It's memeday!

[firecracker_hopping]

Hello, friends! It's meme day. We have a simple QUESTIONS meme today. This is an OOC one. The rrrrrrrrules (look, I watched Panty and Stocking today) are:

1) Tag in with your character(s?)!
2) Reply to someone else's tag and ask them a QUESTION about their character.
3) When you answer a question posed to you, you have to ask them a question in turn!

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[a_wrong_turn]

She thinks it would happen only in desperation (they're stranded, her friend dies, and she eats them to live) or if she turns feral. Chisaki still has some bad PTSD over eating human bodies (and raw meat); while the molavvas instincts helped diminish it a lot, she would have a lot of difficulty making herself cut up and eat a human body.

Can Victor still sing or play instruments? Or did he lose that in the Dark?

[pulledunder]

He can still play music, as his mind doesn't construct melody itself as a lie, and he can sing so long as he doesn't use actual words. It would be possible for Victor to sing a song he believed was true, but given the way poetry works, uuh good luck with that. Most of his lyrics were stories which he knew were untrue, but were meant to be inspiring. He can't work with metaphor and exaggeration. Even if he wrote, say, a love song that was 100% true, it would probably be awkwardly stale in its imagery. (Also dang if I knew this was gonna happen, I'd have made him do a lot more barding on screen. Hindsight!)

How does Chisaki's opinions of a person change based on learning if they're a player, a created character, or a hapless native to Zen/Earth?

[a_wrong_turn]

Generally, Chisaki is especially sympathetic to created characters. Since (as far as she knows) molavvas were a fictional concept imprinted upon her life, she feels a lot in common with them. Conversely, she's suspicious of players. She doesn't automatically hate 'em -- some seemed okay -- but she figures they put people through some horrible crap for the helluvit.

Does Victor miss singing and telling stories? Or is he not really wired to do that, now?

[pulledunder]

His biggest fear initially was he would have no means of sustaining himself without song. It's how he earned money. Find a tavern, do a thing, yeeah. Now that he's a paladin, he's less concerned on that part, and is glad to still have music even if the storytelling is gone. Not that it hasn't been a problem. He used it as a frame of reference to understand players. Before he could think "what if it had been me", but now it's a struggle to piece together how a story can get out of hand.

It's part of why he defaults more to seeing alts as pieces of players than as stories being told by them. Rationally, he thinks it's a bit of both, but functionally focuses on the former.

If Chisaki had ever roleplayed, what kind of character would she have made?

[a_wrong_turn]

I actually discussed this with Hibi once! In short: SHE WOULD BE A HORRIBLE ROLEPLAYER.

She would do a lot of plotless violent and sexy shit, with very questionable character arcs and sticking to canon. She'd probably play a murderous, affable asshole. She likes action movies and mindless things. It would have blown up in her face spectacularly.

Is Victor still angry, a little, at Ash?

[pulledunder]

Most of his anger at her has faded, but there are still aspects of it that trouble him. Ash didn't resurrect him without suffering the Dark, and her reputation would be destroyed if her role in it became common knowledge. (It's not terribly difficult to piece together.) If his attempt at redemption through life, instead of death, fails, then she falls with him.

That she did it at all and risked so much is still something Victor doesn't understand, but he has to admit how much he was wrong about his idea of what redemption should be. She's given him a lot to think about, and he hasn't sorted through all his feelings just yet. The Dark was a comfortable punishment. This one is confusing with no easy answers, but maybe that's what makes it more fitting.



And I mean, at least he's not molavvas.
I'm sorry.