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[04] Here nightmares abide!
Since Amnesia Plot planning seems to be the thing to do at the moment, figured I should get in on some of that!
And since I was at work when I wrote it, it... rambles. Because that's what happens when I'm at work, sorry guys.
Sean: All the ideas I have for him are just. Horrible. Awful, seriously. And he's so happy and stable right now that I'm kind of afraid to poke the bear. Will probably sit this one out unless anyone has ideas for some plot.
Felix: Is Felix is Felix. No point, really.
Madelyne: Will have enough to deal with come July.
Tracy: She's such a work-in-progress, it would really only needlessly complicate things for her.
Reggie: Maaaaaybe. I think it'll depend on how much I have on my plate at the time. He's still so new, I don't know how much of an impact it would have, but if I decide to go for it, he'd be a total amnesiac, a real blank slate, because I'm kind of in love with the idea of a guy who is 95% defined by his sense of self-worth having his whole identity stripped away. I think it could be really interesting, so we'll see.
Wanda: Yes, I saved her for last because yes. Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes. It ties in so perfectly to what I'm all doing with her right now, I'm so excited. Basically, Wanda will be forgetting everything prior to her arrival on the island. This obviously includes her entire life as a man. This is a Big Deal.
AND THEN I RAMBLE INDULGENTLY FOR FIVE YEARS. YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART.
I've mentioned in other places recently that I've sort of come around and changed my mind about how I interpret her and her gender issues. Initially, I guess I saw her as transgendered, a man in the body of a woman, but magic is weird and science is weirder and I don't really see it that way anymore. She's very much a woman, in both sex and gender, it's just her memories of being a man for most of her life that screw things up and make it complicated. Without those, there's really no issue. Essentially, I'd end up playing a much more pure version of the character, without all the baggage and clutter that I love so well.
Which actually brings me to an interesting (to me and no one else) point that's been on my mind for the last little while, as I've been doing a lot of canon refreshing for her lately. And that point is: Overall, I don't particularly care for Sasquatch that much in canon. I don't dislike him by any stretch, but I would never list him among my favourites. And yet, I've RPed a very particular incarnation of him for over four years now and Wanda's my homegirl now more than ever. The thing of it is that Walter is... kind of a dick, frankly. He's not as much of a douchebag as Mac, say, but the two of them were always like peas in a pod. He's a brilliant scientist, but temperament-wise, he's really more of a obnoxious jock, and while I think that's a neat dichotomy, it is not the stuff lovable characters are made of. It's only when he's at his lowest that he shines, though, and becomes, in my opinion, a genuinely compelling character. His time as Box and then Wanda, his post-New Avengers #16 trauma, even the recent brain damage fakeout in AF Vol. 4, it's only when Walt's really getting trod on that I actually start to care about him and I think that's because those experiences tend to humble him and strip him of his jerky dudebro veneer. Underneath it, he's a genuinely interesting character, otherwise I wouln't be able to ramble about him so much! The problem is, though, that these situations never last. Things always end up going back to the exact way they were before, and so he never needs to learn and grow from his experiences and goes right back to being... kind of a dick. Everything always goes right for him if he works hard and waits long enough, and it's been like that his entire life, and it shows.
Which is sort of where I came in, apping Wanda and forcing her to actually live with her poor life choices, to adapt and deal with shit instead of just coasting along until the status quo is restored. She's still not great at it, and remains the queen of da fucking Nile, but she's come a long way.
Enter Amnesia Plot. Booya. Not necessarily undoing that growth, but putting a twist on the old formula of all her problems being magically solved at the end of the day. She won't have problems anymore, but not because the old ones were solved! I think it's neat, I don't know.
OKAY, YOU CAN START READING AGAIN NOW.
She'll still act mostly the same, but with 100% less issues driving her actions and with more whatever the female version of being an obnoxious jock is. A lot of the time on the island, she's been defined by her insecurities and somehow been bettered for it in a couple of ways, and that will certainly not be the case for the duration of this plot. She may get up to shenanigans. We'll see. At the very least, I expect her to have a clearer idea of who she really is, for better or for worse, once her memories come back.
tl;dr: I want your plots and I want your revenge.
