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sigelphoenix at 10:56am on 04/06/2008 under anti-emo, art, materialism, office monkeying, socializing, warmakers, writing
sigelphoenix at 10:56am on 04/06/2008 under anti-emo, art, materialism, office monkeying, socializing, warmakers, writingI've totally dropped the ball on my daily happy lists, though that's because ... er ... well, riding the emotional wave of the end of Warmakers has kept me consistently happy (if wooby) and distracted from most other things. <--loser
So anyway! Today's list of happiness! Which is ... only mostly about Warmakers!
1. Various time-sensitive things at work that were mostly out of my hands (and thus I was uncertain whether or not they would get done on time) have been resolved. That was a relatively minor stress, but I'm glad to have gotten it off my back.
2. Because of the rush of taking care of those work things, the morning has passed by quite quickly, and it's almost lunchtime.
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shadawyn has tempted me (yet again) with new shinies. :3 I'm dipping my toe into symphonic metal music because of songs she's shared, and have ordered Within Temptation's The Heart of Everything, Nightwish's Dark Passion Play, and Krypteria's Bloodangel's Cry. All of which have songs that were used for Warmakers fic and FSTs. XD;;;
4. I have been writing and drawing for Warmakers every day since the campaign ended. Okay, yes, that's horribly dorky, but - I'm writing and drawing every day! This has been helped by the fact that other people (mostlyshadawyn, but also the other players and GM) have been willing to keep talking with me about the game and develop a broad outline of the future plot developments, which keeps the characters alive in my head.
5. Tonight I get to go tojfrog78's house and hang with almost all of the Warmakers crew!
Maybe I'll even get back to setting goals soon ...
So anyway! Today's list of happiness! Which is ... only mostly about Warmakers!
1. Various time-sensitive things at work that were mostly out of my hands (and thus I was uncertain whether or not they would get done on time) have been resolved. That was a relatively minor stress, but I'm glad to have gotten it off my back.
2. Because of the rush of taking care of those work things, the morning has passed by quite quickly, and it's almost lunchtime.
3.
shadawyn has tempted me (yet again) with new shinies. :3 I'm dipping my toe into symphonic metal music because of songs she's shared, and have ordered Within Temptation's The Heart of Everything, Nightwish's Dark Passion Play, and Krypteria's Bloodangel's Cry. All of which have songs that were used for Warmakers fic and FSTs. XD;;;4. I have been writing and drawing for Warmakers every day since the campaign ended. Okay, yes, that's horribly dorky, but - I'm writing and drawing every day! This has been helped by the fact that other people (mostly
shadawyn, but also the other players and GM) have been willing to keep talking with me about the game and develop a broad outline of the future plot developments, which keeps the characters alive in my head.5. Tonight I get to go to
jfrog78's house and hang with almost all of the Warmakers crew!Maybe I'll even get back to setting goals soon ...
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Although I've sorta ended the fic road with Reika, unless I get a plot bunny of an actual story to tell over the year timeframe, but I've mostly concluded her in terms of development and resolution for the course of the First Wave campaign itself.
Instead, right now, I'm writing back story and a little bit of post-campaign fic for their parents. And maybe I'll do more Numatake stuff (especially for the character I may play later). Or Haruka (EEE!) and Subaru stuff. Or... or...
You know, a long time ago, when you guys were doing the Jedi game and I'd hear you talk about it, and you'd be mentioning all these other characters that sounded somewhat developed that weren't your PCs, I'd get confused by how that worked in an RPG. Now that I've done my own epic campaign... I get the NPC love. :P
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I would be in the same boat as you about ending my character's story - I finished all the fics I want to write about what actually happened to Sae during the adventures themselves - except the whole Hell Queen thing leaves so much story open that I don't feel done yet. I'm not sure if that means more fics, or just making lists like what other players have emailed out. Probably that will be influenced by what I find out from Mike about Hell, and whether there's information I want to tell in a written story or not.
Parent!fic? Eee! Haruka?? And pre-angsty Subaru? Ooooh ...
Yeah, NPCs are sometimes hard to keep track of (for me), but it helped that we had so much time to get to know them, as Mike brought them back over multiple episodes. Having some of them as Protectors and cohorts was also useful, at least for me, because that meant they were powerful enough to hang around us and even join in combat without being redshirts. (And it helped me that I was able to actually build a character sheet for Khag and flesh him out.)
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And Haruka, to see if it's possible to make her less one dimensional villainess.
And I just love writing the parents. Maybe it's because they are all secret agent spy types, have a fascinating relationship dynamic and aren't angsty, emotional teenagers? ;)
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Haruka ... could go a lot of different ways. The twins have character traits that could be exaggerated or twisted to be used in Haruka's character.
Maybe it's because they are all secret agent spy types, have a fascinating relationship dynamic and aren't angsty, emotional teenagers?
Naaaw. ;D
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I imagine Haruka as what would happen if Reika and/or Sae ever went evil. I should write about Hiro and Haruka, or maybe about the ritual, but I'm not feeling that creepy and dark at the moment; more woobie ;)
The parents just hit all of my kinks.
... someday I should get back to writing my novels, though :P And maybe cannibalize some characters...
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Warmakers fics can occur during novel-writing, right? :D Like if you want to take a break from the current novel without starting a new one.
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Reika would definitely have had a hard time trying to exist in the Hashimoto family. As we saw with Haruka, trying revolutionize leads to a bad end, and because of Haruka, we can see that Reika's rebelliousness wasn't just a result of having easy-going Yanagisawa parents. ;) Plus, she would have had Mommy Dearest as competition. I suspect, actually, that Reika would have (tried to) run away if she'd made it long enough. I wonder if the twins would have been so close in that situation, or if they would have been turned on one another?
(Mmmm... AU.)
Or, perhaps, under such a different upbringing, Reika would have turned out a very different person in general.
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Hmm ... I do wonder. Sae cares about Reika because she's her sister, but she also likes to feel needed. If Reika had rebelled and come into her own earlier (which I suspect she would have in the repulsive Hashimoto environment), perhaps she and Reika would have been more distant. Or maybe they just would have been close but not codependent. :P
And now I wonder about Sae herself, and whether the evilness of the Hashimoto clan would have subverted her or not (with her low CHA she wouldn't have been good at standing up against them, but her high WIS means she would be strong-willed enough to resist their influence).
... Dammit, look what you've started. ;D
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*innocent*
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Ah, well, that's pretty much how our relationship works in general. ;D
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I like how our relationship works.
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So do they unite and take the family down and/or escape, or are they turned on one another in a tragic ending?
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Of course, that's for the AU Warmakers fic version. For the novel? You can decide what's more interesting. :D
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... Okay, I just looked up Gods of War, and I totally imagine Gunnar being one of the dudes on the cover. XD
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