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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Gray - I needed a new student, and I loved the idea of him falling asleep in various places/situations and the things that could be done with that, plus an immortal in high school is always funny lbr.

Raiden - It was always gonna be either Gray or Raiden if I apped from these dumb books, and once I apped Gray I was like, "Well, that decision is made, I can't do Raiden, two characters from one canon and it's this canon? No way." And then stuff kept happening that made me go, "But Raiden would LOVE Fandom." Summer posted something about pizza-flavored beer and that was the last straw.

Lydia - I started reading the book already with the possibility I might app her in the back of my head, because, "Lydia Bennet, but with magical powers," is an amazing concept. I hit the page where Mr. Collins starts making French horn sounds and that was it, I was in love, this was happening. And I will admit that making people go, "But Lydia Bennet," was part of my motivation. The biggest problem was that by the end of the book there were, like, three other characters that I also thought would be great in Fandom, but I stuck to my guns.

Don & Thor - This concept first started percolating in my head during the comics run I ended up pulling them from, so...circa 2008. I love all the ways they're so different while having been effectively the same person, and the ways they relate to each other, and I loved the idea of how people would relate to/interact with them. And then we got a different Thor while I was waiting for more canon, so I back-burnered it. And then I stopped reading comics entirely but every now and then I would think, "Man, what if Don & Thor?"

And then one day I looked at Gray and Raiden and realized they had a lot of similarities, actually, and I decided I might as well look at apping Don & Thor for real after all this time since I'd never quite given up on the idea.

...and then I found out that Don is an insane supervillain now, so that was...fun...but hey, comics means never having to say you're not cherry-picking!