Meme: Why'd you pick your characters?

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Because:
A. We did this last September
B. I saw it last night while cruising through old meme posts and thought it was neat.
C. We got a whole bunch of new characters since then
D. I want to count how many times everyone edits an entry before someone comments to them and ruins whatever thoughts they might have on their character.

So this is how it works:

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.

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[trigons_child]

Bel: Because I adore him so damn much. *hugs her emo demon* I'd played Cole before in an LJ RPG, but that game faded away. I had started playing him as therapy for how he was treated in canon, and I jumped on the chance to play a younger version of him.

Wyatt: Jen and I started talking about bringing Chris and Wyatt into game, and naturally I was more attracted to the one with the dark side. No reason. *looks around shiftily*

Raven: When I came back to FH after a hiatus, it took me awhile to think of a character to app. I mulled over my favorite shows, movies, books, and comics and finally settled on Raven. She's a girl, which at the time was a rarity for me, but she's got the half-demon dark side. Also, I really enjoy playing angsty & emotional scenes -- which, I know, is a huge shock to all of you -- so she's perfect for that.

Drake: He's totally the anti-Nic. I absolutely adored Drake on Charmed. And sometimes you just need an anti-emo character to kick back and be silly with. He absolutely has a mind of his own, though.

Leia: I was randomly watching Empire one day and went into a full on rant on how Yoda and Ghost!Obi-Wan were all perfectly content to let Leia be tortured and possibly killed by Vader, knowing full well that she was their ace-in-the-hole if Luke died or went Dark Side. I mean, maybe it was Lucas's fault (okay, definitely his fault), but they were pretty damn blasé about their sekrit backup plan dying, which got me ranting about WHAT, IS IT BECAUSE SHE'S THE GIRL? and how kick-ass Leia is and dammit I should app her. And then Shanie enabled me. :)

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

You forgot Vida!

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

I was reading tons of comics and considering possible backup apps. I'd already chosen a character to app for summer, but I'd heard there might be someone else apping a different version, so I was trying to keep my options open.

I read the full Blue Beetle series and wanted more, so I picked up the latest iteration of Teen Titans and remembered how much I loved Robin. So I started reading back issues and Tim just took over my brain and shoved all other potential characters to the side.

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

A app'd Cindy because I wanted a teacher. I had a ton of ideas for classes and I really just needed a mouthpiece so I could teach them. The problem was finding an adult who would be cool and fun to teach those classes with. Enter Cindy: she's cool, she's fun, she's badass, and the Fables universe just rocks my socks.

My main problem with her is that Karla eats up far too much of my brain and Cindy gets ignored for the most part, except when it comes time to post classes. I'm realizing that I should have actually gone for someone boring, so I wouldn't feel guilty about ignoring them. Cindy's far too cool to just be a mouthpiece.

Which just means I'm going to have to throttle Karla into silence a bit and focus on Cindy more. Next summer session, I'm hoping to send her to Paris to play through the Ichabod Crane plot and when she comes home, I'm going to seriously knuckle down and play her. Because she's far too awesome to keep ignoring--especially after getting everyone hooked on her comic!

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Claire: I hadn't been planning to app a new student at that point, but then I sort of enabled Kym to app here and we had played older versions of Jon and Claire off of each other and thought it would be interesting to play their younger versions together. Plus she totally fit my type (snarky blonde with daddy issues).

Joan: Needed a new student, wanted someone from a smaller, less popular canon, had recently purchased both seasons of JoA on DVD from Amazon and decided to go for it.

Paige: I've played her for plots and things before and always liked her as a character. I actually hadn't been looking to app that session because of the uncertainty of my job situation but somehow the idea got stuck in my head and Nic was good with having her be Drake's Paige which gave me a good reason to get her here. Chances are high she'll be leaving at the end of summer when Drake goes though.

