Writing Meme - nerd alert!

Name 12 characters you have played in RPGs, before looking at the questions that follow. List your characters numbered 1 to 12, with the name of the RPG you played them in. Once you’ve picked your 12 characters, look at the questions and answer accordingly. (No peeking until you’ve picked your characters!) Put your answers behind a cut if available.

1. Laura Kyle - modern freeform, DC Comics based
2. Morgan Tanner - modern freeform
3. Deanna MacIver - western freeform
4. Sawyer Bishop - modern freeform
5. Siobhan Lyndsey - modern freeform
6. Nathan Jackson - freeform M7 based (You’d have to be a fan to get this one)
7. Vin Tanner - Same as #6
8. JD Dunne - Same as #6 & 5
9. Mackensey Tanner - fantasy/sci-fi freeform m7 based
10. Riley Rose - modern freeform
11. Michael MacGregor - modern freeform, N&A based
12. Mason Lyndsey - modern freeform

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1) Who would make a better college professor: 6 or 11?
Nathan, because he's more patient and doesn't get bored quite so easily, tolerates bullshit a little better and is much more authoritative. Did I mention he has more patience?

2) Do you think 2 is hot? How hot?
Hot? Well, uh, I guess. The male muses all seem to like her, some fight over her... ::shrug:: sure, if I was into that scene, I'd take her on.

3) 12 sends 8 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
Mason, sending JD on a mission? Hell, probably to get coffee or fix his computer. ::snort:: Either one, marvelously successful with a very prank-oriented result.

4) What is, or would be, 9’s favorite book?
Mackensey would probably be into something like Animal Farm.

5) Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?
Yes, 2 to 6, if anything. Morgan's younger so will naturally defer to Nathan. Besides, he's practically an uncle and she tends to hold them in high regard. Alternately, Nathan's older and the uncle, not to mention male, so he would naturally be more protective of Morgan... But trumping that, neither of them are obedient to anyone, at all. Period. End of Sentence. So it would depend on the interpretation of 'fealty' for these two.

6) For some reason, 5 is looking for a room-mate. Should they share a studio apartment with 9, or 10?
10. Riley is actually old enough to pitch in on rent and Siobhan wouldn't run the risk of corrupting the uncorruptible.

7) 2, 7, and 12 have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
Vin and Morgan and Mason. LMAO!!!!!!!!!! It would most likely be to a fast food joint and would be spent with Vin and Mason trying to talk Morgan out of the apparent family business of law enforcement.

8] 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?
Huh. Again, pardon me while i LMAO!!!!! Deanna *would* challenge Riley to a duel. They are both very tough personalities, very independent. Deanna's younger, conservative, and a control freak as well as rather naturally combative. Riley is a single-mother with relaxed morals. Those two could go head to head over the smallest things. Their duels would more likely be a battle or war of wits, however, and would result in some very heated conversations I only wish I was smart enough to write.

9) If 1 stole 8’s most precious possession, how would they get it back?
This is easy. Laura was a professional thief, and youngish. So if she stole it from JD, he'd probably not know about it until it was too late to know who took it. Besides, JD and Laura would be like peas in a pod if I ever resurrected her and introduced them, so odds are good that eventually he would get them back. (Sorry Casey. The fandom would like Laura better anyway.)

10) Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12 both attain what they most desire.
HA! I already have that one. I'm in the process of ... well, schemeing on it if not occasionally writing it. So far, the most fitting is 'the Wayward' since they are both rather wandering and normally just want peace and togetherness with their loved ones. Note: they are from two different genres in this case, so it would obviously need to be two different stories.

11) What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?
It would likely be that Laura missed a court-date and Sawyer got sent to retrieve this young-pup thief, ending up somehow lost and on the run from mutual enemies.

12) If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
Uhm... really? Probably not all that well. We're both too shy and quiet and I'd end up making a fool out of myself trying to compensate for that. He'd be amused more than likely, but I'd be traumatized out of fear that he wasn't amused.

13) If you could command 3 to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?
I couldn't. Deanna doesn't take orders from anyone. Not even her father. She normally gives them. Very strong willed pain in the ass muse who started out quiet and tranquill, damnit.

14) Does anyone on your friends list resemble 11 (either in appearance or personality)?
Noooooot reeeeeally. The closest would be my dad in personality I guess? But there's still enough differences that that's a stretch.

15) If 2 had to choose sides between 4 and 5, which would it be?
Morgan would side with Sawyer, since he's daddy-number-2 and she likes him better than the woman I threatened to make her step-mother once. ::snicker::

16) What might 10 shout while charging into battle?
"Get the HELL out of my way!"

17) If you chose a song to represent 8, which song would you choose?
Gaaaaaaaaaaaawd. the ONLY one that's coming to mind at the moment is Ray Stevens' "Pirates Song?"

18) 1, 6, and 12 are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?
Probably Laura because I don't think Mason's all that much of a Chinese fan for some reason, and Nathan's too polite not to defer to the hormonal teenager.

19) What might be a good pick-up line for 2 to use on 10?
... gawwwwwwwwwwwwd!!!! that's terrible!!!!! Riley is her aunt!!! LMAO!!! Probably reduces the options to a casual shrug and bored look and "If we weren't related, you know I'd fuck ya."

