fandomhigh_ooc | Character choice meme!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Edited 2008-05-26 20:50 (UTC)

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.

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.

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

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.

Edited 2008-05-26 21:10 (UTC)

*clings back*

*might demand you play Coupling characters for plot one day*

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.

Edited 2008-05-26 20:59 (UTC)

Ooooooh.

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...

I hate you. You and your damn stolen plane.

You love me and you know it.

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.

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

So basically what we've learned today is that I rule.

*FROWNS AT YOU*

Randomly I just love how all my icons in this post keywordly work with what I type.

*is a somebody!*

I love your dad!...'s dead wife.

I'm too busy celebrating to notice the frown!

Don't worry, Logan. We're all just continuing the Summers family trend of having idiot boyfriends.

...not that I have an idiot boyfriend.

At all.

And you wanted me to play Tim from The Office UK for a year before I apped Jim, so that's another character you influenced.

I AM CURRENTLY MAINLINING COUPLING AND IT IS YOUR FAULT.

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.

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