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.

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Pixi

[okitactless]

Yamato no Kami Yasusada | Touken Ranbu

[goen]

ok so I know very little about Touken Ranbu but my understanding is that Yasusada has a really loyal and obsessed personality in canon... Do you find that not having a lord for him to be actively fixated on in Recolle is liberating? Or do you prefer to play him a bit more on the crazy obsessed side?

[okitactless]

AHHHH GOSH That was one of the things I had a really difficult time translating into his AU, actually! Since tsukumogami take 100 years to "awaken", so generally my interpretation of canon!Yamato is that even if he'd had other owners before Souji, Souji is the first one he was really present for. Yamato is definitely one of the swords that's Very Sword--in that, he doesn't see himself as his own person, he sees himself as "(his master)'s sword". Since Souji was the first master he can recall having, and since he was such a good master, Yamato wanted nothing more than to be the best sword he could be for him, and he molded his identity after Souji, because he thought that was the best way to serve him. In his mind, he doesn't actually have an identity of his own--he's just "(his master)'s sword", and if you take that away, he panics and feels like he's left with nothing at all and has no reason to exist.

So even though he's definitely crazy obsessive, I view it more as a lack of identity issue than any innate yandere tendencies LMAO. So in canon it makes a lot of sense--he's a sword, he thinks of himself as a sword, even with a human body he pretty much only cares about sword things, and since Souji died young enough that yams was able to sort of put him up on a pedestal and never really had a chance to see him as anything but The Perfect Master, he still strives to reach that kind of ideal state of being.

In AU it's a little more complicated, because... he's a normal dude. Canon!Yams didn't really get exposure to people outside of the shinsengumi (since the swords in the citadel just live with each other, not other humans), but AU!Yams has parents and relatives and went to school and all this stuff, so he has way more influences floating around him. Since that "I MUST DEFINE MYSELF AROUND SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE I AM NOBODY" mindset is such a core part of his personality, I had to find some other way to convey it, so I had him latch onto his kendo master as a kid and hold himself to a promise he made to him before his master had to leave. So this way he still has something to hold onto, and he's still very much attached to the people he loves and loyal to them forever, but he didn't exactly have a meltdown when he had to start training under somebody else. He reminisces about the past a ton, but he doesn't fall back on who he was in middle school--he's okay with growing and changing, even though he's had the same dream since he was a bitty nutjob with a stick beating up neighborhood kids...

THAT'S A LOT OF WORDS I'M SORRY LMFKJSHGKJH

[goen]

pinches your cheek

all that and you didn't actually answer my question...

this answer was fun to read too though so it's ok

[okitactless]

AHHH I MEAN I was trying to say that it's not really either-or because it isn't the lord himself that he fixates on, it's just whatever's giving him that sense of self, so I sort of just shifted it onto something else instead of getting rid of it or emphasizing it either way

though, now that I'm a bit more awake and thinking about it further, I'd probably lean more towards "liberating" because even if he never shuts up about kendo, that's way less obnoxious than him never shutting up about his master... or his god, in the case of when I played him at The Far Shore lmfao smdh. So I guess to me he's just always going to be some flavor of crazily obsessed, but it's easier when he's obsessed with an idea more than a single person.