Ashley: was the result of me mainlining the canon in about 3 weeks and deciding I needed to fix what canon did to her. Plus she's a snarky blonde with daddy issues so I was immediately drawn to her. She also had the added benefit of being from a canon no one knew I had watched which meant I could stealth her which I wanted to do just to see if I could.

Chris: I had been trying to get a Chris in game for a while because I loved him but was hesitant to play a male character. I ended up apping with Nic though because I <3 her and Wyatt wouldn't have worked as well without Chris.

Veronica: I spent the summer before FH started mainlining the first season of VM and writing lots and lots of fic, so when the idea for FH came up, I knew she was the one I wanted to play. (See also type, snarky blonde with daddy mommy issues)

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

I actually don't have a huge involved story here! I've loved the Story Girl duology for years, and she was always on the backburner of my list of potential characters, but when Fry mentioned wanting to app Rilla Blythe it basically turned into "I WILL APP SARA IF IT MEANS YOU WILL APP RILLA BECAUSE OMG PEI GIRLS REPRESENT."

I was pretty hesitant about this one because I already have a storyteller in Gabrielle (you should see the "describe your character" section of my app, which is packed with parentheticals about "yes, I know I have one who does this thing already") but a while back I'd played Anne Shirley for a semester, and I missed playing a L.M. Montgomery character, and . . . yeah.

I was going to do all of mine in a single comment, and then LJ was like "LOL NO, YOU HAVE TWICE THE NUMBER OF CHARACTERS ALLOWED IN THERE."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie: This was the direct result of my picking up True Blood midway through season one, falling in love, and then mainlining all of the books over Thanksgiving break, and then apping Sookie for winter session. She was my first character with powers, so it was a big change for me (and anyone who's seen my insane TL;DR app can attest to that.)

Puck: I actually know pretty much exactly when I decided to app Puck. It was right after episode 1.08, 'Mashup,' which is the first episode that actually shows us who this mean, kind of dim jock is. He dates Rachel (because she came to him in a dream and he wants to be a better Jew, idk), he's shown to be sweet and prioritize important things over peer pressure, and he siiiiings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bro1uLtlMxs). This is also the episode where they all have slushies thrown in their faces, including Puck, and he finally gets why that's a horrible thing to do. So, really, this was the episode that humanized him, and as there_was_life can vouch, I probably listened to that Sweet Caroline clip 45 times before I was like "I think I'm gonna app him."

Robin: I watched seasons one and two of HIMYM in the late summer while I was on break, and somewhere around Slap Bet, I was like "OKAY, I KNOW THE PERFECT ROBIN USERNAME, SHE WOULD BE AWESOME IN FANDOM, LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN." And then I finished the season, canon provided me with a perfect way to introduce her, and I wrote my app at work that night.

Aravis: Who I initially left off because I was running out the door, go me. Anyway, Aravis was borne out of my aunt and uncle sending me the Narnia books on CD, and I was listening to Aravis' canon and going "...this actress kind of sucks. But I would love to play Aravis at FH." Then there was a week-long search for her PB, and when I found one, the app basically wrote itself.

Kaylee: Kayleeface was totally the result of watching Firefly and wondering if I could actually manage to type out her dialect. Turns out I can, and I still really love playing her, even if it's hard to switch between her and, say, Rory.

Rory: Seriously, when I saw this game starting, I just thought of the first teenage character I could and claimed them. I've always been a big GG fangirl, and that was that. Nothing more complicated than that.

[brat_inslayage]

I've been wanting to play her for years, honestly. Like, since weeks after the beginning of the game, even. Seriously, I love this kid a lot. Always have, and I'm terrible at finishing fic but I wanted to do something with the six-something years' worth of headcanon and backstory I'd put together for her. Then last year, divinesurfchick was out of town for a week and I couldn't sleep, so I ended up spending all night every night watching a bunch of Buffy DVDs, because that's clearly the smartest thing to do in the middle of the night when you're by yourself. My brain works in weird ways when it's 3AM and I'm sleep-deprived, so when I got to "Bring on the Night" onwards in S7 I started paying attention to all the little details and went "Holy crap, I'd completely forgotten just how much I freaking love this character no matter what anyone else thinks. NOW I HAVE TO PLAY HER."

