Quick, hide behind the couch, it's another one of those damned memes

[varadia]

Three factors are working against me: 1). I am a sheep, 2). I am at work and horribly bored and not wanting to write my monthly report, and 3). I am insanely curious and already wonder what sorts of questions people might want to ask.

So.

Ask me a question about anything--fandom, real life, music, vegetables, etc--and I will answer you and then ask YOU a question. The whole process could be repeated if anyone wants to keep it up. If this works, by the end we could know each other so well we're sick of each other and have to quit one another for a while.

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[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

Hm! What is your very favorite sort character? Tragic, comedic, inhuman, immortal? What is the sort of the sort of character you always want to read about?

You will get crack questions later.

[varadia]

In terms of the characters I love to play the most, generally it is vaguely tragic but only sometimes characters that tend to be very old and essentially immortal.

In terms of my favorite sort in general, I like the ones that know they have a duty, but are unwilling to let that compromise their lives--so they balance it as much as they can. And they whine occasionally. Like Buffy. And the Sailor Scouts, from what I remember of what I used to watch of the anime.

My favorite to read about, though, in books, are the really horribly conflicted ones who have some event happen that causes them to reevaluate their life, to deal with disillusionment. So--tragic. Like Father Emilio Sandoz. I am on a The Sparrow kick of late. *hugs that book*

What draws you to the characters you play? Does this affection carry over into non-RP situations, in that these are also the characters you prefer to see on-screen/on-the-page? In other words, the characters you play, are they the characters you identify with, or is it the fact that they are very different that draws you in?

(Yay crack questions! w00t)

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

Hm. This is hard to explain in a comment box without hand gestures.

I'm classically trained. Shakespeare, Wilde, Sophocles. All those dead guys. And a problem I've always had is that when I'm allowed to act, I'm never given a character with any sense of tragedy. I'm excepted to play comedic, happy ending roles when I am madly in love with senseless tragedy and death. I've been Elizabeth Bennett nine times in different ways. And Cecile from The Importance of Being Earnest four times since I started college. I have always longed to be Desdemona, but I'll never be cast in the role. My face and my baring will just never be suited to it.

So, when I decide to play a character in gaming, I go with what I long for and I can't play else where: ones with underlying sense of tragedy. I attempt to kill them off too, but no one ever lets me. Because the character is funny and they want them to have happy endings in some fashion or another. For instance, while I love the play Fleur, will always play her the best, and she does have this sort of underlying tragedy to her because of the way she views the world, but I have a real soft spot for playing Sailor Venus because I play her from the manga. That interpretation of the character, while she tries to live a normal life, knows that she will forever be denied the things she wants most, a career and love, because destiny has already decided her path for her. And it is interesting to me to find out how she accepts it and goes on to live her life.

I guess you could say that I'm also relating to the character through their tragedy. I do relate to characters that lean a bit more on the loosely moraled side of things because I am but not to the extent that I play it up in RP. There is always a bit of myself in each character. Some more than others. But it is there.

But, characters that I enjoy to read about and see on screen? I love the morally ambiguous ones. The ones that fuck with your head and you can't decide if they're good, evil, or completely neutral to the whole plot and just want to enjoy the scenery of attractive characters. And I love to watch them struggle with morality. When they find it, it's entertaining and I love it. But, man, when they search for it, still can't find it, and make the wrong choice? Oh man. I love that. I have this crappy book titled Red Sands, and it is just a very bland hero's journey tale with a group of herors and healers, but there is the thief! And he struggles and struggles and can just never find the difference between good and evil. And it makes me so happy! I don't relate to them at all, and I think that's why I enjoy it so much.


If you were a pineapple, how would you like to be served to be eaten? Sliced? Sliced and cooked over a BBQ? In a fruit drink? Tell me!

[varadia]

I think sliced and in a very fancy fruit salad. Possibly with sherbet.

If someone dumped a cocktail in your lap, what kind would you prefer?

[leplusbeau]

Something red and with small pokey objects in it or toothpicks so I can seek my revenge by wringing out my skirt on their head and poking them with toothpicks while declaring that their blood shall run red like the Nile!

Or clear vodka. Because I normally manage to spill at bit on me anyway when I go out.

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

Andddddddd, I forgot a question!

What sort of dictatorship would you have if you were the one ruler of the world?

[varadia]

I would have a Supreme kind of dictatorship, the one with all the ingredients.

Also I would have an army of supersoldiers poised to utterly destroy anyone who stood against me.

But I would be all about protecting the kittens and puppies, even as the people of the world starved.

PR, yo.

If you had an internal soundtrack, what kinds of music would you put on it?

[leplusbeau]

If?

It's mostly showtunes, but dancey pop songs that I hear that day wander into the playlist after a long class. Mostly, I have an eternal loop of "Dance Magic, Dance!" in my head, and when you wander the halls of any theatre department humming that tune, theatre students appear out of the woodwork and start grooving along with you and singing backup.

What is the most spontaneous thing that you have ever done?

[varadia]

I'm tempted to say joining Milliways, really.

But I don't think that's accurate. Hmm.

I tend to be a little too timid to really do anything spontaneous, anything worth calling spontaneous, at least.

Ummmmmmm . . . maybe kinda going to DC to visit Rami and Selkie and Lynette, though that was more daring than spontaneous. Eh. I will call it close enough.

*looks around for hand grenades or horseshoes*

If you could go anywhere, and stay as long as you like, where would you go and when would you come back?

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I'd go everywhere. Start on the east coast of N. America and work my west. Then Australia, Asia, Eurasia, Africa, Europe. Then, I'd finish in Ireland. I'd settle in or near Dublin or Galway in a small theatre where I would have to fight to keep the lights on and working, we'd never have a big enough budget, and it was like making love every time the curtain opened.

What do you want to do most with your life, in this very moment?

[varadia]

At this very moment? I want to be happy, and I want to have a little cottage somewhere quiet but with decent internet access, and I want to be curled up with a cup of tea and hot muffins and be writing a chapter of my second novel. Or working on the poems for my next book.

Alternatively, I want to be comfortable in my own skin and feel capable and competent in the laboratory with lots of new ideas for research bubbling in my brain.

Are there any songs that are not explicitly sad that make you tear up or feel melancholy?