QUESTION MEME

[syncintohell]

Ask me a question about rp stuff and I'll answer, then give you a question to answer in kind!

I play just Itsuki Shu/Kuzuebiko right now! Tho I also mod imeeji and play the NPC Exael, but I reserve the right to plead the fifth there.

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[syncintohell]

So the thing with Shu is he prizes appearances a lot, so in the case of people like Bride he conflates and has appearance color his perception of another to such a degree that it's impossible to separate that out. He also-- refuses to see things if it doesn't match his perception of a situation. In canon he never noticed how unhappy Nazuna was, didn't see his own downfall despite months of friends warning him to be careful in advance because it didn't fit with his cognition of the situation! Basically this means he can't read people worth shit in his natural state. In canon he's capable of it, but this is because he's paranoid in canon and was burned bad so he more or less developed it out of necessity.

So in his amnesiac state when it comes to Bride, his first impression is of course there's this delicate beautiful flower of a boy wandering around in his night clothes, and he's immediately enamored. This hampers a lot of his ability to perceive him properly, for instance in the first trauma game he was there for when he tried to take responsibility for a play sensitIV didn't make— first off, it didn't occur to him that sensitIV could do such a thing. Second, even if they did that's utterly besides the point, he'd want to protect them, but more specifically Persephone (and Lucifel).

So Persephone slots into this weird mental category where he just overlooks anything that could possibly be negative or a red flag, and instead registers things like I would protect this person. This person is lovely and should be treasured. This person cannot be betrayed. He automatically values Persephone's advice, on things like the axe and carefully considers his words where he might just write off the words of other people on principle. So he both listens to Persephone more than other people, and less than other people because his brain just mentally filters anything possibly negative out.

Anyway, Persephone is his most valued person in all of Imeeji right now, and he appreciates how Persephone always seems to go out of his way to do things like help him look for his phone, or talking about the axe— clearly Persephone is very kind. And he doesn't have all his hang-ups about not looking weak yet so taking help from Persephone doesn't smart his pride.

I am not sure if that was a helpful CR response, but yeah, that's where he's at.

Reverse! What are Persephone's thoughts on Kuzuebiko?

[forgottenmercy]

Persephone is kind of really bad at this 'friendship' thing, at either recognizing it or actually like, understanding friendship. He is also really slow to trust and like people: that being said, congrats, he does like Kuzuebiko in his own special way. Hooray??

That being said, Kuzuebiko's fixation on his beauty kind of frustrates him somewhat. Like it's flattering but it's frustrating, too, in ways he doesn't quite know how to define or describe but will kind of get more acute as he gets more memories back, especially of his first husband. Especially with the filtering of anything negative because it's almost like Kuzuebiko doesn't...see him, sometimes.

On the other hand, Persephone very much also has a type: he's still drawn to men with control issues and sometimes-inability-to-ask-permission-issues, which means Kuzuebiko is right up his alley. Kuzuebiko, however, listens to him way more than Hiroto ever did, which is like...wow, holy shit. Like even if he relentlessly filters out anything negative that could come out of Persephone's mouth or his negative actions, that's still way more listening and valuing his opinion than Hiroto ever did. (which between that + the fact that Kuzuebiko is not an authority figure, will likely not push Persephone's buttons too badly even once he has certain memories back. fortunately for him.).

(Persephone is like kind of confused occasionally by his priorities though. like with the memory he saw: Kuzuebiko noticed and commented on his hair color change instead of like, the dude creeping on him??)


...yeah this was a bunch of disjointed rambling but I hope it's...clear enough? Also for a question: if Kuzuebiko could design an outfit for Persephone, like entirely to his own tastes/had no restrictions on like materials or anything, what would he dress him up in?


(...also off-topic but I not only figured out wtf kind of Exalt Shu would probably be, I also have like a game idea I would never run because my group would end me in my sleep.)

[syncintohell]

It's def clear enough, and honestly Persephone is right on the money in that Shu is really honestly not quite seeing him. He did the same thing to Nazuna in canon, which was compounded by the fact Nazuna stopped talking for a literal year which— I think shows how self-absorbed Shu can be, like. HERE'S YOUR UNITMATE YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH, he's stopped talking for a year, better not comment on that or even really notice how weird that is. He will need to be like, really directly forced to confront things in general.

Shu also doesn't notice the creepering because he doesn't understand it's a problem because he has the same possessive creeper streak just not to that same degree (esp since I decided to up spite rather than his possessiveness). But he is basically That Guy.

Shu would put him in--- hmm, something he could move in because the issue with the initial shoes and uncertainty with the dresses. Short-shorts because Shu has. a thing. shorts are wonderful also legs this is why his unit wears thigh-high boots and he puts Nazuna in short-shorts. Very intricate embroidery, probably wisteria for his position in the unit. Since he doesn't want to reduce mobility, no shoulders, but long opera-length gloves for elegance. Can't put him in a corset for the same reason, but he can put three belts across the waist so it's still form-fitting. Low heel on the boots.