I can actually tell you the exact moment I decided that; it was the sewer sequence at the beginning of "End of Days," where Faith's unconscious and the Ubervamps are coming after the Potentials, and Kennedy's trying to protect all the others while they're freaking out. Yeah, she gets totally pwned about two seconds later, but I was sitting there watching her barking orders to the other girls and constantly keeping herself between them and the Ubervamp, and pretty much sat up and yelled "Yeah, okay, THIS RIGHT HERE? THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU, KID." It's not the only reason, but it's the one that really hooked me. I mean, she's got no Slayer powers, she's completely outclassed, she's seen what one of these guys did to Buffy but damn if she's not trying anyway; she's done absolutely nothing to endear herself to pretty much anyone else and she's trying to protect them anyway. I can't not love that.

This just happened to be right around the time life_inshadow came into the game, and I had to email and ask "I know I'm crazy, but does it make me completely insane to say that I really want to app Kennedy now?" Because they really are such opposite character types, and I was so damn curious to see how they'd get along. I threw the idea at a few other people, too, all of whom were pretty much "OMG DO IT" and this is really why my attempt to stealth her at all was laughable, but...

Yeah, haven't been sorry for a second. This girl and Tahiri are the ones I love playing the most.

I could ramble about her forever and that's kind of sad, and I should probably be ashamed of myself. Mostly I'm just editing this for your amusement.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

OH HEY, I THINK I CAN FIT ALL THE BLONDES IN ONE COMMENT NOW.

Gabrielle
. . . okay, seriously, when the idea first came to me it was largely a running gag, because I already had short mouthy green-eyed blondes with Tahiri and Katchoo. But come on, my favorite character from my first and still best-loved fandom? I mentioned it to a few people as a joke, and then I went and actually rewatched a bunch of Xena episodes, and remembered my massive love for Gabrielle all over again. I love her in the early seasons, I want to shake her a lot in fourth season, and in fifth and sixth seasons I love her even more, and her character growth throughout the series is just wonderful and heartbreaking and satisfying.

I wanted, and actually kind of desperately needed, a character counterpoint to Katchoo and Tahiri at the time; Katchoo is and always will be a simmering ball of rage, and Tahiri was really at her unstable angsty worst, and early-seasons Gabrielle is optimistic and cheerful and bouncy and just . . . dude, with the other two, I seriously needed that.

Tahiri Veila
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Straight up trickster_twin's fault, since she would not let up pestering me from the minute I said I was contemplating apping a SW character. This girl was always my favorite in the NJO books, and especially after what I saw what they did to her in more recent canon I knew I had to play her and save her from that. I'm not a "save you from your canon fate" person as a general rule, but in this case it really, really, really had to be done.

And I really wanted to play with the whole dual-personality aspect of Tahiri/Riina for a while before fixing it.

And -- okay, look, if it isn't painfully obvious by now, my ship kink is "what happens after the OTP ends? How do you move on? How messy does it get?" Tahiri in canon is so completely broken after Anakin Solo dies, and that fascinated me, but also drove me nuts because (again, mostly in later canon) I hated seeing her, as a character, become a victim of that for pretty much the rest of her life, and have the stronger aspects of her personality get shoved to the side in favor of making her Angstpuppy Forever. Yeah, yeah, angst is interesting sometimes, but GROW, FFS. YOU CAN'T TELL ME SHE'S GOING TO SPEND THE NEXT FIFTEEN YEARS OF HER LIFE ANGSTING AND EXPECT ME TO BE HAPPY ABOUT THAT.

Therefore. Had to play her. She's been challenging and occasionally really, really draining (the Riina stuff was hard), but so freaking rewarding.

