Meme: How did you pick your characters?

[single_man_tear]

Was a meme requested? No. Did I want a meme? Yes. So I picked through the list of meme and found this one, which apparently hasn't been done since 2012.

Why did you pick the characters you play?

Be it because 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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[joan_of_bark]

Kreia - look, Knights of the Old Republic 2 has been my bullshit since forever, she's the most provocative and divisive character in there and she fascinates me. Absolutely not long-term character material, but I dropped a whole bunch of characters in summer and needed something to tide me over while I brooded on next steps... so I said screw it, let's play Kreia for a semester and finally get that one out of my system.

Jesse - we needed a new mayor, and I always try to look for a certain 'oh, that person would absolutely be able to handle Fandom' kind of quality in mayors. Which has gotten us Cable (big picture thinker), Tamsin (used to the supernatural, gives no shits) and Ron Swanson (gives no shits, kind of weird) in the past. I love Remedy Entertainment's batshit games like crazy, so I just went... you know, Jesse is a low-key total badass already used to being pushed into responsibility over immensely weird multiversal bureaucracies. She's basically made to be a Fandom mayor. Let's go for it.

Lucifer - 2019 was an extremely stressful year for me, between moving out into my own place, dealing with a complicated new career as a freelance journalist, and my mom having escalating panic attacks which turned out to be a harbinger of a fatal disease. I kind of fell into watching Lucifer because someone was using Tom Ellis as a PB for an NPC I found interesting, and it became my soothing 'I just need something stupid but fun and charismatic to relax myself' watch. And then Dante graduated and left and you know what, the position of sex-fueled ethereal extrovert with emotional issues on my roster opened up...

Poison Ivy - I have been a huge fan of both Ivy and Harley since I was a young teenager for, uh, subtextually and now textually obvious reasons. I collected a whole bunch of comics featuring both of them in the 2000s but dropped that off with the rest of my comic book habit. And then totalwildcard came into the game, and I said, "ha ha ha, this takes me back, almost makes me want to app Ivy!" and then Harley-mun just kind of went steel-faced "maybe you should".

Problem: I hadn't collected anything Ivy related for years, there's no DCU Ivy as of yet, I've never liked any of the versions of her in the various CW shows, and the Harley Quinn animation series can't be viewed in my country. I got back into the old cartoon and seriously considered apping that version of her, but the cartoon version is... very stylized, shallow (which makes sense!) and her slapstick bits make me feel a bit uncomfortable in 2024. I kept noodling at the thought and eventually gave in and ordered some trades of the GWW comic, just to see what she was up to in comic book land. And promptly fell completely in love with what GWW was doing there. Harley-mun grabbed some of the comics too, eyed the cartoon, and pointed out we both liked the comic version so much better.

At which point I realized that GWW's portrayal of Ivy is very self-contained to that run and I can get away with not reading a decade's worth of Ivy comics. (I will probably wind up doing that and am already on my way, but still.) And surprised myself with how excited I got about exploring this particular version of her. I wrote the app in the space of an afternoon and knew it was the right decision.

[magicinmyskin]

Someone

[joan_of_bark]

You are the worst

[joan_of_bark]

(and in terms of characterisation reasoning:

Kreia: I just love characters who ask questions and try to come at the world from a different view entirely. It's fun reasoning out how they'd approach something, and challenge other people, even if they ultimately turn out to be wrong.

Jesse: The contrast between her being quiet and unassuming but also very weird in lots of little ways (and the knowledge she is the Director, a kind of ultimate superhero, in her world - even though no one else knows).

Lucifer: An injured, traumatized character who puts on a front to hide it and must find people who love and challenge him to break him out of his patterns and starts healing + extreme extroversion making it easy to ping in + absolute almost Looney Tunes-ridiculousness meaning I can always make him the butt of the joke when I want to + creature of incredible power trying to be human = me-catnip.

Poison Ivy: An injured, traumatized character who puts on a front to hide it who has found people who love and challenge her to break her out of her patterns, but who isn't done healing yet and is still in the middle of a process + an outward stoicism that isn't without warmth, charm or dynamism + creature of incredible power struggling to balance her misanthropy with her humanity + coming at the world from a different point of view and asking questions... yeah okay it shouldn't have come as a surprise that I'd love her.)