Character choice meme!

[solo_sword]

Okay, so going off a conversation I've been having, I bring new meme question thing:

Why did you pick the characters you play?

Be it because you they're just your favorite, or you thought they'd be a challenge, or someone dared you or something, go ahead and tell us what made you want to bring them to the game. La.

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[cheminthehead.livejournal.com]

Man, this is a hard one. Not dirty.

Jack Harkness: I didn't so much choose him as stumble into him. He was available and a very persuasive person convinced me it would be a great idea to apply to adopt him...and damned if she wasn't right!

Karal Austreben: Honestly, I was looking for a character that was very different from Jack. He definitely qualifies. I loved the books, and I thought it would be a challenge to play him.

Harriet Jones: It's Harriet Jones.

Gladys: She was Moist's NPC and I found I really enjoyed playing her. The latest book of Moist's canon left her in a place that lifting her out and bringing her back to Fandom could work, so I did!

Igor: I have no idea why I apped him, except I had a vague idea we could use more people to work in the clinic. Next thing I knew, I was apping a deformed hunchback whose hobby was reattaching bits and trying to grow those bits in jars.

Moist von Lipwig: Cause I loooove him. He's my favourite Discworld character. Err, second favourite. Sadly I wasn't so great at playing him, so home he went.

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

Peter Parker: I've been a huge fan of the character since I can remember. I always identified with him anyway and the Ultimate Line gave a convenient version to bring right into the game with virtually no tweaking. Biggest no brainer ever for me.

Jolee Bindo: I've been a Star Wars fan about as long as I've been a Spider-Man fan, so I knew I wanted to bring a Jedi in. I find the Old Republic era really fascinating, and Jolee is easily my favorite Jedi of that era. Also, come on, the town needed a cranky old man.

Logan: I was actually planning on apping a different character to take over Atlas Gym, but for some reason, one day at work the thought of Wolverine teaching this specific workshop came to mind. And suddenly I could hear Logan's voice very clearly in my head. Really, he was kind of an impulsive choice, but I don't argue when I hear a character's voice that clearly.

Dick Grayson: I knew that Peter was graduating and I had already planned on Doom and Jim leaving, so I needed a new student. I put together a list of ten characters I'd like to play and while Dick was around the middle of that list (since I've been saying for a while that we needed a Dick Grayson and I actually knew The Animated Series well enough to play that version), he was the only one who really came naturally to me while trying to write an app. So he was process of elimination.

Also, I can't deny that I appreciate any excuse to bring a Batman in for PW.

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

PREVIOUS CHARACTERS:

The Tick: Natalie told me "I'm in this multiversal high school role playing game. You should bring in The Tick as a Criminal Justice teacher." And that was brilliance. So I did it.

GOB Bluth: Only having The Tick was getting kind of boring to me because as a teacher and as a character with a very specific outlook, I was fairly limited in what I could do. So I came up with a short list of townies I'd like to play who were as different from Tick as possible. One was GOB, from my beloved Arrested Development. The other, incidentally, was Deadpool. I bugged Natalie again to help me pick. She picked GOB. I can't help but think that it worked out much better for me immediately and the game in the long run that she made that pick.

Drax the Destroyer: It was time for The Tick to go and I'd become a big fan of Drax from the Annihilation mini-series event. So I decided to go with him. This was probably a mistake, looking back, since things I planned tended to be cracky and Drax isn't really a cracky character. And I apped him more because I wanted to try to play him rather than because he was speaking to me, so it was really tough to write him. So really, it was just as well that my stepping down from admin gave a convenient excuse to ditch him.

Jim Halpert: Somebody - several somebodies, I think, come to think of it - told me "You should play Jim!" And then I tried him out at launchpad and, as it turned out, that was a very good call on behalf of several somebodies.

Doctor Doom: I wanted to play a villain and I generally consider Doom to be the best villain in all of comics and one of the best in all of fiction, period. Ed Brubaker had written the definitive origin of Doctor Doom in "Books of Doom," so that was a convenient reference for canon. And I just kind of wanted to play a character that was a total dick and just watch as he became worse. Also, it's just fun to get into the third person dialog. Finally, I knew that he wouldn't be overly social, so he was the only way I was ever going to be able to justify three students at a time. Of course, somewhere along the line he turned into my primary student, so...

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir was picked because he's one of the closest characters to my heart that I've ever encountered. I love him because of just how fricking complicated he is, but also because his point of view is so very very different from many of the characters I play elsewhere. I like putting on his glasses, so to speak, even when it's hard. Also, to be perfectly honest, I love playing with his source material; not just the Maguire but the Baum and the Farmer and the others who've added different layers to the idea of Oz. The fact that there's so many permutations and bits and pieces of the stories lodged in pop culture and certain phrases and bits of wording and stuff like that make it all the more amusing to play with it.

Specifically, I picked him as my first at fandomhigh because I knew that of the pups I had in my brain who I was considering, he was the one who most wanted to LEARN, to go to school, to make friends. He was this lovely combination of blank pages with a fascinating base. Further, I have some issues with how Liir's book played out; don't get me wrong, I LOVE the characters... but some of how the book came out made me want to build on what Maguire gave and do something interesting and I figured hey why not.

