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[camwyn]

Meme time. Ask a character of mine a question, any question, and get a truthful amswer.

Ray Stantz
Whistler, from Sneakers
Belar, bear god of the Alorns
The BLU Medic
Ellen Park, the Vault 101 Dweller
Hua Mulan
Ironhide
Bumblebee
Gordon Freeman
Corporal Adrian Shephard

Ambassador Calyn of the elcor (Mass Effect)
Camptain Roger Maxson, first High Elder of the Brotherhood of Steel
The Librarian of Pnakotus, Archive City of the Great Race of Yith
Live-action AU movieverse Arcee
Live-action AU movieverse Perceptor

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

My question is to you. How in the name of God do you manage to play all those people and not get stressed out by bitchery and frustration? Dear God, what a chore it must be! I play four, and that's enough and too many.

And for legitimacy...

To Ray Stantz: How did you meet Peter Venkmann and Egon Spengler?

[camwyn]

I play them to varying degrees. Whistler's rather quiet in my head these days, as he's very happy with his situation (post-movie, plus attractive fiancee from the future that he met via Milliways). Belar I mostly play for crack RP or when the Bar needs heavy-hitter security- when Unicron makes a stink, it's not as if they can send a human to bring him in. It's mostly a matter of different amounts of time going to different pups. As for the ones on the bottom Calyn is the only one who gets a lot of play time; the others are quiet but persistent and may get popped up at places now and again, just not all that often.

Ray: Well, I met Egon first, sort of. Not in person, you understand. When I was a kid my parents* were worried about the fact that I didn't seem to be able to keep friends for very long- I've never been exactly the best at reading other people's signals, so to speak- so they signed me up for a pen-pal service. Send fourteen letters to people whose names and interests you get on a list, and your name is distributed to fourteen others who signed up. Theoretically everyone gets twenty-eight pen pals out of the deal, but the only person who wrote back more than once or twice was an eleven-year-old kid named Egon Spengler. We stayed pen pals for years, but I don't think I actually met him in person until I started looking at colleges, when I was fourteen. As for Peter, he was in my introductory engineering class at Columbia. He claimed he signed up for it because he thought it was about trains, but I'm pretty sure he was just trying to make a girl laugh when he said that.

*The Ray I play is from the 2003 comic book miniseries Ghostbusters: Legion, which was a time-jumped setting. The Gozer crisis had happened in October of 2003 in that world and the comic took place six months later, with no sign of the Ghostbusters being shut down by lawsuits. Also, I intensely disliked the Real Ghostbusters episode "Look Homeward, Ray" and so feel no need to use its information to account for Ray's personal history or background.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Thank you for both answers. (And I'm not familiar with The Real Ghostbusters or Ghostbusters: Legion, but Ray's answer makes perfect sense to me.)