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First impression/relationship/SoTU?

THOSE ARE A LOT OF THINGS TO ASK IN ONE so I will do first impressions.

Right away Isa made a mental differentiation between Roxas and Ventus based on personality. Roxas seems a little fiercer, a little more determined, and not as bright and happy as Ven is, so that makes it easier for Isa to think of them distinctly. He feels really perplexed that he doesn't have any memories of Roxas yet, especially since they have the Nobody connection... and even more perplexed that Roxas seems to trust him way more than Isa thinks he should. All in all, Isa is very (unsure) about Roxas but not in a particularly negative way.

First impressions reverse!

Roxas thinks Isa is a serious, decent guy, who has a lot of his own team's notable traits. Thanks to Emerald, Roxas is going to react instinctively well to stoicism and open communication, which are both traits Isa has exhibited. So his first impression of Isa is a good one. That, and it's not like one of his favorite people in the world didn't cause an apocalypse (hi, Knife!) So Roxas's attitudes toward trust in this case are: a) you are who you are now, b) as long as you're capable of remorse/change if you learn you were someone the current you doesn't like, and c) if I mistrust everyone on sight, I'll go insane. Additionally, he's Axel's friend, and while Roxas knows his friendship with Axel wasn't all peaches and cream back home, he also values it, which means he's automatically going to regard Axel's other friends positively. He tends to take a 'friends of my friends are my (potential) friends' attitude, until and unless proven otherwise.

How are Saix and Axel doing right now?

TENTATIVE... well, from day one, they were already deceiving and hiding things from each other, only they both believed it was to protect the other. Isa found out from Ventus that he doesn't have a heart, and made Ven promise not to tell Lea; likewise, Lea found the same thing out from Riku and asked Riku not to spill it, either. So they both knew there was something wrong with them, and after the Lion's game they were feeling shakier with feelings than usual, but it wasn't until after Kiriko's game (when Isa got the memory of what Nobodies are and Lea got the memory of killing Zexion) that things started to come out. Right now I think they're closer as a result, but there's a lot of shared pain between them and they're not really sure how to cope with that.

Roxas's top 5 most important people in Aather!

Edited 2011-11-26 19:38 (UTC)

1. Ven
2. Emeralds, all of them!
3. Josh
4. Rabbit
5. Fellow Nobodies, just on virtue of OMG, you're like me

Five people who made the biggest impression on Saix so far?

1. Lea
2. Ventus
3. Zack
4. Roxas
5. The Lion...................

This list is hilarious.

I AM RUNNING OUT OF QUESTIONS DUE TO BEING DEAD FROM HOMEWORK but you can keep asking if you like!! '-'

I'm amused to be on the same list as the Lion.

You played Saix at CFUD at some point, right? What was that like?

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!!!!!

Do you play in any other RPs/plan to?

Edited 2011-11-28 17:05 (UTC)

That sounds amazing!

I don't currently play in any other RPs. I'd considered Sabra - right around the time they originally closed apps - and now it's in its endgame stretch. Once I'd apped to Aather, I was honestly surprised how both engaging and overwhelming this game is. It eats your time but good! I'm also currently job searching, so I'm not sure what my future time is going to be like.

The last time I was heavily involved in online RPs was back in... '06? A looot of time from '03 to '06. But now I have this, and it's pretty awesome.

Any other app plans for Aather?

I have an app in the queue right now that I'm waiting on, and in theeeeeory a plan or two later on. However, I am very attached to Isa and this new character and I can't handle more than two in Aather (and four in CFUD, currently). So for right now this is it!

I AM RUNNING OUT OF QUESTIONS '-'

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