He was also REALLY awake and I needed to toss him somewhere and this just seemed a perfect fit.

...yeah, I could go on for a while.

Geoffrey is both from my love of Paul Gross, my love of Slings & Arrows AND my love of early modern drama. I'm an English Lit major with a special focus on that period and I just absolutely LOVE delving into the text, discussing the characters, playing with the tropes. You name your criticism school, I'll try it. Just absolutely LOVE it. And I love playing a madman because Geoffrey is lovely and BLUNT where Liir is totally not and the dichotimy is interesting.

The ones I'm considering next, well, I'm still considering so I can't say. But it's usually a mix between 'in love with' 'love what they stand for' and 'love their world'. Also, 'got the damn voice' because sometimes you do and sometimes you don't and I've learned you can't really fight when you don't.

[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

Cable: ...Oh, man. I've been a huge Cable & Deadpool fan almost since the comic's inception. I turned into a huge Deadpool fan - as is the wont of anyone reading that comic - and in the process actually wound up here due to our stellar, stellar Deadpool player.

Who then, during my first three (and very easily influenced) months, proceeded to convince me I had to play Cable. I went back and read every scrap of canon on him I could find.

And turned into a major fangirl. Because he's an awesome, fucked-up, deadpan, totally utterly good guy mess of a bastard. The rest is history.

Jeff: My first one! It was part intellectual and part just fun. I'm a Coupling fan; Steve is my favourite character, but Jeff had a lot of idiosyncracies I felt I could play with in a fun way (and grasp the voice pretty okay), and if people didn't hate me, I could branch out to other characters.

...And you didn't. I love you guys.

Kerrigan: She was planned as my #2 all along. I love the angry female soldier archetype a lot; I love Kerrigan's storyline in her canon, and the potentials of working with that seemed staggering to me as I was plotting it out. If I wanted a teacher character, she could do it-- and so she was apped at the end of the first term, according to plan.

I haven't regretted it so far.

Jim: ...Crack. I grew up on this guy. When I fully grasped the concept of summer workshops? I NEEDED HIM.

[solo_sword]

*clings to you and clings to Jeff and resists urge to watch DVD's all day*

[solo_sword]

Aeryn Sun- She's my favorite character of all time. When I first saw this game open she was really my only choice, and when I'd made sure no one else had apped her yet she was mine mine mine dammit.

Jaye Tyler- I have no idea. I honestly have no memory of what drove me to bring her in, except that I knew I wanted everyone I played to be different. And thusly instead of apping Daria, I apped Jaye instead and brought in Quinn. It totally made sense at the time.

Ka D'Argo- Look, someone had to do it. I begged for two years, people.

Jaina Solo- She's not my favorite character in canon, but I've always related on some level and the only reason I didn't bring her in at the beginning of the game was because I already had my scifi military pilot girl, and they'd run in the same circles. Plus she's a total challenge in that while she's a really easy character, the writers never seemed to know how to write her consistently. So I get to have fun trying to tie all the characterization issues together IG so that the canon catchups don't read as OOC. No, seriously, I do think that's fun.

Brooke Davis- She's the first character where I saw canon and went "MUST APP NOW." I think I just loved the idea of playing a character who's just all about the fun. Also this was totally my last-ditch effort at playing a normal, non-powered, non-alien character.

[gimmemoreteams.livejournal.com]

I was begged for two years to play D'Argo. AND I RESISTED THE WHOLE TIME. GO TEAM NICK!

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Weeee something to do-slash-read on an eight hour bus ride.

Alanna: This one's easy. Alanna was who I wanted to be when I grew up. She kicked butt, snarked, and all this while five feet tall. My hero.

Broots: When Fandom High was starting, I was going through a Pretender phase. My first choice - Miss Parker - was taken. So I went to choice two. Of all the kids I dropped, he' the only one I miss.

Briar: I have no clue. I loved him in the books so ... I don't know what I was thinking.

Anathema: Good Omens is IMHO the best book ever written. And Anathema is the most awesome character ever. Match made in geekdom, right? Ha ha ha...no. I forgot that she was a static character who only changes when her book is destroyes. Oops.

Cimorene: I blame Z. She said something about Cimorene melting wizards and having them be all wtf soapy lemon water wet now? I toyed with the idea and four monts later Cimorene threw a bucket of water at Ronan.

Weee....half an hour and a manicure killed.

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Dick: He's my favoritest VM character ever! Seriously, I love playing jackasses. When I first started this game (day one, which is just weird for me to think about) I played Draco Malfoy. It comes naturally to me for some reason. Speaking of my jackass quota, the next character I plan to app should fill it since Dick is emo'ing in Neptune.

Meg: I picked Meg because I knew it would be a challenge for me to play. She's always the hardest for me to play. I'm just not used to playing someone so nice and sweet. My pings for her always come the slowest because I have to say the opposite of what I usually think. I'm really more like Dick. Which is scary.

Lois: I wanted to play Lois because she's pretty much the opposite of Meg. I played guys for a good long while when I first started out in the game so it's nice to play a girl who is one of the guys mostly. And Erica Durance is hot. I like having hot icons.

