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]

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?