"Ask the Characters!"

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

We haven't had an "Ask the Characters!" since the end of June. And so, because I want to (and because I think that Bleeding probably led to questions), a meme!

Open to player and audience participation. The rules are easy.

Post a question for any character in the game, and get it answered in and/or out of character!

No question is sacred and probably the character won't lie to you.

Comments

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

I think maybe that's a good illustration of why I couldn't stay. Marriage isn't a crime or a sin to me. But it is the kind of thing you mention to your girlfriend.

I was prepared for horrors. I wasn't prepared to be humiliated.

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

You weren't humiliated. Tante does what she chooses to, and for whatever reason she feels is best for her.

As for Belladonna, it amazes me that you believe a one day event, that happened ten years ago, really stuck out in my mind. Gambit gave it no importance, and for me, it was one more detail that seemed a little less important to consider than trying to deal with an ocean of blood on my hands. Until Tante brought it up, I hadn't even considered it.

Honestly, do you think I was hiding it from you? Somehow saving that knowledge to hurt you with?

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

I wasn't humiliated? You're Manuel now and you can tell me what I was feeling?

Defend Tante, defend yourself. I don't care. You'll believe whatever you want to about my motives and feelings. Just because it meant nothing to you doesn't make it unimportant to me. We never understood enough about each other. That's the problem, Remy.

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

So why did you come back? I was dealing with it, Lorna. I had a mangled leg, a head full of drugs and I was still dealing with it! Until you walked in broke everything that was left!

You knew how I felt about you, and now you're using the excuse that we never understood each other? Do you think maybe that's something you should have considered before you came to me and said that you wanted this and to fight for our relationship?

You're right. There's a lot about you I didn't understand, but I always believed in you. I never said you came back out of Catholic guilt, or pity, or just that you needed a break from Alex and couldn't do that on your own. Even now, I believe that you do just need time to get your head together, because to even consider anything else means that I believe less of you, and I can't do that.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

You have everything back now. Health, strength, confidence, job, friends. Should I have stayed until I hated you for getting better?

I loved you. I still do. How long was I supposed to fight to make this work, Remy? It's been 8 months. When was the magical number when it would have been okay for me to say "I can't do this. I'm not healthy enough to do this"?

I'll take the blame for all of this. But I can't give you a relationship when I can't even take care of a damn puppy.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Of all the baggage that comes with dating a former sociopath and killer, that's your dealbreaker?

You're very pretty.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

It's like no one even bothered to read the FOUR paragraphs that explained that NO, BELLADONNA WAS NOT WHY I BROKE UP WITH REMY!

I'm going to rent a freaking billboard.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

I was teasing. I know the real reason you broke up with him was because you're a barely functioning pile of emotional scartissue duct-taped into a passable immitation of a human being. I mean, that's only the basis of our entire friendship.

If you rent a billboard, maybe you should throw "I AM NOT DATING DAVID HALLER!" on it, too. You seem to feel it's just as important to point out, and people are just as likely to believe it.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Yes, that! Exactly that! Why is that so hard to believe that I recognised that I wasn't getting better and had started to seek to destroy the people I cared about because of it?

You know, I might.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

I know. It's funny how often people refuse to take "No, it's really NOT you, I'm just a horrible person" as a valid answer.

And thanks. My much-splintered masculinity would be fatally wounded right now if I didn't have that relationship with a ninja-supermodel to fall back on.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I keep you around, because you will take it for an answer.

Do you think if people knew about the ninja supermodel they'd stop thinking that we were dating? Because, duh, obviously she's the better choice.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a horrible person, too. I may not always agree, but I can respect other people's right to think they are, too.

I don't think the clinging in public is doing a lot to convince people we're not dating. However, my point about Betsy was mostly just shooting for enough to get the kids to stop asking Cain if I were gay.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

It was just the once! Well, okay and dancing at prom. And the fact that we take regular dance classes.

Why do people care anyway?

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think it was just the prom that did it. If that was all it took people would think I was dating Marie.

People care because it's gossip. But practically, you take out your problems on other people and I take out mine by verbally or physically assaulting staffmembers. Given that 90% of relationships associated with Xavier's end in complete meltdon, I don't think it's unreasonable to be concerned.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Bah, with as broken as the two of us are, how much worse can it get?

Actually, don't answer that. I'm afraid my player will take it as a challenge.