Marshall: I play him for the same reason why I play Dick. He's my favorite character on HIMYM and it's easy for me to play him.

Donut: He's full of crack and I love him so. I use him to express my weirdest desires like putting berets on zombies.

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Previous characters:

Draco Malfoy: The first character I ever played. We've gone over the fact that I like playing jackasses. I still kind of miss playing him sometimes.

Swedish Chef: Somebody (I can't remember who) said he'd be good to run the cafeteria at the school during the first few weeks of the game and I was like "Hey, I can do that."

Crow T. Robot: We had a Joel and a Servo coming in. How could I not bring in Crow? I had a lot of fun playing him omg. Deciding to give Cam the nickname Crunch Buttsteak was one of the better ideas I've had.

Peter Griffin: Like Donut, he was a way for me to get all my crack ideas out. And I'm like the biggest Family Guy fan ever. No, I'm not a sixteen year old boy.

Prue Halliwell: I was a big fan of Charmed back in the day and one weekend I mainlined the first three seasons and I just had to play her. And I had just dropped Malfoy and wanted a magical person to play with.

Buster Bluth: It was actually hard for me to choose between Buster and Lucille last summer but I couldn't think of a class Lucille would teach. Other than Drinking 101. Buster is so adorable and innocent.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Annette Hargrove - I love Cruel Intentions and being that I was attempting to join a game where I had no previous rp experience in a fandom setting, I was extremely nervous and insecure, so I apped her because I totally thought she would be easy. A nice, clean-cut, spoiled rich girl.

Johnny Storm - So arrogantly cocky and a brilliant playboy. I love Fantastic Four and particularly Johnny's character. He doesn't have much common sense nor maturity, but he rather makes up for it by being pretty and a show off. Yes, he can be an ass like that. I thought he would be a challenge, so apped him.

George Michael Bluth - AHAHA, Arrested Development how I love you. I seriously just wanted a banana stand here at Fandom and thought it would be amusing to stick GMB behind it.

Amber Atkins - What can I say? I'm just a dork. Everyone probably knows this by now.

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

Though I have not watched the film, you have me in love with Amber now. G'Kar loves Amber too. Purely in a plutonic way, of course. Because otherwise, ewwwww. Old enough to be her friggin' dad. If not moreso. Who knows how a Narn ages compared to a human? :p

[canadianpopstar.livejournal.com]

Most of mine are really easy, to the point where I can't really say why I play them beyond the basics. I do have one good story, though. *will end on that*

Rory: Rory was my very first character, and I play her because she was the absolute first character who sprang to mind when I saw FH opening and the format. She's one of my favorites ever, so she also comes really easy to me.

Aravis: By the time spring 2007 rolled around, I realized I wanted a combative student character, who could actually DO SOMETHING in an invasion (other than fling coffee, hi Rory). I'd just reread HHB and was kind of amazed that we didn't have more Narnia characters, so I made the journal, spent some time talking to once_a_king, and realized she was really easy to write. The hard thing was picking a damn PB omg. That took like a week.

Robin: Robin was an impulse app, so to speak. I was mainlining HIMYM, fell in love with the Slap Bet episode, and went "Hey, here's a girl who has ALL these weird little quirks, and she's super cynical and snarky. She'd be great at Fandom. Lemme IM Fry and see if she can work at the radio station." And that same night I wrote up the app.

Evey: Evey I'd been meaning to app since I saw the VfV movie, though I always loved the graphic novel before that. (The movie just made it easy to find a way to play her.) She's my challenge, really, more than any of my other girls, because she's so broken and a little bit crazy, but I seriously wanted to play her for like a year and a half before I actually apped her. She's one of my absolute favorite characters in anything EVER.

Kaylee: Kaylee's another easy one. She just comes really naturally to me, and I loooove her in canon. She's not like any of my other girls, and I thought it'd be a fun change, with all my cynics and bitches.

Okay, I'm not going through all the old ones, because this is tl;dr already, but I do want to mention my ONE AND ONLY GOOD STORY:

So, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, at the very very start of the game, we all used to talk in OOC comments to posts even more than we do now, in lieu of IM most of the time. Somehow, the topic of people in leather pants came up, and then the topic of Rory in leather pants, and then the topic of Alexis Bledel in leather pants and how silly is that?

I pointed out that she wore them as Becky in Sin City, which led to discussion between myself and Ziho about how she wanted to bring in Miho, and oh god look we just created journals, and enter: Becky and Miho.

[ashockingbitch]

Hahahahaha Becky and Miho were like twenty minutes from the idea to oh look here they are. And we had SO MUCH FUN with them.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris Halliwell: Charmed was my first online fandom and Chris was always my favorite character. I related to him in a lot of ways and found his voice easy with fic. I had a vague notion of bringing him into the game for a long time and the timing seemed right when Nic was looking for a new student character since Bel was graduating and Wyatt suited her.

