Time for another round of "Ask the Characters!"

[nute.livejournal.com]

Yes, everyone's favorite meme, open to player and audience participation as well! Most of you have played this game (or the home version), but for those newcomers, it's simple: Post a question for any character in the game, and get it answered in and/or out of character!

Anyone's welcome to participate, ask as many questions as you like, as often as you like. Have fun!

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[katschei.livejournal.com]

Players: How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?

I remember reading something to the effect that an NPC was based on a player’s real life sensei. Do you base characters on real people often?

All characters: What do you secretly want to do with your life? If it’s a goal you feel you’ll never achieve, do you think the choices you’ve made in the past are what keep you from achieving your goal? Or are you hindered by a situation you’ve been placed in (as opposed to one you’ve created for yourself)?

What is your big fear? Do you let it cripple you, or is something you’re trying to move past?

If you could trade powers with another character, whose powers would you pick?

[nute.livejournal.com]

How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?

"So let me get this straight. Alex, Lorna, Kyle, SABRETOOTH, and MYSTIQUE were all on the same team, and YOU were in charge? WTF?"

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Ask the easy ones why don't you?

Um. My parents are named for my player's philosophy teacher and her theologian husband. They're not anything like them at all though. Mailani is based on my player's best friend in some superficial ways. Oh, and Karolina and I both went to the same high school as my player. So there are a few examples for you of real life crossing over.

Secretly? Well, I don't know if it's a secret but just a normal life. A house, two kids, a couple of dogs. A Ph.D. and good career. I don't know that they give those out to people who have spent part of their lives running around in leather but...that's what I want.

I think me and the subject of fear is pretty well documented. I'm afraid of plasma. I'm afraid of Magneto. I'm afraid of telepaths. I'm afraid of becoming what Malice pushed me to. I think it's fair to say that I'm crippled.

I don't think I'd want anyone else's powers. Mine are enough trouble. Maybe I'd trade with Alison. Her powers are fun.

[katschei.livejournal.com]

This confirms why I love Lorna bestest, because her issues always seem so human, even if the root cause is of the surreal. Lorna's got this 'problems don't get enough attention because nothing blows up, but that doesn't mean they're not there' thing going that makes me want to hug her.

*squishes her because*

So, can I ask what Lorna thinks of her chances of building that white-picket-fence lifestyle with Remy? Is it even a possibility under consideration? (Not that I don't think Remy has his own opinion there, but what does Lorna think of Remy's opinion/what his opinion would be?)

. . .Also I'm going to stop asking questions now. :D

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Well, unlike the favorite child, nothing in my world is based on real people. I'm a misfit.

*bites lip and looks around* You have to promise not to tell but...I want Scott's job. I want blacks by the end of the year and Scott's job by the time I'm 21. You're sworn to secrecy though!

I'm afraid of people I love leaving me. But even though I try, I can't stop loving them anyway.

Jay's. He can fly and sing. Plus the healing factor.

[x-havok.livejournal.com]

Alex would wonder when he became like Scott if he met his canon counterpart and then try and cheer him up :P And then hit him with a surfboard for the whole Annie thing.

Alex: I want to be a surfer and geologist in Hawaii. Duh. Though I know its too good to be true...

*raises his hand, letting it glow* Biggest fear, right here. And I'd trade with someone who has something non-destructive.

[technophobia.livejournal.com]

(The NPC in question would be Doug's sensei, who is based highly off of Frito, Jen, and my real life sensei.)

"Wait, I'm DEAD?!!???!!!??!"

As for what I want to do with my life, I want to be Oracle. Except minus the paraplegic part.

My biggest fear is being alone.

I would love with all my might to be able to fly. I got to do it once.

[x-traitor.livejournal.com]

Tommy's canon counterpart is actually two mutants. His character is based on Josh Foley aka Elixir but his powers and name are all Alchemy. I referenced Josh as an NPC friend of Tommy.

