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[camwyn]

And now, since I have a lap full of purring orange cat rather than the Guillermo del Toro-Michael Bay co-directed mess that was last night's drea, I put forward the character meme I've seen in a lot of places- but most recently in sdelmonte's journal.

Taken from all over:

PICK ONE OF MY CHARACTERS AND I WILL TELL YOU:
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fcs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)

BONUS ROUND:
» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question

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[minkhollow]

Whistler!
::is sometimes predictable::

[camwyn]

- Because he is awesome in canon, and playing a blind character was a challenge, and because every so often I give in to my unworthy impulses; I was kind of annoyed with the sheer number of RPG characters out there (not just at Milliways, but throughout gaming) who would take a flaw and then turn around and immediately get rid of it through some kind of in-game quickieplot or the assistance of a suspiciously generous benefactor who had no real reason to know them or like them. Wistler was a result of the urge to say 'no, thanks, I'm blind and I'm used to it and I'm staying that way'.

- Oh gosh. I'm not sure I remember this one. There's been too many to peg one particular favorite- although the Halloween where Bar gave him Dr. Mid-Nite's powers of being able to see in total darkness and he freaked out because WHAT THE HELL IS THIS FREAKISH NEW STIMULUS is one candidate.

- He hates monopolies. He got those sixty-two counts of telephone fraud and whatnot because THE PHONE COMPANY was such a tempting target that he had to keep going back and tweaking them over and over again, and he doesn't regre it a bit. Now that it's 1993 he's starting to look into what you can do to screw with Microsoft...

- I strongly suspect that the last thing he did off screen was set himself down with some Braille books about HTML programming, because in 1993 Web foo was just starting to rear its head in earnest (I remember asking someone 'what's with all these computer addresses with the tildes and the letters http in them?'). You can't break what you don't know how to build in the first place.

- I am a terrible, terrible person. They would be "Hey, does anyone else hear that-" and probably be followed by an explosion.

- He's been a little quiet while Suzi's been on hiatus. I'd like to start bringing him into the Bar again once I can get some info out of the Net on what Web programming might be like for blind people. He'll probably wind up needing to work with Carl for that.

[minkhollow]

aheh. I wasn't expecting to do that first bit with Moist, but the way Cubefall fell out... well, you can't stop character development. And it was a much harder decision than he thought it would be, so.
And let me know if/when you want Poking At The Internets, since I'm sure Carl's already working on it himself.

[camwyn]

Hey, no, it's cool, no worries. That was actual development, not a case of simply opting to get something wiped away ASAP. I'm good with that.

[minkhollow]

::nods:: And if he'd thought it'd amount to abandoning Doc, he wouldn't have kept it. He's that much of a Hufflepuff.

[ceitfianna]

Ironhide or Bee

[camwyn]

Ironhide, then.

- I decided to play 'Hide because, originally, I ran him as an NPC to clean up the absolute mess that is the final third of Reign of Fire. I could not, could not, work out how the hell people with Matthew mcCo... Mc... Matthew McAssenheimer's¹ resources could pull off what they and Christian Bale supposedly did. Hell, McAssenheimer's character shouldn't have LIVED that long given the amount of FIRE he was exposed to earlier. So I sat down with Geoff, autocommander-mun, and we devised the Deus Ex Autobot plot. Optimus volunteered to help Quinn, and grabbed Ironhide to come along and lend a hand. It was so much fun playing a grumpy, trigger-happy alien robot versus the dragons that I kept Ironhide around.

- I'm rather fond of Ironhide's round of 'let's mess with the primitive screwheads' during Lissar's final confrontation with her father. There's just something about being a millions-of-years-old alien robot and knowing that you're dealing with people who've never seen anything more advanced than a crude cannon, and standing up and transforming in front of them- and offering to shoot anyone who makes trouble. It scratches an old itch.

- Original... hm. Well, I'm kind of pleased with the quirk I gave Ironhide- he has very, very bad luck with searching for information on the humans' World Wide Web, so he loses patience with searching after one or two results and grabs the nearest human to ask them, whether they have any reason to know or not. Poor Corporal Wasserman just wants to pull a pillow over his head and stay there some days.

- Sorted and prioritized about 186 hours' worth of 'background' radio signal from two-thirds of the night sky; he's firmly convinced that what normally passes for static is concealing Decepticon signals. It's been much too quiet for two years now. (He's right.)

- Knowing Ironhide? "GET BEHIND ME!"

- He'll be getting an ep or two soon, but given that I'm hashing out the AU plotline for his world's version of Revenge of the Fallen, I'm going to be putting some effort into working out his part in that more than anything.

¹I don't feel like looking up the spelling of his name, and in the movie his character was just a horrible horrible person, so there you are

[crispengray.livejournal.com]

Ray.

[camwyn]

- I originally played Detritus the Troll at Milliways. I decided I wanted a less 'fannish' character- one who people could interact with without feeling they had to know his canon to deal with him. Batya suggested a Ghostbuster, specifically either Egon or Ray, and while I love Egon with all my black and shriveled little heart, Ray seemed more capable of interacting with people.