Veronica Mars: Veronica was my first RP character ever. When trollprincess first floated the idea of starting this game, I told her that I wanted to play Veronica, having mainlined all of S1 within a matter of a week at the end of May and spending the summer writing Veronica Mars fic. I loved Veronica's attitude and sassiness and I figured she'd be a lot of fun to play.

Previous Characters
Lorelai Gilmore: She was the first adult character that sprung to mind as a teacher when the game started. I had a blast playing her, but I lost her voice when canon totally screwed her up.

Allison Cameron: I initially brought her in because we got a House and that player and I had decided to play some with a flirtation between them. Plus she was very different from Veronica. But things didn't quite work out the way I planned for her and I had a hard time writing her.

Marie 'Rogue' D'Ancanto: Rogue was always my favorite from X-Men and I had the idea to bring her in pre-powers so that I could play out her becoming a mutant. Her whole character arc was so much fun to play. But I ran her through too much canon too fast and lost inspiration of things to do with her.

Max Guevara: I wanted to play Max as soon as I watched Dark Angel. I didn't realize how hard her voice would be for me though, especially since I pulled her pre-canon.

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Teddy Altman - He was the very first character I'd ever RPed and was in a big Young Avengers kick at the time and he was the easiest one I could think of being pulled away from the group.

Also? I might adore him lots.

Deadpool - I read his entire solo series in the course of a weekend. And then started C&DP.

His voice was STUCK in my brain from then on, making comments about I Love The 70s and what not. I'm just so damn surprised the app went through, really.

Lucifer - Again with the devouring canon in a short period of time. I adored playing an evil bastard sometimes.

Maybe I'll play him again when my brain is there again.

Bart Allen - Oh, Bart. I adored him so, so much.

And then the god damn storyline where they killed him. SO THEY COULD BRING EFFING WALLY BACK.

UGH. I hate you DC, I hate you so so much.

Renee Montoya - I only learned more about her after 52 started up with her being featured. Bought all of Gotham Central and fell in love with the character.

Call me a dork, but cops are usually the characters I love.

Temari - I really blame all the Naruto players in Fandom for enabling me with her.

Damn anime sucking me back in. *SHAKES FIIIST*

Tony Stark - ...did you see the movie?

[gimmemoreteams.livejournal.com]

You're a dork.

[sonofmogh.livejournal.com]

Marty Blank: It's been so long that I don't even really remember why I had him on the list other than I liked the character. I do know it was between him and J.D. from Heathers and decided to go with a student who could have a range that could go between comedy and drama and also wouldn't try to blow up the school.

Jamie Madrox: His whole duplication power was the first thing that attracted me to him and then I read Peter David's mini-series and that pretty much sealed the deal.

Melaka Fray: I was trying to be good. I had Marty. I had Jamie. I really didn't need another student character... And then about an hour before the application deadline was up I mentioned Mel as a possible character to a couple people and was told to apply. Really my first choice was to do Faith but after trying her out on Launchpad I got neurotic about doing a female character. I think doing a comic character instead of one from a television series or movie made it easier for me to get into the role.

Ron Weasley: I had him on the list for a couple of years, mostly because I was drawn to his sidekick-type character. When Book 7 came out and I knew what his character arc was going, that was pretty much it.

Worf: The initial idea was that there were too many aliens in the game who looked completely human. He sat on my "to be played with" for a long time before I decided to give him a shot.

Dale Cooper: Just because the thought of him in Fandom just seemed sooooooo much fun. Every bit of weirdness would just appeal to him on such a level that he would just be a good fit.

[tyler_gone]

*eyes you*

What's wrong with trying to blow up the school?

[ashockingbitch]

Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage: I just love love love the character and her canon, and it's such a small canon and rather obscure, so when I saw trollprincess was starting a high school game, I was like, "Zero is in high school! And I can bring her to the game and if I fail no one will know because no one's read it and if I don't fail people will love it and hopefully read it and share my love!" And...apparently I did not fail! I think! (I'd never RPed before...)

Z Delgado: I was in chats with Bridge, and I was not even watching Power Rangers. In fact, the last Power Rangers I'd watched the whole series of was Time Force, and I didn't even get any channels Power Rangers: SPD was airing on. But Bridge was talking a lot about how fun this series was, so I started watching the show during a marathon one weekend at my parents' and hey, Z was really awesome, and I mentioned this fact to Bridge and she talked me into it and the rest is history.

Steve Rogers: My thought process once the shock of Captain America #25 wore off: "He--he's not dead! He's only sleeping! He'll come back! I can fix this! He can come to FH and NOT BE DEAD. HOORAY."

Jenny Sparks: My initial application that round got capped out, and for reasons I can't quite explain I wanted a new character, so I went to my list of characters I'd thought might be fun and pinged on Jenny, because she is bitchtastic and very different from my other characters, which I thought would be fun.

Jean-Paul Beaubier: So, okay, I have this very firm notion that there should be some 'normal' subjects taught along with, like, Superheroing For Dummies and How To Fly Spaceships, etc. (NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THESE SUBJECTS) since some students are going to have to live in like the real world. And Jean-Paul I thought would be a fun challenge, since he is kind of a bitch queen from hell, which I am kind of not (...I guess it depends on who you ask) and also I don't speak Quebecois. Also he was an evil gay zombie mutant speedster ninja. Come on.

