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x_projectI promised this a week ago, but failed to deliver, and I am so sorry for not finishing everyone's. But I'm working on the others and I _will_ post them, I promise. I'm kinda sorta going in the order I read the comments.
Angelo
The angstiest, saddest, most make-me-cry character in the game. His life has just sucked and for a long time this controlled him. 'Oh, Angelo, honey' is pretty much my reaction to any log he's in. He's so nice and sweet and sad. And you're so wonderful for handling his problems gracefully and with luminous prose, rather than just aiming for cheap trauma for the sake of trauma. It shows dignity and guts and real talent to be able to write a character's traumatic past and still keep it realistic and not cheapen what real victims go through. And you've succeeded brilliantly.
Angie
Loved for her bluntness and sense. She's strong and unflappable, with just about the neatest powers in the world. The coolness of Angie is not to be denied. And her player is someone I admire for writing a precog and making her powers more than just deus ex machina or QuickAngst(TM)! Her problems with her powers are involving and detailed and believable and "hey-wow-that's-really-cool" all at once. Precognition seems to me one of the hardest powers to deal with, both for character and player, but you handle it magnificently. She's completely smart and adorable and has some of the cutest icons ever. You've also written some of the best journal posts in the game. And she's just so grown up now, all X-Womany and leader-like. Her relationship with Doug is very, very sweet and romantic without being cloying. She's such a great character, and the precog's sense of present and past. I adore how her powers are handled, but I adore th character as well, such a great, and completely charming combination of strength and playfulness. (Sock Wars! Paper-Mache fights! Crazy voodoo down South! Standing up to Odin! Angie kicks ass. And, aside, the logs with Shiro (nearly) always make me laugh. Also, you play Kyle? Because Marie-Ange is such a girl and Kyle is such a boy and you play them both so well and... believably gendered. (Oh God, I need sleep.)
Doug
My adoration of Doug knows no limits. I loved canon Doug and X-Project Doug is the same, but better. No, really. I had no idea how much I liked your Doug until the incident at the blood drive. I read the log summary and if I remember right, shrieked aloud. "No! They can't kill him off! No, no, no, NO!" My heart was in my throat the whole time I was reading it! I was absolutely terrified you were going to repeat canon. And then the "Oh, right, it's not real" reaction hit, quickly followed by "Fuck that. Dooouuuggg!" *grins* By far one of my favorite comic characters, it's impossible for a little of that love not to carry over.
And the "better than canon" thing... I mean it. You've taken a character that Marvel wasted and fleshed him out into a believable, understandable character. Above all, I love the way that he's changed and grown in this game, something that never happened in canon, where he stagnated. It seems hard to me write a character and about how the events in their lives would change and reshape them, but you do it so well. He's not the person he was when he came to the mansion, but on a very fundamental level he is. (I'm trying to make sense, but I can't find the words.) It's very skilled writing and a real sense of character. You know who you're playing and it comes through clear as crystal in your writing and makes it very gripping. Not to mention gut-wrenching. You write emotions very well, believable and true to the situation.
More soon. But it's 3 in the morning here and if I keep at this the posts will probably start ending up: Kitty=Smart. Alex=Woobie. Jay=Also woobie. And Kyle. Forge=Really, really hot. *grin*
Angelo
The angstiest, saddest, most make-me-cry character in the game. His life has just sucked and for a long time this controlled him. 'Oh, Angelo, honey' is pretty much my reaction to any log he's in. He's so nice and sweet and sad. And you're so wonderful for handling his problems gracefully and with luminous prose, rather than just aiming for cheap trauma for the sake of trauma. It shows dignity and guts and real talent to be able to write a character's traumatic past and still keep it realistic and not cheapen what real victims go through. And you've succeeded brilliantly.
Angie
Loved for her bluntness and sense. She's strong and unflappable, with just about the neatest powers in the world. The coolness of Angie is not to be denied. And her player is someone I admire for writing a precog and making her powers more than just deus ex machina or QuickAngst(TM)! Her problems with her powers are involving and detailed and believable and "hey-wow-that's-really-cool" all at once. Precognition seems to me one of the hardest powers to deal with, both for character and player, but you handle it magnificently. She's completely smart and adorable and has some of the cutest icons ever. You've also written some of the best journal posts in the game. And she's just so grown up now, all X-Womany and leader-like. Her relationship with Doug is very, very sweet and romantic without being cloying. She's such a great character, and the precog's sense of present and past. I adore how her powers are handled, but I adore th character as well, such a great, and completely charming combination of strength and playfulness. (Sock Wars! Paper-Mache fights! Crazy voodoo down South! Standing up to Odin! Angie kicks ass. And, aside, the logs with Shiro (nearly) always make me laugh. Also, you play Kyle? Because Marie-Ange is such a girl and Kyle is such a boy and you play them both so well and... believably gendered. (Oh God, I need sleep.)
Doug
My adoration of Doug knows no limits. I loved canon Doug and X-Project Doug is the same, but better. No, really. I had no idea how much I liked your Doug until the incident at the blood drive. I read the log summary and if I remember right, shrieked aloud. "No! They can't kill him off! No, no, no, NO!" My heart was in my throat the whole time I was reading it! I was absolutely terrified you were going to repeat canon. And then the "Oh, right, it's not real" reaction hit, quickly followed by "Fuck that. Dooouuuggg!" *grins* By far one of my favorite comic characters, it's impossible for a little of that love not to carry over.
And the "better than canon" thing... I mean it. You've taken a character that Marvel wasted and fleshed him out into a believable, understandable character. Above all, I love the way that he's changed and grown in this game, something that never happened in canon, where he stagnated. It seems hard to me write a character and about how the events in their lives would change and reshape them, but you do it so well. He's not the person he was when he came to the mansion, but on a very fundamental level he is. (I'm trying to make sense, but I can't find the words.) It's very skilled writing and a real sense of character. You know who you're playing and it comes through clear as crystal in your writing and makes it very gripping. Not to mention gut-wrenching. You write emotions very well, believable and true to the situation.
More soon. But it's 3 in the morning here and if I keep at this the posts will probably start ending up: Kitty=Smart. Alex=Woobie. Jay=Also woobie. And Kyle. Forge=Really, really hot. *grin*
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Date: 2005-06-21 09:18 am (UTC)That's... really, really good to hear. It is something I worry about, that I'm just too evil to him. But, his life has taken a huge turn for the better and will continue to do so, so...
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Date: 2005-06-21 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-21 03:34 pm (UTC)What you said...it's everything I've tried to do with Doug. Make him believable, and correct some of the many mistakes Marvel made with him.
Wow.