Question Meme: Return of the Question Meme

[imaginemeandyuu]

LOOKS LIKE IT IS TIME FOR A QUESTION MEME AGAIN

for Alma and, if you want, Ur'ghaste /o/ Or just me as a RPer. Whatever I'm easy.

(Goin' to lunch, will start answering when I'm back)

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[akito]

Both of yours on mine? :|a

[imaginemeandyuu]

Alma doesn't have much of an opinion on Akito other than "He's sharing an apartment with us and we're impinging on his space and he seems lonely, we should hang out!" He knows other people around Akito (having met the other Sharks and having had a heart to heart with Gazelle impulsively) but he is keeping mum on that because he feels that's private and he doesn't want Akito misunderstanding his attempts to be friendly.

Ur'ghaste thinks that Akito's interesting, determined, and may need some work to open up and be just Proudly Out There about his differences and flaws and etc, but being hir priest gives Ur'ghaste the ability to work on that, which is just lovely, a marvelous opportunity to see someone crack out of the shell of self-consciousness and societal restraint.

Back at you!

[akito]

Akito has no opinion on Alma aside from him being a decent enough person to share an apartment with. :|a Though you would be right that Akito would misunderstand, so definitely a good idea not to mention anything in that regard. :|b


GOSH, I DON'T EVEN KNOW. He really like Ur'ghaste because, hey, this is a god that represents how he feels on the inside? And has useful things, and has already helped him out a lot (the altered hips make fighting less physically stressful *^*). He still has no idea what pronouns to use for Ghaste, but finds it all REALLY REALLY NEAT?? like once the initial "so weird..." wears off, all that's left is curiosity and intrigue...

UMMM idk. Ur'ghaste is definitely not Akito's favourite, but is in his top three at the moment. He appreciates that he had the chance to be a priest since he wasn't expecting any god to want him as one... And to get something so incredibly useful from it is just amazing? /flails. Idek. HE IS VERY CONFUSED ABOUT UR'GHASTE BUT LIKES ZE/XE? VERY MUCH. because Ghaste is like his patron saint of outcastdom.

On an OOC note, I really love the requirements for Ur'ghaste's priesthood, since it works perfectly for dragging Akito out of the shell he built around himself. \o\


ALMA'S THOUGHTS ON SABRA!KANDA V OU!KANDA. I know he likes them both the same, but there are obviously some differences, so I am curious about what he thinks of that.

Unless that was already asked... orz

[imaginemeandyuu]

That was the goal I was reaching for when I made the priesthood (and planned quest ideas), tbh! I wanted to make a god whose quests make people go out and question things and force themselves to act outside their usual limitations, even briefly, because I thought that could make for really good rp hooks for people. I COULD BABBLE MORE ABOUT UR'GHASTE'S CREATION PROCESS FROM A META PERSPECTIVE but I'll restrain myself. I'm just glad it's working /o/

I've talked about it a bunch so I'll focus on a specific thing, which is how he views the impact of Sabra on Guil vs the impact of not having Sabra on canon!Kanda. Although he very very much finds them the same in -- like motivations, deep down "self" personalities and so on, he definitely sees Sabra as the big "split" between them. He knows that Guil lost all his memories -- and thus everything important to him -- and basically bet them all on the hopes of getting a wish, only to fail. Obviously he thinks this has major impact on him! Alma KNOWS how much Guil's memories are his motivation for doing ANYTHING; he saw the scene from Kanda's perspective, in canon, when Guil chose to cut Alma down and live on to find "that woman" because the memories drove him too hard to do otherwise. So giving those up for a wish is a major gamble of everything important to Kanda, and means Guil went through a major, major loss -- only to not succeed in his bet. So Alma sees Guil as someone who is more risk-taking and needy and immediate entirely because of his Sabra experiences, less because of "oh living on a team and playing awful death games" (though he knows that factors into things like Guil being more social than Kanda) and more because of the fact that Guil is someone who gave up everything important to him on the hopes of something greater, and then failed to get something greater, and knew that he spent a time having been withou tthe most important thing to him for no good purpose. He expects Guil to be faster and harder and more likely to grab at things that are presented to him that he wants because he knows that Guil went through that experience.

In contrast he views canon!Kanda as someone who had to suffer through never really escaping, never getting away, never having opportunities, which is basically true lol d.gray, and expects canon!Kanda to be more ground down and leery as a result. Massive highs and lows may be more immediately horrifying but having a constant life of never-changing use and inability to really claim any actual autonomy is in its way something that makes it much harder to progress or handle change or have any reason or ability to decide on wants and happiness and anything else (think about it -- Kanda's only real autonomy he ever had was 1) choosing to strike down Alma instead of dying as children and 2) finding Alma a place to die where the Order couldn't get to him again, and holding him through his last moments). So he views canon!Kanda as someone who has to fight against a motionless inertia of experience much more than Guil does.

How is Akito approaching his priest requirements ICly? Is he planning ahead, or just grabbing opportunities as they come, etc etc?

[akito]

Akito isn't planning ahead with the every 3-day requirements, since he has no problem pushing someone's comfort levels (he just needs to be physically affectionate with Aella for no discernible reason and voila!). As for the weekly one... Well, Akito realized he wasn't ready for Meat Day to be on the 29th, and then realized that the 30th is a week from the day he became a priest.

SO. He is going to push his own comfort levels by socializing and interacting with people, when all he really would want to do is stay off to the side and watch rather than participate.

He thinks about the weekly requirements occasionally, giving himself vague ideas for them, but for the 3 day reqs he doesn't really bother - he just is himself, which is good enough for the time being!


What does Alma think of Akito's Flareon?