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JANUARY HOW'S MY DRIVING
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☆ T-800 ☆ Black-Two ☆ Zaeed Massani
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Your Two is wonderful and I do like her characterization. Now that she's less crazypants she's doing well. I do... have two issues with her, though, and one i probably should have brought up sooner.
One and Two have barely interacted, and this is half my fault, and they're interacting again now. But now that they're interacting I find myself... I don't know how to tag or approach her. Because they barely spoke or interacted for months, I'm just... I have no idea. I know they're supposed to be super close and such but as it is, with their CR, I have a hard time imagining such a relationship between them in Singularity.
I don't know if you're expecting me to handwave months of stuff, and in that case, it's almost... unfair? I don't know what they might have talked about, what they might have done, how they might have interacted. On top of that, for a while there, Two was seriously undermining One. Two never went to One about... anything? Even when Two's mental state was a little fucked, she didn't talk to One about it or even talk to her about seeing a doctor and instead went directly to Carter. In a way, it made me feel like I should have One just feel and act like Two has stopped looking at her like her CO. :/
My other issue, and i'm gonna be the devil's advocate here, is her sleeping with Jorge. As an outsider and also a close canonmate, it felt... quick and almost random. I know you've explained that Two is unsure of her sexuality and wanted to experiment but the explanation still leaves me feeling a little less... satisfied? I don't feel like there was much -- or at least, enough -- build up to it. If you want to get down to it, I kind of doubt a sexually repressed woman like Two -- who apparently is a lesbian -- would have even been able to be turned on and get, ah, physically prepared enough to actually complete the act of full intercourse. There's also the fact that Two's close sister was beaten and mutilated by other Spartans for having a sexual relationship with a fellow Spartan in the past, and somehow this didn't affect her at all? Didn't make her nervous or hesitant in the slightest?
Aside from that, I love playing with you and would like to play with you more.
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However, this is where I have to argue not the crit itself, but your feelings over you thinking I ever expected you to handwave months of CR. I've approached you on several occasions, attempting to plot and questioning you about my handling of Two, And while you're under no circumstances responsible for me or my characters, I can't help but feel frustrated when I'm trying to plot with you on AIM and only get "yy" or "nnn I don't think that'll work" or even just "/nodnod" as a reply. It works both ways here. I really want One and Two’s relationship to be more, well, One and Two in nature but I can’t do that if you don’t work with me a bit more. The times on AIM or plurk I’ve approached you, asking to plot you kind of just…shut down and it’s almost like you don’t want to talk to me. It wasn’t even three days ago I explicitly asked you about my handling of Two in private and only got brief, uncertain replies. That’s not even including the tags I’m still waiting on in the Ghost Broventures log. Which I was hoping would’ve let them reconnect. Not to mention, you’ve been making One a more present force recently, and I’ve been trying to tag her. Really, I’m making the effort here, too. If you’ve felt that effort was simply not enough, it’s not like I haven’t been around for you to discuss this with me. And it’s definitely not like I haven’t approached you with my uncertainties in the past.
Now about Jorge. Yes, there wasn’t done with much planning or even a lot of seriousness behind it. In hindsight, I regret it not because I did it, but because it was done in such a rushed way. The actual log was left unfinished and I was hoping it would have justified it a little more and expressed Two’s overall reservations about it from start to finish and her introspection on the matter. However, I can’t pretend that I’m not having difficulties playing everything by ear when I have a character with such little screen time with her own source material. I’m not trying to make up excuses, but it’s just hard to be told one thing, start building on that and then find out I was doing it wrong. Again, she’s my responsibility and I shouldn’t ask to be held by the hand with everything I do with her. I was never even completely sure about the whole lesbian thing. That idea was born out of our joking and it ultimately has no actual backing in canon and it was something I wanted to build on from the ground up and not have Two just be doki-doki about One so much as be in a position where she knows there’s something there, just not really what. I genuinely wanted to expand on that more, and just never really got the chance?
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So, yes. Two needs a serious overhaul and I owe you as a fellow player and someone who has a lot of canonical CR with her to really make the effort here. But I feel that what I’ve done so far can be expedited if we improve our communication.
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I owe tags because i honestly don't know how to approach Two? I mean like, i didn't know if I should act like they just hadn't been talking or interacting at all besides those two/three instances.
I think, honestly, we have different interpretations of the incident that happened between Black Team. I felt like Blood Line's plot was half to show this team was still riddled with issues that should have been healed by that time, Two included. And aside from that, growing up in an atmosphere where sexual and romantic relationships between S-IIs is strictly prohibited does have an affect on a person. For example, Two's lack of involvement with that might have been from the fact she agreed to and adhered to those rules and regulations. I mean, from that angle there's a slew of delicious inner conflict that a character can go through growth-wise. Interest in sexual and romantic activity -- no matter which gender -- conflicting with moral code. I mean, for example, you can follow up on it. Now that it's done, how does Two feel? Is she ashamed about it? What are her thoughts on the rule being in place? How do the family-like bonds between S-IIs make her feel about the experience, etc?
hurr improved communication would be A++
Re: ☆ T-800 ☆ Black-Two ☆ Zaeed Massani
But holy crap Zaeed and his tangents. His tangents are fucking GLORIOUS.
Re: ☆ T-800 ☆ Black-Two ☆ Zaeed Massani
T-800 is...basically spot on? Less time = less stalking of the whole Termicast, but man, no worries; you've got a great handle on this voice. Chill out, no problemo.
I can't the plot of Halo, and the Wiki is sometimes Impenetrable Grammar, so I miss out on a lot, but Team Halo's clearly one of the strongest casts on LJ T_T;
☆ Black-Two ☆
/FLAILS ALL OVER YOU