Meme!

[avariel-wings.livejournal.com]

Stolen from Milliways, the other game that eats my soul on a regular basis and makes me enjoy it.

Because I know all of us could always use a little affirmation, and several of us could use it right now, I present the love meme. Comments are posted to this entry, each with a player's name (they were in alphabetical order, but I decided halfway through to add in former characters, so now they're not). Please comment to each subthread with anything nice you wish to say about that player.

Note 1: anonymous is not required, but if you want it, partake!

Note 2: wank and/or unfriendliness will be deleted.

Note 3: this meme is open to our readers, not just our players. That's why it's posted here and not in the player comm.

Note 4: Comments intended for Lorna and Terry's player should be emailed to her if you know her address, please.

Note 5: If you can't see your thread, it's been pushed off the first page. Just in case you didn't notice those little numbers there. ;)

Comments

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I write MA with my left hand and ... no, even I can't keep up a dorky comment like that.

Seriously, what is it about Kyle that makes him feel male? Because ... I'm not TRYING to make him a guy. I just ... I dunno, make him Kyle.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I think it's just that. Kyle started out being so unabashedly proud on being ignorant or stupid about things, and in boys, that's met with a "boys will be boys" attitude and in girls it is actively discouraged. I guess I would expect more subtle hints of trying to make him a guy from a Kyle played by a girl. Like overdoing it a little bit, or being less "Why certainly!" about it, or providing it with a subtle negative commentary in the narration or something. You play him like you truly know how someone who never had to police themselves in that regard acts and feels and that's a neat trick.

I can't explain it any better than that, I'm afraid.

[katschei.livejournal.com]

I think it's not so much that he seems more masculine than the other characters, but that he seems more familiar. I mean, I went to school with guys like Kyle. I never was in school with a Marius or a Forge or a Jay. Kyle (and actually Julio as well) remind of boys I've known. So it's not just the way you play Kyle that makes him so guylike, but that nostalgia factor as well.

At least, that's why Kyle pings me as so male. I don't know if this reasoning really makes sense to anyone who's not me.

[azzinita.livejournal.com]

I blame Julio on the fact that I have a lot of hispanic male friends.

and it made sense to me! :D

[katschei.livejournal.com]

Actually, that entire comment makes no sense to me on re-read. I fail.

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

No, it made sense. And it's the answer I've been getting. "Kyle reads like guys I know." - Which helps, since Kyle is based off... well, all the guys I know. Including a couple teenaged ones I play video games with.