And I base very little off of real life. I'd like to say I'm more like Alex but I do have my Tommy moments. I'm a bit of a Devil's Advocate which is where I get the inspiration for my little FOH. The only other thing I can think of is I base Alex's college schedule and experience off my own here at Virginia Tech.

Oh, and my NPCs are all based and PBed by Power Rangers. Alex's girlfriend Vida? Based on this seasons Pink Ranger. Not kidding ;)

Tommy: I've already realized my greatest fear thanks. I don't fear much else anymore except my own friends and family. Yes, my life sucks. Yes it cripples me but like hell I'm going to admit it

Secretly? I'd like to go into activism for mutant rights. Not the extremists but more for mutants and humans to co-exist peacefully. I'd also kind of like to be an X-man

I'd trade powers with Moria. Yes I realize she's not a mutant...

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

"You're actually a time traveler. Huh. I don't know if that's to be preferred or not."

(Heh. All my NPCs are odd enough ducks that no, they're not based on RL people.)

"I want to take the next forty years and make them something I can be proud of having lived."

"I'm afraid of being less than human again - or being seen as less than human again. Although really, that makes me more angry than afraid lately. What I'm really afraid of is the idea of losing anyone else."

"The grass is not greener. I'm content (finally) with what I have.>"

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

"Would you lose an eye to lose the visor, too? I'm just curious."

(Again, nope, no RL influences on NPCs. Not that Scott has many.)

"I want to be who and what I've chosen to be, and do the best job of it I can."

"I'm afraid of failing, getting a member of my team killed, disappointing the Professor, missing what's in front of my nose, and did I mention disappointing the Professor?"

"Just about anyone. I've always thought telepathy would be real damned useful."

[xp_daytripper]

Players: How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?

*snickers* "You were a stewardess. You were/are fucking your adoptive brother. Your mum tried to use you to get access to Limbo and now you're its guardian. And I thought my life was fucked up! And wait, you teleport? No fair!"

Do you base characters on real people often?

Not often, although I have used as random NPCs characters from my fics. ;) There are perhaps elements of real people in them, since I like to make characters realistic.

What do you secretly want to do with your life? If it’s a goal you feel you’ll never achieve, do you think the choices you’ve made in the past are what keep you from achieving your goal? Or are you hindered by a situation you’ve been placed in (as opposed to one you’ve created for yourself)?

The million quid question. ;) I wanted to be a social worker, dealing with homeless mutants, that sort of thing. Then my powers came back and I realised that while they don't stop me from having a normal life, I'm not altogether sure I should - what I need to do is learn to have control so I don't go making the same mistakes again. And there's stuff I can do, things out there that need bringing down and being an ordinary person isn't going to get that done.

I'd say losing control and going to the evil life-sucking vampire witch pretty much covers where I went wrong.

What is your big fear? Do you let it cripple you, or is something you’re trying to move past?

The magic. The thought of having it back again scares the shite out of me, which is why it's a good thing Tante said it won't, right? And yeah, some people would say getting her to take it away was crippling myself.

I'm also afraid of hurting people again. I'd rather they didn't get too close, except the ones I know can deal.

If you could trade powers with another character, whose powers would you pick?

Angel. I'd love to have the wings and fly like that.

[technophobia.livejournal.com]

Wait a sec. Y'all are sayin' I'm IMMORTAL?

I secretly want to be a field leader for the X-Men, even though Cain totally blindsided me when we were talking about Scott, and he said he'd trust me enough to follow me.

My biggest fear is failing my family.

All in all, I'm pretty content with my power these days. If you'd asked me a while back, I might have said different, but I'm more at peace with it now.

[x-marrow.livejournal.com]

Sarah would scoff because canon!Marrow has been pretty at least twice, and canon!Marrow would scoff because Sarah's got a real name. And totally missed out on The Hill. And then they'd try and beat the hell out of each other.

I don't do NPCs very often, but I don't think I've ever based one off a real person. Based off a stereotype, maybe.

"I want to feel like I've made something of myself, and for everybody else to notice. If I can hold my breakdowns to just Thursdays, I might actually manage it."

