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[camwyn]

This is for my currently-played characters at milliways_bar, specifically, Ray Stantz (gone_byebye), Gimli (fire_of_mahal), and Jah-lila (red_mare).

Interviewing my characters meme again!

Ask 'em a question. They'll answer honestly. Entirely.

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[alchemy]

What does Ray think of April? Woobie!Andrew? Exactly how uncomfortable does Ivy make him?

[camwyn]

April seems like a really nice girl, and he still feels vaguely guilty for springing the Great Big Hole on her that way- he'd completely forgotten she didn't know about it and he honestly didn't mean to shock the poor girl that way. He's got a vague sense that she's got interpersonal troubles that dwarf his own, a sense that got sharpened A LOT when she said her piece about relationships and being on the outside, and he doesn't want to whine at her again because she doesn't deserve his inability to deal dumped on her head when she's got enough to handle already.

Woobie!Andrew reminds him of some of the students he had during his brief time as a professor, and he likes the guy, but Andrew is part of that world that Ray's not entirely sure he's ever understand- the world of the people person. The Woobie's got a life that consists of dealing with people- he's an actor, for pete's sake- on the terms that the world expects. Any strangeness in Andrew's life, as far as Ray knows, comes from perfectly ordinary things that people do when they interact with one another, or from Milliways. It's fascinating, but it's so far outside his experience that he's not sure if talking with the guy even constitutes speaking the same language.

Ivy worries him. A lot. He's not used to 'forward' women- or, more accurately, he's not used to women being forward at him. It didn't happen in high school, because he was way too young; in college, the problem was even worse, because honestly what college woman is going to want to deal with a geek who's literally high school age? Not that there haven't been women who fancied him, but a significant proportion of them were geekish themselves and therefore spent a lot of time in sigh-at-a-distance mode. Straightforward flirting is something that happens to other people, in his book, and when it's directed at him his brain processes it as reason to panic- in much the same way that many people panic when a car salesman approaches them in the dealership. You know. 'What does this person WANT from me? I mean, I know what they want, but what do they REALLY want? Oh, lord, if I so much as open my mouth I'm going to put my foot in it and screw myself over, aren't I. . .'

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Ray, what's your favorite SF show, and why?

[gone_byebye]

Oh, gosh. Um. You realize this is like asking me to name my favorite food? There's a little too much in the way of selection, not to mention that it really depends on what I’m in the mood for- I mean, if I want to laugh myself sick I can generally count on the X-Files or Dark Shadows to deliver the goods, and if I want to throw things at the screen for therapeutic reasons there's always Battlestar Galactica (thinnest veil I've seen over basic Mormon ideology since I stopped reading Orson Scott Card). I think, though, that I'm going to have to go with original series Star Trek. I mean, yeah, the science is flawed and the effects are cheesy, but let's face it- you always remember your first love, and old-series Trek qualifies. Granted, this is partly because I used to be able to get it on a semi-regular basis when I was nine years old and Josh Handelman down the block used to invite me over to watch TV with him (before my parents found out, anyway). But still. Got into the ol' brain and never did entirely work its way out. And, well, the tie-in material really doesn't hurt, since when my parents started including time spent on TV at other people's houses in my restricted hours at home I was able to turn to the SF series section of Barnes and Noble to keep up with the Trek stuff. It was a lot of fun and it gave me my first real sense of community, pretty much ever, so… yeah. Old series Trek wins, no question about it.

[someonesdog]

So, Gimli...

Ever contemplated skirts?

[fire-of-mahal.livejournal.com]

Now, why would I do a thing like that? Elves wear skirts, thank you. Not dwarves. Bloody inconvenient on the road, and when you're working in a tunnel they're just an invitation to trouble.

Fine. Robes. Not skirts. *rolls eyes*

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Okay, Ray. If Walter Peck was to show up at Milliways, what would your most likely reaction be?

[gone_byebye]

'Ass dance of victory' is the first thing that comes to mind. I mean, he was wrong, we were right, and all of New York saw it. Plus, I've got a bar full of people who respect me, a significant number of which probably can't look at the man without thinking 'dickless', which is always a plus.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

[gone_byebye]

(( It'd make a nice change from all the people whose pasts walk into the bar and bring OMG ANGSTANDDOOOOOM with them- not that there's anything wrong with ANGSTANDDOOOOOOM but still. ))

[varadia]

What does Ray think of Raven? And what would he really like to invent a solution for?

[camwyn]

Ray thinks Raven is fascinating. He's dealt with a few gods in his time, the majority of which have been insanely hostile or else just insane, but Raven is one of the few genuinely benevolent ones as far as he knows. His initial impression of Raven was formed back in grade school, when the local public school curriculum's nod towards multiculturalism involved reading textbooks with myths from around the world; there were a few from the Pacific Northwest in there. The impression of Raven as one of the few tricksters who you probably really could trust to do stuff for people's good on purpose persisted into college and anthropology classes, so when he found out this was that Raven, he was awfully excited. I don't think he's ever quite understood why people turn to gods, since so many of them are horribly capricious- but if they're at all like he's seen Raven to be, he thinks he might be able to understand a bit of that.

And as much as I know it really ought to be something to do with the supernatural, the Ray-voice in my head is saying, "I'd really like to invent a solution for stupid. An answer to the industrial world's power-supply woes is second on the list, since that'd keep certain government agencies whose names we won't mention here off my back, but essentially, I want to invent a solution for the fact that people are dumb."

[darksunlight.livejournal.com]

What does Ray think of the whole Tim issue? And, if he hasn't heard of it, what would his reaction be? Cause I can't remember if he did.

[camwyn]

Ray's only heard a very little about the Tim issue, and I'm afraid his initial response was 'that's kind of rich coming from a guy who used to be an anarchist bomber'. I should note that he promptly stepped on that response, because he doesn't feel comfortable when the nasty, cynical parts of his psyche speak. (Yes, he has them. They're not particularly well developed, but that comment about 'until Dickless here shut off the containment grid' had to come from somewhere.)

He's glad Tim was permitted out for the Q fight and personally feels that the result was enough to make up for whatever mess he might've made in the past, but he's not trying to think like an impartial jury member when he considers the issue. He's approaching it from the point of view of someone who had to rescue one friend from a suicide attempt and talk another into putting such an attempt off for a while. As far as he's concerned, having that mess undone constitutes pretty damn good atonement.