I decided to bring him in to teach math, despite the fact that I don't actually know much about math, because I was under the impression he has a background in economics and had taught math at Xavier's--I've not actually read all of his canon; Alpha Flight in particular can be really hard to get ahold of when you live in backwoods Alabama. Apparently I may have gotten the 'economics' thing from fanfiction, and as far as I can tell from the various runs of X-Men he was in while he was at Xavier's, all he actually taught there was 'flying.' Because the writers are unhelpful like that.

Alex Drake: With all the random doubles running around, I was in chat one day like, "What we need is an actual clone." And one of our other PR people--at that point Bridgey or Shanie, I'm not sure which--floated the theory that Alex was a clone of Wes. And then we got to talking about the love triangle, and either Bridge created the Wes journal or I created the Alex journal, but whoever it was told the other person basically, "Dare you," and then Shanie created the Jen journal and, a couple of failed starts later, here we all are.

Dropped Characters

Miho: *points up to Rory* I'd actually originally intended to bring her in as a student, because it would be hilarious and a huge challenge. I may yet app a different iteration of her as a student one day, who knows. If that's even possible. I don't think it is. Heh.

Yomiko Readman: Book nerd librarian with the best superpower ever (control of paper), what's not to love? Yeah, I basically apped her because her superpower is awesome. And then I never really got to use it. I'm only sorry I didn't get to do more with her while she was here. I begin to suspect the librarians really are under a Hogwarts DA-style curse...

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

I begin to suspect the librarians really are under a Hogwarts DA-style curse..

I'm telling you... we just need a Snape!

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

Someone mentioned Giselle as a joke, and it suddenly became obvious how amusing she could be here. And then I started hearing her voice. Which is, um, not the most reassuring narrator to have.

And the rest is history.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

John Crichton: He is, was and probably will always be my favorite fictional character ever. When the game opened, there were several people I wanted to play but John was not on the top of the list because I didn't think I could do him real justice. After seeing we got an Aeryn, I gave it a shot. And it turned out pretty good, if I don't say.

Benton Fraser: Fraser, oddly enough, was a quick, quick decision. A former admin asked me if I'd like to play an IC security character since the school needed one. At first, I ran through crack choices like Jim Dangle (Reno 911), Chief Wiggum (The Simpsons) and Zapp Brannigan (Futurama). I seriously thought of and decided on Fraser in the span of ten minutes.

Gavin Darklighter: I am actually going to partially blame trickster_twin for this one because she LOVES the SW canon, if you couldn't tell, and I'd been looking for a different character to play for awhile. I read the Rogue Squadron books pretty quickly (and because they seemed to be one of the more accessible series) and fell in love with Gavin even though he was just a supporting character. I love that I get to use James McAvoy as a PB too.

Lee Adama: Lee Adama 1.0 was one of John Crichton's BFF. At the time, I was really into BSG. And then I kind of hated it and hated Lee but I had a resurrection of that love late in the third season. And the game really needed Lee's arms Lee. I don't usually play bitchy, whiny jackasses so I was worried that his voice might be hard. It hasn't been. Aww, emo Lee.

Ned: Ned has been on my 'to play' list for a long time. The only reason I hesitated was that he didn't have a full season (or a strike shortened season) of canon until recently and he'd be the first character I'd play with actual powers. And, considering what his actual power is, I wanted to think it through before I brought someone who was averse to touch, detached and laden with issues to Fandom. I think what changed my mind was that Ned's canon illustrated that he CAN warm up to people and I could make him work in Fandom. Also, Lee Pace is just goddamn adorable.

[solo_sword]

*has no idea what you're talking about*

[absolutesnark]

Piper Halliwell: She's probably my favorite character of all time. Anytime I am interested in an RP game, I always have to snatch her up before anyone else does. I'm selfish that way. ;) Anyway, I never get tired of playing her. Of all the characters I have ever played, she's the one I relate to the most.

Summer Roberts: It's strange that I suddenly wanted to app her. It was right after season three ended, which I didn't even watch. I did catch the finale and realized I still loved this character. Piper was getting ready to leave the island and I wanted another student to play, one who was normal and didn't have any powers or abilities. I thought it would be fun to play a spoiled rich girl who often brings the funny.

Dropped Characters

Rose Tyler: When this game first started, I had just finished watching all of the first season of the new Doctor Who and loved Rose. I never really found her voice, though, so I gave her up for adoption pretty soon afterward. That seems like such a long time ago.

Eli 'Weevil' Navarro: I decided I really wanted to play a character from Veronica Mars. My favorite character, Veronica, was already taken. I always liked his relationship with Veronica, so I thought it would be fun to bring him in just to kind of keep an eye on her. I always had a good time having him work at Caritas. I never found his voice either and Veronica was leaving, so he took off as well.

Kaylee Frye: I adore Kaylee so much. She was always my favorite character from Firefly. She was fun to play for awhile, but her constant cheerfulness got exhausting after a year. That's the biggest reason I decided to drop her.

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

First? Y'all make it stand it out just how much of a newbie I am here. ;) Thanks for having me!