"I'm afraid that when I see the Morlocks again (in Hell I suppose), they won't forgive me for failing them. Then I'll be alone all over again. It's something I'll always worry about in the back of my mind."

"Can I just get rid of the bones? I kinda like my healing factor."

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

MA to her canon counterpart: I am dead? And not terribly precognitive? and I wore WHAT? No. No no NO. But it is nice to know that in any universe, that Douglas can still put his foot in his mouth despite that power. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

That NPC is based of Fasil Khan, the Tae Kwon Do instructor that Twiller (Sam and Doug), I (Kyle and Marie-Ange, and IJ (Wanda and Moira) study under. When we went to write Doug's sensai, and trying to demonstrate that despite Doug's power, he's not good at everything, I just could not write ANY other instructor. He just kept coming out as Khan, no matter what else I wrote.

Goals: I want to design buildings, and help renovate historical buildings so that they can last and be perserved and useful.

Fears: Losing my already tenuous grip on reality. Again. Being that out of control of my visions, and not knowing what is real and what is false is terrifying.

Power: Any of the telekinetics or magnokinetics. That is a truly useful power and they can do such amazing things with it, and so many beautiful ones. I could so so many things with it...

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

Aaand, Kyle.

Canon Counterpart: Oh-Em-Gee-Doubleu-Tee-Eff. Seriously, dude, okay, one, I am NEVER going bald. Fuck that. I like my hair, thanks. And also, jesus, I am not that fugly. Actually, minus the bald, and plus a tail, and hey, that's what Masque did. And dude, get a GRIP, okay. you do not need to be all Claw Claw Growl Snarl Growl. Chill. Go play some DDR, have some beef jerky, man.

To continue the NPC topic - some of the Mutant Fight Club NPC's were based off martial artists Twiller and I know (uh, or something like that. Twiller can explain anything else if he wants to. I'm not going there.), because it was easier to write their fighting that way. But except for that, I usually build NPC's out of a concept, sometimes stolen from other media, sometimes just pulled out of thin air. The girl Kyle cheated on Jay with was just a Random NPC built out of what we thought was a semi-typical Ring Girl.

Life Goals: Geez, I haven't thought about what I want to do with next WEEK yet. Pass High School? Get to 18 and get this GTA cleared off my record. I dunno, maybe do the X-thing. It's a thought. I'd be good at it.

Fear: Turning into Sabertooth. Losing control of my temper and hurting someone badly. Giving into the urges to run wild and stop thinking about the consequences of my actions.

Powers: Oh, hell. I dunno. I like the good cool parts of my power, I just don't like having this much butt hair. Um. I dunno, I wouldn't say no to being smart like Forge or Doug.

[x-traction.livejournal.com]

How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?
Oh dear, which one? Just a few reactions...
1. Um...how the hell did you get into a relationship with Magneto? Ew, gross.
2. You never told anyone your name? Everyone just calls you Rogue? Interesting thought...
3. How did you manage to be one of the handful of mutants that did not get depowered? Gah!

What do you secretly want to do with your life?
Become a parent...and thats not really in my control, so I can't make decisions differently to reach it. So I've settled instead for trying to make the world a safer place for other people. And now I try not to think about goals for my personal life.

Oh yes...and I secretly plan to one day find Magneto and make him pay dearly. But you can't tell that to anyone.

What is your big fear? Do you let it cripple you, or is something you’re trying to move past?
That I will hurt those close to me. I used to let it cripple me by distancing myself, but now I'm trying to get over it.

If you could trade powers with another character, whose powers would you pick?
Um...anybody? Seriously, anyone who can still touch people. If I could, I'd just get rid of my original power and keep the invulnerability, strength and flying.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Players: How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?

OMG, your hair SCARES me. Honestly. Like a def leppard groupie went to sleep with a blowdryer in the bathtub.

I remember reading something to the effect that an NPC was based on a player’s real life sensei. Do you base characters on real people often?

Not really. They're sort of amalgamtions of people I've know and experiences I've had.

