A TRIP AND A HALF. I am going to talk a lot now because I started reminescing and it is hard to stop. :x
I played Saïx for a year and three months, just about. The KH cast at the time was fairly humongous and I had a blast with Saïx raining on their parade while they tried to jesus him and constantly failed. Zazzle plays Axel there as well, and they had really long, heart-breakingly tragic threads p. much all the time. Alison plays Roxas there and their threads of constant bickering and mindgames was a blast, too. My biggest problem with playing Saïx at the time was that he was sort of pigeon-holed in his development; he was post-death in an environment where he felt trapped, so he was about twice as bitter and angry as he is in canon, and a little more trigger-happy, too. While often he'd be totally cathartic to play (seriously, playing someone who is constantly a jealous, cruel asshole can be massively tiring but such an eye-opening experience in RP) I would wonder if I'd shoved him into a corner in how much of his character there was to explore. He wasn't going to make friends, he wasn't going to learn how to have feelings, but fortunately there were so many unresolved things in his life, especially with Axel, that I continually found ways to force him to deal with it.
I think I was really fortunate that the year I played Saïx was the year Birth by Sleep came out; I apped him in November of '09 (not long after 358/2 Days came out), and the announcements that Lea and Isa would be in BbS were released the following January. Needless to say, most of the KH cast in CFUD flipped out. We spent the next months frantically guessing at what the backstory to the series was, what each characters' role was, how we were going to alter our playing field, and sometimes just making stuff up on the fly to compensate for our lack of info. Fortunately, no one got too badly jossed, I think. In the meantime, I played Saïx in a lot of different situations to see what kind of things I could get him into--he made... er, "friends", and by that I mean he found mutual interests with a couple psychopaths and they were horrible together. Saïx and the keyblade crew had a tentative truce in Camp because constant in-fighting was going to go nowhere, which led to hilarious threads like Riku and Saïx unwillingly teaming up to take down the Lingering Sentiment, which I link because it's a good example of the kind of tentative canon environment we were all playing from, and also showcases how bad I am at fight threads. |Db
And then BbS came out, and Zazzle and I deaged our boys into Lea and Isa. And that was one of the most memorable experiences I've ever had in RP, because it was like a breakthrough in what I could do with Saïx, how far I could take him, and the potential he had. I ended up breaking down into sobs when we finished, and that doesn't happen very often with me. (My long-standing character at CFUD, Raphael from Angel Sanctuary, has only made me tear up a couple times and I've been playing him since 2007) I GUESS I WAS REALLY MOVED ;; As a result of that incident, Saïx ended up making an actual friendship of sorts with someone--Sera from Digital Devil Saga, who is played by Lloyd. He was still caustic and bitter and mean at her, but they had genuine conversations on an even playing field where they talked philosophy and she actually listened to him and he felt oddly not-hateful of her presence.
When I dropped him, it wasn't because I fell out of love with the character--I knew that taking someone as broken as Saïx and forcing him to move forward was only going to go so far, and that I'd hit my limit in what he was willing to do. Frankly, I'm still amazed that I played him for that long. It was hard, and it was painful, but I had to let him go from CFUD eventually. Still, I felt I owed it to him to have one last good thread, so here is my absolute favorite drop ever. It's not fun, or funny; it's actually a very painful thread--but it was the proper goodbye for everything that happened to this character.
Also, if you ever see AJ referencing eating Saïx, it's because she played the Corinthian from Sandman and he and Saïx had a special relationship in which Cori cut out and devoured Saïx's eyes multiple times. And then complained that they weren't filling. JERK!!!!!
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I played Saïx for a year and three months, just about. The KH cast at the time was fairly humongous and I had a blast with Saïx raining on their parade while they tried to jesus him and constantly failed. Zazzle plays Axel there as well, and they had really long, heart-breakingly tragic threads p. much all the time. Alison plays Roxas there and their threads of constant bickering and mindgames was a blast, too. My biggest problem with playing Saïx at the time was that he was sort of pigeon-holed in his development; he was post-death in an environment where he felt trapped, so he was about twice as bitter and angry as he is in canon, and a little more trigger-happy, too. While often he'd be totally cathartic to play (seriously, playing someone who is constantly a jealous, cruel asshole can be massively tiring but such an eye-opening experience in RP) I would wonder if I'd shoved him into a corner in how much of his character there was to explore. He wasn't going to make friends, he wasn't going to learn how to have feelings, but fortunately there were so many unresolved things in his life, especially with Axel, that I continually found ways to force him to deal with it.
I think I was really fortunate that the year I played Saïx was the year Birth by Sleep came out; I apped him in November of '09 (not long after 358/2 Days came out), and the announcements that Lea and Isa would be in BbS were released the following January. Needless to say, most of the KH cast in CFUD flipped out. We spent the next months frantically guessing at what the backstory to the series was, what each characters' role was, how we were going to alter our playing field, and sometimes just making stuff up on the fly to compensate for our lack of info. Fortunately, no one got too badly jossed, I think. In the meantime, I played Saïx in a lot of different situations to see what kind of things I could get him into--he made... er, "friends", and by that I mean he found mutual interests with a couple psychopaths and they were horrible together. Saïx and the keyblade crew had a tentative truce in Camp because constant in-fighting was going to go nowhere, which led to hilarious threads like Riku and Saïx unwillingly teaming up to take down the Lingering Sentiment, which I link because it's a good example of the kind of tentative canon environment we were all playing from, and also showcases how bad I am at fight threads. |Db
And then BbS came out, and Zazzle and I deaged our boys into Lea and Isa. And that was one of the most memorable experiences I've ever had in RP, because it was like a breakthrough in what I could do with Saïx, how far I could take him, and the potential he had. I ended up breaking down into sobs when we finished, and that doesn't happen very often with me. (My long-standing character at CFUD, Raphael from Angel Sanctuary, has only made me tear up a couple times and I've been playing him since 2007) I GUESS I WAS REALLY MOVED ;; As a result of that incident, Saïx ended up making an actual friendship of sorts with someone--Sera from Digital Devil Saga, who is played by Lloyd. He was still caustic and bitter and mean at her, but they had genuine conversations on an even playing field where they talked philosophy and she actually listened to him and he felt oddly not-hateful of her presence.
When I dropped him, it wasn't because I fell out of love with the character--I knew that taking someone as broken as Saïx and forcing him to move forward was only going to go so far, and that I'd hit my limit in what he was willing to do. Frankly, I'm still amazed that I played him for that long. It was hard, and it was painful, but I had to let him go from CFUD eventually. Still, I felt I owed it to him to have one last good thread, so here is my absolute favorite drop ever. It's not fun, or funny; it's actually a very painful thread--but it was the proper goodbye for everything that happened to this character.
Also, if you ever see AJ referencing eating Saïx, it's because she played the Corinthian from Sandman and he and Saïx had a special relationship in which Cori cut out and devoured Saïx's eyes multiple times. And then complained that they weren't filling. JERK!!!!!
Do you play in any other RPs/plan to?