G'Kar I could not believe there was no Babylon 5 characters at Fandom. This was like a sin in my mind. I felt the need to correct that. Also, I wanted to bring someone in from a fandom that hadn't been done before. Not such an easy feat.

G'Kar has been through a lot. A *whole* lot. Slavery, torture, war, rebellion, diplomat, martyr. Well, close to martyr. Only because that Narn didn't manage to actually kill him. He went through so many changes in his canon and with his often serious yet snarky ways, he was just too tempting to pass up.

Murdock! Oh lord, where to start. I remember watching the A-Team and loving him to death. Funny and quirky and totally insane. I ran him at MercCon and just DID NOT want to give him up. So I apped him full time first chance I got.

As much fun as he is, he also has issues. There is so much potential in there. A few things I noted in canon tells me he has a lot more going on inside than even the writers explored. Can't go into a whole lot of details at the moment; they would give away plotty things I got planned for the boy. *g*

And also, I thought that playing an actual insane character would be a challenge. :)

[ashockingbitch]

We love newbies, are you kidding? They taste like chicken. :D

[the_merriest]

Oh my gosh, this is long, I cannot shut up.

Rikku -- I had just finished playing (and replaying) FFX, and I wanted to dive into the world there and mess around with it. So I was going to app Yuna, the protagonist, except I didn't know how to do her post-FFX without going "No, seriously, she's not an emo mess. She did just save the world and lose her soulmate, but she's over it. Mostly." And I worried she was going to end up there anyway.

Then the idea of apping Rikku instead hit me like a brick to the side of the head. I had played Ginny Weasley in a previous game, and one of my favorite bits of playing her was how accessible she was -- outgoing, easy to drop in a lot of situations and go with it, dorky. They're two very different characters, but they both had the upbeat socializing thing going, and that's what made me realize I had to go with Rikku. I have way less awesome icons than I would have, for Yuna, but I'll deal - it was totally the right choice.

(A friend who was already in the game went, "You're apping a video game character?" and was horrified and tried to talk me out of it. Just looking out for me and all, and I appreciate it, but it was funny having to talk her out of being WTF at me.)

Tinker Bell - I have no good explanation for this one. It might be because she shows up briefly in KH, which I was replaying yet again. It might be because I made an iPod icon for her and it gave me gigglefits. It might be because Disney appears to be trying to take the NICE AND SWEET route with her now, and making her TALK, even, and I always liked her better as a complete and utter bitch. In fact, I liked her better than Peter or Wendy, who both struck me as needing to be smacked in the face with something large.

I mentioned it to a couple of people of "You know how weird I am? I've been thinking about apping -- DO NOT LAUGH -- Tinker Bell." And instead of them staring at me and going "WTF" they went "... DO IT." So I did.

Faith Lehane - I love her. I do. She chose her redemption and earned it. She's mouthy and bitchy and detached and not really concerned with whether you hate her for that. Underneath, she's vulnerable and fragile and she'll cut a bitch if you imply any of that.

I'd written lots of ficlets and drabbles from her POV season 3, and I played her in the same tiny short-lived game where I had Naminé, and I was toying with bringing her to Fandom, but very intimidated by the fact that there had been previous Faiths in-game.

And then Dawn's mun needed someone to NPC Faith for a trip to Scotland that the Scoobies were taking, and I jumped at the chance to dig her out again. After that I realized I missed her and she moved to the top of my shortlist.

Alice Liddell - Alice wasn't supposed to be my app this time around. I had it all figured out, had even told people who it was. The one downside was that that character was going to be a teacher, and Tink had surprised me by moving over to teaching (which was completely because Barney-mun and I are dorks), and I wasn't sure if I wanted to jump up to having two teachers. But there weren't even any students on my shortlist, not really. Except Alice, who was way too weird to do properly and who would be impossible to app and who had like five icons and no PB.

Then I found more icons. Then I found a PB. Then I found a passable voice for her. And she sort of moved in and started kicking things and going "No, app ME, dammit!" So I did. I try not to argue with my characters on crap like that.

Previous chars

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Sizzler Sisters (retired) - I wanted to bring in a townie, and I wanted to do a sheer crack character, and I was flipping idly through the stash of icons I have on my LJ and saw my SIZZLER & SIZZLER one and went "... Oh my gosh. That would be awesome. If I could pull it off. They're completely insane."

I could, for a while, and then they dried up on me, and I miss them. But it was their time to go.

Naminé (townlumni) - I had actually played her very briefly in a previous short-lived game. I had just finished KH at the time and she seemed haunting, somehow, and different from my usual characters in temperament - quiet, introspective, shy, artistic. She fascinated me.

Having said that, she was way down my FH list. Then I was catching up with the new leaked videos from the Final Mix+ re-release of KH2, and there was an early one where Riku, Axel and Naminé are standing on the outskirts of town. Riku's supposed to kill the latter two and declines, instead sending them off through a portal.

Axel reappears now and again, but Naminé is offscreen from that moment until she re-emerges right at the very end to rescue Kairi and merge with her, and there is never any indication given of where she is, or that anyone even knows. No one mentions checking on her or keeping updated on her status, she's just gone until the end of the game, and I hadn't realized that Riku wasn't watching her, either, until that scene.

