MARCH HOW'S MY DRIVING

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HOW'S MY DRIVING

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Comments

[eighttotwelve.livejournal.com]

Primarily, just a few things that kind of stand out to me right now. :|a

First and foremost, I do think planning out a bit better via RP would be helpful. I understand doing things on the fly; it's freakin' RP, we can only plan so much. But for awhile, you didn't seem to know if Motoko's actions during the SHODAN event were entirely her. Granted, right now, I do like that it IS questionable, and that question hangs in the air for suspense. It works right now. But I know after Thane's operation, you were kind of going back and forth with that aspect and it sort of concerned me.

Another matter with Motoko is that I understand that she's kind of a douche; it's part of her character. But right now, I almost think she's being downright cruel with Thane in his most recent post. I don't know if she remembers what happened -- she seemed to imply she did -- but it did kind of surprise me. I don't know, you know the character better than I do and it HAS been awhile since I watched the show I'll admit. It just stuck out to me.

I do appreciate the character development, though, and it's been a fantastic opportunity. I'm definitely NOT saying you're a crappy RPer or anything of the like. I want you to understand that. I'm just pointing out two things that concerned me at this time, and I want to be helpful and point them out to you is all.

[blackcatjiji.livejournal.com]

I was kind of worried about that waffling flip-floppityness too. A big part of it was that me and Teal weren't able to actually play out IC or talk OOC about how things had really gone down in full color, or the ongoign specifics like we'd planned to.

Life kind of ambushed Teal's end of things and idk. We didn't hook up. Stuff happens sometimes, and the result is confusion. To clarify; right now Motoko is stressed out big time because her carefully laid plans all fell apart, Batou is awol, other-motoko was last seen basically stealing my motoko's shit, and she was actually hacked all to hel and back which is extremely grating for her on a multitude of levels.

Her reaction to stress is to turn the bitchiness up by 9000%. Also she is generally more cruel than anything to the people she likes, re: Batou. I hate this character sometimes. Like now. Now is good for hating.

She'll probably be more mellow afterwards, at least for a while.

[eighttotwelve.livejournal.com]

That's a helpful explanation. And yeah, I know; I feel bad that Teal's life exploded. Her life has that unfortunate habit. :/

[blackcatjiji.livejournal.com]

I also felt bad bothering her for more Motoko/SHODAN stuff because the plot had been planned out to have this big Sollux/SHODAN synergy and I seriously do not want to make badfeelings by stealing people's thunder.

[theuserabides]

I'm not sure what canon point you took SAC Motoko from, but I assume it's from around Solid State Society? Her personality is pretty similar to movie Motoko's at that point, so I feel qualified to give a read on this.

The cruelty is more a function of not knowing how to express emotion properly than actually wanting to hurt. She's not going to jump at openings, she's just going to attack in that "the best defense is a good offense" way if someone's getting close to a touchy subject.

SSS Motoko is arguably more of a bitch than movie Motoko (see: You did what to Togusa?) but it's more from callousness and focus on results than active malice.

So I think maybe less proactive bitchery, more reactive bitchery may the be answer to what people are picking up on here.

[eighttotwelve.livejournal.com]

This is immensely helpful, actually. Thanks, dude.

[blackcatjiji.livejournal.com]

Oooh. That's a good way of putting it. Thanks, Kuruma, I'll definitely keep that in mind.