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[01] So Bright This Star
State of Me: Did not get 2012 off to the best of starts, but I wasn't completely absent, so I'm feeling alright going into February. There are a few things I really need to work on getting on top of (as well as all the old standbys). Still doing horribly with regards to tagging speed, but I don't usually end up going over three days which is kind-of-sort-of-almost a victory? I guess? Crazy home life and busted keyboard do nothing for my mojo, but I love whatever I get to do, and my main focus for the month ahead is having more threads across the board.
tl;dr: Gimme your everyones.
Wanda: GURL. I'm coming off of eight months of new canon for her (or him, if you want to get technical?), which has probably contributed to her being so loud lately. Either way, I'm loving it. She's come to this strange place where she's been a woman for so long that it's not nearly as weird as it used to be, which opens her up to a lot of things and feelings which weren't really issues when she had bigger identity fish to fry, leading to BRAND NEW ways to feel weird about herself, which is ever a delight for me.
Aside from all her fun inner turmoil, she's pretty much business as usual, doing her thing. Picked up Nina Sayers as a psych patient, which seems strangely perfect to me for reasons I have trouble quantifying. She's slowly driving herself crazy over Aragorn, which is endlessly entertaining. It's well past time to get some island baseball on again. And there's always the potential plot idea of fucked-upedness on down the line if nix apps She-Hulk (I could do it otherwise, of course, but there wouldn't be delicious bonus irony involved) and if I can get mod approval for a bit of plot-convenient island rule-breaking (or figure out a way around it, which would not be easy, but who knows). Either way, it wouldn't be for a while yet, hence to vagueness. Watch this space!
So basically, she's doing good.
Items/time loops/home plots: None planned. Though wacky Canadian home plot shenanigans are definitely something I want somewhere on down the line.
Hangover plot: Yes. I have stuck to my guns over the years in putting her in every single crack plot to arise and this is no exception. She would be somehow OOC otherwise.
Fear plot: Yes! She's the only one of mine I'm sure of for this one, I have a very clear idea of what I'll be doing with her, which I'll elaborate on once March rolls around. Really looking forward to it, like woah.
Amnesia plot: This one's so far away, still, and we don't really know how it'll be done (unless I've missed something, which is entirely possible), but since I have no concrete ideas yet, I figure a little brainstorming can't hurt. Also, I'm at work as I write this and it is quiet, so rambling is my friend, if not yours. So for the purposes of this SotP, I'm going to assume the amnesia in question is a selective thing, like the Pensieve plot Di proposed way back when. For Wanda, my only idea at present is to block all her memories pre-island (and thus, all her memories of her life as a man). She will always have been Wanda, and so there would be no conflict, a temporary clean slate, a 'pure' version of the character, as it were, with reactions and feeling untainted by her weird gender issues. This all ties in to the viewpoint I've settled on with regards to her sexuality and gender identity; she's not so much a man trapped in a woman's body as she is a woman in body and mind who happens to have 35 years of memories of being the exact opposite. I find it really telling that, in canon, her brain patterns were identifiable as neither Walter nor Snowbird, is all, and with that, I'm pretty sure that I've put more thought into this stupid '80s story than anyone else, ever. So WE'LL SEE HOW THAT GOES.
Sean: Is so fucking happy, you guys, goddamn. Which, after the shit year he had (and, let's face it, put Meredith through) is really satisfying, if kinda weird. I'm thinking that Lexie's disappearance will probably mark the end of the super blissful honeymoon period, but he's still pretty stupidly happy over his lot in life.
Also, it is his birthday this month. Fucker's getting ooooooooold.
Items/time loops/home plots: None planned. Nothing is going to top last year's home plot novella, so he really never needs to host one of those again. I'm thinking his next item should be Theresa-related, but I'm not set on any ideas for it yet. I'd really like to do a time loop for him, but the only idea I've yet hit upon that seems like it'd work (he has so many regrets, but they're all pretty easy fixes) is hush plot, wherein he could stop being such a spaz about losing his voice and let his damn wife comfort him already, without running away or bottling it all up. Could be a low-key alternative to some big action set piece, idk.
