and_survive | [sotp] April 2014

the theme of this month is 'scott flounders between confidence and desperate uncertainty as to whether people can be bothered with his folks' anyway disregard here we go

Katherine Pierce
Has done nothing recently oops. Still need to put up a thing for Sean meeting her "grandmother" while chasing down his paintings, remember when I was going to do that because I would get on that sooner [hysterical laughter]

Circling back to 'Katherine accidentally opens a doorway to a hell dimension' maybe as a thing, it was originally going to end with her trapped there and thus dropped but maybe not??? Maybe it's just a thing she does and then people are mad at her for since not nearly enough people associate the name Katherine Pierce with Bad News. So it'd be like... Katherine comes acros ritual that might allow her to get out but requires sacrifice of [insert something here, maybe a random NPC idk], someone interferes and without the right ingredients it's just an open portal, brief period of Demon Problems for Demon Problem Solvers to have fun with, someone puts things right/forces Katherine to put things right/imprisons Katherine for it? That last one would be so she could call in her favor from Rin, that's gotta come up again somehow.

(Even if we belatedly get the other Imprisoned Katherine thing going I am prepared to have imprisoned as a theme since... Katherine Pierce)

Ellie
I was thinking the other night as I am wont to do about the Last of Us and Joel, and about how as it goes on there's a degree to which he doesn't so much love Ellie as he does the idea of Ellie, seeing her as the substitute daughter figure he wants to see and ignoring the darkness and the damage she's accumulated on the way, and then I got worried that I'm doing the same thing and leaning too heavy on, I don't know what to call it, Fun Ellie that's interested in things and is vibrant. BUT at the same time: the giraffes thing! So then I think TLOU is as much about the peaceful moments and how the damage doesn't go away but there's always things that work and hope and it's alright. But maybe I should do a bit more with 'Ellie is messed up'? I mean, like, there's some great stuff on that note in this thread she has with Katniss, and it creeps up other places, I guess I'm just gonna keep it in mind.

Anyway, RILEY as always the Biggest Deal in her life -- I should really do a post for her or something so she can mention it to the folks she knows -- is now also living in the group home or will be shortly (?), so that's interesting and awkward and comes right as she's about to get on her emancipated minor train which means she has to try to behave for a few months. With her traditional bad influence now under the same roof, so, that is a thing.

But I figure she'll manage it and then get a place? On her own. Like for all her complicated Joel-related emotions he remains the only person she'd probably live with on the basis that he's the one that reliably endures. (Although he as yet isn't here, so maybe that opinion is taking damage? I'll have to think on that.) She probably wouldn't go for Riley moving in like that just the two of them for Various Other Reasons.

Jessica Drew
My biggest 'are people just tolerating her is she boring idk' character for some reason, again, idk, I'm vacillating wildly. Whatevs I'll throw her everywhere because I love her and I felt the Wiper stuff went well, and now we officially have Kirin and Kirin's Horn and Hydra in town so she got stuff to doooo.

ON THAT, I joked at the time about just doing a series of Jessica-fights-dudes posts, and I am legitimately curious, what do folks want most out of the next Jessica Drew EP? Her in civvies doing regular person things for regular person tagging, or fighting my next NPC villain? (I'm thinking the next one would be a brother-sister mercenary team with Kirintech called the Akimbo Twins, robbing a something or doing a mercenary something.) Or, I don't know, option three, suggest.

Beyond that, I'll have to come up with a plot for some Kirin's Horn dudes to be trying to execute, to be foiled by... maybe needing a team? I need to follow up her lead on The Wiper -- he got his stuff from Kirin -- so either she can confront Mr. Kioku with someone but because she don't got nothing on him she can only do that gesture with the fingers and the eyes emphatically at him (originally there was a Doakes gif here but then when looking for character gifs BAM a miracle happened see above) or their radical splinter group can have some nefarious scheme that needs a team assembled to take it down. But she still maybe gotta meet some people and learn they got powers before I give her a needs a team reason. So maybe the first one.

And in that version, then after I do a series of NPC villain posts -- and maybe other people do as well I encourage it do it do it it's fun -- they'd form like a Subpar Six and that'd need the team?

Then there's the thing with there being a bunch of Avengers coming, and getting an in-game reason for her not calling them, and for assembling all teens (the tricky part being, for instance, why would she not call some of the powered non-teens she knows, I want Darrow Ultimates to be on theme but where is the age line agh idk idk) and stuff. Stuff! Things! I'll work it out.

Non-character related
I mean, precisely, I have a couple of potential folks and then got to thinking in relation to some of them, what if Darrow PD started like a Special Cases section? The idea being that I saw a thing with Ron maybe joining, and Korra works there in non-enforcement but, like, what if either a player character who worked there got permission to or the NPC Cop Boss set up a division for investigating the increasing Weird Crimes. So that then like characters with powers could join the force and not necessarily hide their special skillz? But maybe the rest of the force'd call them the Special Headcases or something?

And, like, the idea of doing it that way instead of having Darrow Torchwood or a Darrow SHIELD or something become officially affiliated is that it's not like, putting anyone who wants to join the official Darrow government force under any other canon's umbrella. So not like "SHIELD is more official than your canon's thing that is a similar thing." IDK.

as I said vacillating wildly as to whether things are a good idea

I don't even know how that'd fit in with what I was thinking for Judge Anderson since Special Cases (name pending) doesn't seem like it'd allow for Psychic Beat Cop Cassandra Anderson and that's what I'd want to do

this has been a state of the pups

how are you