I sort of stared at it going "Where the hell did she go, then?" and the next thought was, "She went to Fandom." And that's when I started writing the app.

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Hoshi Sato: I'll be honest. When I first decided that I wanted to be part of this game, I was trying to come up with a Power Ranger that I could be comfortable with playing. I came up empty. Then I thought of a fanfic I'd read about a four-year-old Hoshi meeting twelve-year-old Malcolm Reed. I started wondering what it would be like to see young Hoshi become the person she is in canon. But I'd never done RP before and got cold feet, so Hoshi went on the back burner for while.

Mary Connell: She's my favorite Las Vegas character and I liked the plot arc they were doing with her. Then came the season four cliffhanger and the rumors that Mary wasn't going to be back for another season. I knew that the game was looking for someone to take over the hotel and thought, "Why not?"

Mike Cannon: There was an episode where Mike started listing the reasons why he wanted to leave Vegas, and I felt that the perfect place for him to end up was in Fandom.

Lion-o: Once upon a time, I was a college freshman running a Thundercats website. When I was making a list of characters that I thought I could play, Lion-o was somewhere near the top. I especially liked the idea of Lion-o getting a shot at being a teenager, since in his canon, he goes straight from age 12 to age 24.

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since in his canon, he goes straight from age 12 to age 24

Where he's immediately perved on by Cheetara, which is possibly one of the first times I became a 'shipper.

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Angel(us): I have a few characters where I'm extremely anal about how they're written, and Angel and Angelus are like ten of them. I decided to go with Angelus first b/c I couldn't decide if Angel in a high school setting would just be Liam. Plus I loved him doing his evil thing while having to worry about getting detention. He got souled and thus it was Angel for the rest of the game (with one tiny bump, so to speak).

Willow: I wanted to play a female character, I wanted to play someone for whom my OCD nature would be part of the character (there were so many things I wanted to do that for Angel would be insanely OOC), and I am control freak enough that I wanted to control who could do the soul spell when the time came for Angelus to be souled again. Which is why Willow had the backstory of having done the spell before and knowing all about it.

Peter Petrelli: There were 3 Heroes characters that I liked enough to play. Niki/Jessica were good but I think I was eeshy on not having enough canon for them plus I wanted to bring a boy in since Fandom was running low on them at the time. Nathan I adored but I knew if I apped him as a student his type-A nature would combine with mine and I would never be able to leave my computer for all the stuff he'd be volunteering for. So Peter got the nod. He was low-key enough that I didn't have to worry about losing even more of my free time, plus I liked the idea of how he and his powers would react to Fandom. I was also spoiler whore enough that I felt confident enough in my ability to play him without getting phenominally jossed.

Nathan: You just can't have one Petrelli boy without the other, and the more that happened to Peter in Fandom the more I felt it was OOC for Nathan not to haul Peter's ass home. Plus a teaching spot had opened up which made me realize that Nathan-as-teacher wouldn't be as time demanding as Nathan-as-student would've been. That was during Bitey Souly Redux though so I sat on myself and apped him for the next go-round. (With credit to Oe for helping my willpower and reminding me that that was an option). I just like him as a character and having him in Fandom makes it easier for me to keep Peter here without being twitchy.

Blair Waldorf: Two boys meant I wanted to swing back to a girl after Willow graduated. I picked Blair because Gossip Girl is awesome and she is awesome on it. Unlike my previous student Mary Sues (the most powerful witch! the most powerful hero!) she's completely normal and without any background that would allow her to see magic or powers as something she could easily shrug off. Plus I liked what her personality meant for character interactions. Every high school has its Mean Girls, but she's not such a total bitch that she can't interact with anyone at all.

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I'll be here for a while, I think, because my brain insists on covering everyone. Let's see...At least my reasons are pretty simple.

Setsuna Sakurazaki: I've tried so hard to remember exactly why I settled on Setsuna as my first character, but I can't remember! I can't even remember who else I was going to app and it still drives me insane that I can't remember. Either way, I certainly didn't regret her!

Yasutora Sado: It was either Chad or Orihime when I decided I wanted to app a character from Bleach, and, well, I decided I didn't have the energy for Orihime.

Rosette Christopher (and Chrono): The world's worst nun, prohibition America, and demons. HOW COULD I NOT PLAY HER? Plus, she wasn't Japanese, like my other two characters.

Turtle Wexler: When I was younger, I would ride my bike around my farm and pretend to be Turtle Wexler. I wanted to be Turtle Wexler when I was ten. And now, in a way, I am.

I am also a great big nerd. Also, I wanted to app a non-manga character for a change, which seemed to have spurned that the majority of my characters are now literature characters.

Kenpachi Zaraki (and Yachiru): Somehow, after racking my brain for days on who might be a good teacher, I decided to pick the psychopathic whore for pain. PERFECT! I may have also taken way too much glee out of the fact that he was the opposite of Setsuna when it came to views on weapons.