And since I was at work when I wrote it, it... rambles. Because that's what happens when I'm at work, sorry guys.
Sean: All the ideas I have for him are just. Horrible. Awful, seriously. And he's so happy and stable right now that I'm kind of afraid to poke the bear. Will probably sit this one out unless anyone has ideas for some plot.
Felix: Is Felix is Felix. No point, really.
Madelyne: Will have enough to deal with come July.
Tracy: She's such a work-in-progress, it would really only needlessly complicate things for her.
Reggie: Maaaaaybe. I think it'll depend on how much I have on my plate at the time. He's still so new, I don't know how much of an impact it would have, but if I decide to go for it, he'd be a total amnesiac, a real blank slate, because I'm kind of in love with the idea of a guy who is 95% defined by his sense of self-worth having his whole identity stripped away. I think it could be really interesting, so we'll see.
Wanda: Yes, I saved her for last because yes. Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes. It ties in so perfectly to what I'm all doing with her right now, I'm so excited. Basically, Wanda will be forgetting everything prior to her arrival on the island. This obviously includes her entire life as a man. This is a Big Deal.
I've mentioned in other places recently that I've sort of come around and changed my mind about how I interpret her and her gender issues. Initially, I guess I saw her as transgendered, a man in the body of a woman, but magic is weird and science is weirder and I don't really see it that way anymore. She's very much a woman, in both sex and gender, it's just her memories of being a man for most of her life that screw things up and make it complicated. Without those, there's really no issue. Essentially, I'd end up playing a much more pure version of the character, without all the baggage and clutter that I love so well.
Which actually brings me to an interesting (to me and no one else) point that's been on my mind for the last little while, as I've been doing a lot of canon refreshing for her lately. And that point is: Overall, I don't particularly care for Sasquatch that much in canon. I don't dislike him by any stretch, but I would never list him among my favourites. And yet, I've RPed a very particular incarnation of him for over four years now and Wanda's my homegirl now more than ever. The thing of it is that Walter is... kind of a dick, frankly. He's not as much of a douchebag as Mac, say, but the two of them were always like peas in a pod. He's a brilliant scientist, but temperament-wise, he's really more of a obnoxious jock, and while I think that's a neat dichotomy, it is not the stuff lovable characters are made of. It's only when he's at his lowest that he shines, though, and becomes, in my opinion, a genuinely compelling character. His time as Box and then Wanda, his post-New Avengers #16 trauma, even the recent brain damage fakeout in AF Vol. 4, it's only when Walt's really getting trod on that I actually start to care about him and I think that's because those experiences tend to humble him and strip him of his jerky dudebro veneer. Underneath it, he's a genuinely interesting character, otherwise I wouln't be able to ramble about him so much! The problem is, though, that these situations never last. Things always end up going back to the exact way they were before, and so he never needs to learn and grow from his experiences and goes right back to being... kind of a dick. Everything always goes right for him if he works hard and waits long enough, and it's been like that his entire life, and it shows.
Which is sort of where I came in, apping Wanda and forcing her to actually live with her poor life choices, to adapt and deal with shit instead of just coasting along until the status quo is restored. She's still not great at it, and remains the queen of da fucking Nile, but she's come a long way.
Enter Amnesia Plot. Booya. Not necessarily undoing that growth, but putting a twist on the old formula of all her problems being magically solved at the end of the day. She won't have problems anymore, but not because the old ones were solved! I think it's neat, I don't know.
She'll still act mostly the same, but with 100% less issues driving her actions and with more whatever the female version of being an obnoxious jock is. A lot of the time on the island, she's been defined by her insecurities and somehow been bettered for it in a couple of ways, and that will certainly not be the case for the duration of this plot. She may get up to shenanigans. We'll see. At the very least, I expect her to have a clearer idea of who she really is, for better or for worse, once her memories come back.
tl;dr: I want your plots and I want your revenge.
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