Hangover plot: LOL no. Sean doesn't need island magic to fuck himself up that badly, and there would not a >:E emoticon capable of handling it. (I can't believe I actually wrote out an emoticon in my notebook, what is wrong with me?)
Fear plot: Maaaaaybe? I'm not sure what I'd do, though. The obvious would be something involving Meredith getting hurt/killed, which I would not be averse to doing, something with. An alternative would be playing up on something I alluded to on the last scary Halloween plot, that the thought of Maeve turning up now kinda terrifies him. That would have the potential to be fucking awful and not so clichéd. Stefanie, thoughts?
Amnesia plot: A couple of ideas in the same vein as the above (which could either be overkill of a nice tie-in, but this is still brainstorming until we're closer to summer, so whatever). The first, stripping all his memories of the island, like a reset button to Day 1. Could be interesting, considering how far he's come. The second, to strip all his memories of Maeve, so he can be bright and shiny (comparatively, at least) without all his dead wife baggage and then feel GUILTY AS FUCK when the plot is over. We shall see what the future brings.
Felix: Got really loud lately for some reason? As much as it kinda sucks for getting the new girls settled, it's kinda nice to have my three oldest characters be the ones always vying for my attention. That said, Felix is definitely the one I'm most in need of a canon refresh for. Whyyyyy do I always have so much damn TV to watch? YouTube clips can only take me so far.
Felix does his thing, that's about it, currently. I have not given up on the idea of Island PETA if he can find someone to start it with (although he will probably come up with a new acronym to name it after Britta). START LINING UP NOW. Also, he is really the only one of mine who would care about his islandversary one way or another, and with #3 coming up next month, I should get to figuring out if he'd do something for it or not.
Shenanigans!
Items/time loops/home plots: Almost three (!) years on the island, and he has yet to get a single item. This is mostly because I don't post him enough, since I've had a couple of ideas kicking around for ages now without ever finding cause to EP him actually receiving them. Will attempt to remedy this shortly. I'd love for him to have a home plot, but it would feel pointless to do as a one-shot or solely with islanders, so I'd at least need an Oscar and am therefore not holding my breath. On the other hand, I've got a solo time loop for him that will happen whenever I get around to writing it, which will hopefully make him feel better about his divorce, so that'll be nice.
Hangover plot: YUP. I've got my fingers crossed for hilarity to ensue.
Fear plot: You know, for such a neurotic guy who flips out over so many little things, he's not really afraid of all that much. Other than flying, but how the heck would that work? Probably sitting this one out, unless I can solve that dilemma.
Amnesia plot: Felix is Felix is Felix. I got nothing for this one, either, unless I send him on some sort of epic quest to regain his memories. This one will probably be a pass, too, but we'll see once I know a little more about the plot proper.
Madelyne: I fell down so hard with my newbies last month (and the fact that a character I've had for over half a year is still a newbie in my head probably says something about how badly I've failed with Maddie). I don't have that dead-end, can't-tag-anywhere feeling that I had with Gambit, though, so I'm not worried about her going anywhere on me.
Priority #1 for Madelyne is her clone-puncturing, since her lack of knowledge of all that transpired is pretty much a house of cards at this point. It will probably come in the form of an item post, with some of Sinister's lab equipment going up, but first I have to figure out exactly what and therefore what form the reveal will take. Threads would probably be very short and mostly end with her running away, but I want the interactions! And then the nature of her relationship to Cable would likely follow right away in being revealed, but one thing at a time.
I've got to get on this shit.
Items/time loops/home plots: See above for current item plans, and I know what her second one will be once it's available. As for the rest of it, it'll all depend on how she handles the next little while. I can't really plan for the next stage of her island existence until she's in it, she's far too nebulous a character to look ahead with. It's why I love her, really.
