Shinonome Kon
---IC: Zen. He's a little :/ occasionally about not being able to farther his goals from home but it's not too bad. He doesn't really feel bored in camp most of the time, so yeah, very zen.
---OOC: I've had Kon a little over a year now and haven't run into any rough patches with him at all. XD I wonder if I'm jinxing myself when I say that, but whatever, he's always calm and even under the surface so I pretty much never need to worry about him. He rolls with things. And I think of everyone I've apped he's had the most even activity.
---Dropping: 0/10 Even when he's not my primary primary he is solid and reliable.
---Plans: If I get a chance to canon-update him I'll probably do it. It'll be fun. Bother people more with him again.
Joker
---IC/OOC: Being kind of reclusive and only doing surface interactions when he gets out. He's not as enthusiastic about meeting people as he used to be.
:|a That's a bad sign for me. Joker's kind of still working through Kurei-stuff and I haven't played him enough to help this process along. I think when I first got him in he was basically assuming he was dead and not going back home, so he shrugged and went 'okay lets make new friends!!' :|a um, and then people from home arrived and it was sort of... giving him hope of staying with his important people, which is a pretty rare feeling for him because he dislikes being tied down so he normally has an easy time letting go. It wasn't quite so in this case because he had some regrets attached to how he left.
I guess he's a little heartbroken right now and wistfully thinking about whether or not he'll get to go back to his world even if he's dead, and whether he'll see Kurei again even if he isn't. And because of Camp's timefuckery this isn't beyond a possibility, so Joker's lingering on it more than he normally would. He'd be over it faster if the possibility weren't there :/a. Maybe I should just give him amnesia for a while... He is a big boy who can handle his own issues, but the thing is whether or not I'll get :| and bored of him before he manages to reset himself.
---Dropping: 7/10 | I haven't been doing much with him and feel like maybe I should just send him off to MAR Heaven, but well.. who else would play him anyway? :/a I guess we'll see if I can work him out of the corner he backed into or not...
---Plans: nnnnnnnnothing. :/a Anyone wanna help a guy out? Touch Raiha more?
Howard Link
---IC: Worry worry worry worry worry. He feels like he is on a precipice here, and maybe about to fall into a dangerous place. Or MAYBE HE ALREADY HAS. He's aware he's more emotionally involved with Allen then is allowable, and this bothers him a lot. But he also gets these STABS OF GUILT whenever he tries to distance himself and remind himself that Allen is an assignment, because Allen makes faces about it he can't help it that he empathizes.
Basically he's a bit torn between friendship and duty and NORMALLY duty would win! But he is constantly reminded of the issue and there is little in camp that makes duty more necessary and there isn't really any encouragement in that direction (and that bothers him too) but he really really wasn't brought up to put aside duty for friendship and there are all sorts of reasons in his mind that this is a bad idea and !!!! He is pretty much full of worry and turmoil and baw. If only he had someone he felt would understand where he's coming from to talk this out with. He can't even attempt this with Allen.
---OOC: Hahahahaha, o Link. I really really want canon to address his feelings on the whole third-gen exorcists though, because WOW that's gotta suck for him! It'd probably give me a bit more material for how he'd work through his camp issues too. I admit I'm hesitant about taking Link anywhere right now on the issue because I feel like this is something that will get addressed soon. AUGUST 17TH!!!1 I hope I hope. I also hope I can update him if it does get addressed. WELL, either way there is a CRISIS waiting for him around the corner!
---Dropping: 0/10
---Plans: Still need to do a baking post with Chizu-nee. Other than that no particular plans besides to continue following through with his DEVELOPMENT.
Ed'Rashtekaresket
---IC: Is a shark.
---OOC: Is a shark. :|a okay no seriously, I don't get him out enough... I always feel like I need to review canon and I'm second guessing a lot and orz and woe and argh. He takes a lot of thinking energy and I get so lazy and he's so backburner and I'M SORRY I'M SORRY :(. Really he's an amazing character but I don't think I'm doing him justiiiicccceeee. :/ I threaddrop with him a lot.
