MEME MONDAY: FEAR & DESIRE

[xihe]

Alright, guys, it's Monday, the start of a new week. Hopefully everyone's enjoying the winter season so far, and hasn't been getting too much snow (or too much sun, for those in the southern hemispheres)! To brighten up the Monday blues, here's what'll hopefully be the first of many themed discussion days.

People are, ofc, fully welcome to post details about their characters outside of these! These are just to encourage conversation and help people open up on discussing their characters. :)

For our FIRST MEME MONDAY, tell us about your character's fears and desires! Feel free to do several characters, or to do just one - it's up to you. :] Similarly, feel free to answer whichever of the questions you prefer, or all of them.

• What's their biggest fear? Is there anything that makes them scared? Why? And if not, what inspires their bravery?

• What's their greatest desire? Do they have a goal in life, or are they just drifting along? If so, what motivates them in either case?

• And on a player-level: what are your favorite motivations for characters? Are there certain goals that you love reading about - self-serving ambition, trolls that live for their quadrants, etc, etc? Are there any fears that you love to write?

Comments

[xihe]

1) Is Tuzuki the jade that you posted up earlier? But also, man. .. ngl, avoidance makes sense irl when it comes to mysterious crimes, but. x) A lot more relatable when it comes to Alternia's absurd justice system.

2) Loneliness (and neediness in general) is always a fun character trait, tbh - it can feed into so many different types of reactions, and bounce off of other characters so well. (But important question: does the acting like an ass manage to cancel out the high school mean girl in getting people to hang out?)

3) AW, OH NO. qnq

And oooh. I love the desires! Do you know why Tuzuki wants free from the brooding caverns yet?

.. and oh my god @ Aranda.

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I feel like the "character is going to do evil task - starts feeling guilty - switches side" is such a classic trope, and I love it a lot. It's just.. narratively satisfying, tbh!

[firedjinn]

Yeah, Tuzuki's the jade. Not 100% sure what her deal is regarding the caverns yet. Maybe it's related to the thing she did, or the thing she did was to avoid going there. \_(o~o)_/


The high school mean girl thing... I'm still making some stuff up as I go, but the main idea was... you know that one plot you see sometimes, especially in works for kids, talking about peer pressure? That one plot where the protagonist wants to hang out with the Cool Kids^TM and the cool kids go "Well, if you wanna hang with us you first gotta ditch your loser friend/beat up another kid we don't like/egg someone's house/help us rob a convenience store"? (And the protagonist is supposed to back out at the last minute because they're a good kid, but real kids sometimes don't.)

Aranda's origin story is basically that. She became one of the lackeys in the highblood clique in her school/area/whatever, and is now sorta the Alpha Bitch's right-hand-gal. Maybe even thinks of their relationship as a quadrant thing. Either way she's powerful socially, but still not at the top, which is why her acting like an ass still comes from a need to be validated and feel like she has friends. Unfortunately, the paradigm of being an asshole to people below you on the ladder to get Friendship Points from the people above her appears to be the default for highbloods, and it's the only system she knows.


And yeah, Kaoboe is in for sad times. I have a little more info on him here.