Katchoo
Strangers in Paradise was my second hardcore fandom, after Xena. A looooooong time ago in the first year of the game, I made a comment to thatsamilkshake about how it would be awesome if Fandom had a Darcy Parker, but how she'd be impossible to play long-term and I couldn't do it, but I could probably play Katchoo. That sat on the backburner for a long, long time until we did one of the "show us your potential journals" memes and I busted out the Chewie journal I had. At which point MP bombarded me with icons and enabling until I agreed to app her.

The rest is history.

[sith_happened]

It all started with Anakin. When FH started, I wasn't even all that hard-core into Star Wars, but I figured a year or two of high school angst would give Anakin a reason to turn dark side, something that the movies had never really explained to my satisfaction.

And then when Anakin graduated, I needed to redeem him. And I'm anal. So I apped Luke to make sure it went the way I wanted it to. And he's such a different character from Anakin--more forgiving, for one, and less brittle. And even more iconic than Anakin, which made him absolutely intimidating to play. I still don't think I play Luke well enough.

And by the time Luke graduated, it had become a thing that I play Skywalker boys. Enter Ben, whose canon had just started to get interesting. He'd be the youngest Skywalker I played, and possibly the most mature, since Anakin will always have the emotional maturity of a head of cabbage. He had the anger issues of his granddad, but the stability that Luke gave him--and the intelligence of his mother, which helps enormously, as the pigheadness is strong in the Skywalker genes.

[hasthegirlballs.livejournal.com]

I've already told the story of my other characters a bazillion times (although if need be and boredom sets in I can still cover them) so here's the new one, instead, to hopefully prevent boredom or at least promote quicker scrolling.

So I started watching Scrubs: Med School just to see how bad it was. Instead, Denise took me in a choke-hold and drew me back in. Arthur was graduating, and I desperately wanted a character that could actually plausibly be socialised, that wasn't anything like any of my other characters IG, and who had a mouth on her. It was a long battle between Denise and my long-standing desire to app in_the_jar (as well as a random forage into desperately wanting to play Glee's Finn for a while), and then stuff like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGzaMZjUlJw) had to go and happen on the show.

And then the awesome ship ender where Denise attempts to ease her boyfriend into the idea of living with her by putting a hole in the wall between their dorm rooms with a sledgehammer.

And I kind of had to.

... and then I spent four months waiting for apps season.

[therewaslife]

Hahaha, as someone who just had their first thread with Denise yesterday, I have to say she's fuuuuuuuuun. And mean. That's what my LJ notes for Bod say on her, in fact. 'Met in a campfire/meaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!'

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jacob just clicked in my head almost instantly when I read his canon. He was cute and adorable, just the generally good guy who you know is going to end up getting screwed over. And then he turned out to be a werewolf and I might possibly have a wolf thing for as long as I can remember.

Now add the abuse he suffers through the third book and me wanting to shake him about, because seriously. I just kept thinking that I wanted to fix this, to give him a better story and to become smarter. And what better place to do that than Fandom?

He's the right mix of dorkiness, teenage angst, jackassery and adorableness that makes him a whole lot of fun to play. I find him so easy to play and don't want to ever give him.

[capt-maxfactor.livejournal.com]

And the rest:

I played Jack during the Nemesis Island plot back when I was getting burned out with Barbossa. And the radio has to be run by a pirate, so I swapped 'em out, and Jack's been here ever since. I'd wanted to play Jack from the start but someone had beaten me to him. And now he has a class, which gives him a chance to be insane and ramble-y and Jack, which makes him such an excellent character. And the first Pirates movie is made of awesome and win, which I rediscovered a few weekends ago.

Biff was because Lamb is easily in my top ten favorite books of all time and playing Josh would just be a tad too close to blasphemy for me (something I discovered as I played him over GodCon). Biff is sarcastic and quippy and manwhorey and the opposite of humorless, ultra-alpha Anakin.