---Dropping: 7/10 again keeping him because who else would app a giant shark, but I feel like I don't play him enough to justify keeping him. SIGH.
---Plans: :|a I really ought to eat more people.
Asamura Kengo
---IC: Not doing too badly! He's made a couple new friends and is bugging his people as usual and camp is still new and shiny to him. He's still a bit homesick, but knowing his sister probably isn't missing him too badly because of weird TIME stuff helps with that. He's a little worried about his shadow problem coming up because of recent reminders and is trying to decide if he should be honest about it or if he should hide it and he's often worried that people will hate him. :|a oh yeah, and Muraki kissed him on the cheek while not under the affects of mistletoe and that was Very Confusing. He's not sure if he should just shrug that off like he does most stuff or if he should do something about it.
Also THOUGHTS ON AKIRA blah blah I won't go into it here because it's pretty much constant anyway.
---OOC: Haha, I WORRY HE'S ANNOYING TO PEOPLE. Because he can be a little... self-effacing and self-depreciating and like... needy... and he's just very... I DUNNO. A lot of this doesn't actually show up when I'm playing him, especially with people he just met, but... I think I've got it in my head that he's a character type that some people find adorable and some people just want to punch in the face. And exposure to him makes people lean more and more toward the latter. Or something. HE HAS A LOT OF SELF-CONFIDENCE ISSUES and some of them bleed over to OOC because I worry about getting his issues on people because who wants to deal with that anyway, so I get confidence issues about his self-confidence issues and it's a hilarious cycle.
AND LIKE. I don't know, I somehow find him very heartwrenching all the time and LITERALLY he makes me CRY when I thread with him sometimes, over the most ridiculous or minor things; I LAUGH AT MYSELF TOO but it's true. I don't mind it at all, it's like reading parts in a manga that make me cry, but it also makes me want to give him a billiondy hugs, which I think affects BOTH of our neediness levels when it comes to threading. Possibly more my neediness levels than his because he's at least used to getting rejected constantly. Y-yeah... SORRY ABOUT THAT?? I'm not sure what's the correct thing to say there. It's all in good humor I swears??
I think I need to essay pretty badly on how his mind works too, because I argue with myself a lot on why he is how he is. He bounces back from pretty much all forms of abuse. But like, the way he thinks of himself and the way he carries himself doesn't speak of a person that that sort of thing doesn't leave a mark on. D-does anyone want to discuss this with me?!
:|a Also I occasionally worry he's coming off as like... a yaoi stereotype, but I also can't help it that that's how Monochrome Factor READS to me, in my soul, despite the absence of BL in the manga. I'M SERIOUSLY NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT FEELS THIS ABOUT MF at least, so I kind of feel justified when I do it on purpose. And I am doing it on purpose. And I mean, he's from the same monthly as Vassalords, so... Just hopefully that isn't making people eyeroll too much because that gets hard on the eye-muscles after a while.
FFFF GOD, UM, WHY IS THIS SO LONG?! I HAVE A LOT OF FUN PLAYING KENGO, HE'S SUPER FUN AND SUPER EASY TO PLAY. Aaaaah~ I really am having so much fun with him! Th-there's just... all this other STUFF I am thinking about when I play him which is a little orz and I probably shouldn't do that?? I'm not sure. It feels like I'm way more involved in him than I am with my other characters as far as dealing with his inner workings (I MEAN CLEARLY, LOOK HOW MUCH I'M YAPPING). XD actually I probably haven't felt like that since Tim. Like, Kon is very high opacity, I don't need to know exactly how he works to play him because of the calm even surface, but with Kengo everything he's thinking reflects out, so I need to know what's going on...
Haah, he's not my soul animal, but he is definitely my ULTIMATE WEAKNESS right now.
---Dropping: 0/10 at the moment, C'MON I JUST GOT HIM and he's fun to play.
---Plans: Make a breakdancing post at some point! I also look forward to when he can go berserk.