Quick mock-up would be something like this maybe.

YOU CAN'T SAY THAT AND NOT SHARE. so. What kind of Exalt would Shu be?

[forgottenmercy]

That is a really cute design. I didn't think of short shorts when doing Persephone's original outfits because I love Atelier Pierrot so much so I gave him all the dresses I can't justify buying, but they're really cute.

...Shu and the character I'm apping this round might be...interesting.

I don't know how much you know about Exalted in general, but I realized that you could run a primary school game for Realm Dragon-Blooded with the loose premise of Enstars, just up the cutthroat competitiveness by a ton, make it more deadly, and add elemental powers. (note that "primary school" is like...elementary through high school, basically. secondary school is college, though a friend and I joked that the sorcery school was basically a graduate program with demons.) I would never run this though, because my group would end me in my sleep. which is a real concern, I go on vacation with three of them in like five days.

Given his obstinate personality, I would probably peg Shu as an Earth Aspect Dragon-Blooded: if I knew more about the canon, I would try to make a character sheet mockup. Earth because stubbornness and tenacity tend to be traits of theirs, if I knew more about him/canon-wise I would try to figure out which of the Realm Great Houses he'd belong to. But in short, rich, incredibly privileged, literally descended from dragons, has nifty ~elemental magic~. Even the manner in which he was outmanuvered is Very Realm Political Bullshit, just on a school scale (everything is like, political cutthroat for the Scarlet Dynasty, I love it).

Who does Shu dislike most in game, and why?

[syncintohell]

I know a little about Exalted, though it's the White Wolf property I'm the least familiar with.

Hm, dislikes most in game. . . There is no one he hates right now, but he is currently the most irritated with Rean (and Hiryuu, but they also have positive CR). Meanwhile, he doesn't know Rean and doesn't appreciate that he wasn't left alone when he was asked to be.

Is there anything you really want to play with Bride in imeeji? Like a certain trauma game you're waiting on or something you want to achieve in his arc or?

[forgottenmercy]

I'm still settling out exactly what I want to do: like I can't really say that there's any trauma game I'm waiting on since I don't actually know any of the common ones. Some of the names for the games that keep getting tossed around like "dangerbear" and stuff mean absolutely nothing to me and I'm just like you know what, surprise me. I am kind of sorry that I'll be on hiatus and miss Betrayal, though I kind of look forward to having Persephone come back from lolita modeling and tea parties special to that outcome, 15 minutes late without Starbucks.

The only thing I have super planned for his arc is that he's kind of going to lose his shit permanently when I give him back the memory of his death/Exaltation and waking up with everyone fucking dead but I'm kind of feeling it out until then. More minor stuff I want to do is I totally want to do a fairytale-themed vid at some point.

I don't know if I'd ever run a game after stuff gets opened up to other runners, since the aforementioned I Don't Know What I'm Doing but if I did, I know what i would try to run. Like I'm already inflicting Pasion de las Pasiones on my gaming group, both online and in person, and I have no idea how the fuck I would convert it to an actual game, but if I did ever figure that out, I would be tempted to run it.

Reverse.

[syncintohell]

Haha, dangerbear is a cannibalism game with utterly broken mechanics but it doesn't really matter because the gimmick is good enough to carry it.

omg, telenovela game. that'd be hella good tho.

I'm looking forward to Shu continuing to lose his shit, but I'd like to see how differently it works than in canon since Enstars is ultimately really invested in forgiveness and recovery from trauma. I'd like his . . . I guess it's more a refusal than inability to read people come to bite him. Him getting traumatized by something he should have seen coming a mile away. I want him to get back his memories of Tenshouin Eichi so he can just assume Imeeji is like, a thing he's doing. Mr. Revolutionize the school and cause enough suicides the school needs a cenotaph dedicated to their deaths seems like a dead ringer for someone with enough bad ideas and resources to do this sort of thing. For him to start taking his memories again, but that will need to be spurred on by the awareness he has a castmate first.

I can't talk about game desires because uh, I'm a mod who is likely to run anything I really feel like running, so it's spoilers.

I do want someone to eventually buy a meeting with Exael tho.

Persephone's thoughts on the rest of his unit?

[forgottenmercy]

Really what's holding me back, I guess, is figuring out how to score it. But I'll probably think more about that once I actually run it for my group and see how well it actually runs.

...I didn't even think about that when I asked that question, lol. Never let me ask questions at like 3 am.

I really need to make a version of the "I've only had X for a day but if anything happened to them I'd kill everyone here and myself" meme for Persephone and sensitIV because that is, in a nutshell, about right. Persephone loves his unit very much and they are more precious to him than his life and he would totally fucking kill everyone here for them. Basically sensitIV has pretty much taken the place of Bride's ghosts in terms of "people he dotes on, cares for, and absolutely would murder and die for."

His favorite person in the unit is Loki: he doesn't like playing favorites, but there it is. But overall he loves everyone and his priority will always go towards them. Always.


What are Kuzuebiko's thoughts on his unit?