I've loved Mat for years, and combines my favorite characteristics of flirt and military tactician. It took me forever to figure out a PB for him, then trying to decide how to yank him out of canon. But starting at about book three, Mat became the best part of the Wheel of Time series, and I had always tossed around the idea of playing him. Once it became clear that the WoT would actually have an end that I wouldn't have to make up, I pulled his journal out and tossed him at the game.

Rilla was, as Shanie said, kind of a mutual dare thing. After I got out of my pony phase as a Small!Fry, I discovered the Anne of Green Gables series, and I still read Rilla's book every few years. She's like an old friend, and very, very different from my over-powered boys. She's a nice break for my brain and I'm going to keep her forever.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex Karev was someone I'd loved for awhile even though he frequently gets the shaft on a ridiculous show. I loved him because he was a straight up, unrepentant jackass with A LOT of issues and I hadn't ever really played someone who was that much of a jerk. And I wanted to. I don't know what that says about me.

Anyway, as I said earlier, he's one of the few who really has no backstory (until this season, thanks for the Jossing, Shonda!) and I kind of wanted to flesh out what he did have while giving FH some more jerky characters who'd piss people off for his own amusement. I'm pleased by how well he's done and how easy he is to play. It's almost relaxing at times.

[endsthegame]

...okay, fine, Ender gets another go. Mostly because I have a lot of ramble.

So the short version is that one day years ago guardianborn and I were discussing the Ender series, and what it would take to play them. Somewhere along the conversation, the idea was coined that I could play Ender-- in a hypothetical scenario.

The idea got stuck in my head for a long, long while. I already had one plotty bastard with a military background, one damaged by said background. And still, Ender was different.

I mean, Card keeps telling us through various characters in the books that Ender isn't 'broken', and keeps trying to imply that somehow he grows up to be a functional adult, but he really doesn't. His rationalizations just get bigger and bigger and bigger, and swallow up all the people around him until they choose to leave it. Because on some level, he's punishing himself; he's always punishing himself. And he throws himself into the arms of anonymity, and then into the spot of being some patriarch and husband when he isn't, really, and he chases across the galaxy looking for the end, fixing things and it's never enough to soothe his guilt. Not really.

At the same time, if I took him right from before the book's epilogue, that meant he'd be in this fascinating sedate, calm state that I could really use at the time due to RL being a bit of a mess. Quiet, like someone slowly waking up to life after a massive, earth-shattering disaster. Everything else, as I once put it, still has the mute button on it, and it's only slowly giving away. I could relate to that very well. I wanted to play it.

I also knew that he'd have to come in as a freshman, because that's what Ender does - he always comes in at the lowest level, and turns out to be the best. And it kind of rolled out from there. His brain fascinates me, and I argue with myself daily about what parts of canon I will let him go through and which ones I won't. I feel like I kind of want to fix him, and yet not. And as a character I've loved since I was 10, his mind is both really hard and incredibly easy to get into. /rant

[weetuskenraider]

I feel like I kind of want to fix him, and yet not.

And now I feel like this is a discussion I want to have with you sometime, because I've gone back and forth on that a lot myself.

[boho-to-be.livejournal.com]

I commented (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh_ooc/537080.html?thread=10243320#t10243320) about (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh_ooc/708553.html?thread=22873289#t22873289) my (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh_ooc/708553.html?thread=22873545#t22873545) others (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh_ooc/708553.html?thread=22874057#t22874057) before (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh_ooc/708553.html?thread=22876873#t22876873).

Christian came to be because I needed a back-up app this cycle and, for logistics reasons, it had to be a canon I could pretty much brush up on in a day. And I've seen Moulin Rouge approximately thirty times. It took me some OMG WHO SHOULD I APP flailing, but when I thought of Christian, I knew I had the right guy. I love his idealism, and there's a certain random joy in playing a character who canonically sometimes bursts into song.

