i'm so tired

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. why I played this character.
2. my favourite moment in canon for this character. / my favourite moment in the game for this character
3. my favourite piece of headcanon for this character.
4. Something about this character which makes me laugh.
5. Something about this character which makes me cry.
6. One of your characters that I think would get along well with them

Or just ask for headcanon.

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[dazzling]

okay, how about

matty, rhea, and richie

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1. why I played this character.

I saw the request! That's it. I saw the request and had a sort of image in my head for how he could be. I wanted someone stoic and grouchy, since the rest of the Liras were pretty bright and I like to rain on parades! I never really got his voice right in the beginning though - I think you can see that in his early posts. It got easier after I found a hook for him.

I kind of cringe at the fact that he seems like a total Redditor - believes in pick-up artists and misandry...I worry he sort of sways into MRA territory sometimes but hopefully just enough to be funny rather than sickening. It's weird that I find myself more comfortable playing murderers than I do playing sexists.

2. my favourite moment in canon for this character. / my favourite moment in the game for this character

IDK. When they gave Lucas the forget-me-now rohypnol memory blast. It was a bit of emotional depth for a stupid guy!

I loved his arguments with Umeka.

And all threads w/ Dan and Luca.

3. my favourite piece of headcanon for this character.

He and Umeka have long winded fights on Tumblr about everything SJ from the necessity of trigger warnings to feminism emasculating men. Dan occasionally has to step in to cool things down in their respective ask boxes.

He takes his nieces and nephews on wild holidays.

And bakes them cake

And runs a tidy bakery

4. Something about this character which makes me laugh.

Aw jeez. This is his hero. I don't know what else. He's just this massively pathetic bastard who doesn't realise all of his problems are made by him. What the heck Matheus! He's rich, he's talented, he's good looking, but he complains because girls don't like him being sleazy. Moron!

5. Something about this character which makes me cry.

See above answer.

6. One of your characters that I think would get along well with them

YOU CAN'T EXPECT ME TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION WHEN YOU PLAY HIS BROTHER.

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1. why I played this character.

I first started w/ an idea for Rhea in a little world I started in my head when I was about thirteen or fourteen. She was really different - sort of dangerous, illiterate, a child soldier grown into a really quiet stoical mercenary who was a dead-eye but didn't speak much...so I guess she was a whole bunch of fun and I'm sort of glad no evidence of this world remains.

I started w/ her in Countshire because I'd apped her in a different game (evidence of that game still exists. Yikes.) and it had folded. It probably wasn't the best move, my first character in a game where I didn't know many people being a socially awkward lie detector, but it turned out to be a good move! I only apped her because she's easy to app.

2. my favourite moment in canon for this character. / my favourite moment in the game for this character

Uughhh I'll go game-by-game.

Countshire: OH BOY COULD IT BE WHEN SHE GOT SUPER DRUNK?? yes it was that time. i think she got sick on dan's shoes. it was super!
Capesize: IDK. Capers is just a blur of intense posts.
AM: any thread w/ hyun
GH: OH BOY OH BOY locking up the magus for sure. BAMF.

3. my favourite piece of headcanon for this character.

There is a Rhea in every generation of Ree's family.

I really liked the living in a cabin in the woods idea. She went from completely awkward and solitary to friendly and slightly outgoing and then she got hurt and retreated again. I figure after that, she'd have to be coached into leaving again.

Ree was actually a distant cousin of Mari.

I like the idea of Rhea getting dementia as an elderly person.

4. Something about this character which makes me laugh.

IDK! She's so socially awkward and clueless. That makes me laugh most, probably.

5. Something about this character which makes me cry.

She doesn't like tea.

6. One of your characters that I think would get along well with them

...Lucas.

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1. why I played this character.

Man Richie popped into my head completely fully formed. I didn't even have that much cr with Aidan at the time. I'm only going to do this for Richie because Rich is so different he might as well be named something else.

2. my favourite moment in canon for this character. / my favourite moment in the game for this character

When he proposed to Umeka.
His menage a trois with Tori and Ava
When he worked out Capri was an Immune while on a friendship date with her
Organising blind dates

Yeah Richie yeah.

3. my favourite piece of headcanon for this character.

I originally gave him heterochromia a) because I really loved his PB's design (toki ;;) and b) because I was listening to a lot of David Bowie. I think a lot of Richie's music collection is David Bowie too.

Richie wants to be a therapist. I like the idea that he becomes one and dedicates his life to taking care of people who really need it.

He and Umeka are/were best friends forever, come Shade or shine.

I like the knowledge that there are a lot of people out there he'd fight to the death for. Ava, Capri, and Umeka especially.

He only uses punctuation when he's so upset he can't hide how upset he is/is too upset to go back and change it.

I've just found out that Simon Pegg has heterochromia so in thirty years Simon Pegg will be Richie's pb.

4. Something about this character which makes me laugh.

It's really lovely to play someone so high energy and enthusiastic. It's nice to play a character where all the threads are happy. I play a lot of people who bring people down. It's nice to play Richie and be supportive, kind and a complete friend to everyone.

IDK?? Morally and relationship wise, he's just the best person I've ever played, I think. Especially since, considering the whole...lying thing, he's incredibly well adjusted and a huge promoter of self-care and is so actively...there for people. It just makes me smile. I love Ricardo.

5. Something about this character which makes me cry.

Richie is probably the biggest liar I've ever played and the least likely to be found out for lying. It's not that he's completely false in his affection or enthusiasms; he's a very serious young man beneath the capslock. There's two things I don't think anyone found out in game: a) how he got heterochromia (getting into a fist fight) and b) his obsession with the Lezard books.

His lies are a selfless/selfish thing: he doesn't want the people he loves to be as worried as he is about the world. Which means he must hold them at arm's length. I don't think he has a relationship where he is entirely and completely honest about anything. I don't know if he ever will. It would take something extremely drastic for Richie to show emotional honesty.

There's at least one AU where he and Aidan try to kill each other, out of love for each other.

It scares him that the Lezard family has so much power. At the same time, he wants that power; he wants to be head of the family. But he knows that even if he wants it to do good, it won't end well; it's a Gandalf and the One Ring situation.

6. One of your characters that I think would get along well with them

he will get on with all of them no exceptions