All characters: What do you secretly want to do with your life? If it’s a goal you feel you’ll never achieve, do you think the choices you’ve made in the past are what keep you from achieving your goal? Or are you hindered by a situation you’ve been placed in (as opposed to one you’ve created for yourself)?

I want to have my own place, and be able to pay for it and everything. That way, I can do what I want and no one can kick me out. :)

What is your big fear? Do you let it cripple you, or is something you’re trying to move past?

Losing things. It's why my room is the way it is, so I don't lose stuff.

If you could trade powers with another character, whose powers would you pick?

Ms. Munroe. I want to be able to fly. Plus it's always so damn muggy here, I could dry out the air.

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

Pete:

Players: How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?

"Drink?" "God, yes."

I remember reading something to the effect that an NPC was based on a player’s real life sensei. Do you base characters on real people often?

Not, really, no. I just try to make sure that they make sense as people.

All characters: What do you secretly want to do with your life? If it’s a goal you feel you’ll never achieve, do you think the choices you’ve made in the past are what keep you from achieving your goal? Or are you hindered by a situation you’ve been placed in (as opposed to one you’ve created for yourself)?

I would have like to be a copper, but fighting with my Dad and a teenage criminal record killed that one. Other than that: I want to rid the world of bastards like me, then retire, and keep bees.

What is your big fear? Do you let it cripple you, or is something you’re trying to move past?

Having to kill one of the (former) students at Xavier's. Killing superpowered people is one of the things I'm trained to do, and sooner or later one of them's going to go bad, and better I do it than one of the leather brigade. I can cope better with it, and if one of them does it, it'll probably only be after there are a lot of bodies on the deck, and in any event it'll almost certainly create massive internal tension among the pervert suited that they can do without. And no, it doesn't cripple me, I'm resigned to the fact that it'll happen one day, but I try not to dwell.

If you could trade powers with another character, whose powers would you pick?

Dom. *Such* a useful power for a paranoid fuck who's always wondering if his luck will run out tomorrow...

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

1. "You dated Rogue? De fuck were you thinking, homme! And Mystique? Dat's just... wait, dere might be some possibilities dere."

2. It really depends. Most NPCs are based off of an outline for the NPC itself, to make it feel real inside the gameworld. Usually mine will incorporate elements of people that I know, like specific mannerisms or personality quicks, but few are directly based off of one person.

3. Redemption, and it's never going to happen. You don't ever get to balance out fifteen years of horrors, no matter what you do in return. The scales don't balance like that. The best that I can hope for is to at least make the rest of the time I've got mean something. If I can't make up for my past, I can at least do something worthwhile for the future.

4. Myself, or rather, Gambit. The potential is still in there, chained down and howling, but there none the less. The day he ever gets out, I can only hope that's the last day I remain alive. Wisdom knows what to do then.

5. Right now, I'd be happy with Logan's healing factor. Otherwise, Tommy's, simply so I can make my own painkillers without getting the dark looks from MacTaggart everytime I order a refill.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?

Clarice (616): I"M DEAD?! FUCK YOU, I"M NEVER GONNA DIE!
Clarice (AoA): I DATED SABRETOOTH! EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!!! at least I was an X-Man.
Clarice (Exiles): fuck yeah, that's better! 'cept for the Sabretooth thing.

Do you base characters on real people often?

sometimes. Clarice's dad is a lot like my Dad in that he doesn't get stuff in my life, but he tries and cares. Clarice's mom is a hodgepodge of many people, most of whom have a tendency to drive me nuts despite being very well-meaning.

Clarice: I want to be accepted for who and what I am. I want to walk down a street and not be stared at. And I want to do good and help people. I think I can achieve it...or at least parts of it. I think I can help people, both as an X-Man and a doctor. I want to think I won;t be stared at, but I don't always thinks that's possible.

I fear humans. Not entirely fear them, but despite our powers and nifty leather, we want to fit in and be accepted. And as long as normal people fear mutants, they're going to try to hurt us or kill us...and I want to live. So I fear what humans can do to us. They've attacked the school enough times and whatnot that they CAN hurt us and do it very efficeintly. I don't want to be next.