(Seriously, after Romeo and Jack, I think I have a little niche going playing Luhrmann heroes, hopeless romantics and people from the 1890s. I'll break out of it with my next male student, I promise!)

Henry DeTamble was the main character in a book I really loved. I'm fascinated by time travel as a narrative element, and I liked both the romance of the book and the way Niffenegger worked out the logistics of what it meant for Henry. Plus, Henry as a *person* is just damn cool -- broken and compensating in interesting ways.

There was no canonical way he could be anything except a librarian, so he was on ice for a while. In my application, I said I'd rework it and make him a townie if the librarian slot fell to someone else, but I shall forever be grateful I didn't have to make that choice.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy Gardner I picked up reading Green Lantern Corp after seeing a bit of it on scans_daily. The original idea was actually to read up on Kyle for an art teacher, but Guy stood out like whoa. *shrug* He stuck with me more than Kyle 'THE WRITERS HAVE A HARD-ON FOR ME' Rayner.

...plus, any thoughts of apping Hal, despite the Ryan Reynolds hot, was nixed due to extreme doucheness.

Deadpool Another scans_daily thing! Mainlined his solo and then Cable & Deadpool. And then I got it in my head that he'd be perfect as a teacher.

I might have had a mental break at the moment.

Sam Vimes I have read and reread nearly all the Discworld books more times than healthy and Vimes had always been in my head to play. Especially after Thud! And, back in the day, Sky and I rambled about Vimes and Angua in Fandom and here they are.

Tony Stark The movie came out after the Civil War event and I haaaated Tony for the ending of it. Then, RDJ changed my mind with his sexy and ability to express Tony's need to save people from themselves.

Merlin Len got me watching this goofy little BBC show and I was hooked. That wench.

I love me some dorkus Sues, so it was hardly fair.

Black Bolt Z and I talked about them aaaages ago. And he's not my usual type and I wanted a challenge. Plus, Medusa and home are adoooorable.

[colourfulscents.livejournal.com]

" And, back in the day, Sky and I rambled about Vimes and Angua in Fandom and here they are."

...being sekritly shipped and hating us lots. =D

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

Jonas came about because I was looking for someone completely out of the norm for me. Well, completely out of the norm would be a girl who isn't Umbridge but that's another story. Anyway, I wanted to get away from the type I'd been playing so I went with someone who I knew would be the biggest challenge to date.

I'd read The Giver years before and then read it again and again more recently and just started thinking about. Jonas in Fandom would be one of those things where I'd have to check myself and make sure I didn't take the easy way out. And I liked knowing that. I like using Fandom as a way to sort of flesh him out considering the book left his fate up in the air. After all the stuff he'd gone through, to have him die wasn't on my mind. So, I went for it.

[takesaftermom.livejournal.com]

Summer came about because I decided I wanted to try a teacher on for size. I had just finished reading Trojan Odyssey and then Black Wind, two stories that featured Summer and her twin brother. Cussler's main focus was on Dirk Sr., and I felt like Summer hadn't gotten enough development.

She was featured in two other books, Treasure of Khan and Arctic Drift and yet, I still felt like she was pushed to the back burner. (She didn't show up until more than halfway through Khan -- somewhat close to the end of the story). So, I decided she'd be the perfect character to teach in Fandom.

She'd never been apart from her twin since birth and she'd just gone through a kidnapping, so I had the perfect excuse to send her away. Summer would be exposed to Fandom's oddities -- things that she rarely experienced during her expeditions -- and it would be a perfect opportunity for characterization. Something like that.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Ooooh I can c/p most of these. Laziness ftw!

