QUESTION MEME

[adharma]

OK I BROKE 30K I AM ALLOWED.

For Acedia, Aeris and Alexiel.

I also NPC Sleeping Beauty, Cheshire Cat, Dream and Three of Three and will field questions about them as well, though I retain the right to ~ * spoilers * ~ not answer.

ASK ME THINGS. I will be picking at this for at least a week +A+!

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[brotagonist]

TELL ME ABOUT ACEDIA'S TALES FEELINGS |D

[adharma]

OKOK SO HIS ACTUAL KILL VAN FEELINGS ARE ESSENTIALLY:
1) because he wants to. He knows that it is pretty much 'my angry feelings'.
2) because Van made Dawn miserable!

He knows 1 pretty much doesn't stand up against Dawn and generally knows he loses out in that department anyway. However, THE POWER OF STUBBORN DELUSION and so forth can pretty much be like well 2 is ok because even if Dawn is all blah blah love if he's miserable this guy should die anyway, right. (So it ends up being yoked to 1, but you know, whatever).

Essentially Dawn and Acedia's thread went something like "EMOTIONS LAID OUT THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND" "UR EMOTIONS SUCK" "OH NO MY FEELINGS" "fuck we are too tired to throw emoterocks at each other anymore" "yeah..." "/flop"

Ha ha IN THAT WAS THE WORST LOVE CONFESSION OF ALL TIME and Dawn saying he was happy that Van was here! And Acedia might be kind of dense at some things but he is also okay at like picking some things up. Dawn was happy . . . in that memory :|a and generally it isn't something that gets tossed around a lot. Dawn says he loves a lot of things -- lolol so in some ways 'love' has a lot less meaning to Acedia because it's used a lot. And in general the whole exchange was like. Acedia felt like absolute crap at the end. Crap because he felt blatantly rejected and because Van being here made Dawn happy. And then there was that sort of "urgh oh god i care about that" which immediately turns his stomach over cos that's gross and ew and when did i get those feelings /ROUTEIGNOREDOSOMETHING ELSE.

Luckily he talked to Zack and Zack was like "I GOT DIBS" So Acedia can pretend that he is gracefully letting Zack have a first go while he sorts his feelings out.

'-' so how have Lloyd's Tales of Van Grants Appearing threads gone? IDK JUST TELL ME ABOUT THIS VANFALLOUT.

[brotagonist]

THEY'VE GONE PRETTY WELL. He had a lot of frustration issues because. Obviously Mithos got off super easier on the tales of villainy issue because no one knew that he was an enormous dickbag till he himself remembered! Ssso there are anger feelings for Guy's sake and bwuh bwuh bwuh is this hypocrisy feelings and oh gawd what if we give him a chance and he does decide to abuse it feelings, but all in all he is about giving people chances! SSSSO. He handled it by being helpful to Selenia and explaining a little bit of the hate reaction to him! Then he talked his mixed feelings out with Mithos AS HE DOES cos they were both upset and it was kind of relevant to their situation. T-t-tales feelings! Then he filled Allen in on what the deal with Van was so he had a contact on Sapphire who knew and was trusted by him (though not Van's personal crimes against Luke and Guy and Asch because that's not his business to reveal so much.) Then he yelled at Zack Fair till he was sure Zack Fair wasn't going to go killing Van out of hand, and Zack made him feel kind of guilty for yelling at him, and they talked about Zack's heartgame and how they all sat on Sephiroth and drank things and braided his hair. SO! He is feeling pretty settled in it now and is waiting to see which way things fall out when Van's cast balls up to talk to him. It should be interesting because obviously lying would suck but Seth has also told me that there's no way Mithos could've handled the full weight of his crimes and what prompted them early on and survived it as a functional person, so... :'D...?

Tell me about Mukuro and becoming a personnn. How do you see what he's doing in Aather as different from what he does in canon in terms of like... personhood building...

[adharma]

IN SOME WAYS IT'S REALLY SIMPLE.

Mukuro in canon is a "complete part" in a way. He balances with things outside of himself. Lliiikkkeee his sense of personhood is a tray and you're putting various dishes on it. Before he was all dessert and french fries '-' and now he's got some better stuff on it as well.

Acedia is . . . an "incomplete part". The things around him change him. PUT FRIES NEXT TO THE BROCCOLI AND THEY DON'T REMAIN INDEPENDENT. YOU GET BROCCOLI FRIES! It's really more like his sense of personhood is a pot and stuff keeps getting put in it.

Part of this is because in a way Mukuro 'finished growing up' to some extent. His formative experiences were formative and harsh. Acedia's formative experiences are still going.

If you HAD to app a character from the Hunger Games who would you app :U

/le curious

[brotagonist]

YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HER YET but Johanna ♥ she's in the second book and she's amazing and also slaps Katniss in the face at one point.

What about you :U

[adharma]

I would app Peeta and then make him completely OOC by making him not a nice guy.

So, did you read all 3 books ...

[brotagonist]

I read the first two and I read the third for a chapter or two and ragequit. I only read the second one because my mom brought them home from work and I just start reading things if they're on the kitchen table in front of me when I'm eating. It's like a brainstem reflex.

At the end of the second one it's like she's going to start doing interesting things but then it turns out that going to the district that's not under the capitol's control is also The New Worst Thing and I just went ARGLEBARGLE and quit reading. Though now that I know what happens I consider myself lucky.

Rec some YA you liked to me and talk about it a little even if you think I might already know it '^'

[adharma]

EVERYTHING BY CHARLES DE LINT. Though technically 'Blue Girl' might be his only 'YA'. Charles de Lint is urban fantasy! And very heavy into the storytelling side and he dips into various mythologies. Also a really interesting spread of characters +A+

... tamora pierce, mercedes lackey :'D; also Meredith Anne Pierce though TROLOLOL VAMPIRE ANGEL TROLOLOL. But the story has some really interesting reaches too. I remember feeling pretty pleased at the story tho this was also years ago.

GARTH NIX ;'D;;; I like dark adventure... tho i preferred shade's children to sabriel because i was a weird kid.

LJ SMITH..... which is terrible. But I still enjoy it. IT'S VAMPIRES AND SUPERNATURAL STUFF AND ~ SOULMATES ~. And I guess LJ Smith is kind of shameless.

Graceling and Fire, though they are both... more of the hunger games variety. Though I liked them better.

... i guess that's it :|a really for YA

BOOK RECS FROM YOU???