I wouldn't trade my powers.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?

Dani: can I switch places?

What do you secretly want to do with your life?

I don't know what I want. I wanted to be married and have kids and live my life on the rez. Now, I know I know I can't go back to that ever, no matter how much I want to, but I don't know what else I want. Haller suggested I become a therapist. Right now, I'm happy working at the school while I figure it out. I know I don't want leather unless we're desperate for some reason and I must fight.

What is your big fear?

I don't fear anything. Fear doesn't scare me. It's all around me, I can control it if I can get my powers under control consistantly. I can use it. Some fears are almost conforting, I see them so often.

If you could trade powers with another character, whose powers would you pick?

maybe Jay's wings. I'd love to fly.

[x-aerial.livejournal.com]

How would your characters react to their canon counterparts?

"You actively prevented your daughter from gaining powers? Are you out of your mind? She's Magneto's granddaughter? How many kinds of stupid can you be?!"

and...

"The population of your Attilan consists entirely of super-powered beings? That is so amazing!"

If you could trade powers with another character, whose powers would you pick?

Why on earth would I want to trade my powers? They are my powers and I like them and I don't want to have anyone else's powers! I would die if I lost my powers!

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

"Mate . . . I know you're evil, possessed by The Hunger and in for making a point and all, but metal pants? Really? I know coordinating with grey is a bit of a trial, but I honestly don't think the answer is 'metallic purple.'

Pity about the spikes. Must making dating a bit difficult."

Everything I write is informed by every experience I've ever had, but aside from that, no, I don't base NPCs on real influences. I find committing real people to works of fiction rather creepy, actually.

"I'd only like to do what I'm meant to be doing, really. Go to university, acquire some largely-symbolic-yet-impressive-sounding position in either of my parents' disgustingly successful companies, and settle into a life of cheerful debauchery.

It is becoming clear to me that recent circumstances make these humble goals increasingly unlikely."

". . . Ask me about my fears sometime other than now."

"Anyone. Everyone. Barring that, Rahne wouldn't be a bad choice. I've found the twitchy ears and waggy tail markedly improve the level of petting in my daily life. Not that this was inconsiderable in the first place, mind . . ."

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

"So . . . you killed Charles, who was your father, except you travelled back in time and had one really impressively disturbing scene that implied he might not be your father because it could have been you and-- um. Okay, I really don't know how to finish this conversation.

. . . were all your personal healthcare providers too busy to give you regular haircuts, or are you actually crazy enough to think the broom-head looks good?"

See Marius' answers for the NPC thing.

"I want to feel like one person again. It's been so long I can barely remember what that's like anymore. Because of some of the choices I've made and things I've been through I'm not sure that's possible, but I'll keep trying. And hopefully I can do some good for someone else along the way."

"I'm afraid that David is helpless. I feel like I've lived my entire life just standing witness, watching as the stronger personalities take control -- or worse, knowing there's nothing any of us can do at all. And I'm scared, too, that David Haller's really just a sham pasted over all the anger and resentment in my head, and that one day that's going to fall apart . . . but actions speak louder than the voices in the back of your mind, and I try to make mine worthy ones."

"I wouldn't trade powers. Psi is a part of who I am. A lot of things can go wrong with the human mind, and I like to think I'm skilled enough with my telepathy now to make a real, solid difference in people's lives, like the professor did in mine. I think I would like my TK back, one day, though, even though I never learned how to control it. I see Nathan use his, and it seems effortless. I can't help missing it, a little."

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

Now for Logan:

(616) Wait a second here. I used to think my life sucked, but now that I've seen you, I don't quite feel so bad. How many teams are you on, anyway? What's this? You know everything about you now?

You win.

(AOA) So - you got your hand blown off by Scotty and you're running around _as Weapon-X_ with Jeannie and investing in bad facial makeup? Half-points for Jeannie, but minus half for the hand and the name.