A.J.: I don't want to talk about it. I watched Empire Records during an app period after realizing that a crazy man who tries to kill everyone he encounters might not have been that great of an idea, and he totally just took over and usurped someone else. I can't even remember who, though.

Adah Price: After deciding to reread The Poisonwood Bible, the concept couldn't leave my head. It was a challenge, too, to bring in a completely different sort of character that would really make me have to think and devote myself to all her quirks. It's been one of the most rewarding decisions I've ever made, so much so that she's even stayed longer than I planned when I first apped her.

Cal Stephanides: Cal and Adah came about in the same way. I sat down, read their respective books, and just knew that this was something I wanted to try, wanted to do, because they're quirky and different and they would be a really interesting approach to a character. And I might take a bit of geekish pride in saying that, yup. I brought the hermaphrodite into Fandom. Woot.

Charlotte York: (who I did not forget, really!) Simply? I made the mistake of mentioning that I had the idea to a few certain people who are evil, terrible, wonderful enablers. Next time I'm pressured into a character for the sheer crack factor, I hope she or he is as fun as Charlotte's been, seriously.

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Best. Nun. Evaaaar.

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Phoebe Halliwell: She was always my favorite character from Charmed... until the end of S4. I was writing her at a prompt community where I was pretending that anything after S4 didn't exist. :) When trollprincess was floating the idea for the game, I wanted to play Phoebe because I thought it would be fun to play her as a teenager and have her get her powers in game.

Gwynn Hood: I wanted to play a character with no powers and who was not the usual character I played. I was watching "Princess of Thieves" and was talking in a chat to some friends who encouraged me to app Gwynn because she really was someone I loved but a character type that I had never played. They kept telling me to try new things... and there she was.

Savannah Levine: I really loved Kelley Armstrong's books and when I wanted a new character, I wanted to play a character that I had never played before. Savannah struck me as being a fun character to play because she was so young -- but already had so much going on with and around her. She's got a lot of trauma and enemies, but she is still a devil may care girl. I loved the idea of her guardian sending her to boarding school in an attempt to give her a normal life away from magic and danger... and her ending up in Fandom.

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Cameron Mitchell: Kara Thrace was taken and I was just falling in love with this character. He's fun and easy to play and he's just damn adorable.

Tex: Because she is cranky and rude and SHE CAN KICK YOUR ASS!

Zuko: Zuko falls into my 'cranky bad guy who could be good if he just tried'. Plus, apparently I have a thing for fire. Which I didn't realise at first. Avatar is just a great series. The continuity is awesome and while I liked Sokka best, I knew I could never play him well. Zuko on the other hand... Well, he's not always easy to play with, but he's fun to torment. That and I wanted to see him take the right path.

Roy Mustang: There are no words for how much I love Roy, but I was terrified of playing him and getting his voice wrong. But, there were enablers around and well... then I somehow ended up finding his voice and once I had it, I didn't want to let it go. He's got a little bit of everything. From playful to messed up and I do like my characters at least a little messed up. Plus, there's the whole fire thing. And the Colonel thing.

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Cindy Mackenzie: My adorable computer nerd with the awesome sarcasm. She was my first RP character ever. I really had absolutely no clue what I was doing when I app-ed her. FH was mentioned on my flist, and when I said 'hey, I think I might want to app Mac...' marsheadtilt saw, encouraged and it all went from there.

Shawn: A bit of an impulse. I wrote my app pretty much on the deadline, and was kind of amazed it got accepted. I wanted to do something completely different. So I went for trying to play a boy, someone slightly more social, and with some powers to go with. Shawn was the decision. I always loved the character, the nice guy who always looks for the peaceful way and it does seem to get him in trouble.

Former:
Aiden: I actually put more thought into this one than the other two. I'd been considering picking up a townie, and have always been a CSI fan... She was another complete variation from anything I'd done before, and thought it might be interesting. I honestly never really got into her voice, but it was fun while it lasted.

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Peter Pevensie: I have no idea why Peter. I originally was going to app Kaylee. And then it transformed into Edmund in my head. And then I was rewatching Chronicles of Narnia, and Peter jumped out at me. He fulfills my instant adoration tag by being a child monarch who has to rise up to fulfill duties far beyond his years, and I thought I could do well with him. I still almost sent in an Edmund app.

Aly: I brought her in during the summer as a guest star for the Career Fair because Alanna's player and I thought it would be funny. And then I had a freaking blast playing her. And loved her to pieces. So I ended up asking Alanna's player if she'd mind a daughter showing up and apped her for the next term (and I TOTALLY thought she wasn't going to be accepted).

Katara: thebluespirit and bruiser_in_pink's fault. All the way. They tied me down, forced me to watch the series and then looked at me with puppy dog eyes until I sent in my Katara app.

Former:
Edward Elric: (townlumni) God, do I love this character. He's tormented and bratty and a huge dork and incredibly smart and slots right in that little 'child forced to grow up too fast' niche of mine. Except I can't write him except for every odd Thursday. I started watching FMA due to the encouragement of Jara and got talked into apping Ed by her and Al's player at the time. Because he's awesome and snarky and ridiculous.

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YOU LIKED THE TYING DOWN PART