Chuck: I will say right now, I was totally against Gossip Girl when it first came out. I dun want none of that CW teen soap opera bullshit, thank you. But I think I got bored one Monday night and was flipping channels and a heavenly light showed upon the TV and Chuck Bass came into my life. Or something like that, I don't know. He plays to my fetish for jackasses perfectly and he is the most fashionable dude that has ever graced my television. With Dick leaving Fandom I had to get myself a new jerk to play or else be completely unhappy and I got enabled pushed delicately into apping Chuck by TBQ. And totally the best RP making decision I ever made because he's my favorite person ever. I get to be a complete jackass, hit on whomever I want and get away with everything because I'm rich. Can't play a better character than that. Also I like playing a character whose canon is a) still ongoing and b) comes up with completely crazy shit for me to add IG every season.

I'm serious about b, man. This season alone I got a ghost dad, Chuck punching his stepsister's v-card, and him getting shot in the red light district of a foreign country.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

GUNSHOT BUDDY!

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

Rosalind is… mostly raspberryturk's fault, when it all comes down to it. Ino and Zack were getting to be friends (at that time we weren't actively shipping them so they really were just friends) and we were spending a lot of time discussing Zack's canon and… I hadn't played Crisis Core. So I was getting spoiled left, right and center. So, I wound up buying the game. And then tried playing it before wandering off and not finishing it because it was too depressing.

Then Ino and Zack decided to become best friends-who-might-start-kissing and I realized that going on second-hand information wasn't going to cut it here. So I picked up the game, re-started it, and this time, managed to finish it. Spent a few days wibbling all over the place. And then started looking at the other bits of canon. Advent Children. Re-playing the original game. And—reading Rosalind's canon, Before Crisis for the first time and falling in love with Rosalind.

She's bitchy just because. But there's very little maliciousness in her, which was key for me. It's just her personality and how she expresses herself. She's kind in action, if not in words. She's got a complicated relationship with her sibling. She's got a military background. She's got some seriously screwed up ethics and is aware of why they're wrong. Skill-wise, she's a massive Sue, but personality-wise… I adooored her.

I fidgeted over it. Mumbled about it to Shannon. Sat on the idea a whole lot because I wasn't sure I could handle three characters and trying to wrap my mind around having to fit in with canonmates who had close ties to Rosalind in canon because I'd never done that before and it was scary. (And I was intimidated by the awesome of raspberryturk and findingelena. Secret: I still am and spend a great deal of time fretting about not matching up.) Then I made the mistake of re-reading her canon and looking for all the little details about her. And then the potential character meme went up, and I was all 'screw it, I have the perfect username for her' and made the journal to ping Rosalind in because, hey, having the journal didn't mean I had to do anything with it, right? Right? And then Shannon spilled to Relly that I was the one with the potential Rosalind journal and she was all "EEEE!" over the possibility of it happening.

… So I sat on it some more. Thought about it a lot. Played with writing her. Flailed a lot at raspberryturk. Asked permission from findingelena and got it and spent a good bit of time working backstory out with her. Then sat on my half-finished app for a week and a half because I hate summarizing things and was sure I'd get it wrong and was convinced it would suck horribly. Finally finished the thing and sent it in. Then spent the rest of the app period pretending that I hadn't apped anyone because thinking that I had made me nauseous.

My decision to app Rosalind was the most flail-inducing one I have ever done. But I looove her so. Which, really, I suppose I could've just stuck with 'she's awesome so I apped her, nyah' but that story wasn't nearly long enough, of course. Or something.

[imonscholarship.livejournal.com]

Dan I picked to play because I love the little dork. I didn't at first, s1 DHumps might be the single most annoying person at first, but he won me over completely in s3. He's such a judgmental little hypocrite and a jackass in a way that Chuck wasn't and I thought it'd be fun to play. I'm kind of in love with playing someone who is so socially awkward, especially around girls.

And, like Chuck, I have a completely insane ongoing canon to work from. Dan bangs teachers on the show and knocks up Dawn Summers omg. And in the books he becomes bisexual and then gets his boyfriend stolen away by Chuck. It's awesome.