- Good Lord, there are so many... but I'm especially fond of the scenes that ensued when I had him wander back into the Bar in the body of one of the Great Race of Yith. The sheer level of "WAH DAH FUH" from everyone around him as he merrily recounted his adventures in Pnakotus and asked if anyone had seen his body recently was a thing of beauty.

- Favorite original aspect: his ability to get on better with nonhumans than with his own species. It's opened up so very many opportunities.

- Spent most of the day going up and down the Hudson river in a small boat with four different kinds of ghost sensing equipment strapped to the sides. He still hasn't found where Zombie President Grant's gone.

- "Oh, wow, you won't believe what it looks like over there- Egon, are you getting this? Somebody had better be recording this-"

- Something involving the fact that a fistful of dead Presidents have risen from their graves. I need to do more with that plot.

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

The interaction between Yith!Ray and Dominic Deegan is just about my favorite Milliways moment ever. ^.^

[silveraspen]

Quinn Abercrombie?

[camwyn]

- I wanted someone from a post-apocalyptic world, and I adored the glimpses we got of Quinn's world before the Americans showed up and turned it from a quiet, desperate little survivor movie into YANKEES MAKE THINGS GO BOOM. Someone who'd survived the Apocalypse was ideal, and other than Creedy, Quinn was the only survivor of his movie to get much characterization.

- Anything involving John Preston and the "WHY DO YOU HAVE MY FACE, SCARY AMERICAN MAN" factor. Because policepenguin was AWESOME about it. Veronica Mars' intro to his world comes a close second.

- Gotta be honest; I loved the 'okay, here is where the world-building of canon sucks- NOW I FIX IT' aspect of working with him more than anything that could be considered real personal canon.

- Given that his world's been purring along rather nicely for a while now, and he's had time, I suspect the most recent thing he's done offscreen involved marrying and having kids of his own.

- "Nice work, the lot of you. Good night, everyone."

- He's retired. He's happy. He's staying there.

[adiva_calandia]

Harry Wells!

[camwyn]

- "Hey, Ramen!" said I. "Wouldn't it be funny if the people who went to the Equilibrium universe to kill Father came back and saw someone who looked just like him at the Bar? For great 'didn't we just leave this party'? Because I totally know this character who looks exactly like him but is his diametrical opposite in nearly every other way..."

- There are so very many candidates for favorite interaction moments for him. I'd have to ping either his 'wait, you mean being a werewolf doesn't have to suck donkey balls?' interaction with Angua or his 'holy fucking shit, Zuko, it's Milliways after two bloody years' return to the Bar as the first ones to leap to mind. They were pretty seminal. There were others that were high faves, too, though.

- Toss-up between his job at the Slayer Academy and the 'okay, is he related to the Third Doctor or isn't he?' thread I had running through his RP.

- Last thing done offscreen: talking several of the Slayers into shutting up about their speculation about Beth and getting back to the BUSINESS OF CLASS, LADIES, SHIFT YOUR FUCKING ARSES ALREADY thank you...

- "Oh fuck me sideways. Right! Here goes nothing!"

- If Batya needs him for an OOM, he'll do it, but otherwise he's happy with retirement from active RP. That's why I retired him; he wouldn't come out for any more stories, he's good with his situation.

[innerbrat]

:D

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

Gordon Freeman!

[camwyn]

- TVtropes. No, seriously. I kept running into references to this scary-ass theoretical physicist in all kinds of odd places and finally decided I had to give him a try.

- There's a lot of candidates here. I'm sorry, I'm terrible at picking out favorite moments. There was a rather nice stretch during the battle for City 17, though- I'm specifically thinking of when Gordon was able to borrow the Sword of Riva and go completely bugnuts with it. (The Gravity Gun makes it possible to wield the Sword without coming into contact with the Orb and potentially getting incinerated.)

- Favorite original aspect: His family, I think. I managed to explain a lot about him to my satisfaction by constructing the family he grew up in, working backwards from 'has a baby picture in his locker but is listed as having no dependents in the tutorial introduction on the PS2'.

- Last thing done offscreen: prethreading the return to White Forest, which will be going up sometime today.

- Given that he's gone back to White Forest for the Episode 3 plot, if Gordon were to die tomorrow, his last words would just be a horrified intake of breath before he got cut down in combat. It's Gordon Freeman, he's not the kind for last words.

- Episode 3: Escape From Abrams Island!

[innerbrat]

Detritus.

[camwyn]

- I'd been playing him at Sages of Chaos. It seemed like he'd be relatively easy to handle in a situation where he didn't have to give advice, and he'd been fun anyway. (Why did I play him at Sages? Who could pass up the chance to have der fickest troll on der Disc writing an advice column?)

- Talking to Salieri and inadvertently convincing him to attempt to render Ankh-Morpork in GIGANTIC CLASSICAL MUSICAL FORM.

