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[baddecisiondzur]

So, I'm bored on Sunday, Honor's been here about a week IC (either her week or everyone else's), and Akin just got his heart poked at. Time for a question meme.

(Feel free to ask multiple questions, since I can't always think of good things to ask back.)

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[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

To be honest, Ed's the first character I've done for an extended period of time... previous online* RP experiences included some OC/AU characters where I did have to draw all their icons, though, and even with ones (like Ed) where there's tons of icons available I've always just made my own anyway.** (And, should I ever finish the app, I did find a source of Haibane Renmei screenshots I can use to do icons for Rakka, though it's likely I won't go all-out and recolor them the way I do for Ed.)

What were some surprises you had in Akin's heart game? (I read through it all this morning XD)


* ...Well, Journal RP anyway, I also did some PBEM gaming in the past which was 100% text, no icons at all. And I tended to draw or get art for my D&D characters, mostly because it was kind of fun, not for any requirement of the game.

** Including at least one I did draw myself, and a couple I commissioned.

[baddecisiondzur]

Surprisingly, none -- no one did anything too unexpected, perhaps because I put in obvious things to do, rather than 'here, let me drop you in the middle of Akin's repressed Pillar trauma ^_^'.

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

That will happen. XD (Ah, repressed Pillar trauma, it's good fun.)

It looked like you had a nice structure going in there, but it's always hard to say what's unexpected (unless it's Ed's heart and the Pillar's being turned into a My Little Pony, but really who could have called that?). Also reading it made me more interested in reading Akin's canon sometime.

[baddecisiondzur]

Well, it's nice because Akin is only in one book of three -- the first one is pretty much 'how Mom became a traitor to the human race' and the third one is about Akin's much younger half*-siblings and Biblical metaphors I missed in the first reading, because I'm dense like that**. And it's still only three books (that nowadays are sold as an omnibus)

But Octavia Butler writes interesting aliens.

* Well, three-quarters-siblings, technically. They share all the same parents but one.
** I totally did get that Butler named Akin's mom Lilith as a reference to the mythological Lilith as the mother of monsters. (Don't tell him that...)

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

A three-book omnibus seems like something I could read in fairly short order... I may check it out, because I do like trying out more unusual stuff!