Hangover plot: Not this time. She'll no doubt be on hand to observe the madness, however.
Fear plot: ISLAND INFERNO. I kid, I kid. Or do I? It's definitely something I'd love to do at some point, but I'm not convinced this is the right form for it to take. That shit deserves its own plot, yo, and not until I'm ready to drop her, which I am so not.
Amnesia plot: Since so much of her story at the moment revolves around what she does and doesn't know, I can't even begin to plan for this yet. Time will tell!
Tracy: Has not been out since her Christmas debut, because I am a horrible mun. I had so much fun with it, though, channeling her voice that I barely even noticed until the very last thread had been dropped! Apparently, she's not one that I need a lot of threads for, I'm happy as long as I'm playing her somewhere. Since she's so new, he big thing will be to expand her circle of acquaintances some (not that all of mine couldn't benefit from this).
Items/time loops/home plots: None planned, we'll see how she develops as time goes on. Gravestones are so cliché for items, but that may well end up being her first, anyway, because ICONIC.
Hangover plot: No. She's too classy for shit like that, I need to ease her into the ridiculous.
Fear plot: She's... not really afraid of anything, really. Much as Blofeld on an island would be fun, she'll likely sit this one out.
Amnesia plot: No real ideas, there's not a whole lot that would make a difference in her unless it completely changed who she is, which isn't something I'm really into. She's the one I want to play.
The Future: Yeah, I don't even fucking know anymore. Everyone is a possibility! Everyone and no one! I have a few that are contenders, but Tracy came out of nowhere, so that doesn't necessarily mean anything. I wouldn't mind apping a more finite character, someone with a specific arc to follow and then be done with (though not necessarily a temporary character). If I decide to go that route, I know who it will be, and all I will say is that it would need to be before the island scientists cure AIDS for Roger.
So yes, there is an invisible queue, but it is long and messy and no one is sticking out from the crowd shouting "ME NEXT!" aside from the odd crazy whims that come and go like the tide. I can't app until April at the earliest, anyway, and god knows that anything can happen in a couple of months. Maybe I'll have yet another random character when next I write one of these!
A cookie to anyone who read all of that, christ. There weren't even any pretty pictures to look at. You know what? I'm going to go back and put in some pictures of Pokémon to break things up a little. I'll try to make real pictures for next time.
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Get it? Ball? UP hIGh!!!
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Oh Gandhi, you are too funny.
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tbh, I'm a little torn between him and JFK, who I feel might be more sustainable. :O
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I get that. It would just be Abe's luck to end up on an island with JFK. DINGER. God. Why am I actually considering him? When he did he become a legit voice in my head?
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FIND OUT ON THE NEXT CLONE HIGH: TABULA RASA.
I know. APPARENTLY IT WOULD BE. I have all of these nice, competent pups. Clearly I need a spastic teenaged boy clone of a great American president in the mix.
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YOU CLEARLY DO. So many wacky shenanigans and heartfelt moments to be had, Lina, so little time.
...and then I realized their PBs are Spider-Man and harry Osborn, trololololol
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There would be an educational value to be learned from all the EPs. WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO LEARN? I love it. SO MANY SHENANIGANS.
AAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH THAT IS GLORIOUS. AND TRUE.
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Bar none.
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POKEMONS.
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also hey
you know who you should app
I think you know who you should app
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(threeeeeeaaaaaaads)
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threeeeeeeaaaaaads all of theeeeeemmmmmmm
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MANTRACKER.
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but still not what i had in mind
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Two, BRING IT ON. As with last year, I want to take this opportunity to say that, as I've been told, I'm emotionally unstable~ so there may be times when my personal angst monkeys make me absurdly slow returning tags involving woe bleed, but that in no way means I am against it, I just... wanna say that up front, like it's somehow news. It would be different and I like different. 8D
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