- Favorite original aspect: Yfgh. It's been a while since I played him, and at the time I wasn't really very clear on just how much I was allowed to make up or not, so I don't remember. I'm sorry.

- Last thing done offscreen: I don't remember, and I'm not sure he does either. Assume it was punching somebody, that's probably right.

- "Doan mind me, I are just settlin' down for a good long nap now."

- I'm not really planning on doing aught else with him, I fear.

[ex_amurderofcrows752]

Wells.

[camwyn]

Right here!

[minkhollow]

And how about Medic, while we're at it?

[camwyn]

- I wanted a bastardly character and I can't get pure villains to work in my head unless they're the kind that plot and plan and scheme to such a degree that I can't use my brain for anything else. So I went looking among the bastards, and battin10000 had done an amazing job with RED Scout, and SaigonTimeMD had done some amazing TF2 fancomics on DeviantART... hence, BLU Medic.
- Favorite scene or interaction: Oh, probably one of the TF2 plot scenes where he got to save some Milliways patron with a suitably dramatic line. Under ordinary circumstances his shooting doesn't impress anyone unless it involves the Medigun, and damn, but he really does like the shooting-and-killing-people stuff.
- Favorite original aspect: I've got a crapload of headcanon for him, including his actual name and much of his life before BLU. My favorite bit of it is one he doesn't actually know about: RED Pyro has it in for him because RED Pyro is his ex-wife, who caught him in bed with someone else years ago and came out a bad second in the ensuing divorce. She sobbed, then sulked, then set out for revenge, which is why Medic comes in so often with his coat on fire.
- Last thing done offscreen: really nasty transplantation experiments. You can learn so much if you make sure you have a cooler available on the battlefield and a medigun to keep your wounded colleagues alive while you test out the organs you gathered up during the fighting. (He refuses to experiment on Demoman. Demoman couldn't keep his new eye intact for a full week.)
- Zhoutaisdayoff, of DeviantART, wrote possibly the best last words for the Medic I can think of. I'm going to have to go with them: "Kill me now, American Pig-Dog! Because if you don't, I'll come back and make you wish you did!"
- I'm trying to work out if I can get him to make any more comments in his thread with Cata or if I have to give him another post to get him talking again. He's been contemplating making some potentially flirting-type gestures towards her for a while now, but it's bad form to do something of that sort when someone else is in the picture, and Sam's always been in the picture. It's also bad form to come off like a vulture waiting to jump on a fresh corpse, so he may just wait a bit before essaying anything.

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

Adrian Shephard.

[camwyn]

- Why: I needed an NPC to give Chell a hand in getting reacclimated to the world. Given that the Vortigaunts had snapped the G-Man's leash, it seemed only logical that he'd fall back on someone else who could do the things Gordon did. Thus, Adrian. I opted for him as a full character because I liked NPCing him and wanted him to be able to actually come into the Bar.
- Favorite scene or interaction: Rescuing Barney Calhoun. No question.
- Favorite original aspect: Given that Shep is a silent protagonist who gets a fistful of stilted, awkward journal writing as the extent of his characterization in the manual for Opposing Force, I'm really kind of proud of his overall construction as a person. Particularly of the fact that right around the time I started wondering if he was too stereotypical, I ran across the wiki entry on Carlos Hathcock, who's basically the god of Marine Corps snipers, and his upbringing and early life story could've been Shephard's with just one or two minor details (home state, native decade) changed.
- Last thing done offscreen: Well, just before everyone left to go back to White Forest, Shep went out into the woods behind Milliways. He told Freeman he was going out to hunt, but mostly he was going out there to pray for them all and for the success of their efforts to come.
- Last words if he were to die tomorrow: "FUCKING SHIT RATCLOWN ASSTARD PIECE OF-"
- Next thing to do with him: the next part of the Escape from Abrams Island plot. Possibly with him getting bitten by a poison headcrab, depends when we want to schedule that.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Ellen Park!

[camwyn]

- why: I've always had a thing for apocalyptoi, and I really rather liked the Fallout 3 story- and the sheer level of 'no, RLY' that goes with trying to explain anything in that world. Ellen got chosen to be an RP character because I wanted to share that world and its stories and I wanted to convey it through the eyes of someone with a Golden Age superhero character's attitude (colossal violence plus rampaging idealism, basically).
-favorite scene or bit of interaction- toss_up between Mills among the mirelurks and the first scene with Three Dog.
-favorite original bit about the char- She knows what irony is. She just considers it to be something that other people do. Ellen's as sincere as a radio-drama Mountie.
-last thing done 'off screen': she's headed into a place called Big Town now, after MORE GIANT MUTANT BEARS, WHAT THE HECK. Seriously, the giant bears are kind of freaking her out. (Tasty, though.)
-last words if she died tomorrow: probably just "AAAAAAAAAA!!!!". We're not talking about a world conducive to thoughtful last moments here.
-Next up for her: "rescue two people from a supermutant fortress? And get them back when they can't actually fight? And teach the town to defend itself? Eeeek."

[genarti]

Hector?