way out of this situation or logic it out is extremely frustrating to her. She's incredibly smart, but it's the kind of smart that just gets annoyed and snappy when she's not getting her way or able to figure out a solution. Traditionally there has ALWAYS been a solution so there just has to be one now! She also misses her dad and sister like crazy, never having been away from them for more than a week at a time.
OOC: I put Dairine first because she's my oldest character right now and I'm having the least amount of trouble with her. I don't really spam and I would like to develop more relationships with her, but she's fine. CASTMATES WOULD BE LOVELY THOUGH :3c
Dropping: Not planning on it!
Plans: Get her out more. Have her freak out more about the 'net situation
Anya (antivenomette)
IC Anya's fine for right now! Crashes on Rico's couch and probably bugs Julian and hangs out with Cess and other teens!
OOC: So there is this thing I always do. I always do it. I app a character from an ongoing series right at the crossroads of their characterization. For Anya, I apped her just as her new series was starting! "Great!" I thought, "This will be excellent! She has her own title!" But it's fucking Marvel so they simultaneously IGNORED EVERYTHING THAT CAME PREVIOUSLY (we're talking like 30 issues of canon here, folks) and killed her dad in the second issues. Okay, you know what? I could deal with killing her dad off if they acknowledged any of the earlier canon, but the truth is that the character they're writing now isn't really the same one that I read for, and I could just ignore the new stuff, but for having a fair amount of canon before this series, it's not ENOUGH. I apped her with the promise of getting more canon and it... just didn't go how I would have liked, both from a plot standpoint and a writing standpoint. which is too bad because her twitter is super cute. ANYWAY I kind of find her boring.
Dropping: WAS THINKING ABOUT IT was talked out of it briefly.
Plans: I'm going to update her. Maybe this weekend! After she gets all these friends at Cess' sleepover, haha. There's no point in traumatizing a character if only a handful of people would pay attention |D [/terrible]
Rory (pondpuppy)
IC Follows Amy around like a puppy.
OOC: I'm not British enough to play Rory. I don't know any turns of phrases or slang and I don't watch enough British television. I AM AMERICAN, I SPELL THINGS WITHOUT Us. And one of the reasons that Rory is so great in the show is that he's just so normal. He's Amy's foil, really. His job is to rain on parades and go along with them but complain a bit and bring everyone back down to Earth. This is great in the show! It's an excellent dynamic. It's difficult in camp because all he can do is go "oh. well. okay. right then." and carry on. PLUS I LOVE MY EXCELLENT CAST but I'm the odd duck out, being in PST. Not being able to play with Amy or the Doctor much kind of takes away a major point in Rory. I don't need to thread with them exclusively but the scheduling is making it difficult to do things at all. THIS IS A ME THING and people can't play off of someone who's not around! But it does make it difficult.
Dropping: I'm going to wait until after the new season starts to reconsider. He has top billing! And there isn't a counselor round before then anyway so I wouldn't be putting anyone out.
Plans: Learn to be okay with not playing him. I've decided to prioritize the girls and have Rory on hand for if anything interests me! But I'm holding out for the new series.
Parker (stolengood)
IC Whoooo even knows. WHO EVEN KNOWS!! I don't! She's had a bit of a purpose with teaching the Breeze stuff, but she's bored. So bored. There's nothing to do except razz people but they're getting used to that and it maybe isn't as much fun. She has an awkward thing going with Methos that sometimes she just... chooses to ignore the awkward bits and be super handsy and sometimes she chooses to ignore the affection part for awkwardness. She's comfortable having team members in camp and she wants more but she also doesn't know how she would deal with feelings. Mentoring Breeze and having Souji teach her sword stuff is helping with her purpose and stuff though.
OOC: The problem with Leverage is that it is what the creator John Rogers calls "competence porn". It is a bunch of people who are really fucking good at what they do being really fucking good at doing it. I love that. I love competence!! The problem in camp is that Parker doesn't have anything to do that she's good at, and I worry that I play up her incompetence at the things she's not good at. And I can't tell if I'm forcing romansuu but I don't think she's uninterested in people, she's just very odd. I don't feel like I have her voice (I never, ever have) but in the past I've felt like I have her motivations and trajectory down. I'm not feeling like that now. Basically, she's unfocused, bored, and I don't feel like I'm grasping her character the right way. Maybe if she could jump off a few skyscrapers or do something where being caught would have actual consequences but she doesn't so. YA KNOW. It's difficult to play a character whose entire canon is how great they are at something, and then to take that set up away. There's still a lot of her left to play with but I don't know if I am pulling it off.
Dropping: Not particularly planning on it, and not before the new season in June.
Plans: Get her out more. Some dynamics might change here pretty soon which would actually propel her into action in an interesting (and self destructive) way.
Lauren (wonderseal)
IC \:'D/????
OOC: My motivation to play in CFUD has been down the tubes. Mostly, I think, because work sucks the life out of me and I have another RP (I KNOW I'M AN ADULTERER) and playing there I have fewer insecurities about my characters so they're easier to play. I also often feel (a bit unfairly, if we're being frank) that I have to coerce people into playing with me, or hound them, or nanny them to keep going and it's exhausting. Except, I realize that I'm never out anymore, so I can't expect people to tag me! I don't tend to comment to posts at large and I don't post, so I tend to handpick from a small group of characters I want to play off of, so when people can't thread right that minute, I feel like oH GOD NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY WITH ME. I have no issues tagging people and tagging them randomly and without asking permission! But because of that I always feel like the one tagging. Blah blah this makes me sound terrible but I might as well be honest while we're at it.
Also I don't want to app anyone anywhere, but I crave a new dynamic. I don't know what to do about that. Suggestions are good! I like recommendations, but my apping has to ~COME FROM WITHIN~ or else I will do things to please other people and realized belatedly that no, this isn't what I wanted at all. STORY OF MY LIFE. I can be independent and defiant to a fault so tons of things that start with "you should" make me a crankypants.
Dropping: NOT PLANNING ON IT because really you can't get rid of me that easily.
Plans: Be more active. Comment to more posts and be more visible. TRY HARDER.