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Charming? Jackass with a heart of gold? Weird UST with his brother? Yep Damon's the person for me to play. I had fallen in love with The Vampire Diaries and just had to app from the canon. At the time I apped, Damon was my favorite character but now he's been knocked down to fourth behind Tyler, Alaric and Stefan.

Yes, Stefan's my favorite Salvatore. Haters to the left.

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Sam is just about my favorite character in the history of ever, so apping him wasn't even a question, especially since I was playing all girls at the time and wanted a boy to balance things out.

Zoe was a semi-random addition because I needed an IG admin character. At the time, I had a lot of pictures up in my room from my favorite shows and movies; I was looking around for ideas and ended up zeroing in on my Firefly picture and thinking "Zoe could work!" And that was that.

Martha came about because I was playing Doogie Howser but wanted a different clinic doctor, preferably one old enough to actually run the clinic since we didn't have anyone in charge at the time. I ended up going through a mental list of doctors from the shows I watched, and that's how I picked Martha. She's still my second-favorite companion after Donna (although Amy might knock them both down a peg).

Morgana came from my love of "women who are surrounded by men, but hold their own" (see: Abigail Whistler, Eowyn, etc.) Once I made my love clear, Len and Elaine were evil enabling enablers and encouraged me to app her.

Jess was seriously my most random app ever. I think the time from going "Maybe I should app him" to actually writing the app was about a day. I was totally fine with just a casual appreciation for Milo Ventimiglia, but then someone decided Sam and Peter should be BFFs (:D) and the constant exposure weakened my defenses and made me rewatch the Jess episodes of Gilmore Girls. I figured he'd be fun to play if for no other reason than to drive Anakin nuts. :)

Ziva was totally going to be a student, because I suck at teachers, until it was suggested that she could teach Driver's Ed, mwahahaha. Again, my love of women-in-a-man's-world kicked in when I started watching NCIS, especially since Ziva is just such a badass.

Jason had a very short time on my potential characters list. To be honest, I'm not sure why I like him so much. Maybe it's because he got killed due to fanboy disapproval. Maybe it's because he's a pretty big badass in his own right. Maybe I have a thing for guys with tragic daddy issues. I don't know, but it was enough to get me past my fear of playing comic characters.

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I might like Amy enough to watch Who as more than pretty background noise. She is just win.

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Priestly I totally just wanted to play Jensen Ackles in a kilt. Then I started writing him and went "oh, hey, he's kind of a cool guy, huh?"

Castiel Still this. ENABLERS!

Claudia Have you ever watched something and just known that you needed to play that character? I mean, last summer, I'm hanging out in a new apartment, bumming around, watching Eureka, and I keep seeing these ads for this show, right? And I'm like "meh, two agents, yadda yadda, it's all been done" and then in this one ad there's this girl, and she's there for maybe half a second and she's saying something totally lame and filler-y like they always put in ads for things like "that's cool!" or something and my ears all perked up and I went "huh. Maybe I'll watch that" and the next thing I knew, I'd mainlined everything that had aired and knew that this Claudia girl must be apped.

Of course, then four months after she came to Fandom, I found another character like that (who will quite possibly get apped for the fall. Because I've gone from a girl who can only play one character at a time to a girl who plays four. IDEK).

Artie I've been in love with this character since I was 10. Which . . . probably explains a lot about me as a person.

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Mwahahahahaha! *halo*

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Miles is not my favorite LOST character. Actually I like Ben, Sawyer and Jack all better than him. But Ben's too hard to play, Sawyer's too emo and I don't think Fandom is ready for Jears. So I picked Miles because I know he's in my playing range and I wouldn't get bored of him. He's another jackass with a heart of gold, only this time the show acknowledges that he's a good guy instead of making him out to be the bad guy most of the time. He's also got an awesome backstory and powers that will have no use in Fandom, which is just how I like my powers. Minimal. Because I forget people have them most of the time.

And last night I learned he's a master with duct tape. I am so proud.