20) What would 5 most likely be arrested for?
Gawd. False charges. LMAO!!!!

21) What is 6’s secret?
That, uh, he actually loves McDonald's foods and succumbs to it on bad days?

22) If 11 and 9 were racing to a destination, who would get there first?
::snickering:: Michael, since he has a license to drive. Altho... Mac knows how to use a teleporter, so she would probably win if they got to keep their individual genre's technologies. Besides, Mackensey's more of a scrapper than Mike.

23) If you had to walk home through a bad neighborhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of 7 or 8?
Ohhh… seVin, Easy. JD's too loveable and naive to win in a dark alley fight.

24) 1 and 9 reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by 4’s sinister secret organization. 11 volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that he/she is actually a spy for 4. Meanwhile, 4 has kidnapped 12 in an attempt to force their surrender. Following the wise advice of 5, they seek out 3, who gives them what they need to complete their quest. What title would you give this fic?
okay... lets see if i got this right here...

mac and laura team up to save the world from sawyer's secret evil organization. mike says he'll supervise. sawyer kidnaps mason to convert him i mean force their surrender. von tells them to go to deanna to solve all their problems.....

well, the first obvious problem is that:

1) sawyer's secret organization is NOT super secret anymore... he's the one chara who's very open about his "secret". He's been out of the closet since he was fifteen years old.

2) mac is the daughter of sawyer's HUSBAND... so i guess that might work since stepkids don't normally like their stepparents...

3) what doesn't work is two teenage females forces to stop the 'gay revolution' because, well, that just leads to an obvious shipping between the females (SQUICK!! THOSE TWO?!?!) that would defeat the whole purpose.

4) sawyer's happily married to the object of his obsession, so he would not want to convert mason, considering mason is actually his brother... more squick. and kidnapping mason wouldn't force mac or laura's surrender because the both of them are completely oblivious to the man. what's more, mason would enjoy a happy vacation free of family members or something if he were kidnapped. LOL!

5) von would not send anyone to deanna to solve their problems. poor deanna has too many of her own problems to worry about saving the world, as does von, but she's older and mothering, so she'd be looking to protect deanna from the stress. von would more likely solve their problems because she wants to have cousins someday and converting mason would not produce that.

GAWD. i don't know where to start. the only title i could think of would be 'the comedy of errors' but even that doesn't do this hilarious suggestion justice. I love it so much!! i'll have to play with this sometime. ::giggle::

I Love sandra's suggestion of "and the slash shall set you free"... that's almost worth writing and trying to publish!! LOL!!!

PotC3 - world's end, blog's beginning!

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

The premieres for heavily-fan-influenced movies are always interesting to attend. Pirates lined the floors of the local Cinemark theater for long hours just for the sake of being among the first to see the show. For the first time (that I can remember, anyway) the midnight premieres were bumped up to 8pm - presumably to allow for the younger audiences to enjoy and still attend school on friday morning. Well, screw enjoyment, the movie theaters still only care about the bottom line. But I digress.

This movie delivered. Over the past year, I have heard hundreds of theories, guesses, and added my own fan-ish desires to the melting pot. My only requests of the screenwriters was a tighter storyline and don't let Elizabeth and Jack hook up - sorry to the E/J shippers out there, but, Will's too much of a lost puppy without Elizabeth and it would be just plain bad writing and bad form to lose that character out of fandom-shippyness.

Now I'm not here to throw up spoilers and regurgitate a wonderful movie just to ruin it for everyone else. I'm a critic if there ever was one and my aim is quality over shineyness, a solid base and substance before the dazzle of the bullshit, thank you. So for the purposes of this review, suffice it to say that I got my hoped for storyline. This one felt less like a fanfiction fabrication and more like another installment in the 'Pirates' set. It was more finished and polished up with a lot of details that sent the trilogy's fans howling with laughter as they recognized the inside joke to otherwise common scenery or lines.

Characterization in this one was excellent as well, no more of the characters acting just-so and within a predictable set of behaviors that we already knew from the first movie. This time around, the characters went to the ends of the earth to grow a bit of dimension. Even Will took on an unexpected twist and I wound up very much liking that character by the end of it. In Dead Man's Chest, conversely, I just wanted to smack him every time he showed up. All we saw was this mindless little pawn of Elizabeth's private-stalker-club whereas now, tahdah, the darling boy has some depth to him, some meat on his bones to balance out Orlando's inner drama-fiend.

'At World's End' tied things up nicely and they were able to open up a door for a completely new story if they wanted to bring the franchise back for a fourth film. I've heard rumors that there will be a fourth one but I haven't checked in to it personally. As always, stick around until the credits have rolled. They either start the new movie or finish the third one. Either scenario, I'm happy with it. It did not leave the audience at that uncomfortable cliff with vital questions going unanswered. They completed a story, and what's better, they did it in an entire arch; each movie held it's own weight and was able to stand alone to a degree, but when folded altogether, we have continuity. That is so rare that studios will go out on that limb.

All in all, GOOD MOVIE!!