Q&A Meme

[twelfthspark]

questions meme



- Leave a comment below with your name and the character(s) you play.
- Respond to others' top levels with questions. Questions about their characters, questions about their plans and things they want to play, questions about their fandoms, questions about what they had for lunch today, whatever.
- Answer the questions you receive.
- After your answer, ask a question back. Keep it up for as long as both parties feel like.

Comments

[standalonehuman]

So very much yes. I've got no problem treating it like its own unique story/separate canon like Innocence vs. Stand Alone Complex vs. Arise. As much as I like Johannsen, I'm looking forward to Beat Takeshi most. A+ casting choice and I love Aramaki in general.

What drew you to Ryoga Hibiki?

[momentaryspring]

I decided to reread Ranma recently, which I hadn't read since I was a kid. This time around, I was struck by what a huge douchebag Ranma was and how Ryoga was what I can only call "endearingly stupid".

Also I just don't have a lot of AU ideas for characters that I haven't played extensively before, so I picked a character from a modern era close to Recolle's setting. That's right, you won't ever see AU Recolle Gandalf from me.

Do you think Togusa would look better or worse without his mullet?

[standalonehuman]

I love when you go back to series like that and your whole perspective has shifted because you're older, but you still enjoy it.

Worse. They sort of cut his hair for Solid State Society, enough that it was out of mullet territory, but still not professional. But he'd look worse with really short hair, like now he's trying too hard to be the boss and losing sight of himself. I love the mullet. Which means you get floofy hair icon.

Are you gonna get back P-chan? How is this even going to work?

[momentaryspring]

Yes, Ranma holds up pretty well except for the end, which is TERRIBLE.

I'd like to get Ryoga's curse back, but it's going to cost me another 200 points to get back his ability to spell out midair insults with ribbons, and as we all know that is a vitally important skill. So it might be a while.

So why Togusa and not Batou or Motoko or anyone else? Is it that he's the least cyborg?

[standalonehuman]

Oh man I'm gonna try not to tldr here. The short answer is that Togusa's my favorite. Even when I saw the original movie as a kid, I was very curious about a guy who would be non-cybernetic in a cyborg special ops unit. And then SAC hit, and right from the first episode, we see Togusa's role in the team, how critical he is to what they do. He's still got the human connectedness with the outside world. While the Major is usually very data-driven, he's going and physically re-looking at crime scenes, trying to think of people's perspectives. He's still very grounded in the real world (Hey, Togusa, that's the answer to the question you asked the Major about why you're on the team that she always avoids.)

And they couldn't have cracked the Laughing Man case without him. They needed somebody else who valued information off the net, or things that can't be reproduced digitally. Also, god damn is he a smartass sometimes. I also really like his perspective on his own skills, as a detective, and with a firearm. He'd never upgrade. He's got a lot of reasons why, but it means he wants to make sure his skill is on par with his teammates, who are sort of cheating. That idea of physical development and pushing yourself to be better appeals to me a lot.

So what's something you're looking forward to doing with Ryoga?

[momentaryspring]

IIRC it's also nice to have a detective who can't be sightjacked 8|. That's something that will become a problem in real life if all these pie in the sky dreams of cyborgs actually comes true.

I enjoy writing action/comedy, and one of the nice things about Ryoga is that he lends himself well to exactly that, being as how he's from a martial arts romcom. So any chance for fate to conspire against him and subject him to some bullshit is fun, as are chances to mirror some of the stuff he used to get into in canon.

So for example, he's recently gotten caught in a ladies' changing room with Joshua/Jesus, gotten into an idiotic internet fight with Noah/Allen and ended up planning to wreck cars together at a junkyard with his new superstrength, and started discussing his romantic dreams with a cute girl.

But what I'm really looking forward to is the dumpster fire.

Tachikomas: positive or negative addition to GITS?